Nic Batum on Steph's GOLDEN DAGGER’ three to end the game:
“99.99999% of the players in the world would have missed that shot. Only one guy could have made it. Him."
when i started building echo 2 years ago, i knew it had 95% chance of failing. to be honest, i couldnt really imagine any other outcome, but i thought at least it may be a noble failure worth attempting.
i certainly didn't think echo would be sold to coinbase, but, here we are: today coinbase bought echo for ~$375m.
echo will remain a standalone platform under its current brand for now, but we will integrate sonar's public sale product into coinbase, and likely introduce new ways for founders to access investors, and for investors to access opportunities into coinbase itself.
over the years i have chatted to brian a handful of times, and mostly to complain at him honestly. i have always respected how brian would listen to an outsider chat shit at him on the phone and take the feedback seriously. now, instead of complaining, i will have the opportunity try to do the work to make things better.
crypto itself has moved on a long way since we started working on echo. i guess partially this is because of the election result. but, i feel energised by a lot of the cool things being built in crypto again: hyperliquid, zcash, stablecoin supercyle, and so on.
feels like a good time to be on the field instead of an idiot with a twitter account yapping nonsense. well, i guess i still will be that.
anyway, job's not finished. onwards.
oh fuck yeah, before i go, the final season of up only (now "unc only" due to our severe old age) will commence when we figure out who the guests should be lol
cobber
Ownership and IP rights. People are losing the ability to own something very fast in todays world, especially with things being subscription based, so NFTs would bring that back as everyone with phone access could own “something” easily and have more control over. My key my NFT
***$500,000 GIVEAWAY***
Feeling generous and WOW so very blessed. This Twitter community has grown 9,000 members in a single day, I just traded +$300,000 in 24 hours, and Probably Nothing is the biggest crypto content platform on planet Earth. We are truly winning in ever category.
To show my appreciation for all the overwhelming support I'm giving away an NFT that at once worth a whopping $500,000 USD (currently valued at around $40,000) to one LUCKY WINNER!
Quote tweet this tweet with what would make you excited about NFT's again. Best response wins this guy. GOOD LUCK & AGAIN THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. EVERY. LAST. PERSON.
@aicceleratedao As a long time member of @Pixel_Inc_ alongside @Satoshi_Bets_ we’d love to be a part of the DAO and the future efforts to bring Web3 to the masses. I think AI agents being interactive with web2 is very important for mass adoption and @aicceleratedao will easily lead the way.
Introducing Aiccelerate DAO: Accelerating Crypto x Agentic AI. https://t.co/wCPwgg5Z9E
Read on to find out how to become a partner.
We are an Investment & Development DAO with members from the top open source AI teams, Coinbase, Google, and major funds.
We believe crypto AI is at an inflection point. Our mission is to accelerate the development of decentralized, open source AI and support high potential projects across every ecosystem. We consider agentic AI to be one of the most important technological shifts for crypto.
Furthermore, we will house a community of leading developers (multi-framework aligned) that will build an array of agents & tools that will push towards our goal.
@AiccelerateDAO and all its initiatives will unite under a single token: $AICC.
Our founding partners include @markus9x, @cryptopunk7213, @ropirito
Our esteemed advisors were selected with four major categories in mind: Development, Investment, Research and Outreach.
Development Advisors
Shaw, Ai16z @shawmakesmagic
Ethermage, Virtuals Protocol @ethermage
Cygaar, Abstract @0xCygaar
Tachi, ARC @0thTachi
Jin, Ai16z @dankvr
Karan, Open Source AI @karan4d
Nader, Eigenlayer @dabit3
Jason, Story Protocol @jasonzhao
Investment Advisors
Andrew Kang, Mechanism Capital @Rewkang
Casey Caruso, Topology Ventures @caseykcaruso
Anil Lulla, Delphi Digital @anildelphi
Marc Weinstein, Mechanism Capital - @WarcMeinstein
Tommy Shaughnessy, @Shaughnessy119
Justin Lee, Coinbase Ventures @shiny_shiba_
Research Advisors
Sammy, Moca Network @0xsammy
Jeff, Steak Studio @0xjeff
Kel, Independent Researcher @kelxyz_
Baoskee, Daosfun @baoskee
Skely, Ai16z @123skely
Outreach Advisors
David Hoffman, Bankless @TrustlessState
Ryan Sean Adams, Bankless @RyanSAdams
Threadguy, Probably Nothing @notthreadguy
Background
There are liquid markets that current venture capital firms are unable to tap into. Several legitimate teams are choosing fair launch models such as Pumpfun, Daosfun, and others.
It has become impossible to chase every project across multiple chains.
We will leverage our extensive network, product & investment experience to become the home for the leading builders and investors of tomorrow.
We plan to abstract away the hard work for the best teams by providing funding and access to networking, while building alongside them.
All DAO partners will receive benefits in the form of future potential airdrops and access to investment opportunities.
In addition to this, as our AUM grows, we will use a percentage of our profits to buy back our token, $AICC enabling @AccelerateDAO to become the multi-ecosystem Crypto x AI index.
We aim to become both an investment & development DAO by fusing elements of both a human and agentic component. We plan to ship an array of agents that will elevate the sector.
Our first project is a public utility research agent that can help us, and the overall market make better judgement calls.
If you are interested in becoming a partner and participating in our presale round on @daosdotfun, please retweet, like and comment below to tell us why you would be a good fit, and how you would like to help.
Starting at 7PM EST Jan 9th and for 24 hours, we will begin considerations for our partners. We look forward to hearing from you. 🙏