Striving for more is great, but don’t forget to appreciate what you already have. Ambition and gratitude can coexist. Take a moment today to acknowledge how far you’ve come, even if you’re not where you want to be yet.

Gas prices on Ethereum are rising – this may be a result of MEV bot activity.

For example, jaredfromsubway.eth spent $352,127.48 on gas on September 23rd and over $2.6 million in gas last week.

Someone asked me recently "do VCs care more about product or team?"

1. They care about making money
2. Three variables: market, team and product

But if you hold market as the constant (that's a big if), then team tends to be a stronger signal at the early stage, product at the later stage. Ideally you have both.

"Strong" and "weak" are multi-dimensional and hard to precisely define. Not deterministic.

@pmarca has an excellent blog post on this: https://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

Team first, product later. Both matter tho! 💼💡

When you focus on what you’re grateful for, your perspective shifts. It’s easy to get caught up in what’s lacking, but appreciating the good brings more positivity into your life.

This place looks like it should be the Ethereum HQ.

Wang Talang in Phuket, Thailand

Wishing everyone a day filled with positivity, peace, and little moments of happiness. Remember, even the smallest steps forward count. Keep going! 💫

floating boats of the cyclades

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Jupiter just kicked off a new vote! 🔥

They’ve already held two $JUP token airdrops, plus tokens from projects launched on their launchpad! To cast your vote, you'll need to stake some $JUP tokens.

😁 Movement – Having trouble connecting Galxe to their site? Don’t panic.

It’s not on your end, it’s the devs. Their site has been down for 5 days, but no worries—your progress is still being logged in the backend. You can find all the quests here from the team or here from an ambassador. Once the site is back up, everything will be verified.

Today is one of those rare NYC days where the weather is perfect

based groupie god.
this nounish being brings immaculate vibes and abundance to your wallet, radiating peace, love, and extremely based energy.

be sure to grab one before onchain summer ends.
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Based builders build together 🔵 

United, we're an unstoppable force. That’s why I’m building powerhouse teams with our incredible Global Community leads on @warpcast & @base discord.

Let me know if you want to join us as we bring the next billion users onchain.

It’s kinda weird to realize mostIt’s kinda weird to realize most of my friends I only know through their Telegram avatars of my friends I only know through their Telegram avatars

Calling all data nerds🔎

🔴New Mission Request🔴

Create a detailed, metrics-driven assessment of all growth grants issued in Season 6 of Optimism governance!

Come help the Collective measure the effectiveness of growth grants by building a more meritocratic and extensive impact measurement system!

Apply by September 23rd here: 
https://github.com/orgs/ethereum-optimism/projects/31/views/1?pane=issue&itemId=76201293

Data nerds - new Optimism Governance Mission Request is here:

Base Checker Time 

The CEO of Base & Coinbase just dropped an activity checker. You can check your score right now and see how you're doing!

Got Some Idle $NOT? Consider Staking on Binance

If you’re holding onto $NOT without any plans, why not put them to work? You can stake them on Binance and potentially earn some rewards!

Sci-fi stuff: drones delivering, AI healing, and cars learning to drive themselves. The future is wild!

blaushd

@blaushd