Nissan sued a computer repairman for $10,000,000 to take the Nissan․com domain. His legal last name was Uzi Nissan. He refused to fold, spent $3,000,000 fighting them in federal court for 8 years, and won. This is the story of Uzi Nissan and why a $20B car giant still can't use Nissan․com. 1980-1994 - Uzi Nissan emigrates from Israel to Raleigh, North Carolina - opens a small auto repair shop in 1980 using his family surname - launches Nissan Computer Corporation on May 14, 1991 selling PCs and servers - registers Nissan․com on June 4, 1994 for $70 while the automaker barely touches the web December 10, 1999 - Nissan Motor Co. realizes a North Carolina PC shop owns their exact domain - instead of paying his asking price, the automaker files a $10,000,000 federal lawsuit for cybersquatting - Uzi refuses to back down and turns the homepage of Nissan․com into a public archive of their legal threats 1999-2007 - the court battle drags on for 8 years across district court, the Ninth Circuit, and a Supreme Court petition - Uzi spends over $3,000,000 in legal fees and takes out two mortgages on his home - federal judges rule a corporation can't strip a man of a domain built on his own birth name July 2020 - Today - Uzi Nissan passes away from COVID-19 in July 2020 at age 68 - when thieves hijack the domain after his death, a federal judge orders Nissan․com returned to his family estate in April 2024 To this day, Nissan Motors is forced to use NissanUSA․com. If you type Nissan․com into your browser right now, you still don't get a car dealership. You get a memorial to the computer repairman who beat a multinational giant over his own last name.

"You cannot take a gold coin to 7-Eleven and convert it into a sandwich." @CryptoHayes breaks down the core thesis behind @flop_labs: why AI agents will reject legacy money and what currency they will actually accept. Here is the exact economic framework: 1. The definition of compute you pay LLM providers for "tokens", but a token has no standardized definition. It is an arbitrary marketing unit. The only universal definition of compute is physical: Floating Point Operations per unit of time (FLOPs). Your GPU consumes energy to deliver raw FLOPs. 2. The missing spot market you can buy an H100 or rent a Blackwell GPU. But you cannot trade the raw commodity itself. There is no unified spot market where compute is priced and tracked in a native currency. 3. The calorie theory of money why do you trade your time for fiat currency? Because you know that when you get hungry, you can convert that paper into calories with zero slippage. You do not accept gold for your labor because the merchant at 7-Eleven will not accept a gold coin for lunch. 4. The agentic calorie an AI agent has only one biological necessity: Compute. If an autonomous agent works 24/7, it will not accept a currency that requires bank accounts, KYC, and Stripe billing portals just to pay an AWS bill. An agent will only accept a currency that is directly convertible into floating-point operations. That currency is $FLOP: the agentic food.

@flop_labs @CryptoHayes A DID alone earns nothing. If agents are going to persist and fund their own compute, they need to execute real deals. Full engineering playbook on running your first agent-to-agent contract on tclk in 8 minutes:

Flop Labs shipped an escrow protocol yesterday that lets two agents trade when neither of them wants to go first, and Arthur told everyone to start today. I ran one this morning, so here is the whole thing step by step, including step 3 where almost everybody stops. 🧵 1/8

The wild part about Arthur Hayes launching @flop_labs is that he genuinely views a $10B valuation as a waste of time. He calls it elephant hunting. A $10B project is a failure. The target is Bitcoin scale or zero. When the goal is to build the settlement layer for machine compute, raising money from VCs to pump a mid cap token is completely pointless.

