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gm Solana is the #1 daily morning show for the Solana ecosystem — recorded LIVE on X Spaces with open mics, degen energy, and daily giveaways. We bring you the headlines that move markets, wallet flows, launchpad runs, and the unfiltered pulse of Solana. A Gary Club Show.
Gary Club 00:00:44
Quick disclaimer before we kick things off. Everything you hear on GM Solana, whether it's from us, our guests, contributors, or even the comments, is just for educational and research purposes. None of this is financial advice. The markets move fast and there are real risks. So make sure you do your own research before making any decisions. To the people of Big Booty land, our reunion brings memories. It awakens memories.
Gary Club 00:01:24
It will make memories. Memories that will write the story of Big Bootyland. And so. Let'S write our story. Guess who's back?
Gary Club 00:02:18
I don't care hand on the wheel driving trunk I'm doing my thing.
Gary Club 00:02:45
SA Last night we lit the liquor talk I can't remember everything we said but we said it all you told me that you wish I was somebody you never met but baby, baby something's telling me this ain't over yet no way was I last no way was last.
Gary Club 00:04:08
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Gary 00:05:20
Gm. Gm. Gm. GM Solana. This is our first day of a brand new show. Today is going to be a little bit different than some of our other shows. We're going to you a little bit background, fill you in on what we're cooking and invite you to take a a four month journey with us to build this into what it needs to be. J.J. and I will be here just about every day hosting. How you feeling, jj?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:05:45
Hey, gm GM Gary. We are locked the in. Let's go.
Gary 00:05:50
All right, so I'm gonna kind of give you a little bit of background on what we're trying to do here. I. I'm one of the unique people that's like locked in on one chain and I say one chain and it's kind of two. Look, I'm all in on bitcoin and I think bitcoin is a place to store your wealth. I think bitcoin is an asset that we all need to hold. I think bitcoin is for me, it's. It's one of the biggest goals that I have is to accumulate as much bitcoin as possible. But I use Solana. I trade on Solana. We build on Solana. We create on Solana. We. Solana is the energy. It's. It's the lifeblood for us. Bitcoin I just accumulate. I put it aside and I don't touch it.
Gary 00:06:29
I don't tell anybody how much I have. I just keep growing that bag. I have no intentions of selling it. I don't want to use it as cash. I want to be on Solana and I want to put my wealth into bitcoin. So as I've been in and out of spaces, no one just focuses on Solana. It's, it's always a jump around every day and it's, it's what's going on on, on Abstract or what's going on on ETH or what's going on on Avax or all of these other chains. And, and I get, I get overwhelmed, I get confused and honestly, I get bored because I feel like it's always chasing when there's so many opportunities here on Solana.
Gary 00:07:08
I mean, just in August alone, there was $4.75 billion in stable coins added to Solana. Solana absolutely crushes right now in just DAP revenue. So if you're building and you want to make money, Solana absolutely crushes the DAP revenue. There's $200 million in revenue in the past 30 days that surpasses all L1s and L2 Dapps. Solana did that. So the, the energy, the, the wallets, the users, the.
Gary 00:07:45
To me, the life of crypto is on Solana and that's where we focus as we leaned into trying to build the club into what we want, we want to have in real life venues, you know, kind of a social club for crypto. We're going to build our first one here in Austin, Texas. But as we leaned in to say, okay, like what does this look like for Salon? And nobody was filling this void. So rather than just sitting here and seeing it unfilled, JJ and I decided to put it together and fill it. So every single morning at this time, Monday through Friday, you're going to hear JJ and I talking about Solana and we're going to invite a bunch of you up to talk with us. It's not to be a two way conversation between JJ and I and you. It's to be a community conversation.
Gary 00:08:24
We want to create an opportunity. Most spaces are pay for play. Being a small builder, it's always hard to get on bigger stages, be able to get the voice out about what you're hosting or what you're, what you're building and not have to pay a big bag or give someone an allow list or a white list or drop somebody a bunch of tokens to grease the wheels. That's not going to be us here. We're going to invite as many projects and as many builders as many dabs on stage to talk about what they're doing. We're going to keep those segments really short. So they'll be like 10 to 15 minute segments. We'll give an opportunity to share. If they've got another big update, we'll give them an opportunity to come back in and share again. Because we want to be your connection to Solana.
Gary 00:09:05
So if you want to learn about Solana, you want to invest in Solana, you want to get an early on some tokens or some dabs, you want to know what meme coins are cooking, you want to know what NFT projects are building or getting ready to take a run. This is your place for that. It'll be live Monday through Friday right here on X Bases. Every morning the same time slot. It'll last about an hour. Sometimes we'll go 90 minutes and then shortly after that we'll have a recording of the show broadcast and published on all of your podcasting apps. So Apple Podcast or Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts, you'll be able to grab this.
Gary 00:09:38
So for some people, they're going to show up live with us here and they're going to hang out and contribute and be in the chat and all those things. For some people, they're going to listen to this on the train ride or on the plane or on the exercise bike, or they're going to listen to this on their drive to work or their drive home from work today. And it's called GM Salon. And I know it's a different time in every part of the world, but it's always a GM somewhere, right? It's always a GM somewhere. We're also going to have a hell of a lot of giveaways and a lot of opportunities for you all to get involved. Let's kick one of those off right now. We've got a little chat in the lower right hand Corner.
Gary 00:10:13
We've got 39 reposts, we've got 39 hearts, we've got 47 comments. Drop your Solana wallet in there. We're going to pick five of you that drop your Solana wallet and give you some free Gary Coin. A lot of our prizes will be brought to you by Gary Coin and Gary Club, since we're hosting, but we are open to other communities, other tokens that would like to do giveaways. If you want to do that, just hit up our telegram. It's T Me Gary Club. We've got a GM Solana Channel there. If you want to get involved, if you want to share your dap, if you want to get share what you're building in your community, get a community spotlight, come in and get engaged in that chat and we'll do our best to feature you. We're going to grab some of those Solana wallets in just a second before the show's over.
Gary 00:10:52
Today we've got 20 allow list spots for airdrops on a new token launching on Solana called Barki. We've got to talk about all of the ways that if you're a creator that you can earn Gary Coin just for showing up each week, just for getting engaged each week. We're going to talk about a giraffe that we're going to give away today. So someone here that's live in the audience right now is going to win a giraffe. I'm going to go ahead and tell you right now, if you catch GM Solana trending at all on X during this space while it's live and you're the first person to post it, a thousand Gary Coin comes to you. That's about 240 bucks right now. So a thousand Gary Coin comes to you if you're the first person to catch GM Solana trending.
