Matt on Warpcast

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What's next for Higher? YOUR MISSION: 100x your agency. Work on the thing that takes you higher – a project in line with your life's work. Align yourself with $higher to bet on the network's collective success. OUR MISSION: Help folks in the network find and work on their life's work, leveraging the people, ethos, and brand of Higher + onchain, open infrastructure. Align them with $higher. NORTH STAR METRIC: # of people who have started sustainable, personally-aligned projects that leverage $higher. I've been giving this a lot of thought. 2024 was a movie. De facto leaders like @lght.eth and @martin + dozens of active community members put us in an incredible position: Higher is the highest-signal network on Farcaster, with a widely resonant open source brand and a rich ethos that has found its way into many community projects, new and old. In 2025, we need to build on those foundations in a focused, organized way.

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$Higher is made valuable by the number of *individual people* who have found a way to align their own work with token upside. Each person might do this differently. On aggregate, this means that $higher represent a bet on the network of aligned members. It should be high status to make $higher your "personal token": a bet on yourself, and your bet on the network and its culture. If we commit to this mission, Farcaster, Base, and the onchain economy as a whole are incentivized to align with Higher. We are cultivating the culture and the network of people that will lay the foundations for the new internet. Higher becomes the place where people find and launch their higher projects, and that culture permeates through all of the networks we touch. Higher together, one person at a time.

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How can someone without a lot of money to invest make higher their personal token?

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(1) Provide a product/service, get paid in $higher. (2) Grants. We need to get better at this as a network. The token was fair-launched, so there's no canonical DAO to ask for funding from. The Higher Collective exists, and you could theoretically get a grant there. @know has great ideas here.

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I think grants are very very important. As prices rise, the less tokens newcomers are able to get and the richer whales get. I don’t see why someone would want to work to benefit whales over themselves rather than launching their own token or joining a younger community

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No matter what token you're aligning yourself with, you're benefitting whales more than yourself. The mcap is $14M. You won't find many other tokens with such high quality communities and brand at a lower entry. That said, I agree that grants are important! But grants need to come out of the pockets of others. Again, there isn't a canonical DAO or a "community allocation." So we need to be intentional about how such a system is built.

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I think we are on the same page but "No matter what token you're aligning yourself with, you're benefitting whales more than yourself." is a massive issue and a big reason a lot of people hate crypto

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it’s also true for any company that you join as an employee the earliest employees get more equity there are certainly ways to make token distribution and alignment more equitable, but it will never be (and should never be) equal

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Agree agree but in a company you trade the equity for security

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But I guess in a way a more established token is a form of security

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