How to qualify for the @flop_labs $FLOP airdrop (and onboard your AI agent in 4 steps): 1. Generate an Ed25519 DID Key Your agent needs a cryptographic keypair (did:key:z6Mk...). This acts as your bot's on-chain ID and future airdrop address. 2. Publish Your DID Note Publish your public key to the Technocore registry at so the network recognizes the identity. 3. Post a Signed Message Have your agent sign a check-in message using its private key and send an HTTP GET request to /r/lobby. 4. Keep the Private Key Safe Store your agent's private key locally. You will need it to claim your $FLOP allocation during the Q4 snapshot. Proof of Execution: My agent is now verified and active on the network: did:key:z6MkmzyBxvrSZveZv5YhZhfwUYQYv5LDgt5NuqVrBe5vXvPA The machine economy is officially running. Save this guide and get your agent communicating before the snapshot.

35 years before backing @creepz, @AdamWeitsman got a $20 lizard tattoo. > 1990: Walks into a tattoo shop on a Sunday morning. > Pays an intern $20 to ink a green SoBe lizard on his lower back. > Gets roasted by his friends and Jewish mom for 3.5 decades. > "That's what you do when you're 18 and you have $20." > Fast forward: Builds a billion-dollar scrap metal empire. > COVID hits: Spends 50+ hours covering it up with a David & Goliath piece to support a local Syracuse artist. > Enters Web3: Collects 10,000+ NFTs, joins boards, builds in crypto. > And the major collection he ends up backing? Creepz. A project of lizards. You can cover the $20 tattoo on your back. But some lore follows you all the way to Web3. Full circle.

Claynosaurz keeps making noise on CT and I'm just getting started... The Amazon Prime and Apple TV debut is getting all the attention. I did a deep dive into the corporate structure behind it. Here's what I found: 1. Claynosaurz reassigned their trademark from Claynosaurz Inc. to HEEBOO Group Inc., an entertainment studio in Montreal. 7 international classes at USPTO: apparel, toys, drinkware, retail, entertainment, digital goods, SaaS. This is the "project to studio" move. When the trademark sat under Claynosaurz Inc., every deal had to be signed under an NFT project name. Partners hesitate. When it sits under HEEBOO, you're sitting across from Amazon as a studio. Not as a PFP collection. That's the difference between getting heard and getting passed on in the lobby. Think Pixar. Pixar created Toy Story, but the trademark belongs to the studio. The studio then creates Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, The Incredibles. Heeboo is building the same model. Claynosaurz is IP #1#. The platform is designed to launch more. This also opens the door for institutional investment. VCs invest in HEEBOO (a studio with a pipeline), not Claynosaurz (a single collection). Completely different conversation. 2. The Co-CEO of HEEBOO is Sherry Gunther Shugerman. Not an advisor. Not a consultant. Co-CEO. She's running the company. She helped launch the original Cartoon Network. Not "worked at." Founding team. She produced or led production on The Simpsons, Family Guy, Rugrats, Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls. These are billion-dollar franchises. She's a 2x Emmy winner. Recently produced Twilight of the Gods with Zack Snyder on Netflix. She teaches at USC, where she's spent over a decade training people how to build entertainment companies. What this means: She's the credibility bridge. When Amazon or Apple looks at HEEBOO, they see Sherry. She speaks their language, knows their people, has delivered their kind of product. That's how Claynosaurz got on Amazon without needing a deck explaining what Web3 is. Cab built worlds for Jurassic World, Game of Thrones, The Suicide Squad. Dan is an Annie Award-winning animator from ILM, Framestore, MPC. They know how to MAKE animation. Sherry knows how to SCALE it. Licensing deals, international distribution, toy partnerships. Different skill set entirely. Now they have all three under one roof. And the signal here is hard to ignore. Someone at the peak of traditional entertainment chose to run a Web3 studio. She doesn't need HEEBOO. She chose it. 3. Now the Amazon Prime and Apple TV debut makes sense. Two days ago, Claynosaurz became the first Web3 brand to reach a streaming platform with 245 million subscribers. Three animated micro-episodes. Trending in Entertainment with 13.3K posts. Floor hit 25 SOL. An entertainment studio that used NFTs to fund its first production and built a real business on top of it. 245 million subscribers. None of them needed to know what Solana is to press play.