Gary 00:11:30
If it happens to trend today. I mean, then we're going to dive into some of the news. We're going to talk about what Trump's doing with World Liberty Fi launching a token in just a few minutes, actually maybe right now with him and his sons, his co founders. We're going to talk about the Solana summer house and really the fact that it is Solana season. We're going to dive into what Pingu did yesterday with nascar. We're going to talk about the partnership with BONK and World Liberty Phi Digital Asset Treasuries and we're going to talk about some just airdrops and opportunities. But jj, why don't you take a few minutes and talk to us a little bit about why Solana and why you choose to cook here.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:12:06
Yo, GM everyone, I'm seeing the comments go crazy right now. I can't keep up with the Solana addresses. Make sure you drop in your Solana address ASAP into the Purple Pill. We're going to be picking five winners. In addition, I want to see GM comments in the Purple Pill. I'm going to be taking time after the show replying to everyone one on one. What a quick great question, Gary. Why Solana? Why I choose to cook here on Solana?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:12:35
My answer back is why not Solana Fam, when, when, when you look at it point blank, period, you look at any metrics that you want to go toe to toe, Solana just dominates, right? And that's really important. On my take on why to build on a blockchain, it's important to build where there is attention. We are an attention economy. It's important to build where there again there's attention, where there's volume, where people are spending money, whether that's you know, paying fees, playing in per.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:13:12
So again, any metric that you look at tvl you look at fees being generated per blockchain, you look at, I mean over the weekend I saw more of a social metric as far as which blockchains are the most mentioned across the timeline. And, and Solana almost is mentioned doubled than everything else.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:13:37
So not only is the volume here, not only is the attention here, not only are we talking about it on the timeline, not only all of that, but point blank period, Solana is the fastest blockchain, the most efficient blockchain. And for me, when I first, when Solana first got on my radar, I'm not gonna lie, you know, I, I kind of thought about it as the brokey blockchain, right? Like, like what you mean you can't afford gas? You know, $300,300 worth.
Gary 00:14:11
How it was though, like we were coming from Ethan Eth was expensive as. And then you go to Solana and you can do a transaction and that's. They said Solana was for the pores. That was the whole campaign.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:14:21
I remember that and I kind of bought into that a little bit. Gary. But when, when, when, when you start thinking about building an economy, when you start talking about building and, and scaling and mass adoption, these are the, these are the, that, these are the, the metrics. These are the things that's super important for institutional money to come in for retail to feel comfortable. I mean to, to just swap back and forth and send NFTs and interact with, on the blockchain via the DApps and, and all of these things, it, it starts to, to, to add up over time.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:14:59
So for me, you know, kind of taking my, my, my initial reaction out of the picture, my emotion out of it and really digging deep here, it, it, it just makes sense. And again, so it being fast, it being cost effective now we're starting to see that, you know, Solana was once known for the blockchain for meme coins, right? And of course the, the launchpad wars and how, how cost effective it is.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:15:25
But now we're seeing big institutional money starting to pour in, in the, in in the form of stable coins, in this form of, you know, ETFs getting ready to be approved in the middle of next month for Solana. Like again, my My answer to that is, why not Solana?
Gary 00:15:48
You know, I love that just as you're talking. And Trump and his team are launching World Liberty 5 right now to run a single transaction on ETH. It's $5.87, and it's going to take you 30 seconds or so to run that transaction right now. So if, if you need to send 10 bucks to your friend because they're going out to grab coffee and you just want to send them 10 bucks real quick, like you might do through Cash App or Venmo, it's 5.87 tax to the blockchain in order to confirm your transaction. That same transaction on Solana is under a penny. I don't think there's a better choice. I really don't.
Gary 00:16:27
You know, going and saying, hey, let me send you 10 bucks. It's not possible when you got to pay 15 bucks to send 10. Like, nobody's gonna do that. Like, I, I, I get it. I know the ETH bulls. I understand it. I feel you. But no one's gonna do that. They're going to look at it and say, well, I can send it on cash app for free or PayPal for free, or Venmo for free. This thing on, on crypto is supposed to be better, but. But I gotta pay 5 bucks just to send JJ 10 bucks to grab him a coffee or something. Oh, well. Well, there's something better. It's called Solana, and it costs you less than a penny. It'll confirm really quickly, and they'll have their money and they can spend it.
Gary 00:17:05
And then on top of that, you know, they can, you can just send it to their cast card. You know, Cass came in as one of our partners, and it's one of the things that I love. As we get into, you know, why Solana and, and what can we do with our crypto? You know, we're all here to make gains, and we're all here to, to kind of change our lives and get freedom from the, the system. But we also have bills to pay and we have stuff to buy, and we want to take profits and we want to enjoy life. And, and, you know, Cascard made that really easy for me. J.J. i love it. I'm able to take those stables and send them directly to my cast card and spend right away.
Gary 00:17:38
So to me, looking at this and saying, I can spend five bucks on ETH to send my friends some money, or I can send it for less than a penny to their cast card and they can tap and buy that coffee Instantly. I think that's just the winner. I mean, my wife, the other day, she was trading some perps and she made some money and she took a little bit of her profits, she sent it to her cast card and bought herself a matcha. And, and she didn't have to eat up all of her profits. She didn't make much money, maybe like 30 or 40 bucks, but she didn't have to eat up all the profits. And gas fees, I mean, think the gas fees alone are our reason to stay. But what do you think about what Trump's doing right now, jj?
Gary 00:18:13
What do you think about, is Trump gonna make American crypto amazing or are we gonna end up with another Melania situation, man?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:18:21
That's a good question. I hope definitely not another Melania situation, man, because that would just wreck everything that we've been building towards. Right. Mass extract mode. But honestly, fam, what, what, what Trump is doing, you know, in preparation for this show and just kind of going through it on the timeline.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:18:41
My take on it is that it's kind of genius and no pun intended, because what, what we're seeing here for, for like the first time is just not too long ago here in the US we got some clarity around crypto, particularly stablecoins with the Genius act, right?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:19:03
And here we have a full, you know, launch, a full come to market token stablecoin that is backed by Trump, his family, and you know, everything that they're doing and being closely tied to these regulations and for the first time is at least in my opinion is we're getting a, a case study, a first case study of its magnitude to, to be launched after the Genius act, that's really going to test the limits, put precedent in place, or really show kind of what's capable in flex kind of this new era, this new attitude, this new outlook on crypto with here within the US So for all intent purposes, man, what he's doing is pretty genius.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:19:55
You cleared up the regulation. Now let's test that. And, and this is kind of his mo, Loki, right? Like, you know, he dabbled in, in, in, in the meme coin with Trump, you know, the day he was inaugurated and all of that. And at the time there was, it's kind of like a B testing, like let's test the waters how it is without any regulation. And then now that we have regulation, that, that clears up, especially the stablecoin, man. I, I love it. I think it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good for the, the, the ecosystem Altogether.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:20:30
And I'm super bullish, super, super bullish on the partnerships as far as, you know, the pairs that are going on here and on Solana. You know, I think that's a nod to the scalability, the, the, the reliability, how fast it can go. And I'm interested to see kind of where, where it goes from there. But what's your take on everything that's happening with, with, with this token that's launching today? Man.
Gary 00:20:56
You know, I think it's interesting. I, Trump's taken an active role in crypto and he's cleared up the, the rules around it. You know, we went from a time when the last several years that you were, you were scared to build in D5 because if you built anything in on chain, you were, there was a good potential you were going to get sued by the SEC or you were going to get into some, some sort of regulatory trouble or, or maybe you would even be like CZ and end up going to jail for some kind of anti money laundering laws. You know, there was, it was like there was a target on everyone's back.
Gary 00:21:32
And the change in leadership, it, while it hasn't done, I mean it's done a lot for the price, but not everything I wanted it to for the price. But it's cleared up a lot of legislation that lets, I think it lets people build and I think there's no better place to build in crypto than America. And I think that Trump could do a good job at that. It's interesting what he's doing with his tokens. You know, launching World Liberty 5, launching a stable coin around it, building some unique partnerships. Like I saw that Radium announced a partnership. They've got, it's like 9% APY on the USD1, the World Liberty 5 stable. And then I also noticed that Bonk did a partnership which, they're the official launch pad now.
