Fiona Delaney

I build tech for biocircular social systems | agri-tech, tourism & mobility, renewable energy.

Shortcut to happiness: laughter, diversity and dissent.

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

I've been working with an amazing team at the TripAnimal Agri project, @NGI_TRUSTCHAIN OC5 finalists with our Tokenomics for agri-tourism proposal. We've also entered @solana's @colosseum hackathon. We want to test our vision for agri-tourism tokenomics in the Solana cauldron of decentralized finance.
So I volunteered to make an appearance at @superteamIE Talent Hub last Friday. We had a stimulating intro to Cypherpunk from crypto-economist @post_polar_ whose work leans a lot on Samuel Konkin III's (SEK3's) applied philosophy of Agorism, 'counter-economics wielded consciously'.

While it's fun to chat about where on the spectum of hot to cold anarchism a Solana-powered AR game is positioned.... all we want to say is 'Cypherpunks write code' (Tim May's Cyphernomicon, 1994, https://t.co/J3MPWf85dC ) and that's what we do really well.

Until recently, we've been developing our light-weight mobile game engine to power a gorgeously playable 'Pokemon Go' style AR-game in the very special Lasithi Plateau, Crete.

Now it's time to turn our minds to the functional desirability of tokenomics for agri-tourism, elaborating robust primitives for a vibrant agri-tourism counter-economy, where agronomists are game-makers, and reward-seeking players search for, find and earn rewards in bespoke quests in the semi-real world created by TripAnimal Agri team on Lasithi Plateau.

Shout out to the founders, builders and organisers at @superteamIE for all that they bring.
Last Friday, we hit the ground running, diving straight in with project dreams and ideas. Close to 15 intro-pitches from a really diverse set of projects. I truly can't wait to see how everyone progresses.

#Agritourism #Pitchathon #Hackathon #Tokenomics #blockchain #Solana #Colosseum #BuildStation #Web3 #Gaming #alternative #economics

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@superteamIE @Fidelity @FCATalyst @dogpatchlabs So cool. Cant wait

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@cstldao @SlaneCastle @solana @superteamIE @superteam Absolutely love this 😎

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

The Dark Chocolate Web 😭

[Jennifer 🟥🔴🧙‍♀️🦉🐈‍⬛ 🦖 @babybeginner]

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats.

And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@post_polar_ Nice one @post_polar_ must get you to sign my copy 💚

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

Omg why am i seeing half the sht im seeing in my timeline? What the heck happened to ct??

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

Ouchy 😭 cryptoverse evaluation

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million.

None of it was real.

I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off.

I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier."

The frontier closed last week.

It's a mobile app now.

Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me.

I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs.

The avatars didn't have legs.

I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis.

I called myself a "digital land baron."

I put it in my Twitter bio.

I put it in my LinkedIn headline.

I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts.

My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment.

My actual apartment has furniture.

Location, location, location.

My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court.

I held.

Diamond hands.

That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait.

A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users.

He said I didn't understand the technology.

I didn't.

I still bought more.

We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts.

We voted to "acquire strategic parcels."

The vote passed unanimously.

I voted four times.

My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY."

The slide had a rocket emoji.

That was my entire financial model.

In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000.

It's worth $14,000 now.

I don't talk about the Ape.

I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera.

My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was.

I said "digital art on the blockchain."

She asked why it cost more than her car.

I said "you don't understand Web3."

She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment."

She's not in my Discord.

Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million.

It's worth about $90,000 now.

I felt better about mine after I heard that.

That's community.

WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero.

We're all gonna make it.

None of us made it.

But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something.

It doesn't.

But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus.

Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse.

I need to say that again.

$84 billion.

More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines.

They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets.

It lives on as a mobile app.

My beachfront villa is now a mobile app.

Location, location, location.

Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that."

Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025.

That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun.

They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables."

The pivot took four years and $84 billion.

I pivoted too.

I'm an AI real estate investor now.

I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models."

I don't know what that means.

I gave him $40,000.

He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan.

The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank.

Q4 is always blank.

That's where the exit scam goes.

My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes.

I said $1.2 million.

He said "current market value."

I said $6,400.

He stared at me for eleven seconds.

