Cautiously optimistic update on Candy 🍬
After months of silence, it’s good to finally have communication:
• Withdrawals acknowledged and expected
• Platform being decoupled from Futureverse
• Collection visibility + more resilient storage coming
That’s objectively better than where we were.
That said, trust gets rebuilt through execution, not statements. The big questions still matter: self-custody, royalties, and what a secondary marketplace will for these and all sports collectibles will look like.
Long-term, I think digital sports collectibles work if three things happen:
1️⃣ A chain that properly supports royalties (MLB needs recurring revenue)
2️⃣ A high-functioning secondary marketplace with real price discovery
3️⃣ True ownership + status signaling (self-custody, display, portability)
Get those right, and the rest follows. Miss them, and nothing sticks.
I’m cautiously optimistic, continuing to advocate, educate, and push for clarity. Collector perspective only — not financial or legal advice.
Open to thoughts. DMs always open.
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I'm feeling quite unhappy about with "this cycle’s celebrity experimentation" so far.
"Financialization as a means toward an end", I can respect if the end is worthy (healthcare, open source software, art, etc). Financialization *as the final product*, 🤮
Ashton and Mila's Stoner Cats was vastly more honorable than anything we've seen from this 2024 celebrity memecoin era - at least there was an actual show being funded.
How do we push things in a better direction?
@IslandApesClub I saw my account recently got delisted from the discord server. I’m still an island apes holder. Please reinstate my account and advise what I did wrong so I don’t repeat the same mistake.
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Putting politics aside here, any clue what's up with this @realDonaldTrump NFT? The price seems "too good to be true" and if a seller sold it to a buyer, why is the NFT still owned by the seller? Something seems suspicious. https://t.co/vkkrHHEe8J
@jimmyjohnsontv This is why I didn't participate in any of the Snoop things, save for burning a couple of veecon tickets to get a couple of snoop NFTs for the rarity aspect. But that was about it.