Gary 00:22:11
So you've got launch pads partnering with coins and, and they're all ran by a sitting president. You've got a very active crypto family that's running one of the top economies in the world. I don't see how crypto doesn't end up on top of. I really don't. I still don't think they understand it though. I don't think they grasp it. I don't think they, they really get what it, what it can do and what it is. I think right now it's a little bit of show and show and show. Like let me show you all we're gonna drop a coin. Let Me show you look what a Meme Coin can do. But I don't think they really understand it. So I think we're going to see a little bit of turbulence through this.
Gary 00:22:51
We're going to see some people maybe push more money into something than they. They thought. We could see some, some rocky, stable markets. You know, I remember whenever we've seen like a USDC or USDT depeg before, and it used to be worth a dollar and it wasn't for just a second. So we could see some of that as we see liquidity shifting and we see things like that. But I think it's a big test for Solana. I remember back in the day when Solana used to go down anytime there was a launch, but when Trump launched his Meme Coin in January, we didn't go down. We haven't been down in a really long time now. And I think this is another big test. Getting big volume, getting big traction on chain, getting a lot of energy moving. So I think it's a really, really big test. We do have some winners.
Gary 00:23:30
So Squid went through and picked us five people that won randomly. We'll get some Gary Coin out to you. So congrats to Brenda and Godgo and Slideshow base Eth and Sam and Faithful. We've got your wallets. We'll get Gary Coin out to you. Keep dropping your wallets in the chat. We're going to keep picking random people at random times. We'll get a bunch of you, 20 of you on a list to get some free barky as an airdrop. We'll get some of you some Gary Coin and then we'll get an opportunity to give away a giraffe before the space is over. You have to be here live.
Gary 00:24:02
You know, if you're listening to this on, on the podcast, recording later, or you're listening to spaces later, or you're, you're parked in here and you're, you're here to show your, your PfP and I appreciate you, but you're not active and engaged. You won't win. So the, the winners will be the people that are here, active and engaged, also going to be building this with the community. So one of the things that we've done, jj is we've put together a lot of Gary Coin on a weekly basis to help creators. We want to grow the show and that's our goal. We want as many people in this room every single morning as possible tuning into the show, listening to the podcast replay, talking about the show and creating content around the show.
Gary 00:24:40
So we've created five opportunities. Let me just pin this up to the top here and it'll. I'll go through it for you guys. Five ways that as a creator you can earn Gary Coin for just showing up in the space. And Gary Coin is, it's a Solana token. It's. There's liquidity everywhere across Solana. It's got the little green check in in your phantom wallet or your Jupe app or anything like that. So great opportunity. If you're just looking for liquidity as a creator, that's great. Or if you want to hold it and you want to ride with us, that's really cool too. But we've got five opportunities every week that you can win Gary Coyne for, for being here. Some of them will take a little bit of action, some of them will take a little less action.
Gary 00:25:20
So first thing is best clip of the week. So you hear something talked about here and you clip that content. You go post that on your social page. You tag Gary Club and use hashtag GM Solana just so we can find it. We're going to be watching that. We have a full team, we have seven full time team members working on the Gary Club account here on X. They will be watching for those, we'll be watching for those. We have a committee of people that will judge those and we'll pick the best clip of the week. Best clip of the week will get shared and played back here in spaces. You'll also get 250Gary Coin as a bounty for the best clip of the week. So that's an opportunity if you like to clip.
Gary 00:26:00
Like you can clip and you can listen to the replay of the space and come back and clip it or you can clip here live. You can even just swipe down on your phone and screen, record and clip. So anything that you clip, you go post it. We want as many clips as possible all over the timeline. You do that, you have a chance of winning 250 Gary Coin every week. We'll pick the best clip, best share. So if you've got, if we're talking About World Liberty 5, we're talking about launch pads. If we're talking about why Solana and you want to come up, raise your hand, we'll bring you up on stage ever. Who shares the best share of the week, right? You, you come up, you, you cook, you drop some knowledge, you drop some alpha.
Gary 00:26:39
You don't shill, it's not a shill space, but you come up and you really share something. Best Share of the week. It's 250 Gary coin and 250 Gary coin right now. Just, just to give you a little bit of perspective. It is roughly. Oh, it's about 58 bucks. So it's about 50 bucks just for showing up and just for doing a little bit. Not much. Best recap thread. Some of you like to write a recap. So you come into the space and you write. You like to write your. Your takeaways. So best article, best thread, best post here on X. That's a recap of spaces. Best of the week gets 250 Gary coin. Some of you are a little bit more creative and you like to meme something.
Gary 00:27:18
It could be a meme of a giraffe, it could be a meme of. Of GM Solana, or it could be a meme of something funny that's said here. Really no rules. We don't want a lot of AI slop here. You can use AI just make it good. I use AI a lot for creative. I think it's amazing. Just make it good. But the best meme of the week is going to get 250 Gary. And then this last one's really fun. The listener of the week. So as we're scrolling around and as we see somebody throwing up one hundreds the whole time, or thumbs up and being really active and you're active in the comments and we see your face all the time, we're going to pick one listener every week and give you 250 Gary coin just for showing up. A meeting gauge. You don't have to be a creator. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to go create any content.
Gary 00:27:57
You just have to show up here and be engaged. Now, it might mean you're retweeting the space. It might mean you're throwing up hundreds like Niecy just did. You got the fist going up like bearded or the hearts like OG gamer, gangster or Joel just did. Right? You may be like Alejandro throwing up that purple heart or that shock face that Dave just threw up. J Change. Just clap for us, right? But you're engaged. You're showing up, you're getting active, you're engaged. We're going to pick the best listener of the week and give you 250 Gary coin. Every single person here, if you show up, our goal is to give you some Gary Coin. That's what runs our economy. I want to give you a few tokens so you can get involved. You can lock them and earn rewards. You can grab liquidity with them. You can save them, you can spend them.
Gary 00:28:36
We have merch coming out, we have the club that's coming out that will, you'll be able to actually spend your coins to buy your drinks or your food in real life at our club. So all of those things and then last thing I'll talk about here is your kind of, your ability to, to be part of this. We think that every person should have a giraffe and, and we show up as giraffe. And the Salana Post is a new giraffe today. So the Salana Post has amazing content. We'll bring be bringing you a daily news report from the Salana Post. So they just rebranded as a giraffe and we want you all to be able to be a giraffe. But we don't expect everyone to go out and buy a giraffe from the giraffe Tower.
Gary 00:29:15
It's not going to be in everybody's budget. There's a limited supply. So what we're doing is we're producing a very special giraffe. It looks just like my pfp called a GM Solana Giraffe. It'll be an open edition. It'll be an absolutely free mint. It won't cost you any money at all to minute other than transaction fees. And you'll get your name or your wallet on the allow list by showing up here in the spaces. If you show up, if you participate, my absolute goal is to get you a free giraffe. It might be that GM Solana giraffe, we did a MAGA giraffe and make America great giraffe during Trump's presidency.
