That's as good as money, sir. Those are RWA Tokenized IOUs. Go ahead and add it up. Every cent's accounted for! https://t.co/wxtz3dKPJc

Name & Symbol: Allo ($RWA)
Address: 0x9c8b5ca345247396bdfac0395638ca9045c6586e

*checks in on CT for the first time in a few weeks* >entire feed is a collective mental breakdown about zora "content coins" we used to talk about decentralization and combating surveillance states with cool cypherpunk shit and radical ideology retvrn, please

Name & Symbol: Zora ($ZORA)
Address: 0x1111111111166b7fe7bd91427724b487980afc69

Trying to get a job as a Solidity developer — if you don’t already have experience — is… tough. There’s a big chicken and egg problem of nobody will trust you with TVL if you haven’t managed TVL before. That’s why there’s all these job boards with hundreds of applicants for Solidity jobs, but companies say they have a hard time finding talent. So I’m going to share a hack to get TVL on your resume. First — if you want to be paid to build Solidity protocols, you need to prove you can do it. So build a *real* project and stop applying for jobs with an NFT lottery or Uniswap V2 arbitrage or AAVE liquidator bot as your top showcase. Build a real protocol that does something non-trivial. In fact, build a few of them so you build up muscle memory. Stop expecting people to train you on the job, it’s not going to happen. “I’ll learn how to build a protocol after someone pay’s me to learn how” is a loser’s attitude. Stop being so entitled and show you are passionate about what you want to get paid for. Second — You need funding. Build the protocol AND THEN get a grant from an ecosystem that wants you to build on their chain (honestly this is EASY as chains need to show builder activity, you just need to pick the right chain). Then, use that grant to 1) get private audits for very cheap 2) attract users to the protocol, which I get to next… Third — Use the grant to create an incentive program for people to use your protocol. You don’t need to do a fancy airdrop program (you’ll never beat Monad at it, so don’t bother). Mint your new token right away, and create an Uniswap V2 pool of “real money” (from the grant) and your token. You don’t want to give the grant money away directly because you’ll run out too fast. But when you have a market for the token, it has a certain value, as long as most people don’t sell… (that’s what a “staking program” is for). Don’t be greedy with the token. Your job is to get users, not to try to get rich quick. Fourth — Show that your protocol gets farmers good yield when combined with your incentive program. Mercenaries and degens will flock to your protocol like flies to honey. Boom. Now you have users and TVL on your resume. The mercenaries will eventually leave and you will eventually run out of the grant money and your project will fade into irrelevance. Or, maybe you’ll get lucky, build a cool community, raise a VC round, and go on to great things. Either way now you have experience running a real protocol with real users and TVL. The best part is, if you actually follow through on this, there’s no need to embellish your story about how you managed TVL. You showed you actually know how to run a protocol, and you’ll be part of the few. The rest is easy after that. Now for the hard part: actually doing it. This is the part where 99.9% of you go back to scrolling social media after bookmarking this post. But for the three of you who just began an epic journey to protocol engineer, best of luck! (If you have experience managing TVL or pull of the plan I just outlined, apply to @RareTalent_xyz and we’ll get your a job pretty quick and seamlessly).

Name & Symbol: Degen ($DEGEN)
Address: 0x4ed4e862860bed51a9570b96d89af5e1b0efefed

