Basepaint

Today we're launching Completor -- an app that helps you complete a full /basepaint set and secure a piece of onchain history.

There can only ever be 105 full BasePaint sets.

Why is collecting a full set so important? Collecting is a form of participation, preservation and patronage. 

BasePaint is one of the longest running and most successful examples of using the power of blockchain to create net-new experiences.

Since BasePaint started 587 days ago, a brand new piece of fully onchain, community-created art has been created.

In the coming decades, BasePaint will go down as a significant and historical collection showing the power of decentralized cooperation.

Being a full set holder solidifies your role as a supporter and cultivator of art. It's a commitment to uplift the vision of what so many people in crypto are fighting for, day in and day out, bull and bear.

Collect what you want to see in the world.
https://completor.fun

Realization I had today: 

You will never design a perfect system.

...but a system that hears people's pain points and responds to their needs is good enough

TIL there is a company tokenizing spot Uranium

https://www.uraniumdigital.com/

Man, Lazarus group is getting really bold.

Writing more of my product memos by pacing back and forth in my desk, arguing with Voice Assist GPT, and formalizing the argument into a readable document.

Anyone make a simple factory mint-and-rug contract for meme coins?

Wondering out loud if the easiest way to kill them is to make them exponentially easier to deploy and flood the marketplace.

Zach

Loll found this gem from 2023
https://x.com/zherring/status/1685998948698451968

St Karpathy just ruined the self-esteem of multiple Apple Notes maxis

Commonware is looking to hire person #4! We have a sweet office in Palo Alto but are open to remote hires. Looking for folks who are experienced & deeply technical in the blockchain space and interested in helping build out our Rust-based framework and services.
https://commonware.xyz/hiring.html?utm_source=QbynpG8w4g

4 commonware tabs pinned to my browser right now
its cool tech, you should look into it.

q: "where are the apps?"

a: crypto funding by sector

Every streaming TV show represents a (min) 20-30 hour commitment ... But the incentives for quality are deeply misaligned.

I made an exception with Severance and regret it. Back to films after the finale.

Every streaming TV show represents a (min) 20-30 hour commitment ... But the incentives for quality are deeply misaligned.

I made an exception with Severance and regret it. Back to films after the finale.

https://open.substack.com/pub/trungphan/p/the-case-against-streaming-tv-shows?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mt65z

So now I know how to:
- Sign a user in a Warpcast frame
- Get user's wallet address
- Charge a fee on some action
- Send an NFT in response when everything's completed. 

I knew none of these things before joining Warpcast.

Unironically this is what mass adoption looks like.

used this all last week, feeling more whole and psychologically centered as a result

ty taylor for solving my basepaint collector anxiety

Today we're launching Completor -- an app that helps you complete a full @basepaint_xyz set and secure a piece of onchain history.

Why is collecting a full set so important?

Collecting is a form of participation, preservation and patronage. Let's dive in 👇 https://t.co/nKWgOhKvDK

taylor

used this all last week, feeling more whole and psychologically centered as a result

ty taylor for solving my basepaint collector anxiety

https://x.com/taydotfun/status/1902016768895303749

when you're out of power, it's punk rock
when you're in power, it's christian rap

America is back 🇺🇸

Time to Accelerate https://t.co/sQyakafUOI

same vibes - companies publicly positioning as antiwoke to cozy up to the new admin/political environment

but now it's consensus corporate messaging and gives off the same unproductive vibes that in theory they would be against. why waste time/energy dunking on genders/pronouns…

when you're out of power, it's punk rock
when you're in power, it's christian rap

https://x.com/internetphysics/status/1901723035868270792

I learned exactly these lesson also building NFT liquidity protocols from 2022-2024

@cobie You should listen to me because I’m forgoing the benefit of raising that kind of money again and subjecting myself to humiliation for the group benefit.

As an example we built 5 different protocols in 3 years @AstariaXYZ. We raised $8M at $80M. When we got acquired we still had…

joseph.eth

I learned exactly these lesson also building NFT liquidity protocols from 2022-2024

https://x.com/josephdelong/status/1901615155815088274

I vaguely remember Twitter rational was the lab leak was racist, the wet market was not.

Cannot for the life of me remember why, though.

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Must read op-ed by @zeynep eviscerates the Proximal Origin authors and EcoHealth Alliance (abetted by NIAID senior advisor to Anthony Fauci) for misleading the public about the origin of Covid-19. https://t.co/woJ90KSA4x

The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND is rewarded with prestigious pubs.😫

To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled about the plausibility of a lab leak in the past.

Gift link: 
https://t.co/FeXG28CbyI

zeynep tufekci

I vaguely remember Twitter rational was the lab leak was racist, the wet market was not.

Cannot for the life of me remember why, though.

https://x.com/zeynep/status/1901252234240811169

My hottest take is we don't need any more protocols written. 

The next frontier is finding novel combinations of existing protocols for good applications.

I'm a Builder-Decentralist (-8.9, -4.5) on the Onchain Alignment Chart! Check out your position:

Crypto: The Game where the tribes are sorted by cast sentiment analysis would be a fun twist.

How would you monetize an onchain publication today whose core audience is crypto natives?

1. Stake stEth to read,
2. Withdraw when you're done/unsubscribed
3. Publication keeps the stEth rewards.

0.5E = around $3/mo subscription (at current prices)

Reread That Hideous Strength last year (along with the rest of the Space Trilogy) and found the parallels between clear satire from 1945 and bureaucratic talking points from 2025 pretty unsettling.

Reread That Hideous Strength last year (along with the rest of the Space Trilogy) and found the parallels between clear satire from 1945 and bureaucratic talking points from 2025 pretty unsettling.

https://open.substack.com/pub/onepercentrule/p/cs-lewis-that-hideous-strength?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1mt65z

Founder, designer, & product guy at /basepaint and /eigenlayer