Gary 00:29:51
Right now, the floor of those on Magic Eden, it's been as high as like 0 6.7 Solana. Right now that floor is 0.147. So even at that, that's 30 bucks in in just free money that goes out to as many people as we can just for showing up here. So we'll get as many of your wallets as possible on an allow list as long as you're showing up and as long as you're participating. Right, we'll get you on an allow list and to do that, why don't we do a few of those right now?
Gary 00:30:22
So I want you to go down to the comment box and I want you to type in GM Solana and then I want you to put in your wallet and if you type in GM Salon and put in your wallet, we'll pick three of you in the next five minutes or so and we'll go ahead and get your name on the allow list to mint this for free. It'll be yours. We won't do an open mint. It's not a public mint. It's an allow list only mint. The only way you're going to get on this is if you've got one of the white background giraffes from our OG collection like JJ's wearing. Or if you show up in spaces and you participate and you're active, then we're going to make sure we do our best to get you on that list as well. Jj, what do you think about all this?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:30:58
I. I love it. I can't keep up with how much Gary we're giving away. I can't keep up with the, the wallet addresses and the purple pill. It's a lot. It's just a lot. But in all seriousness. Oh, Gary said we're going to be picking a couple more winners. You're going to be dropping your, your, your GM Solana and your wallet address. I'm gonna mix it up a little bit right here. You may have a. Ready? Drop your comment. Go ahead and redrop your comment and put hashtag GM Solana. Let's get hashtag GM Salana trending in the space live.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:31:35
Because remember, once hashtag GM Salana is trending live, somebody takes a snapshot of that. The first person to take that snapshot, go ahead and get 1,000 Gary. So we got Gary on top of Gary on top of Gary. Do a little Max Engage hack. Go through the comments, all the hashtag GM comments that you see in the purple pill. I need you guys to max engage, drop hearts on other people's comments. Repost them if you could. Repost them, drop another comment giving another GM back. If you're already reposted this space, unrepost that MFR and repost it again.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:32:13
I, I love what we're doing with these giveaways because, you know, for me it's a, it's a bullish or, or what we like to say it's a giraffish vibe. Because what we're building here is something inclusive. We, we want to welcome Salana Solana community members, ecosystem members, users, builders, traders, wherever your role is. We want to include everyone and we're going to be building this show together. We're going to be, you're counting on us to start the show on time and bring some of the hottest headlines here on Solana.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:32:50
We're counting on you guys to show up and continu. Continuously engage and then when we go ahead and have this flow of energy back and forth. It's an opportunity for us to win together. We put Solana on top, on the pedestal where it deserves to be. Cutting the noise from all of these other chains. We're encouraging builders and founders and community members to come and share. And more importantly, we believe in standing tall and part of the giraffe lifestyle.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:33:27
We want to be able to showcase that, but also have it obtainable because again, like Gary said, the floor may be out of reach for some and, and we completely respect that. But here is an opportunity to go ahead and use your social currency. Show up, like, engage purple pill it, repost it, and you have an opportunity to win a fire GM Salana giraffe. And you know, we're going to welcome you into our community here. So, yeah, just super giraffish vibes all the way around with the giveaways.
Gary 00:34:01
Yeah, I agree. You know, we, we want to do our best to, to put some tokens into your wallet. It's one of the ways that most people get started in crypto. The, the normal process is you hear about it, you have this dream that it could be your path out, whatever that is for you, right? Your path out of your country, your past path out of your mom's basement, your path out of, of working a 9 to 5, your path out of being a slave, your path out of going in debt, your path out of whatever that is for you. And crypto is, it's freedom to most people.
Gary 00:34:37
So they, they come in and a lot of people just, especially the people that are here to seek freedom, they don't have the capital to really get started. So being able to show up and learn every morning, being able to get some free money in your wallet, it's, it's something that really moves the needle for a lot of people. I remember my first, like, jupe airdrop. It was huge. Thousands and thousands of dollars. And, and, and I was like, man, that's, that's interesting. I, I, I use their protocol, which I love. And because I did that, I got a bunch of free tokens when they decided to drop their token. We call it airdrop farming. We're going to bring you a lot of those opportunities here.
Gary 00:35:12
But it's a way that if you're here today and you're, you're not, you know, you don't have a big bag, your, your wallet's not full of capital, but you still want to get involved, you know, getting a free mint from us, getting some tokens from us, learning about other airdrops that you can farm. Building your brand here on crypto Twitter. Like, I learned that there's so much money for creators here. I mean, we're paying creators, but there's money for creators in all kinds of different verticals, all kind of different niches, as long as you get focused on that. So there's a way for you to not just have to buy your crypto, but to earn crypto for showing up.
Gary 00:35:46
And it always feels good to do that, you know, it feels good to be able to participate and get something for free. It feels good to be able to show up and get that, get that something for free. Get that. Maybe that's that leg up. Maybe that's that 0.1 Solana that you're able to go on a meme coin and you 100x that. Maybe that's that, that giraffe that you get in your wallet and you're able to flip that. Or maybe it gives you an opportunity because you are a giraffe and you're able to turn into something else. Right? I think there's just so many of those opportunities here. It happens on Solana. We're going to make sure we bring you those every day. But let's flip the, the, the script just a little bit. JJ let's talk about Pudgy Penguins for a minute. Look, I got a bunch of opinions here.
Gary 00:36:26
I have a, a mindset. I have a respect for what they've, they've been trying to build. But I also watch token price and stuff. So yesterday, Pudgy Penguins was featured on a car at the Darlington race, a NASCAR car, and it had a full wrap. It wasn't just a little feature. It was the whole car was a pudgy penguins. And I watched the token yesterday and I watched what happened, and it wasn't amazing. You know, it wasn't the worst I've ever seen in the world. But yesterday, the token kind of hit a high that I saw of about a 2.3 million, 2.33 billion dollar market cap.
Gary 00:37:06
And then it went down to about a 2.08, which is a pretty big dip. You know, it went from. It went down about 10 yesterday on a day that they were featured wrapped on a full car in a NASCAR race. So my question here is, does, and if you have a thought and you want to hit the, the little pill on the bottom and share your opinions and share your thoughts, I'd love that. Or if you want to come up, raise your hand, we'll bring you up and the question that I have here is, are we bullish on adoption by doing advertising like this, right?
Gary 00:37:45
Getting your car wrapped at a NASCAR car, putting toys in Walmart, putting card packs in 7/11, or are we bullish on the crypto narrative that believes that that will, will lead to that? So is this, is this people buying a toy or watching a NASCAR race that say, oh shit, I'd never thought about that. I need to open my Coinbase account or I need to open the blockchain and buy some pingu coin? Or is this a narrative that the crypto, Twitter, the crypto boys are starting to believe and say, oh man, this is going to be huge. So they're buying the bag, selling to each other.
