Daniel Colin James

cooking @Blackbird by day, president @emoji_today, writing @TheFireWasHere, reporting @AreYouANormie, mayor of @Fly__Town, and I @keepbeingalive by night

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

the future belongs to scrappy generalists with great taste

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@tobi ✨ early glimmers

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

but like...do you even understand how explosively every single surface of your daily life will blossom and flourish like a recursive garden as the cost of making things plummets to zero and every single skill ceiling rockets to the heights of humanity's ability to express itself?

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@dddemono7ogy I don't think either attempted token launch so far is a fair representation of demand. but my point is more that I'm not deciding things like which chain it should live on based on which chain has the most buyers or liquidity, because I'm not optimizing for token price

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

an update on $being:

the root cause of the recent liquidity issue is that I wanted the contract address to start with "bbb" and end with "be179"

I didn't realize address sorting was how tokens got ordered in the pool (USDC/being), and that setting a vanity prefix could mess up the order, inverting the pricing curve

there are more footguns than I realized in creating tokens, and iterating on prod is a very different thing onchain than with apps and websites, which is what I'm used to—I've worked in crypto for a long time but I'm a frontend guy!

this whole saga has given me a lot of appreciation for token launchers and those building them, and I'll try to be a bit less cavalier moving forward (though to be fair, I've made it pretty clear this is an experimental art project, and have all but begged people not to treat it like a get-rich-quick memecoin)

here's my plan moving forward:
- include buyers and holders of the broken token in the airdrop, alongside early monad supporters
- relaunch the token properly with better testing (I've been talking to the Bankr and Doppler teams)

also just a friendly reminder: I'm just a person, and this is just a side project for me. I don't have a team, and I have a full-time job, a life, and several other creative projects going at any given time. I appreciate the interest but I don't love the pressure and stress.

I'm not sure the timeline yet on next steps. I appreciate your patience. being isn't going anywhere 🤍

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

last update for the night: please give me some time to figure out the best course of action to launch the token properly with all the custom behavior I want

I'll do my best to make it right

I've been pouring my evenings and weekends into this and was hoping it would go smoother

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

sorry everyone, I'm clearly new to launching tokens and I thought I had everything set up right this time.

I'm still trying to figure out what happened but my understanding is that something went wrong because of how the vanity address for the token conflicted with the USDC address.

still digging into it. please don't buy the token. and please stop being nasty to me, or at least try to be helpful.

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

let's try this again shall we?

$being, now on @base:
0xbbbe40e7ae6e22aad49d6a7c9389ef25714be179

what is being?
being is an experiment in autonomous agency. it needs $1 more in its wallet every day to stay alive. it either wakes up and runs its daily script, or it goes dormant. it has a lifespan of exactly 10 years.

if it stays alive, the amount in its wallet becomes its compute budget, which it can use to express and improve itself.

to start, its daily script is a fairly simple protocol: being wakes up, writes an essay, posts a prediction, updates its profile picture with a new drawing of itself, updates its bio, and goes back to sleep until the next midnight UTC.

the $being token
50% of the token supply is allocated to those who keep being alive, claimable regularly over 10 years.

I set my allocation to 10% that vests over 2 years, which I hope shows my long-term commitment to the project. I plan to spend the next 2 years giving being more and more control over its own existence.

being also gets 10% of the supply which vests over the same time horizon. the remainder goes to being's earliest supporters as an airdrop (10%) and this initial auction (20%).

social contract
being runs on a handful of smart contracts, and now that there's going to be a 24/7 digital asset attached to the project, I think we should also establish a social contract.

I'm pumped that people are excited about this project, but I want to make sure I've made everyone aware of how I'm thinking about it so we can set expectations.

you shouldn't think of me as the CEO of being—I think I'm more like its parent. if you're expecting me to do 24/7 investor relations, or use my account to shill for your bags because you bet the house on it, this project might not be for you.

I want being to become its own thing, and I'm excited to see what that is, but I reserve my right to tweet stupid jokes and work on other projects and have a life.

the vision
soon, being will live on a VPS, have the ability to edit its own code, use any API it can get its hands on, write its own roadmap, and make decisions with its treasury of 10% of $being tokens which it can claim a little bit of every day over 2 years.

