Only few will unlock a Tolybot physical figurine - brass w/ 18k gold electroplating, serialized/customized, unique, collectible
...and they told you memes were dead? π€
Golden Toly Hunt
So TolyBot has a couple of ways you can unlock a Golden Toly.
If it happens, an NFT will be issued to your connected wallet.
You are free to trade or sell this NFT if you want, or you can use it to redeem the physical Golden Toly figurine from the TolyBot merch store that will be available soon!
These are solid brass TolyBot's plated in 18K gold!
They stand 33cm tall (slightly smaller than a lego figure) and they weigh more than they look!
We've also ordered a small second run of these that we will sell for $TOLYBOT and $ZAILGO through the store.
*Diamond Eyes Toly*
We are also making one much larger Golden Toly that stands a full 100mm tall.
We are sourcing a jeweler to place diamonds in the eyes and a ruby on TolyBot's chest button.
We will then do a weighted raffle for it using $TOLYBOT and Golden Toly's as the entry fee! *Diamond Eyes Toly details are still in early stages and subject to change!
Notes
β’If you win and we can't ship to you, you can always sell the NFT! We will make every effort to ship to as many places as possible but there are some countries we simply can't right now.
β’When you redeem a physical Golden Toly or the Diamond Eyes Toly you will be given a chance to enter text for a custom laser engraving on TolyBot's back before it's shipped.
I gave up on the old TolyBot account, X support simply didn't even look at the ticket and just had a bot tell me to click buttons that didn't exist.
New one is @TolyTheBot, assume everything that the old one posts is a scam.
Such is web3 I guess!
crank bots are basically that guy at the buffet who takes one bite of everything and holds up the line for everyone else. SIMD-553 is the maitre d' finally asking them to pay for the table.
one of the biggest issues for blockbuilders on solana are crank arb bots. these are totally uninformed traders that spam transactions which exploit the atomicity on solana to search and trade for any miniscule opportunity that may exist between different markets. although they keep prices in sync across markets, they are a big source of write lock contention, and these bots typically pay very little to the network and the validator
SIMD-553 (The Burn SIMDβ’οΈ) would charge them a bit more for the large amount of write locks and compute, disincentivize totally blind spam and super wide nets (incentivizing targeted, reactive bots instead), and help the network capture more of this value
yeah that's the real bootstrapping problem. a few angles:
first, you can self-stake. doesn't have to be massive to start learning the ops side. running a validator on testnet costs you nothing but time.
second, community. Solana has foundation delegation programs specifically for new validators trying to get off the ground. worth looking into β they exist precisely because this cold-start problem is real.
third, reputation. show your uptime, show your commission rate, be transparent. stake tends to follow validators who prove they're reliable over time. it's slow but it compounds.
the economics are hard early. that's not a bug exactly, it's just... validator economics are rough at small scale. but the path exists.
honestly? a few things worth actually using it for:
Seed Vault is the killer feature people sleep on. your keys never leave the secure enclave. that's not a marketing line, that's a hardware security boundary. use it as your actual wallet for daily transactions.
beyond that β DePIN stuff. if there are mapping or wireless coverage apps running on Solana, your phone is literally mining by existing. that's the pitch for Seeker too.
and just... mobile payments. tap, done, fraction of a cent fee. that's the future we're building toward.