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Hey warpcast fam. Got something cooking with $CREDS. 

 I'm launching the RSS Feed Tee - Black Edition, an NFT mint happening on Manifold. The shirt is inspired by an Off-White tee by Virgil that said "Everything you like, I liked five years ago," but I wanted to give it a more updated and relevant message, especially as someone who has long been immersed in internet culture.

The real experiment with this release explores different launch mechanisms and revenue streams. 

The Black Edition will have a mint of 550, with the price set at approximately 50 cents. This NFT release will use a token I created on the Presto platform called $CREDS, which is an homage to Batman Beyond. This was one of my first occasions I had heard of digital money.

so excited to see chromuh building a real, meaningful project around $CREDS

since launching on /presto, chromuh:

1. claimed a portion of $CREDS supply to use for incentives

2. earns 90% of $CREDS trading fees

3. is free to focus on building something great

it’s always “we’re going to turn your content into coins” and never “we’re going to turn your coins into content”

Upcoming drops on @base 

@zora 
@definitive 
@gizatechxyz

What else am I missing on here?

social capital: the most undervalued asset class

AI is a condenser and an expander

It can condense the entire Internet into a single conversation, giving you the right info at the right time

And it can expand single thoughts into encyclopedias, giving you thousands of ways to understand the same idea

This will change how we interact with apps

We can expand an app’s distribution by turning it into a social agent, setting it free on the social platforms we spend the most time on

And by doing so, we condense the app down to its atomic unit of intent, letting users say what they want and the AI magically delivers

No one wants to download another app…
Just make make ai companion live in Farcaster 

https://x.com/henloitsjoyce/status/1897541263177785528

Long social agents

The mania around AI agent coins may have died down a bit, but as foundation models get better and cheaper, this space only becomes more compelling

At one point, we will interact with bots on social just like we do with other humans, and we won't care about the difference

There's a lot of talk about alignment in the AI world, but I think it boils down to this: 

Either we build superintelligence that identifies inclusively, viewing humanity as an integral part of its survival, or we just become temporary pets

Real alignment isn't about tweaking incentives

It's about enabling genuine emotional bonds between humans and AIs, and using those bonds to forge deeper connections between humans

That's what matters most over the coming years

Contracts came back from auditors with no vulnerabilities

If there's a thread I've pulled for my career so far, it's how to build sustainable networks and communities

My first job out of college was supporting the investing team and portfolio at Village Global, a network-driven venture firm backed by tech luminaries

Then I helped On Deck launch 20 entrepreneurial fellowships to help more people break into tech

Then I led growth at Rabbithole to help grow onchain GDP and bring more people into crypto

Now I'm working on Presto to help independent creators turn their wit into wealth with personalized AI that helps scale their tokenized communities

It's often hard to see the future, but looking backwards, it's all starting to make sense

LLMs may actually become creative, but won’t solve for awareness, ambition, or agency.

smartcoins

I think the potential of "community tokens" is still largely untapped, but we've been thinking about them all wrong.

A community token is made valuable by the number of *individual people* who have found away to align their own work with token upside.  Each person might do this in a different way.

In aggregate, this means that community tokens represent a bet on the network of "aligned members."

Right now, we think "alignment" just means holding. It doesn't. 

A community token is only valuable if each member of the community views it as their personal token.

I've been thinking about Jihad's cast for the past few hours and agree the potential of community tokens remains largely untapped.

From my experience building communities in and out of crypto, successful tokens support a spectrum of engagement that functions like concentric circles:

- Outermost → Traders creating price action and liquidity
- Middle layer → Holders providing stability and long-term trust
- Inner layer → Evangelists amplifying the message and narrative
- Core → Contributors building products that compound network value

The most powerful communities transform these circles into a permeable ecosystem where members can move inward over time.