Mr. Minter ◨ ◨

Head of Marketing @SonicLabs
Always learning. Always building. Always in Web3.

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

I’ve made some of my closest friendships and subsequently traveled the world with those same friends since joining web3.

I’ll always be grateful for this. 🫶

[Sonic @SonicLabs]

Dive in to learn about last week’s momentum on Sonic!

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@BluntDAO speaking of which...when's the next Olympics?

[Sonic @SonicLabs]

Proud to be the Anchor Partner for @InspiraLabsHQ's 10X Founders Demo Day v2.0.

Chain selection is one of the biggest decisions a founder makes, and we want to be part of that conversation early, not after the fact.

Excited to review projects, back the teams ready to build, and see who takes the stage on August 25.

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

this is where I and a large portion of our team thrive - we know what success looks like because we've not only seen it, but we've also contributed to it in other places already.

continuously improving the already impressive technology, building partnerships (old and new), attracting and supporting developers and founders, and building Sonic into what it always could and should have been - that's the goal.

that doesn't happen overnight, but as I've said many times in the past - bear markets are the best time to build, and that's what we're heads down doing.

lastly - a quick shoutout to the community, builders, partners, and our entire team. we couldn't do this alone, and your support and dedication to our ecosystem are what keep us going with confidence.

that is all for today.

until my next random comment, peace out.

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

this is where I and a large portion of our team thrive - we know what success looks like because we've not only seen it, but we've also contributed to it in other places already.

continuously improving the already impressive technology, building partnerships (old and new), attracting and supporting developers and founders, and building Sonic into what it always could and should have been - that's the goal.

that doesn't happen overnight, but as I've said many times in the past - bear markets are the best time to build, and that's what we're heads down doing.

lastly - a quick shoutout to the community, builders, partners, and our entire team. we couldn't do this alone, and your support and dedication to our ecosystem are what keep us going with confidence.

that is all for today.

until my next random comment, peace out.

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

not sure why people on X think they know my team better than me

for the last 10 years I've successfully built and managed teams at Samsung, TRON, Ankr, and now Sonic

I base my employee reviews on their performance in many different areas, and external opinions mean very little to me in that process

if you have any quantifiable reasons, I'm happy to hear them. until then, I'm going to ignore (not block, don't worry) comments like this.

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@SonicLabs revenue is not just the meta, it's a logical business priority

one day at a time 🫡

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@stelyb @HyperchainC @SonicLabs This market is brutal all around, all we can do is keep building.

We couldn't do that without the support of our partners, so thank you @stelyb & @HyperchainC 🤝

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@keithwhor this post needs an emotional trigger warning man

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@SonicLabs awwww yeah

getting my bracket together now @SonicLabs

if I win I burn the prize pool 🔥

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@_0xCB_ @SonicLabs @fraxfinance @SonicLabs is busy cookin sir, thanks for noticing!

maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but this market will turn around

when it does, we'll be ready 🫡

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

I get wanting to try something new, but at least be creative with it

anyone know of a good reason to want to use this?

I'm genuinely curious, is there a unique angle to this or just HL perps on an OS front-end?

[Zack Brenner @zjbrenner]

Who wants early access to perps on @opensea ? 👀

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@_lfausto I second this

wut?

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@_lfausto good infrastructure is boring but necessary, looking forward to this convo with the NowNodes team and guests! 👏

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

join us this Friday for a no-nonsense conversation on what it takes to scale crypto products

hint: getting a ton of users is important, but being able to handle them is a separate conversation completely

should be a fun chat!

[Sonic @SonicLabs]

Scaling crypto apps takes more than low fees and good UX; it also needs reliable infrastructure underneath.

@mrminter from Sonic Labs is joining the discussion on what it takes to bring Web3 apps to scale.

🗓️ June 5
⏰ 13:00 UTC

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@keithwhor glad to hear everyone's okay!

these little ones teach us some important things without having to say anything lol

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

this feels like a drug deal @Costco

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

@n3lson well said

i do think 3rd party harnesses still matter as a sanity check, if your model only works well inside your own scaffold that's also a problem

but yeah, you have to own at least one first-party loop or you're flying blind on the behaviors that matter most

[Mr. Minter ◨ ◨ @MrMinter]

my issue with this is that the harness IS the training environment

when OpenAI ships Codex or Anthropic ships Claude Code, they're not chasing app-layer revenue, they're building the surface they need to RL the next model on agentic behavior

opencode and t3code don't generate the trajectories that feed post-training

"core competence" was a 2023 frame. in 2026 the model and the scaffold co-evolve.

whoever owns the loop owns the next generation

just my 2 cents

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

i'm strongly against model companies focusing too much on harness, but i would love to hear if anyone has a strong argument for it

my reason against it:

if openai didn't build GPT 5.5, no one else can. this is their core competence

if openai didn't build codex cli and app, we have opencode and t3code. building harness is NOT their core competence

this is not saying products like claude code, codex aren't good - i genuinely think these are top tier products built by really talented people

my point is - the world might be a better place if model companies focus more on their core capability and give us better, faster, safer and cheaper models, rather than competing with the ecosystem in the application layer

what do you think?