Animashe

watching and learning

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

I wrote about @wubbushi’s HOLY, @rainisto’s LIWA, and the shift from AI images that announce themselves through uncanny failure to images that begin to behave like plausible memory.

The camera was never there.

The feeling is still real. https://t.co/eLM5NcdghL

[Animashe @animashe]

@InkersonInk @justlolao @animasheun

[Animashe @animashe]

@InkersonInk this looks amazing!

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

613 can look like a supply number.

Inside Masquerade, it behaves more like a constitution.

The archive divides exactly into:

560 Masks within eight ecological categories
50 Council Masks outside them
3 exceptional Masks: Creation, Destruction and Balance

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

https://t.co/kJVKD3SjG5

[Animashe @animashe]

@TheHermians very sombre atmosphere

[Hermians @TheHermians]

Transmission Found

https://t.co/iHjdclANVm

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

👀

This potentially removes one of the biggest structural weaknesses in the V1 thesis... the reliance on wrappers. Historically, wrapped V1s always carried an awkward break in provenance/market continuity. You weren’t interacting directly with the original asset and its native transactional history.

The timing here is also fascinating. At almost the exact same time @nodefnd is leaning into the idea that “the marketplace is part of the artwork" @jalilwahdat appears to have found a way to preserve native market continuity around the original V1 contract itself.

This 💯 strengthens the historical and provenance case for V1s in a way that feels conceptually cleaner, more coherent... and MUCH harder to dismiss.

We also can’t ignore the social baggage surrounding the wrapper itself, and the extent to which that likely impacted broader acceptance of V1s.

VERY curious to see how this plays out longer term…

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

Unwrapped my V1 today.

And honestly… it felt far more meaningful to me than simply “moving an asset.”

I didn’t buy a V1 because I thought it would outperform financially. I bought one because I believe what CryptoPunks unlocked... Digitally native ownership, identity, provenance, permanence, networked culture is one of the most important technological and cultural shifts of the internet era. An enormous amount of what exists onchain today is downstream of what @matthall2000 and @pents90 pulled off in 2017.

So being able to unwrap my Punk and interact directly with that original genesis contract for the first time felt... significant. Like touching a foundational layer of internet history more directly.

Very grateful to @jalilwahdat and @yougogirl_eth for caring enough about provenance, continuity, and onchain purity to explore this path. I genuinely don’t think people fully appreciate how important this development may turn out to be long term.

[Animashe @animashe]

@morphora_eth 🦓🐘🦒

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

https://t.co/15DUpQ4glM

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

I started this train of thought with a simple observation:

𝑴𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝑭𝑷𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒂𝒕.

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒕.

Over the last few pieces, I’ve been trying to get at why...
...and what happens when a collection doesn’t ask you to wear it... but to operate inside it.

This is the final piece:

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒊-𝑷𝑭𝑷

It’s not about expression.
It’s about assignment.

It’s not about who you are.
It’s about what the system decides you are.

And once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Link in 🧵

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

I spent the last few weeks trying to figure out why @TaborRobak Human Resources feels so different from the 2021 PFP meta...

First, The Fatness Problem... https://t.co/AON2NjhA3S

Then, the realisation that we’re still collecting with the wrong heuristics... https://t.co/yV7af25NQ3

Today, I’m going deeper into the system...

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒙𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏: 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑’𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈.

It’s not about finding yourself in the art. It’s about decoding the system that’s already there.

Link in 🧵

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

I’ve been collecting Human Resources for a few weeks, and one thing is crystal clear...

Most people are still approaching it like it’s 2021 PFPs... asking “Do I see myself in this?”

That question doesn’t work here.

These aren’t avatars for self projection. They resist identification. They offer you someone else... fully formed, already working inside a system.

The moment I stopped trying to “wear” the characters and started asking “Who is this? What’s their role?” everything changed.

I stopped collecting likenesses. I started collecting people.

Full essay in 🧵

[Animashe @animashe]

@Sonoflasg @mathcastles "A place where time, code and human action meet "

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

Terraforms by @mathcastles

Zone Alto, Biome 6
Parcel 4769
??? 42573
Level 19
X→0
Y→4

A small coordinate in a larger living program...

A window into a shared, always running Hypercastle...

A place where time, code and human action meet...

[SonOfLasG 🧙🏿‍♂️ @Sonoflasg]

Collecting art in 2026... not a crash, not a boom... a stalemate.

Floors look “stable,” liquidity is paper thin, most movement is bots talking to bots. Meanwhile the art is quietly hardening into culture.

The real question isn’t price. It’s time. Who was here for quick exits, and who was here for the work?

If you’ve been skulking around the secondary markets lately, you’ll recognise this mood.

Link to deeper thoughts in 🧵

[Beyond | Connecting Bitcoin @beyond__tech]

Connecting Bitcoin within itself and to +140 chains for the first time unlocks new yield opportunities and use cases.

There’ll be so many that we decided to start a new series of educational posts: Bitcoin Strategies.

Let's start with one of our favourites: Bit-Stable 🧵👇

[Animashe @animashe]

Just Registered for the @MacroStrategy__ airdrop
#MacroStrategy

https://t.co/zb4hR1YMN2

[Animashe @animashe]

I’ve joined @xplaceapp waitlist and claimed 500XP.

It pays to be early.

Join the movement now: https://t.co/7n4XY8Jwpa