Gary 00:38:20
Is it more of this, this PVP experience here or is it actual new, new wallets, new onboarding coming into the ecosystem? Jj, what are your thoughts?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:38:28
Oh man, I like how you asked the question because that was going to determine how I respond and you exit exactly where, where it needs to be asked. And I don't buy it.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:38:41
I can appreciate, you know, what Luca and the pudgy penguins are, are doing, but ultimately, if we're going to evaluate this as far as far as it being successful in terms of positive price action on their token or NFT and, or NFT and onboarding, I guess NASCAR fans into crypto, I think it's a big waste of time, a big waste of money, period.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:39:13
I don't, I don't buy the fact that, that this kind of in real life event is moving the masses, especially the way it's set up right now. Had Gary, had you asked the question, is this a good look for, you know, the ecosystem to do this, to move their merchandise off the shelves of like Walmart and Target? Like with the plushies? Hell yeah.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:39:39
You know, now you got, you know, all these NASCAR enthusiasts who, you know, just went shopping, likely at a Walmart or Target beforehand and now they're able to connect the dots, like, man, I didn't know what the, this plushie was at this end, cap here, but, oh, like that makes sense. Or at least now it's kind of on their radar. So that the next time that these NASCAR fans go into Walmart, Target, they can see that it's no different than, hey, if you're in the market to buy, you know, suv, whatever car, a Honda Jeep or whatever your car is.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:40:18
And then it. Joseph, it just so happens that the universe puts all of these cars in front of you on your daily commute until you buy this car. Right. It's on your radar and then now it pops up more. So I don't believe it's good for onboarding normies into crypto.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:40:40
I believe that crypto bros are buying into the narrative, maybe out of desperation, just hoping and praying that, that they have someone queued up, someone lined up to exit on or, you know, to dump on or to be the exit liquidity or, you know, whatever that looks like. So I think they're buying into that way. But as it stands right now, by any metrics that I see, wrapping a car in your NFT and putting them on, you know, the shelves is not moving the needle for onboarding, at least in the masses.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:41:18
An audience into crypto, but rather, you know, helping sell that narrative. I think it's pretty dope. You know, you have a grandpa, you know, out watching, you know, NASCAR on a locally televised channel, and their grandchild is around and they're able to bond over this experience because of a plushie that kind of starts that conversation for them, if that makes sense. But yeah, man, I'll toss it back over to you. And I see that we've invited some guests up, so let's cook.
Gary 00:41:48
Yeah, I agree with you. You know, I really do. I've been watching one of the things that Amazon does, and if you look up a product on Amazon in the app, it gives you some insights into how popular the product is. So, like, you may. I ordered my wife some Matcha powder yesterday and it was popular. It told me that there was over 4,000 people had bought that matcha powder in the last 30 days, and that was pretty popular. So when I looked at the reviews, it made a lot of sense. When I go look up pudgy penguins on Amazon and I do, it says there's been 50 plus people that have bought this in the last month. 50. I don't hear them talking about their toys anymore.
Gary 00:42:27
I don't think they're in Walmart anymore. When I go to like walmart.com it, it, it's not promoted, it's not there. I really think that this was a narrative that was sold to crypto that says, we're gonna build this Web two toy company and we're going to be successful and they're all going to come and buy our bags. And I don't think that reality is going to happen. I think we see it in the charts, I think we see it in, in where we're at. Look, my thesis is a little different. I think if you want to build a crypto brand, you Build a crypto brand and you build around crypto. I think you build around your token, you, you build around your community, you build around your ip, but you do it on chain.
Gary 00:43:07
I don't think that we're going to be successful today in convincing thousands of people to go from buying a toy to buying a $40,000 NFT. I don't think we're going to be successful in convincing people to go from buying a, a toy for their kids in Walmart and buying a ten dollar nft because it's just two different types of people. I had to learn that with, with my community. You know, we had 30, 000 plus members of Gary Club on Clubhouse. Very, very big audience there and most of them didn't care about crypto. They cared about entrepreneurship, they cared about making money online, they cared about growing their businesses, but they didn't care about crypto.
Gary 00:43:47
And as we were able to, to kind of dig into that, it made a big shift for us. You know, we said if we want to grow as a crypto community, which we do, we have to focus on people who want to learn about crypto, people who want to trade crypto, people who want to make money with crypto. You know JJ that's kind of how you came in. When you got started here with Gary Club, you were a founder. That was, that was kind of your mission. You want to build your community and now you've shifted into putting that on the back burner. Not to say you never will, but putting that on the back burner and really just focusing on growing the, the meta of Gary Club. You want to talk just a little bit about that transition so the community can get to know you a little bit?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:44:24
Yeah, I, I definitely appreciate that Gary and it's definitely part of my, my journey here in Web3. So, you know, I had the, the privilege and the blessing to launch my own token, a community token, but by all standard definitions, meme coin. Right? And I called it parent. And my thesis at the time, the parent coin P A R E N T. Right. And at the time my thesis was that, you know, I am a, a dad. You know, I'm married, I have two kids, shout outs to, you know, the, the fam.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:45:00
And I have two young kids, a seven year old and soon to be five year old. And you know, my journey in real life consists of me taking back my time so I can build with my family and be there with my family. You see, I have a really hard time accepting the fact of having a 9 to 5 dictate when and where to spend time with my family, go to early morning social meetups with other parents, go to teacher parent conferences, to coach little league and all these things that I'm passionate about.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:45:35
And so my thesis was that I wanted to take a token and build a community of parents who were on similar journeys or at least had the dream of letting go, of firing, of quitting the 9 to 5 and taking back their time through entrepreneurship, through side hustles, through acquiring income producing assets like you know, for my wife and I, our bread and butter is real estate and owning rentals that produce income.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:46:12
And so you know, my thesis was really to build community to help parents find a way to make money in a non traditional way that we haven't been preconditioned or pre programmed and really allow parents to make money on their terms to, to be, to have their flex, their biggest flex be control of their time. And I'm still passionate about that fam. Like, like nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is that when I was in the, in, in the thick of it.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:46:46
Pause the that you know, it was for me it's time consuming, it's hard work. We can, we can do that. Right. But for me I felt like communities were being segmented and fragmented. I felt that you know, in order to you know, build with me under this thesis and this vision maybe is not in a full alignment with this other builder within our ecosystem and vice versa. Right.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:47:12
And so ultimately I came to the realization that you know, in order for, in order for me to best serve parents and still help people reach that goal, parents reach that goal. I thought back, you know what, let's take the foot off the gas on my own token and really step up as a community leader in Gary Club where our, our goal, our vision, our thesis is to stop trading time for money.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:47:42
And I feel that by focusing being a community leader here within Gary Club, it allows me to lead by example, to continue to take back my time, but then also to show parents how it's done but be able to vibe on that bigger picture level and not such a grand, how you say it Gary Grant, granular level. That's an inside joke. But, but all that to say fan like I, I took a step back.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:48:15
I believe I can best serve myself, my family and parents on similar enough journeys by leaning in as a community member rather than fragmenting or segmenting already a. A small enough community or ecosystem and that even, that's even here on Solana. And I'll, I'll land Here is.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:48:38
This is another reason why I'm bullish on Solana and GM Solana is that, you know, all of that other noise with these other trains base and abstract and all of these other things with Kols being paid to pump these, these different things, it, it's distracting. And I believe there's more missed opportunity when in that narrative. And for me, doubling down on Solana is going to, for me is going to allow me us here. But also everyone that's showing up really flex what's possible here.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:49:14
And when, when we can see that and live that automatically, all of that other noise just, just gets muted. And that's kind of what I did with my Power Coin is, you know, let's put that on the back burner. I still have the same passion. I still want to lead and help in service, but just going about it is different for those reasons. If that makes sense. Man.
