the thing about America is that its clearly always functioning at like 10% of its power level due to the costs of freedom and yet manages to win anyway due to the incredible benefits of freedom
"I can do work without AI"
"I can lose weight without GLPs"
"I can get around with just my horse"
same vibe innit
"the only continent that would astound the renaissance time travelers would be north america, which was primitive and nearly vacant as late as 1607, but which today hosts the mightiest, richest, most creative civilization on earth"
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has anyone made a dao to coordinate all these new ethereum foundations
colosseum is incredibly proud to back many of the teams that are currently proving out this new model for capital formation, ownership, and governance on the internet
these founders are in the arena
if we succeed, history will remember their names
long live the meta dao
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now we just need proof. we need to see teams that launched on metadao grow, acquire users, make money, and re-raise via decisions markets. show that it's possible and de-risk the process for every team that follows
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most founders are nervous about tokens. this is understandable. most tokens are scams. most end up bleeding to zero. most are memecoins
but metadao's ownership coins are different. the structure they create is sound and it's a 100x improvement over the status quo
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over the next 6-12 months, I expect sentiment on this issue to begin to shift. metadao projects like avici, umbra, omnipair, and solomon will show that it's possible, and in fact advantageous, to launch an early token and leverage it for distribution and customer acquisition
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several other crypto projects have found success launching a token early
most notably bitcoin
but the list also includes ethereum, bnb, and of course, hyperliquid
yet somehow, this idea that teams should launch a token early in their lifecycle is still extremely contrarian
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metadao believes teams should launch tokens early in their lifecycle
that's what metadao did. the meta token launched before metadao had made a single dollar of revenue. before it landed its first customer. before it had even figured out its business model
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colosseum demo day when sol hits $500
The Gladiator score performed live by an orchestra at the Colosseum during sunset. Pure cinematic poetry.
2026 is 50% complete.
“100 out of 10”
That’s how 15-year-old builder @AlexNguyenOG describes @colosseum
Building, learning & finding his people at the home of Solana’s greatest hackathons
All the cool kids are building at Colosseum this summer 👀👇
ft. @FwazSol, @GuiBibeau & @vesper792
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you can look at the headline number and see that frontier was our largest hackathon ever. but the real test is the number of hard conversations we had internally
it took us weeks of intense interviews, diligence, and debate to whittle the pool of 2,857 down to 26. this was by far our most competitive hackathon ever
congratulations to the winners!
long live the builders, long live colosseum
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@0x_cos the best pitches are usually just conversations. but on pitch decks, I think mert puts it nicely here
we're in this weird liminal phase where it's trivial to spin up a convincing slide deck but still hard to write a couple coherent sentences on what you're building
today is my first day reviewing frontier submissions
who are the best teams?
