🎣 3 Years of Bringing Solana to Japan’s Bass Fishing Industry — BCL 3rd Anniversary Web3 is more than tokens and DeFi. We’re Blockchain Lures (BCL), a Japanese fishing tackle brand that has spent the past 3 years connecting real fishing products and everyday consumers to Solana. Through our BCL app, anglers can mint NFTs on Solana for physical fishing lures they purchase. We’ve also introduced Solana-based NFT warranties for fishing rods. But here’s where it gets interesting. Anglers can purchase fishing lures through our online store, manage them as NFTs in the BCL app, and turn their real-world catches into NFTs as well. This creates a connection between the products people buy and the fish they actually catch. It allows us to see which anglers are catching the most fish with specific lures — and helps manufacturers identify their most loyal, actively engaged customers. We’re connecting real products, real customers, and real-world experiences through blockchain. Today, our app has over 4,300 registered users, and our fishing tackle business continues to grow. We’re not just building a Web3 project. We’re manufacturing and selling real fishing products through our own online store and fishing tackle retailers in Japan, while bringing blockchain technology into the hands of everyday consumers. We’ve also collaborated with leading Japanese fishing tackle manufacturers on exclusive products and joint events. Our NFT system already supports products from other fishing tackle brands, not just our own. For our first two anniversary tournaments, we partnered with Superteam Japan as co-organizers, awarding SOL prizes with support from BITPOINT. This year, we took another step forward by awarding JPYC as prizes at our third-anniversary tournament. Our next goals are to reach 10,000 app users, grow annual revenue to ¥100 million, and bring blockchain technology to even more real-world products. We believe mass adoption starts when blockchain becomes part of everyday products, services, and experiences — even for people who know nothing about Web3. Starting with bass fishing, we want to demonstrate how Solana can create real value for businesses and everyday consumers. Three years down. We’re just getting started. @solana @toly @SuperteamJapan

Introducing JungleFun 🌴🐒 A new way to rediscover the fun of collecting NFTs. Open packs featuring SMB Gen2s, Gen3s, and pieces of Solana NFT history from across the last five years - built with @magicblock for full onchain verifiability. Enter the jungle 👇🏼

Happy 5th Anniversary, Monkes! 🐒💛 Five years ago, the one and only Solana Monkey Business was born on @solana. None of us knew then that these pixelated Monkes would bring so many people together, or that the community around them would eventually become @MonkeDAO. Since then, we’ve shared the highs, weathered the lows, laughed through more chaos than we could ever fit into one post, and watched Solana grow as we grew alongside it. Five years later, we’re still here - connected by friendships that began behind a PFP, shared memories, and a global community that slowly became home. Did you really think we’d let this anniversary pass quietly? Not a chance 👀 So today, we’re looking back at how it all began, how far we’ve come, and the journey that made @MonkeDAO what it is today. This is for those who were there from Day 1, those who joined us along the way, and everyone who helped shape the story we now share. Here’s to five years of @SolanaMBS, five years of @MonkeDAO, and everything still ahead of us. 🍌 👇

shoutout to all the amazing developers who came to pitch their ideas in tokyo tonight! japan has long been the home of tech. and now, its top visionaries are launching with EasyA 🚀 h/t @SuperteamJapan for co-hosting!