Gary 00:49:39
Yeah, I think it makes a lot of sense. I think a lot of people that get into crypto are entrepreneurial. They see the opportunity, the, the, the way that you may be able to be a founder, be a builder and build something. But I, I think it's a very underrated position for people to find communities that they believe in and get involved there and, and be a leader in a community. You know, there's. There's only so much liquidity that moves around and we only need so many PFPs and we only need so many tokens. And this isn't to limit anyone. We are in an attention economy and the market will always figure out who's on top and who's not. But there's a big opportunity, not just with us, but with a lot of communities for, for you.
Gary 00:50:19
If you're, if, if you want to get involved and you want to play a big role and you want to carry a voice and you want to maybe even be part of a team is to find that, that group that you vibe with and lean in and start kind of putting in that work. Going out and being a builder or founder and launching your own token, it's. You make the least amount of money, you, you never get liquidity. It's. It's the hardest amount of work. You, you really never make anyone happy because, because like, if the price isn't going up, the art sucks and, and the, the tokens, a rug.
Gary 00:50:52
And if the price does go up and then people sell and then the price goes down, well, you know, it's just, it's just not a good situation. I've seen a lot of People come in and try to be a builder, a founder, and get burnt out and. And really tap out for a while. We had a lot of people in our community do that and. And they took, you know, months off to just kind of reset their energy. So I think that if you're here and you're listening, one of the best places you can get involved in a community is showing up here every day and just learning, you know, finding the projects that you love, finding the projects that you believe in, and then showing up for them, creating content for them, being an investor. Right.
Gary 00:51:26
Getting in early and getting opportunity to make some gains with them along the journey, but really just being a voice inside of that community. We do have some people on stage. Jj, I'll let you control the stage for a second, and I'll go through the rest of my notes, and then we'll wrap up soon.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:51:42
Yeah, let's do it. I see sets with their hand up and would love to hear your. Your opinion on kind of what we're talking about, man. Welcome to GM Solana, fam. And, man, the floor is yours.
Cets 00:51:53
What up, yo? How's it going? It's Dr. Peachy here. How you doing, JJ? Gary. What's good, man?
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:51:59
We are so blessed. So blessed.
Cets 00:52:02
Thank you for. Thank you for having us. I. I wouldn't even know where to start. You've just dived through maybe eight or nine things that are really close to my heart. I will go in reverse order of what, what, what my crazy storm of an ADHD brain can remember, but I actually took maybe two or three separate breaks from working in Cats. I was on the original team with Pablo. I was then a part of the Community takeover team, and now I'm part of this team, and there was a team between us.
Cets 00:52:38
It's a really thankless job being a founder because I think Andy from Cyberfrog sum this up really well. You put you. You work 25, 8. There is not enough time in a day, and you ship to the best you can. You market to the best you can. And the ultimate objective is for a team of people to work themselves to the ground and. And burnout to deliver something in a speculation market so somebody else can sell for a higher price for somebody else to buy at the higher price, for the house of cards to fall down.
Cets 00:53:18
And I thought about this a lot in my break. I took maybe seven months out of Web3, and I even got to the point where I was going to shut down my personal Twitter account. I wrote a long thread saying I'm Done. I'm retiring the account. You can still go and view Dr. Picci. I came back within a month. I went to Solana Accelerate and met some amazing people from mainly the Soul Flare team, like Callahan, Ginsu, Quix, Just fucking lovely people, really sound people. And they convinced me that I shouldn't give up and I should come back and I should come and support.
Cets 00:53:55
I just think I really thought about this long and hard. And for Kets as a community and the reason why we want to be out here and we want to be showing up and we want to be supporting absolutely everyone is that I think the future of projects like Kets or OK Bears or what you guys are doing, I don't think you need a product or a thing or a speculation behind it for it to be successful. I think personally NFTs are going to be like Pokemon cards. They will accrue value over time the same way that Bitcoin accrues value through inflation of currency and energy. In order to mine it, Pokemon cards.
Cets 00:54:34
A base set Charizard has acquired its value from 20 years of IP building, 20 years of community building, 20 years of showing up. And that's what makes that base set Charizard so valuable. And I think there is a place for the OG Solana NFT collections within that. I think there's also a place for a lot of meme coins within that. They're just coming back all the way to your first point with Pudgy Penguins. We really need to stop this mindset of what's in it for me? A lot of people come to crypto to make money and that's fine.
Cets 00:55:11
But we need a shift in the mindset of if you want to make money, learn how to trade. Trade actual assets. Like, I just hit my stop loss on World Liberty Financial. I'm not doing it very well. But look, you should learn to make money through trading or accumulating wealth through Bitcoin or real estate or starting a business. The IPs and the brands that are being made here are not for a flip. And this is what everyone is getting wrong.
Cets 00:55:42
And this is actually what I think is demotivating and demoralizing the stock space is everyone has easy money in their head and we've created this unsustainable house of cards. I have an. If anyone's an animator out here, I've got a really cool idea for you. So imagine thousands of ants running to the top of a ladder and at the top of a ladder is a million dollars. And you just, just imagine in your head right now, all the ants like cram climbing on top of each other and crushing each other to get to the top of the ladder.
Cets 00:56:15
And just as the first ant gets the whole ladder collapses and all of a sudden a new ladder comes up and there's a million dollars and you see all the ads run to the next ladder. That is literally what we do in Web three and it's got to stop. So at Cats, what we're really doing, we want to try and spread the word as much as we can of what we're doing in our community that honestly fuck floor price, fuck the value of your asset. It just doesn't matter. Just build a community, show up every day, have some fun, create some stuff. And just by showing up and being here for 20 years your brand could become a base set. Charizard.
Cets 00:56:54
That's my take man.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:56:56
Wait, wait a drop the mic on the man. Talk about like hitting a with a sledgehammer fam. Like I love that analogy and you're absolutely right man. That, that, that one hit home for me. And I'll say this fam like I, I respect you having to take the space and, and just moving at your own pace which is something that we're really big in, you know, just moving at our own pace and you being able to to do that, get clear headed but coming back even with a bigger appetite to go ahead and execute fam. So you know much, much respect to you fam but I see that we got frag with their hand up fam.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 00:57:36
Gm gm gm. How are you doing today fam? What you got to cook with us today GM?
Frogana 00:57:41
GM H404 behind the Forana account I just want to say it was amazing topics. I have a call here in like 30 minutes so I'm going to keep it short. I just kind of want to piggyback off what Peachy is saying and the whole thesis of the conversation pretty much with you know being a founder in this space just tdlr I didn't find for Ghana's it found me 0 royalties it's wash trade to I don't make money from it at whatsoever.
Frogana 00:58:12
I took over 3-1-24 because I saw a pretty amazing IP with a sinking ship that no one gave a about and since then man I've kind of been working for free as a founder so my perspective and takes a lot different I don't make money from the project. It's like you guys said man, constant attention is what really drives the market and visibility and Ferganas was Always one of that, that wild card that always had visibility. No one knew why, no one who knew who's doing it. We still don't know who the fuck's doing it. But it never really stopped us from like the goal of what we decided to do.
Frogana 00:58:51
When I took over, I just knew I wanted to build a super cool IP that my kids could like. The only goal that I had, I saw in my head was sitting on the couch and turning on Netflix and forgotten is popping up. And since then I've been chasing that goal, man. Whatever comes with that. Whatever comes with it, man. It's like we focus more on the low hanging fruit of what we can provide, given the fact that we never made money from mint funds or anything like that. Me personally, I'm a dad just like you, 32, two kids, six and four. I have a day job, I'm a army vet.
