just took a stroll through @fuckurjpeg and reposted my favourites from the last two weeks. was fun/funny getting put on the spot to explain the meaning of the club to a room full of people the other night at the @lens night out in tokyo 😝

there was one time in particular i was out to dinner with a friend who was making fun of NFTs. i tried explaining how beneficial it had been for me but i could tell he still wouldn’t take it seriously. (we’re talking about a very successful director of marketing here who had worked with various high level ad agencies, a smart guy) he goes to the restroom and i get a text from him while he’s gone - a screenshot of a punk. says “this is worth 1 million dollars, now you have it too” as i shake my head and think all that is in his brain is “fuck your jpeg” that was a major source of inspiration for taking the sentiment and owning it (:

@buttrfly & @phaver . this is well intentioned criticism and meant to be constructive. The reason I believe @orb is the preferred lens portal is that the connect process is frictionless. Download the app and connect account via a qr code. buttrfly doesn't seem to offer that "walletless" onboarding ( or makes it hard to find ) and phaver requires an email sign in step that requires web2 like onboarding. For me personally those have been bottlenecks and I wonder if it has been for others

Some Major news from yesterday

• Sexxy Red teases pumpfun meme launch

• Tether launched a aUSDT, new synthetic dollar backed by Swiss stored gold

• RiscZero launch general-purpose and production ready zkVM

• $Velo US Representative Mike Collins disclosed he bought Velodrome token

• $INJ $GRT The Graph now supports Injective data indexing, enabling robust on-chain data access. INJ Devs can scale dApps using powerful indexing solutions like substreams and subgraphs from Graph.

• $OM Yield-bearing $USDY is now live MANTRA

• $SNX Synthetix V3 to launch on Arbitrum

• $CHZ Chiliz Chain's Dragon8 hard fork is live. It’ll introduce staking rewards and a transaction fee burn mechanism, and substantial developer-oriented advancements.

• $API3 has hinted OEV Network lending protocol launch; an oracle that pays you

• $Eigen will be the first asset to be listed on Coinbase Advanced, a pre-launch market

The opening of trading for EIGEN-PERP will begin on or after 12:00pm UTC on 18 June 2024

• $Matic Sandeep teases two major announcement

• $IoTex cofounder Raullen, tease “Big week coming” announcement

• $CRV $CVX After founder’s recent liquidation and scaling through, no more bad debt or loans

• Wasabi, memecoin and NFT leverage trading protocol raise $3M led by Electric Capital

• Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of T-Mobil to start BTC mining soon

• Crypto Trading firm Cumberland has been granted a NY BitLicense. BitLicense is New York's landmark regulation for cryptocurrency-focused businesses

• Australia approves a Bitcoin ETF by VanEck, trading starts on Thursday