Every time I zoom out and think about how strategic Pacman was in spending capital to out-perform overfunded incumbents, I get impressed all over again.

Blur raised $11M, OpenSea raised ~$220M
...Blur continues to dominate vol even after removing/reducing incentives

Blast raised $25M, Most L2s raise around $100M++
...Blast #4 in TVL, and maybe faster than anyone else

Founder, designer, & product guy pushing pixels at /basepaint

to say more:
https://warpcast.com/zherring/0x0d0d4526

Dad, geek, conversation liquidity provider. vrypan.net (home), /weatherxm (work), @l--o--l (fun). Also https://paragraph.xyz/@purplesubmarine

That's true. But the real insight was that NFT trading was not about the jpegs and built a UI that treated them as memcoins.

He really understands the incentives game. Nikita-esque grasp for virality