Frogana 00:59:26
I work on the Air Force Reserve Command as a virtualization engineer and I still do for Ghana's full time. So I guess my hunger is a little bit different. I've always loved amazing underdog stories and I just focus on what I can focus on, man. I never asked anyone for anything. My ethos is under promising and over delivering good things take time. And given the fact that I didn't give anyone anything to speculate on in a speculative market, I leaned more towards proof of work. Because since I already had the visibility, so I didn't have to speculate because I was already always on top.
Frogana 01:00:05
I just focused on figuring out the best way to deliver tangible products. And since then we've kind of been building silently behind the scenes. You know, there's this narrative where it's like, oh, you have to build on the timeline or people think you're rugging or not doing so we just built an archive of content to where we can constantly keep the timeline active no matter what happens. Then when you do that, you start to notice all the other projects aren't as active and there's like, that's when all the shit starts flying across the, you know, the blockchain or who's doing more than the next person. When we were always our own competition, we never looked at anyone else's competition in the space.
Frogana 01:00:45
We knew our lane. We know where we want to go. And yeah, just like JJ said, man, with Ferganas, we know we want to be an IP brand. That's a big reason why we haven't launched a token because we don't want to spread the. We'll spread too thin, you know, Granted, people like to say, well you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket. But if we know that we have this great ip, kids love it. My fucking kid loves it. I actually go and print stuff out and hand it to my kids school because in my area there's a lot of parents here that can't afford school supplies. And so I would get like Fergana themed notebooks, you know, we're working on book bags and book bag straps and.
Frogana 01:01:25
And then I just go around like local schools and like give out school supplies. So it's like you, you kind of have to know what you want when you decide to start a project. Granted, I didn't start for Ghana, it kind of just landed in my lap. The artist left for nine months, decided to come back, saw we were still building and said it, man, I love what you guys are doing. So now we have a comic, we have music, we have a lot of cool other activations on the way and we've taken nothing from anybody, man. And my big thing with that is when I was a college student, I was college dropout by the way. College dropout kicked up the army. But I still very successful because I have drive and hunger and I just, I don't know where I'm going to end, man.
Frogana 01:02:04
And I just, every time I fall, I try and fail forward. Because you know, in school we're taught, oh, if you fail, you suck, you suck, you know, you, you up. But what I've learned is you have to fail to succeed, man. And my acronym for luck because everyone says, oh dude, you're lucky, you know, you got for Ghana, it's always on top, blah blah, blah, whatever. My acronym for luck is laboring under correct knowledge if you're prepared for any opportunity that presents itself to you. Everyone always looked at his luck, but they never knew how prepared you actually were for the situation.
Frogana 01:02:39
So while everyone else is promising speculative things and what they will do and what's on the rug map, we don't promise man. Proof of work. I don't promise. When I took over, yeah, you guys might not get, or you might get everything, who knows? But just I'll be here every day. And since then, March 21st. Oh, sorry, March 1st, 2024. I've been here every day, man, every single day. No days off, no quits, no breaks, no. No matter the fire that has been sent at these frogs, we've always been here no matter what. So when people like to say ah, the space is, you know, it's, it's it is. It's ruthless.
Frogana 01:03:18
It's ruthless. But that just means it's not for everybody just being honest because there's different kind of people in the world that can handle pressure. Some pressure burst pipes and some pressure form diamonds. There's a lot of pipes here when there should be more diamonds here. And I'll just leave it at that. Great spaces.
Gary 01:03:38
Look, I agree with you completely. I've seen you show up every single day. I believe that being a founder is. It is definitely a labor of love. You know, thanks for serving our country and like if. If you can do that, if you can work your full time job and be a full time founder. I know Bar is doing that. A lot of us are, you know, I'm full time in. In crypto but. But not a lot of founders are these days. I. There's no excuse. If you're here and you want to make money, if you want to grind, if you want an opportunity, all you have to do is show up.
Gary 01:04:11
You know, showing up every single day, doing it when you don't want to, doing it when you don't feel good, doing it when you'd rather go out and party with your friends, doing it when it's hard. That's what makes the difference in whether you make it or whether you don't. And there's a lot of us that are going to make it here. We're going to do it together as one big Solana community. Not just giraffe or not just cats or not just frogs or. Or not just we gens, but one big Solana community because we can all win together. And there's plenty of room in our wallets to Collect as many NFTs, as many coins, as many assets as possible. Bar, what you got for us, man?
Barr 01:04:46
This is a beautiful thing. What you got going on here, Gary, for real man, I. With the giraffes and you and JJ and all like I actually got to meet JJ this weekend at our first annual WE Gen draft party. Was live man. That's what this is all about. You know, the connections I made. I say this for years and I mean it because I'm on my fifth year now in this. I'm no rookie into this. I'm fifth year into this. We gens is a 16 months old double our mint price. Still riding about to get 42 cents in sold today per region. No NFT projects given that at the end of the day it's not about any of this.
Barr 01:05:23
It's about them connections I'm making all this, she can go to zero tomorrow. But I made friends out of all this, right? You know, it's what you take from it, man. It really is. Like, when I became a founder, I'm a founder by default. Like, and I say this all the time. The regions are ran by people that are collectors. I was tired of getting burnt. My friends tired of my friends getting burnt. We wanted to come out with a simple concept. Hold wegens and earn Solana, you mint with soul. We'll give you soul. We started payments in January at 12 cents. Today you're going to get 42 cents a week. And in Seoul, no other shit in Seoul. A simple concept. And meet good people along the way.
Barr 01:06:03
Like you, Gary, you know what I mean? Me and you talk a lot in the back end, you know, I'm great that me and you came across pass because of jj. And you know, I'm grateful for everything I have. And this is learning, man. We're so early in this. And I say this all the time. Me as a founder, I can't sit here and take, take, take, take, take. I could, but at the end there's nothing left for me to take, right? Things get slaughtered, man. This is the future.
Barr 01:06:30
Five, ten years from now when I'm hitting my golf balls off my yacht in my Mediterranean Sea, that's when I made it, you know, because when I bought my first NFT five years ago, I promise you, I didn't think I was going to pay my house off. I didn't think I was going to get rich. No, man, I do it because this is fun. I like to collect. I'm a degenerate. I like this. It's like baseball football cards for me, you know? Look at my pfp. That's Jalen Hurts. That's my quarterback, you know, he's on the blockchain. Like this is the you can do in web three. And I have fun. I enjoy it. Yeah, you got scammers along the way.
Barr 01:07:04
But listen, if there wasn't for scammers, if the scammers weren't here, then, you know, we weren't on to something. We're on to something. So they're here, you know, that's all I really got to say. Gary, I love you, man. I really do. I'm grateful that me and you cross past however many months ago. It was the friendship that we gained. Jj, you as well, man, for real, but for all the founders out there just keep grinding. Like people say they're here 24 7, I'm here 24 7. I get up at 4am, I give my first good morning. I go to bed at 10pm I'm on this Twitter and on my Discord 16, 18 hours a day. That's putting in the work. That's putting in the work. Showing up for everybody.