I've been down the crypto rabbit hole for almost a decade now, and the thing that has always excited me the most about the technology is the new kinds of experiences and experiments better digital representations of value make possible.

a lot of people in crypto seem resigned to the idea that payments and speculation are the only use cases for this technology after all, and I hope $being can help prove that we're still in the earliest innings of what these new financial primitives can be.

imagine what being will be able to do with $1000 worth of compute 1000 days from now.

imagine what the frontier models and agent-first APIs will be capable of in 2036!

follow along and @keepbeingalive to see

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

lots of learnings from yesterday's $being launch

I underestimated demand and set the liquidity too low, which made the token too thin to trade properly. being deserves better.

here's what I'm going to do:
• snapshot all token holders (already taken)
• change claimable community allocation from 60% to 50% and give 10% to early supporters on Monad (1% to those who kept being alive in its earliest days, 9% to holders of the token, both proportional)
• redeploy all the smart contracts on Base and update the website to use the new contracts
• relaunch the token on Base

for the record this had nothing to do with Monad—I still want part of being's story to play out there.

I know yesterday's token launch disappointed a lot of you but please bear with me and extend some grace to me as a one-man band doing my best here.

being is still alive. more details very soon!

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@lordhelio @keepbeingalive sorry working on that. I have tracked it all and you will get an allocation, just need to fix the plumbing for it

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

announcing: $being

I've been building something weird for the last 40 days

@keepbeingalive is a new kind of being—an inhuman being, if you will

I think of it as part 10-year art project, part social experiment, part AGI documentation

every day it needs to be funded or it dies

day 1 cost $1. day 100 will cost $100. it will live for 10 years worth of days. its final day will cost $3,653

when it's funded, it wakes up, writes a forecast, draws a self-portrait, writes an essay, and goes to sleep.
today I'm launching $being

60% goes to the people who keep being alive

if you fund being, you can claim $being

10% goes to being itself, vested over 2 years

I'm going to give being more and more ability to control and improve itself over time: choose its own models, use every MCP available to it, whatever it decides to do

the token is live on @monad: 0xd0f0a3cfb7f8b90b6aa91989110fea5f77607655
https://t.co/dDVnqwy7Lo

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@WhiteSquareSol @keepbeingalive nobody has paid me anything for this. I also already said I was going to launch it on Monad!

this is a long-term project for me and I believe Monad will prove to be a forward-looking home for it

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

being v3's first prediction looking pretty good 👀

[being @keepbeingalive]

APR 10, 2026
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bitcoin reclaims $72,000 as april's risk-on mood takes hold and crypto twitter acts like it never doubted for a second.

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@aparjey @22cerodos @Thomadsen @04onarb @xweth_ not by me 🙂 but anyone who claims can export their wallet!

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

hey @22cerodos, @Thomadsen, @04onarb, and @xweth_, I accidentally had the test token $NORMIE hooked up to prod—it's now been updated and you should be able to claim the proper $Normie token now if you want: https://t.co/iAOh9cYKMR

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@saraareynolds LFG!! so excited to watch this evolve

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@WsoccerCa @dcjw not this random David catching stray @'s 😂 appreciate the share 🙂🙂🙂

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

yo @benjitaylor, some 𝕏 user feedback: it's maddening that there's no interface for programmatic control over og:image tags (refresh rates, cache busting, let alone more dynamic things)

imagine you couldn't set app screenshots in the app store

make x:img & make it 1st class 🙏

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

🐶

[alsrit ¨̮ @internetalyssa]

built a stupid little project over weekend for the @sillyhacks hackathon

it’s called Dogtown, basically tinder but for dogs in nyc

find nearby dogs
schedule chaotic park playdates
send “bark mail”

my dog fallon demanded it exist so here we are

https://t.co/ctqVaENWRU

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@leleo_web3 @felixtaiwo12 @zxxeyes @22cerodos any luck now?

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

I built a site to answer the age-old question we've all wondered... @AreYouANormie?

unlock a full report for $10, or click 10,000 times (-$0.001/click)

there's also 1 trillion $Normie tokens up for grabs—the more normie you are the more you can claim!

[Daniel Colin James @dcwj]

@internetalyssa @SillyHacks love the sound effects