The moat that’s getting killed here is having the best software engineering teams was a moat as people could not catchup nor have the talent nor afford it
Now you have to have ecosystem lock in
Beyond a reasonable time when Apple is non innovative I’m stuck because I pay the monthly subscription fee for photo storage lol and ease of replicating data into new phone
Hey @weremeow@micdotsol want to help us CTO #Priceless like @a1lon9 CTO’ed $Alon?
Of course I understand that you are busy so don’t worry, @booocake and myself as well as many others will work hard just want to have you as our fearless cat leader. Alon doesn’t even pop into chat every day so if you even said a priceless hello every day, that alone would be huge for the community.
The community is still here after someone hijacked our Jupiter profile and linked the X page with a drainer.
If there’s any way we as a community can get the creator rewards to make this community more sustainable as well. I want to put in the work to make this happen.
My DMs are always open and happy to chat.
If any of you also want to help and step up let @weremeow and @micdotsol know in the comments below that we’re here for Jupiter long term and willing to put in the work to make this the priceless community to be in the jupiter ecosystem
Who is with me? 🙋♂️
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Why I Believe $GOR Could Be the Next 1B+ Runner
Gorbagana is basically an experiment in pure crypto-native vibes. No VCs. No unlock schedules. Just a community of degens building something truly decentralized from the ground up.
What is it actually?
A new Layer 1 blockchain (a Solana fork) built by and for the community. The vision? Turn it into the most unapologetically degen chain in existence. Think experimental, chaotic, trashy—on purpose.
Who’s Building It?
The project isn’t some anonymous team with nothing to lose. It’s stacked with real talent:
•Gabriel Shapiro aka Lex Node – One of the most respected minds in crypto law and decentralized governance.
•Sarv – Legendary Milady dev that dominated (eth) hackatons
•Tom Howard – Founder of Taureon Capital, one of the most respected early-stage crypto funds.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Over 20 serious contributors are building behind the scenes—Most people have no idea how seriously things are being handled right now.
Why This Matters
In crypto, you make money by spotting information inefficiencies early. Gorbagana is one of them. To most people right now it looks like a meme—but under the hood, for those who actually do their research, it’s a calculated effort being pushed by cracked devs.
The Gorbagana Flywheel
1.Degens flock to the chain because it’s fun, chaotic, and unfiltered.
2.Independent teams build apps (launchpads, games, casinos, etc).
3.Volume and liquidity increase.
4.Infra improves, TVL grows, more devs join.
5.Token value rises, which feeds more hype and more apps.
And it all started from a joke.
This self-reinforcing flywheel only works if the foundation (who’s behind it) is strong—and Gorbagana definitely has that foundation.
The chart & mindshare
Chart went up to 60M in a couple days and now returned to the .786 fib retracement zone which is usually a very good time to enter. This is also a mindshare setup; attention cooled off while infrastructure is being built. Hype fades while the real work is happening behind the scenes— sweet spot to enter
It even reached 7% of Solana’s total mindshare this week. Everyone has their eyes on it. Couple that with the team actually delivering... pure garbage will happen
TL;DR:
•Gorbagana is a serious experiment with a “trash/garbage chain” aesthetic—run by cracked devs and real operators.
•No VCs. No unlocks. 100% community-driven.
•Real infrastructure is already being built.
•Most people haven’t done their homework.
•The asymmetric upside is huge.
🗑️ RT if you think this writeup is garbage
Gorbagio.
Hey guys there will be more updates from the official account tomorrow but basically Gorbagana has so far been an amazing ride for me and I have learned a ton and will cherish you all (even the annoying pump/dumpers lmao)
There are about 16+ people all working on this furiously, mostly with little financial incentive and facing a fair number of hard costs (hosting etc.) to bring Gorbagana mainnet to life as an absurdist SVM alt-L1. Between your donations and the revenues from the NFT gorbagio mint-out, they are now well positioned to do so.
Gorbagios NFT art should be finalized in a week and a half or so and there will be previews in the meantime.
Gorbagana mainnet will initially be a MEV-free single validator. $GOR migration will be through a two-way bridge, with some gradually unlocking GOR inflation on the Gorbagana-chain side to allow for dev incentives, liquidity mining, validator rewards, etc. The bridge will also work for SOL, but rate-limited to ramp up security over time while keeping the dumpster fire burning.
As previously stated, I will stay involved in a 'Trash Chairman' and Chief Vibes Officer type role--monitoring the situation and bolstering trash-tastic memetics. But the real people you want to know about and talk to are these guys:
@Sarv_shaktiman, @ec1ipse_sol @hella_badid are our BASED MILADY devs running ecosystem / community / growth / app efforts.
Mojave Labs (@neogio3d, @davidsidol and others) are the team behind @CLI_App, are experts in Solana infra already, and will be running validator/bridge/infra/hardware security.
And this isn't even all the talent--far from it actually--just the ones who want to step up in public roles.
This is a passionate and competent group who now have the resources to get the rest of the way toward making this fork real and trash-fucking-tastic. I'm as excited to see what they'll build as you are.
Gorbillions.
Tale of the crypto founder
You friend messaged you about this crypto thing.
He said he's making a lot of money off it. You are intrigued. You download Coinbase.
Before long you've made some money.
This shit's easy. You get the hang of it. More importantly, you get the bug. You can't stop thinking about crypto. It's too big now to be a side hustle.
So you apply to join a fund. Maybe a hedge fund, or a VC, doesn't matter. Foot in the door first.
Your finance friends think you're a joke. You probably can't cut it in tradfi. Not smart enough to sling equities at the big shops with the Ivy League bros. Why else would you be here gambling on the same animal coins as your 13 year old cousin?
Every once in a while, they still message you. "Crypto looks hot, what coin should I buy bro?". You never get invited to happy hour.
You interact with people outside the industry less and less. You now have a vested interest for the industry to do well.
So you start investing in startups. Some of the founders even seem sincere. You make some money from angel investments.
You do your best to steer clear of scams and invest in things that excite you. Sometimes you get rugs, sometimes you get vaporware, sometimes you get home runs. Doesn't matter, you're labelled as a VC cuck now. Everything you do is a seen as a grift. Now even people in the space hate you.
Fuck it, you say. Let's quit the fund and try to start your own project. Try build something for once.
You find a co-founder, start an app. You've grown to love the movement, even if its people are toxic. Someone has to build something people actually use to keep the movement alive.
You come up with an idea. It's actually not bad. You message a few VCs and angels, get a seed round going. They bite. You launch the project. Even launch a token, in true crypto fashion.
Soon you start getting death threats from "community members". Where is the fucking airdrop you scammer? Why is your token price down you sellout?
Damn. Building a product isn't easy. You reach out to your Web 2 friends for advice. But half of them don't take you seriously so they reply weeks later. The other half think you can't build a real product so have to resort to scamming retails with vaporware tokens.
You're quite burnt out. Not sure why you're still in this industry. But you've made yourself quite unemployable in other fields, and you have a company to run.
Maybe just sunset the product? But you can't. The token is live. Hundreds of people hold this now and you feel beholden to them.
You feel stuck. Maybe you spend more time angel investing than building the app from now on. Travel the world. Less stress that way.
You start an anon account to vent your frustrations.
a half-hour episode of me acting with @sesame. In this first-of-its-kind art (?), we arrest a this SOTA voice AI for drug trafficking. it is shocking how it reacts... listen!
cc @brendaniribe