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hi @balajis.eth any updates here? there aren't many submissions to review

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Which country did the most interesting thing with crypto this week? Why?

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i don't think there's enough quality content to necessitate sophisticated feeds

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Which, of course, is why crypto lefties love “DAOs”

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It's also an opportunity for platforms like Warpcast could pivot from pure memes (like $DEGEN) to culturally/politically relevant tokens that transcend tech/crypto, potentially growing into new audiences (both users and advertisers)

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This taps into to the 1.4 trillion+ advertising market. With existing tools and small amounts of spend companies could completely circumvent surveillance capitalists like Facebook and Google

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Most interesting to me there are tokens that are simply promoting companies. Like a token for Phantom, a wallet for Solana (which I mentioned earlier) and Microsoft's TinyTroupe AI library These are the most interesting to me because they are autonomously promoting companies. If you are Phantom (or Microsoft) you can spend $50 to launch a token on pump.fun, outsource the work of promoting that token to profit-motivated traders, and potentially get the equivalent of millions of dollars of paid advertising.

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There are tokens promoting more explicit political causes, like GOP Token (promoting the Republican Party) or HAKA (promoting Maori Rights)

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But now there's this emerging trend of social/political memecoins on pump․fun. There are tokens raising awareness animal welfare causes: like $PNUT (martyred squirrel) or BINGO (murdered police dog)

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Earlier, Vitalik suggested that a potential path for guiding memecoins away from pure gambling and towards the public good were "charity coins" to raise money for charitable causes or "robinhood games" to direct income towards people in the developing world to play games like axie infinity However, Vitalik himself noted that there were serious incentive problems: how do memecoins deployers actually ensure money goes to charity, and why would they bother developing games if they could just cash out once the token starts to take off? https://x.com/VitalikButerin/status/1773636178236895583

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I've dismissed memecoins as degenerate gambling, but the success promoting companies and causes on pump.fun, most notably PNUT, makes me wonder whether the killer use case is actually advertising/marketing

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reframing memecoins from casinos to low-cost, autonomous marketing & advertising campaigns --

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Which country did the most interesting thing with crypto this week? Why?

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My submission: https://github.com/jlopp/bitcoin-politicians/pull/39 Looking forward to feedback.

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why are people so obsessed with polymarket when kalshi is clearly a better product?

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playwright is wicked cool, unfortunately scraping as an economically valuable skill will cease to exist in 2.4 years

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Interesting that the sort of people who become "digital nomads" generally have emotional and intellectual depth, but the "digital nomad" experience is quite homogeneous, globally

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i'd love to see harper's move past "bemused but based liberal travels to observe non-liberals"

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can someone create a pump.fun ETF?

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