I know because I counted.

He asked if I had any other investments.

I showed him my NFTs.

He stared for longer.

I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance."

He asked if I'd considered a 401k.

I told him a 401k was "legacy finance."

He told me to leave his office.

The metaverse is dead.

I don't accept that.

I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car.

Location, location, location.

The location is nowhere.

But I'm early.

I'm always early.

That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@post_polar_ Thanks for the download @post_polar_ Memes and flourishes aside, its a strong position paper. I welcome it. 🫡

[@aaronjmars @aaronjmars]

some researchers demonstrated that qubits can be cloned perfectly and at will, as long as each clone is encrypted with a single-use decryption key.

you can make unlimited redundant copies, but only ever recover one, since decryption consumes the key.

for blockchain / crypto, this opens a genuinely new primitive: quantum-native assets with cryptographic scarcity enforced by physics, not just software.

the most immediate application is quantum distributed storage - imagine a quantum ledger where your asset lives on 10 nodes simultaneously, fully encrypted, but only one can ever be unlocked and spent.

definitely not production ready, but interesting to see & follow

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I agree with maybe 60% of this, but one bit that is particularly important to highlight is the explicit separation between what the poster calls "the open web" (really, the corposlop web), and "the sovereign web".

https://t.co/w7Vtbn7uFt

This is a distinction I did not realize until recently, and I must admit the bitcoin maximalists were far ahead: a big part of their resistance to ICOs, tokens other than bitcoin, arbitrary financial applications, etc was precisely about keeping bitcoin "sovereign" and not "corposlop". The big error that many of them made was trying to achieve this goal with either government crackdowns or user disempowerment (keeping bitcoin script limited, and rejecting many categories of applications entirely), but their fear was real.

So what is corposlop? In essence, it is the combination of three things:

* Corporate optimization power
* An aura of respectableness of being a company with sleek polished branding
* Behavior that the exact opposite of respectable, because that's what's needed to maximize profit

Corposlop includes things like:

* Social media that maximizes dopamine, outrage, other methods of short-term engagement, at the expense of long-term value and fulfillment
* Needless mass data collection from users, often followed by managing it carelessly or even casually selling it to third parties
* Walled gardens charging monopolistic high fees and actively preventing people from even linking to other platforms
* Hollywood releasing the 7th sequel to some tired franchise, because that's the most risk-averse thing to do
* Every corporation that rallied around slogans of diversity and equity and the need to overturn society to fight racism in 2020, and then publicly mocked those causes for engagement in 2025

This is all digital corposlop; there are big and important analogues to this in the physical world too.

Corposlop is soulless: trend-following homogeneity that is both evil and lame https://t.co/FZwqwujAGb

These are things that appear to serve the user, but actually disempower the user.

I have many qualms with Apple, but aside from their monopolistic practices, they actually have many non-corposlop traits. They serve users not by constantly asking "what do users want this quarter", but by having an opinionated long-term vision. They have a strong emphasis on privacy. They resist and create trends rather than following them. I just wish they could take the brave step of ending their monopolistic practices and switch to an open source first strategy. It may damage their market cap, but man must live for something higher than market caps.

Zac from Aztec was also early to recognize the importance of this, with a post that is on the whole very pro-freedom, but at the same time does not shrink back from labeling what is essentially corposlop a primary enemy, even when it does not violate the libertarian non-aggression principle.

https://t.co/PsbySLhLWU

In 2000, the understanding of "sovereignty" largely focused on avoiding the iron fist of government. Today, "sovereignty" also means securing your digital privacy through cryptography, and securing your own mind from corporate mind warfare trying to extract your attention and your dollars. It also means doing things because you believe in them, and declaring independence from the homogenizing and soul-sucking concept of "the meta".

These are the kinds of tools that we should build more of. Build tools like:

* Privacy-preserving local-first applications that minimize dependence on and data leaks to third parties
* Social media platforms and tools that let the user take control of what content they see. Appeal to people's long-term goals, not short-term impulses
* Financial tools that help users grow their wealth, and do not encourage 50x leverage or sports betting or taking out a loan to pay for a burrito
* AI tools that are maximally open and privacy and local-friendly, and that maximize productivity from merging the power of human and bot, rather than encouraging the user to sit back and let the bot do all the work, so they learn nothing
* Applications, companies, and physical environments that take an opinionated view on the kind of world they want to see, and have an opinionated culture
* DAOs that can support organizations and communities that steadfastly pursue a unique objective, and do not all get captured by the same groups. Privacy-preserving and non-tokenholder-driven voting can help here

Be sovereign. Reject corposlop. Believe in somETHing.

