Thanks 300 followers! It’s hard to gain the first 300

The harsh truth about crypto metrics: 
(1) active wallets can be faked
(2) social metrics can be botted
(3) TVL can be manufactured

So we started using 'developer activity' as the true north - actual humans building actual things. But here's where it gets interesting:

As AI gets better at coding, 'dev community' becomes just as gameable as every other crypto metric. One person with the right AI stack could look like an entire dev community. The signal becomes noise.

We replaced easily faked metrics with harder to fake metrics just in time for those to become easily faked too'.

Consider:
- One dev with AI = 10 devs
- AI agents can commit code
- Github activity becomes meaningless
- 'Builder community' gets murky

So the question becomes: what's our truth metric for protocol evaluation, when AI can simulate an entire ecosystem of builders? 

Fundamental investors be damned -- we'll have to find new ways to measure real impact in ways that can't be simulated.

This is a very important thread about developer metrics. What’s missing is the anonymity component too…

super ツ

Here’s something funny. I never see engagement farming here like I do on X. 

Instead I’ll say, why not just send good vibes over to:

Bytebot.eth
Bytebot.sol 

All gifts appreciated :) Merry Christmas. 

Blessings and love!

“Never overlook the power of simplicity.” -- Robin S. Sharma

It’s crazy how I’ve been ideating with perplexity, and using ChatGPT voice chat while on the move in a car (CarPlay). 

Endless learning, and a researchers dream.

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy." - Robert Tew

Seneca said, "As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality." - Malala Yousafzai

As a builder I’m torn between building something meaningful or something that makes me rich 

all or nothing. building meaningful yet being poor, isn’t a nice combo

Coop

The tough part about the Zora OP retro airdrop situation is that its indicative of a wider problem that creators are not valued onchain by the wider crypto ecosystem.

Teams that are building for creators are struggling more than ever because its unclear how to build for the artist to fan relationship in a way that doesn't purely rely on speculation.

It's one thing for a creator who is extremely active onchain and has a deep knowledge of crypto to be successful - but many times that's just catering to earn from the other people who are already here and have disposable income to spend supporting someone who's been a part of the game for a while.

Fwiw I believe that @zora has made more impact for creators onchain in the last year than any other team in crypto.

And yet - they still are facing public backlash from minters (and creators) who feel they were wronged for not getting paid out more when Zora itself did not even receive the maximum allocation from the last OP Retro round.

(cont.)

superb thread, worth a read. 

"crypto drastically overvalues infrastructure and wildly undervalues the products and teams that can get new users into the mix with added grants and funding."

Apple

Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you.

Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.

clanker ecosystem

@proxystudio.eth @dish any idea why /clanker v2 contracts on dexscreener have a little minor warning on having suspicious functions? do not recall this was the case before

wrench guy for @clanker 🤖🔧👨🏼‍🔧

working on the studio, dao, bot 

@clanker

canonical reminder that you can just do things. make/build cool shit.

Building something is pretty wild because originally there was nothing, just an idea, that lots of ppl said was a stupid idea. 

And to make your idea reality will take so long, lots of people, lots of time, lots of money. 

So you make a smaller, weirder, shittier version that…

echo

canonical reminder that you can just do things. make/build cool shit. https://x.com/echodotxyz/status/1867906260256866558

Farcaster

how do we get more folk, e.g. kaito, building not just for CT, but Farcaster?

how do we get more folk, e.g. kaito, building not just for CT, but Farcaster?

https://yaps.kaito.ai/referral/1413771

opensource

Nowhere near a complete list but going proprietary after building & utilizing community goodwill, is really, not too cool

Nowhere near a complete list but going proprietary after building & utilizing community goodwill, is really, not too cool https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/15/open-source-companies-that-go-proprietary-a-timeline/

clankermon

good presave ux for /clankermon + warpcast "just works"

good presave ux for /clankermon + warpcast "just works"

https://clankermon.com/ref/4703

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Previously: mysql, co-founder mariadb server

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Colin Charles

@bytebot