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Software Engineer and Artist, punk enjoyer

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Wondering if Croak Cabal by @gremplin is cc0? Can’t find a definitive answer anywhere

[Bankless @Bankless]

Let's check in with @token_works — the dev studio behind:

PunkStrategy (Sept. 2025) — Introduced $PNKSTR with a 10% trading fee. The protocol accumulates ETH, buys the cheapest CryptoPunk it can, and relists it for a 20% premium, 'round and 'round. Upon any sales, all proceeds are used to burn $PNKSTR.

NFTStrategy (Sept. 2025) — Extended the $PNKSTR playbook to a curated set of top NFT collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club, Pudgy Penguins, and Chimpers, routing a portion of revenue back to original creators via onchain royalties.

TokenStrategy (Dec. 2025) — Unveiled a permissionless launchpad for deploying strategy tokens for NFT collections or ERC-20s you've created, debuting Recursive Strategies that buy and burn their own tokens.

~~ Analysis by @wmpeaster ~~

Accordingly, TokenWorks is a team to watch in 2026, and they're already off to a hot start. Today they announced that anyone can now deploy any ERC-20 strategy they want.

This matters because previously the TokenStrategy platform would only let you deploy such a strategy if you controlled the underlying ERC-20 smart contract. However, projects renouncing control of their coins for immutability is a common pattern in the Ethereum ecosystem.

TokenWorks just "upgraded the TokenStrategy launcher to handle this case [...] If the Strategy is not deployed by the owner, the creator fee is also used to buy the underlying token."

Yet TokenWorks has something even bigger in the works for later this month: the arrival of IndexStrategies.

Like the name suggests, IndexStrategies will focus on buying a range of specific assets instead of just buying CryptoPunks, or just buying Bored Apes, etc.

The first IndexStrategy will be $AB500STR, which will accumulate works from Art Blocks 500, the 500 official generative art releases Art Blocks has facilitated.

$AB500STR will rotate through all @artblocks_io collections in sequence, starting with Chromie Squiggles. Each collection gets a three-day purchase window. If an NFT is acquired, or the window expires, the strategy advances to the next collection. Once all 500 projects have been cycled through, the loop restarts.

Like other NFT strategies, $AB500STR enforces a 10% trading fee, split between the strategy, buy-and-burns of $PNKSTR (as the ecosystem token), and creator royalties. The main wrinkle? The royalties are distributed evenly across the +300 AB500 artists instead of just going to one collection creator.

When sales occur after relistings, proceeds will be used to buy and burn $AB500STR, and this earn, buy, sell, and burn loop will run for as long as Ethereum runs.

This kind of setup is ideal for someone who wants long-term exposure to some of Ethereum's most iconic gen art collections without breaking the bank or manually curating buys.

$AB500STR is just the first of the IndexStrategies releases. In time, this model could be expanded in all sorts of directions. Consider tokenized Pokémon cards. Imagine a $BS1999STR that accumulates across the 102 cards of the legendary 1999 Pokémon Base Set series, all onchain.

We'll have to see where things go from here, but IndexStrategies do point the way to new cultural experiments. TokenWorks flips speculation so it's taxed into accumulation and royalties. Traders fund collectors, and artists get paid even when marketplaces don't enforce royalties. That's a really interesting dynamic worth tracking closely in the months ahead.

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@_rektnick @rektdrinks @RektCoin @grok

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@0xConcept How the fuck did I not know that this was one of the programmable pieces 🤯

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@flexasaurusrex Me too Flex 🫂

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Serious fomo at not being able to travel across the world to @nodefnd

[Melted @MeltedMindz]

I just vibe coded a complete finance companion app using Claude code.

Solo build. ~12 hours end-to-end.

Targets $25,000 MRR within 90 days.
$8–12 ARPU, sub-first monetization.

LTV/CAC modeled at ~6.4x with paid + organic mix.

Offline-first, privacy-forward, clean Apple-compliant paywall.

Not revolutionary - just execution, distribution, and taste.

Check it out here:
http://localhost:3001

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@MeltedMindz Kek

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@BASTIBOII_eth Museo Tamayo, Maizajo Taqueria, and Cariñito Tacos

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@chrisgranneberg gm

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@Darkfarms1 Tin of maple syrup

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@ApeNuke @token_works Brilliant conviction

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@BastionVonRaven The Token Works 🤷

[bastionvonraven.eth @BastionVonRaven]

Whales are coming for $pnkstr.

14.1 ETH straight into $pnkstr.

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@foogyla @nftsweepsfun @cryptopunks Sick idea. Yet another great way to build upon $PNKSTR as an infrastructure

[foogy @foogyla]

Create a Punk you want - and win a real Punk!!!

We are creating a new feature on @nftsweepsfun

Supported mints
- minting a new collection on Ethereum will fund the desired sweepstake pool and give each wallet one ticket per mint

This feature unlocks a gamified option that can result in additional rewards from the project ecosystem - a new way of giving back to the community, and burning @token_works tokens along the way

Our first mint with this feature will be integrated into a project we have been working on for some time - DePunks

follow @depunksClub
a project where you can build and create a Punk from scratch

Free mint will be available for everyone holding a minimum of the listed token:
- 500k $sweepstr
- 100k $pnkstr
- 100k $vibestr
- 100k $chmpstr
- 100k $gobstr

Free mint will also be available to wallets holding @BrosOnBase, a project I have been building over the last year

Public mint will be available for anyone who completes the memory game - yeah.. it's going to be fun :)
and also a way to block the bots

But, for piublic sale, each paid mint will give you a chance to win a Punk from sweepstake of PunkStrategy - https://t.co/wbTsPtJujY

mint price: 0.003 eth
fully onchian
minting January 2026

RT, like to get a chance for a free spot

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@eli_schein Thats one hell of a Fuzzy, best trait imo

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Just remember, nothing else is like Punks, or ever will be $PNKSTR

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@Darkfarms1 All oil is american oil 🫡

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@Darkfarms1 gm farms