Introducing Rip Cars 🏎️ The world’s first Hot Wheels gacha, now live on @Solana → Rip a pack and pull a real die-cast → Three pack options, 1,500+ vaulted cars → Keep it, sell it back, or ship it (soon) Start ripping:

you can rip hotwheels packs on solana you can rip one piece packs on solana you can rip pokemon packs on solana you can rip watch packs on solana you can rip football packs on solana you can rip basketball packs on solana there's so much going on with just one chain, the everything chain. OPOS

just bought 2 more hot wheels in anticipation of @ripcarsio i have severe fomo already ive never been into gatchas but somehow this feels like it’s actually exciting for the first time 🏎️🔥

A fossil going onchain, a new payment corridor into China, and an x402 milestone... it was a packed week in the @MetaDAOProject ecosystem! Here’s the full rundown: @JurassicFi launched the raise for Deaton, the first tokenized dinosaur fossil on Solana, with 24 days left in the sale. @crediblefin added CNY support for USD → CNY collections and payouts, expanding its cross-border payment coverage into China. @solomon_labs saw MetaDAO tokenholders approve a proposal to move up to $2M of USDC from MetaDAO’s treasury into USDv. This marks the first public integration of Solomon’s yield-bearing stablecoin. @LasoFinance crossed $150K in 30-day x402 volume for the first time. Laso has also routed over $50K back to its community-owned treasury. @KimiaProtocol had a liquidation proposal rejected and is now targeting private mainnet in one month. @ripcarsio saw its CARS-001 proposal pass. The team has also started revealing some of the premium cars in its inventory on X ahead of launch this month. @avici added direct card top-ups from Phantom, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, Zerion, and hundreds of other wallets. @loyal_hq launched on Cherry. The integration brings Loyal into the Solana social platform across Solana Mobile, iOS, and Android. Shoutout to @01resolved for the dashboards and data.

Is @MetaDAOProject the best way to currently raise capital for your @solana startup? They align the team & token holder with real ownership plus any company decisions must be a proposal that is approved through voting. Some notable mentions of oversubscribed raises: @avici @JurassicFi @ripcarsio @crediblefin Are you supporting any metadao projects?

David Khosroshvili, founder of Rip Cars, breaks down the $250k raise and where every dollar goes "We're raising 250k. 20% is going towards inventory acquisition, probably in the Bay, I'm going to be sourcing it locally. Then 30% is going into advertising and social media management, maybe some domain names, that marketing expenditure is very important because we want to understand our user acquisition cost, and how much we can generate lifetime per repeated customer" "Out of 250k, 20% is going into the liquidity pool, and for engineering and design we have only 16%. Me and my co-founder, who's on the tech side, we're not going to be taking a salary from the raise. A lot of people ask why, but for us it's more important to see if the product works and if there's revenue, that's when we'll take a salary, but we're not taking anything from the actual raise amount" "Then we have legal and accounting, probably 8%, because we're going to be a US company, so accounting and legal structuring will take quite some expenses. And inventory management, the warehouse, we don't need a big one at the beginning, so we'll get a good secured warehouse with temperature and humidity control, and we're going to vault our Hot Wheels in there" FT @allocateur @ripcarsio @8bitpenis

A couple spending an hour digging through Hot Wheels at Target gave @allocateur an idea. Now he’s building @ripcarsio around the collectors doing exactly that. Here’s how it started: