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Barely evolved hominid summoning @PlayLuchamon

[Chainlink @chainlink]

$LINK RESERVE UPDATE

The Chainlink Reserve just accumulated 123,777.33 LINK ($1.1M+).

Total holdings: 3,779,076.15 LINK.

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

Happy 5th Birthday Luchadores! 🎂

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

2 years of building Luchamon on Base 🤼🟦

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@LeBunkerBtc Take bancal dès qu’on raisonne en énergie par unité de travail :
le robot/IA n’est pas plus efficace — il consomme simplement plus, plus vite.
Le biologique, lui, a des millions d’années de R&D d’avance.

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

No more testnet energy. It’s mainnet violence.

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

1/ Luchamon is live on Base!

Own your fighter.
Create your build.
Battle onchain.
Earn $LUCHA.

Season 0 starts now. 🧵

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

gm Luchamon!🥊

It’s time to unstake your $LUCHA from Polygon and bridge to Base

We’ve taken a snapshot of all MASKS balances 🎭
Piñata raffle incoming to celebrate the end of this era

Our 100% onchain auto-battler is about to drop on Base - you'll want your $LUCHA there!

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

👀

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

@coingecko request to update X Profile URL 🤝
Request ID: CU2901260012
GeckoTerminal: https://t.co/pbtJn2utjb

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@TokenBrice X% $LINK: long on decentralized oracles bridging the gap between chaotic reality and unstoppable smart contracts

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@LuchadoresNFT ¡Feliz Navidad! 🎅🏽

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

🎄✨ Feliz Navidad, Luchadores!
See you onchain in 2026 🤼‍♂️⛓️

[tokenbrice.eth (🐜,🔍) @TokenBrice]

I use "min-max" a lot, and some of you asked me in DM what it really means, so I figured I would share about it here. It's a bit of a jargon, so let's wrap the week with a proper gamer-geekerie!

What is min-maxing? (tl;dr)

It means achieving maximal results with minimal resources invested.

It's particularly relevant, for instance, in the context of a video game stats allocation (finite resource, infinite options), but it applies well to other fields too. To be well executed, a min-maxing strategy requires a deep and precise understanding of the games' mechanics, as you will see below: it's necessary to identify the threshold crossing points.

What is really min-maxing (longer version)?

So let's zoom in and illustrate with a real game: @LuchadoresNFT - a turn by turn fighting game with cute AF Luchadores. Those guys have 4 stats + active skills + passive skills + items. We will abstract all and focus just on two stats + one passive interaction for the explainer.

- END: reduces damage taken and increase max HP
- AGI: increase dodge and confuse chance + determine who hits first

Zooming in on Endurance for a proper min-max scenario: if you want a super tanky Luchador, you can simply allocate massively into END.

But AGI also give you dodge chances, which translate into sturdiness as well. So you quickly realize that the sturdiest Luchador is most likely made of a healthy mix of END and AGI: yes, but how much of each?

We're getting on our way to a proper min-maxing question! We just need one more element - the Karma passive:

Karma heals your Luchador for 2% of your max health when he dodges an attack, and thus it "connects" END and AGI. Of course, rounding is involved, which leads up to another critical notion for min-maxing: threshold crossing.

↪️This is what happens when 1 single stat point delivers outsized returns because, well, you're crossing a threshold!

At 26 END, our Luchador heals for 9 HP on each dodge:

Something interesting happens at 27 END as we cross a Karma/END threshold:

So for 1 single END point, we get a 9 => 10 HP heal = 11.1% increases in the healed amount

This leads us to a properly AGI/END+Karma passive min-maxed build: here with a Luchador level 1:
- We grab that 27 END threshold for 10 HP heal/dodge
- All the rest goes to AGI to maximize dodge chance

Of course, this example is completely ignores STR and DEX, and tons of other things, and thus not a fully min-maxed build, but we've accounted for enough parameters to get a better understanding of what min-maxing means in practice.

The true min-maxing wizards are able to account for essentially virtually all parameters of the game, and thus can potentially reach a probabilistically optimal build: min-maxing is a bit like game theory but for gaming, and in games, the mechanics can usually be precisely modelized (unlike humans who always find ways to surprise us and this is also why game theory is such an interesting field!)

I hope you enjoyed reading this geekerie, at least I had fun writing it; I find the parallels with crypto insightful, and I hope you will too. I'm sure I cannot be the fonly min-maxer applying this to DeFi as well: feel free to manifest yourselves fellow nerds :)

Have a great weekend!

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@TokenBrice Sounds like a PhD in Theorycrafting is required to optimize all stats of a Luchador

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@NelsonRodMar @baseapp 🙋🏻‍♂️

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

🥊The Luchador Summer Leagues have officially concluded!

Thousands of battles in a community-driven season of pure competition.

🎁 Top 10 Luchadores of September:

🥇 El Picador de Ponzi
🥈 BULL Market
🥉 Socrate
4️⃣ Ragnar Lodbrok
5️⃣ Hercules
6️⃣ Le Templier Noir
7️⃣ Optimus
8️⃣ Achille
9️⃣ Spartacus
🔟 SpaceX

💰Each Top 10 Luchador has earned $100 in $LUCHA 🤑

GG to all who fought — this is just the beginning.

🎮 Next up: 100% onchain battles, low gas, verifiable randomness — rolling out in Q4. Stay tuned.

[Chainlink @chainlink]

We're excited to announce that Chainlink and the United States Department of Commerce (@CommerceGov) have worked together to bring U.S. government macroeconomic data onchain.

https://t.co/Bea4iLirfZ

These new Chainlink Data Feeds securely deliver critical information around key U.S. economy metrics onchain, sourced from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (@BEA_News).

Metrics include the Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Price Index, and Real Final Sales to Private Domestic Purchasers.

Bringing key U.S. government data onchain unlocks innovative use cases for blockchain markets, including:

• Automated trading strategies
• Increased composability of tokenized assets
• Issuance of new types of digital assets
• Real-time prediction markets for crowdsourced intelligence
• Transparent dashboards powered by immutable data
• DeFi protocol risk management based on macroeconomic factors

These datasets are updated monthly or quarterly as applicable, and are initially being made available across ten blockchain ecosystems, starting with Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Botanix, Ethereum, Linea, Mantle, Optimism, Sonic, and ZKsync. Support for additional blockchain networks can be incorporated over time based on user demand.

This development builds upon Chainlink’s accelerated work with the U.S. government in 2025, including meeting with several key officials and regulators to make policy recommendations that are advancing the growth of the blockchain industry.

[Luchamon @PlayLuchamon]

Luchador naming has now been migrated to @Base! 🎉

You can update your names directly on the build page in-game. Go give your fighter the perfect identity! 🥊🔥

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@0xfluid @ether_fi Mood

[Chris Barrett @ChrisBarrett]

SMART CONTRACTS AREN’T SMART WITHOUT CHAINLINK.

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@Crypto__Goku En fait ces énergumènes ont confondus le jeune homme avec un scammer connu dans la région.

🗞️ https://t.co/peliDbbcJv

[ㄥ𐌉𐌍𐌊𐌀 🥊 @linkadoteth]

@Mistahmcflyy @Courtyard_io Goddamn, you make me monkeyed to the end of the stock
(Spoiler: 0 hit 🥲)