[Zeus 🇬🇧 @ZeusRWA]

https://t.co/w0BEXZvEHX

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@galinonchain Epic Galin 😎

[Galin Dimitrov @galinonchain]

X just BANNED my article.

Why?

Because I analyzed their open-source algorithm and revealed exactly how to go viral.

Here's what they don't want you to know: 🧵

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@MaherCiara4 Great news Ciara. Welcome back! Cant wait for the new season to begin 🎉

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@NGI_TRUSTCHAIN @solana @colosseum Who'd like a sneak peek at our deck for
@colosseum
#Cypherpunk Dublin Side Track? #Green #Tourism #AgriTech #AR #MobileGames

@superteamIE
@TourismIreland
@Bordbia
@Failte_Ireland
@opwireland
@dogpatchlabs

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

I've been working with an amazing team at the TripAnimal Agri project, @NGI_TRUSTCHAIN OC5 finalists with our Tokenomics for agri-tourism proposal. We've also entered @solana's @colosseum hackathon. We want to test our vision for agri-tourism tokenomics in the Solana cauldron of decentralized finance.
So I volunteered to make an appearance at @superteamIE Talent Hub last Friday. We had a stimulating intro to Cypherpunk from crypto-economist @post_polar_ whose work leans a lot on Samuel Konkin III's (SEK3's) applied philosophy of Agorism, 'counter-economics wielded consciously'.

While it's fun to chat about where on the spectum of hot to cold anarchism a Solana-powered AR game is positioned.... all we want to say is 'Cypherpunks write code' (Tim May's Cyphernomicon, 1994, https://t.co/J3MPWf85dC ) and that's what we do really well.

Until recently, we've been developing our light-weight mobile game engine to power a gorgeously playable 'Pokemon Go' style AR-game in the very special Lasithi Plateau, Crete.

Now it's time to turn our minds to the functional desirability of tokenomics for agri-tourism, elaborating robust primitives for a vibrant agri-tourism counter-economy, where agronomists are game-makers, and reward-seeking players search for, find and earn rewards in bespoke quests in the semi-real world created by TripAnimal Agri team on Lasithi Plateau.

Shout out to the founders, builders and organisers at @superteamIE for all that they bring.
Last Friday, we hit the ground running, diving straight in with project dreams and ideas. Close to 15 intro-pitches from a really diverse set of projects. I truly can't wait to see how everyone progresses.

#Agritourism #Pitchathon #Hackathon #Tokenomics #blockchain #Solana #Colosseum #BuildStation #Web3 #Gaming #alternative #economics

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

Last day for @Colosseum submission! Look what team #TripAnimal captured on the Mountain Explorer quest!

Want to try out the Demo? Check out the demo webpage here: https://t.co/jTY6V5eA2o

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

Just sharing some #Solana #spooky fun and #Cypherpumpkin love from my #TripAnimal team🧡@superteamIE 💚 #LastDay

#LisithiPlateau #greentourism #yummytourism
@colosseum @SolanaConf

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

A cute Mama goat 💚 test-icon for
@colosseum @superteamIE
#TripAnimal A cute Mama goat, tall and imposing, looking for her lost kid. In a hyperstylised origami-inspired landscape, mid shot, detailed, color dept... - made with NightCafe https://t.co/QD7BAkbt4V #aiart #nightcafe #digitalart via @NightcafeStudio

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

A cute baby Zeus 💚 test-icon for @colosseum @superteamIE #TripAnimal
https://t.co/vzK5OSdWNT #aiart #nightcafe #digitalart via @NightcafeStudio

[𝓐𝔂. 🍑 @bibbleayy]

Incredible work

[Fiona Delaney @fidgettwidget]

@StakerDotFun This is neat @StakerDotFun🩵 #integrations for #good 👏👏👏