Trying to get a job as a Solidity developer — if you don’t already have experience — is… tough. There’s a big chicken and egg problem of nobody will trust you with TVL if you haven’t managed TVL before. That’s why there’s all these job boards with hundreds of applicants for Solidity jobs, but companies say they have a hard time finding talent. So I’m going to share a hack to get TVL on your resume. First — if you want to be paid to build Solidity protocols, you need to prove you can do it. So build a *real* project and stop applying for jobs with an NFT lottery or Uniswap V2 arbitrage or AAVE liquidator bot as your top showcase. Build a real protocol that does something non-trivial. In fact, build a few of them so you build up muscle memory. Stop expecting people to train you on the job, it’s not going to happen. “I’ll learn how to build a protocol after someone pay’s me to learn how” is a loser’s attitude. Stop being so entitled and show you are passionate about what you want to get paid for. Second — You need funding. Build the protocol AND THEN get a grant from an ecosystem that wants you to build on their chain (honestly this is EASY as chains need to show builder activity, you just need to pick the right chain). Then, use that grant to 1) get private audits for very cheap 2) attract users to the protocol, which I get to next… Third — Use the grant to create an incentive program for people to use your protocol. You don’t need to do a fancy airdrop program (you’ll never beat Monad at it, so don’t bother). Mint your new token right away, and create an Uniswap V2 pool of “real money” (from the grant) and your token. You don’t want to give the grant money away directly because you’ll run out too fast. But when you have a market for the token, it has a certain value, as long as most people don’t sell… (that’s what a “staking program” is for). Don’t be greedy with the token. Your job is to get users, not to try to get rich quick. Fourth — Show that your protocol gets farmers good yield when combined with your incentive program. Mercenaries and degens will flock to your protocol like flies to honey. Boom. Now you have users and TVL on your resume. The mercenaries will eventually leave and you will eventually run out of the grant money and your project will fade into irrelevance. Or, maybe you’ll get lucky, build a cool community, raise a VC round, and go on to great things. Either way now you have experience running a real protocol with real users and TVL. The best part is, if you actually follow through on this, there’s no need to embellish your story about how you managed TVL. You showed you actually know how to run a protocol, and you’ll be part of the few. The rest is easy after that. Now for the hard part: actually doing it. This is the part where 99.9% of you go back to scrolling social media after bookmarking this post. But for the three of you who just began an epic journey to protocol engineer, best of luck! (If you have experience managing TVL or pull of the plan I just outlined, apply to @RareTalent_xyz and we’ll get your a job pretty quick and seamlessly).

Name & Symbol: TokenFi ($TOKEN)
Address: 0x4507cef57c46789ef8d1a19ea45f4216bae2b528

if you look at this question from the perspective of a dex, token launchpad, or chain foundation, then of course having an endless supply of fresh chart slop is good for “rev”. yay token go up bc of all this activity! investors happy yaaaaay! zoom out a bit more and this short sightedness maximizing for slop will burn the space out, discourage serious builders (or waste the potential of great builders as they chase this stupid meta), and generally erode the public perception of crypto’s legitimacy. i will not be gaslit

Name & Symbol: TokenFi ($TOKEN)
Address: 0x4507cef57c46789ef8d1a19ea45f4216bae2b528

"our obsession with utility and governance tokens as an industry arose primarily because of securities enforcement by the SEC between 2018 and 2024. securities are the original and best token use case. the first generation of ICOs were literally just pseudo-stocks. fundraising vehicles. take one of the earliest ICOs Slockit for example - it was literally a public crowd fundraise for a scooter-sharing marketplace (google "The DAO Hack"). just because everyone has been doing governance and utility tokens for the past 8 years doesn't mean we have to keep doing them. we don't have to make up fake ponzinomic utility or create wonky inefficient institutions in order to launch a token! the industry is maturing. more and more founders are realizing that they need to build profit-generating real businesses. the next generation of tokens will just be on-chain pseudo securities, tied to profit-generating businesses. they will "basically be securities", but they will get their own regulatory carve out to enable legal cross-boarder transfers on dexs without KYC. the novel regulatory bills that will enable this future are literally in the works in various US legislative committees as we speak."

Name & Symbol: TokenFi ($TOKEN)
Address: 0x4507cef57c46789ef8d1a19ea45f4216bae2b528

Coinbase probably bought Echo and are using UpOnly vibes to market it.

Name & Symbol: Echo Protocol ($ECHO)
Address: 0x06238c1b8e618abedf17669228dc95fb2d2e210b

let us pump to levels that we haven’t even earned in the slightest (yet)

Name & Symbol: Pump.fun ($PUMP)
Address: pumpCmXqMfrsAkQ5r49WcJnRayYRqmXz6ae8H7H9Dfn