☀️ GM, here’s a morning brain dump: Building in this wild world of web3 for 5+ years in web3. Hosted thousands hours of spaces and streams, hosted 100s of IRL events. No PR team. No marketing budget. No 6-figure salary backing me. All word of mouth. Let that sit for a second. I've watched ideas I shared, some in private convos, some out loud for anyone to hear, end up as the backbone of companies doing millions in revenue today. Strategies. Community plays. Event formats. Stuff I built from scratch because I believed in this space before it was cool to say so. Am I a little salty? Honestly, yeah. Some of those entities didn't value me the way I valued them. I gave real ideas, real time, real energy, and didn't always get the credit or the seat at the table. But here's what I keep coming back to: You don't get your ideas copied unless they work. That's the receipt. That's proof I don't just talk the talk, I walk it. Every day. For five years straight. Through rugs, hype cycles, and silence. I kept showing up. 100s of events don't happen by accident. Hundreds and some even thousands of attendees at our events during a bear market, when everyone else was going quiet and rooms were empty: we did that ✅ A lot of people in this space do this with a company card and a salary behind them. I did it on belief and relationships. People came because they trusted me, then they told their friends, and their friends told theirs. No ad spend can buy that. So I'm not here to point fingers. I'm here to say this: The things I'm building now, the things I have a direct hand in, are about to take the main stage. And this time, my name is on it. If you've been around, you already know. If you haven't, stay tuned. The work speaks. It always has. 🫡

Took @mfigge to see some of the wild tech in Shanghai yesterday. this is also the experience the chinese president just visited. found another version of our CEO. also somehow got figge into a robotic walking assist machine and playing the piano. BAYC members are actually gold.

Man does it ever bring me joy to speak to the CEO of a massive financial services company doing $1.15B ARR and hear about them building atop blockchain rails with Bridge/M0, Stellar and Tempo, Fireblocks and more. They are also a validator on Solana now. Extremely impressed and stoked to have the likes of MoneyGram using the technology of tokenization and stablecoins to scale their product offerings. Bullish man.

Shanghai is beautiful because of every single one of you. Asia Tour Progress: ✅ Taipei ✅ Hong Kong ✅ Shanghai ⏳ Seoul See you in Seoul 🇰🇷 tomorrow. 혹시 BAYC 홀더세요? 같이 놀아요! 🐵