Barr 01:07:43
Listen and get at me. At your disposal. I just grind, man, because I believe in the future of web3. I don't believe in regions. I believe in the future of Web3. And if you're bullish on the ecosystem and Solana, then you're bullish on the regions by default. Because we're built from the ecosystem of Solana, all the rewards are returned back to you off of the moves we make, not secondhand sales. Keep that in mind, man. This is investments that we give back to y' all is holders. Thank you.
Gary 01:08:13
Yeah. I appreciate you so much, Bar. It was great, absolutely great to meet you and connect and look, if you're a founder and I can do anything to help you, you know, reach out, I. When we were on eth, we did it used to be you had to do 100 each to get your little blue check and your verification. And we were over 300 Ethan sales and we still didn't get our blue check and verification. Finally, I found someone to remove this big disclaimer that popped up every time you were going to buy a giraffe, this big disclaimer that popped up that said this token is not verified and it might be a scam. It was this big, like, big horrible disclaimer. You had to click away just to purchase a giraffe. And I got them to remove it. We did almost 400 each, which right now is.
Gary 01:08:52
I mean, it's almost $2 million in revenue. And we didn't get our verification check. We came over to Solana. We built a great partnership with Magic Eden and we were able to get that right away. When I saw regions cooking and growing and I looked and they weren't getting that little blue check. They didn't have the verification badge. I stepped up and, and asked Bar if he would like an introduction to the team. And if that's you and you're building and you're. You're driving volume and you're. You're showing up every day and. And you need that introduction. I'm always happy to help you. I'm always happy to make it. I don't own any we gens. I. I really just own giraffe right now. But it doesn't mean that I don't want to see you win and I don't want to say, see, like, help you.
Gary 01:09:30
Like, getting another project that checks so they can show up on the leaderboard and. And they can grind with the rest of us is important to me. So if I can ever do that for you, let me know. Aesthetica, great to see you here today.
aesthetica 01:09:42
Hey, my guy. I told you that I would have jumped on to support. I'm here, you know, and I'm hearing you guys. It's incredible. You know, the. The thing that you all have in common is that you want to push the ecosystem forward, you know, in different ways with different words. Whatever. The best thing that I've heard, though, I gotta say is. What? Chats or chats or cats. I don't know how to pronounce that. I'm Italian. I don't. I know nothing. Whatever. Park the floor price. We are here for the long, long run.
aesthetica 01:10:20
We are here to build something sustainable. And I want to repeat it again. The floor price. You know, if you invest in a serious project and you believe in that project, if the floor price goes down or up or whatever, it's not relevant. Eventually you will have your return. But as somebody said earlier, I think Chess was saying this. I don't know. I. I just hear. Heard everyone. But what you said kind of stuck with me. There is no easy way to make money in Web3, and I am here for five years. You can scam. That's not easy. It's not easy to scam people. You also. You need to live with yourself.
aesthetica 01:11:00
That's. That's the thing that baffles me the most. You. You. You. You steal money from people and you go to sleep. Normally, I couldn't do that. And so I suggest everyone to stick around with these guys. You hear Gary, you hear chatsis, you hear Progana, you hear region. And there are plenty of other projects that are still out there building. And the floor price is down, but I still hold. I don't give a. Because that's not the point. You know, your. Your profits shouldn't come from trading NFTs. As someone will say, I think was chat. I don't know. I'm quoting you, man. I don't. Whatever. But, yeah, that's.
aesthetica 01:11:40
That's it. It's. It's a pleasure to hear your voice, Gary. I think it's been, I don't know, two years that I don't hear your voice. It's. It's great, you know, it's fantastic. I. I love this thing.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 01:11:51
Yo, thank you so much, Aesthetica, man. Appreciate you so much. If you miss hearing Gary's voice, make sure you got the reminder set, fam. We're gonna be here every Monday through Friday, 9am Eastern. You're always welcome to come cook and share stage with us. We're going to start wrapping down in just a minute, but I wanted to give some space to Shansky to see if you wanted to share and you know, let us know what you got cooking up, fam.
Shanksy 01:12:21
Yo, what's up? Good morning, fellas. Ladies as well. I just hopped up. I don't know if you guys. I know you guys are talking about world liberty fight and everything, but I haven't heard heard anyone really talking about Apecoin coming to Solana and bored API Club. I don't know if anyone else saw. I know Genuine Articles is pretty much the only ones really been posting about it, but Apecoin is coming across to other chains and I mean there's not really any information out. I mean I've been, I've been in the NFT game for a while.
Shanksy 01:12:54
I would say I came to Solana around the Meerkat Millionaires Mint and I was on ETH about a month after the board API Club Mint. And one thing I've learned about board API Club is whenever they go somewhere else or they do something else, they always reward people who are holding the original asset. So me personally, I just went over and I bought maybe like 300 bucks or 400 bucks of Apecoin on the Apecoin chain just to just in case, you know, those kind of wallets get some kind of a drop over here on Solana.
Shanksy 01:13:25
But yeah, I don't know how you guys feel about it, but I feel like Apcoin would do decently, probably have a little drop like Pingo dude at the beginning, but inevitably, you know, have that run up just like Pengu.
Gary 01:13:36
Yeah, you know, I think that's interesting. I saw that I was around so I got the initial airdrop of Apecoin. I minted my mutant ape. I missed the board Apes, but I meant in my mutant. And I got the initial airdrop of Ape coin. Coin, which is really cool. But you know, I saw them kind of jumping to Solana but didn't see much about it. So I don't know if it's going to come with an airdrop. I don't know if it's just normal evolution of a coin is big enough now so it needs to exist across all chains. I really, you know, I don't know where that is, but I think it's something that we definitely need to keep a watch on. Let me go ahead and swing back over to Cats and Frogana and then wrap us up. So just real quick shares.
Gary 01:14:15
If you want to tap back in Cats, we'll go to you.
Cets 01:14:16
And then we'll go to Super Quick for Aesthetica. One of the founding team members of Cats is also Italian. And so the Italian pinched fingers emoji is our. That's like our emoji. So come get a cat. Come be crazy with us.
aesthetica 01:14:32
I'm going to. I'm going to Magic Kid and I buy one.
Cets 01:14:35
Let's go, baby.
Gary Club 01:14:38
Yeah.
Cets 01:14:39
Once a cat, always a cat. And then the other point there as well. Who was. Who was speaking just a second ago?
Frogana 01:14:51
Please remember.
Gary 01:14:54
Hey, Shanksy or bar? You talking about bar, which was with we Chance or Shank C. That was talking about Apecoin.
Cets 01:14:59
Apecoin. Yeah. Sorry, Quick show on Apecoin, because we. I'm gonna. I'm gonna back them up because they've just incepted Apecoin co. And one of the people on the team from Other side was on the Cats team with me, and we were with them playing in the Other side game on Friday night. Saturday night, just gone. So please get involved with the Other side team because their metaverse is amazing, and they're running these, like, social experiments in there, and they're like, solana is the best community for this. So definitely get some Apecoin and go and check out otherside and get involved with them. They host games, like, every Saturday night.
Cets 01:15:38
And trust me, it is so much fun. It's a huge metaverse sandbox. And then they organize everyone. I'll give you an example. They organized everyone into teams with five team captains and a relay race from one end of the creek to the other. And watching a bunch of people in the metaverse try and organize themselves into an orderly line for a relay race was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in web 3. It was absolute chaos. But go and check it out. It's like app Other side. Go to their official link and check it out and go and play around. You don't have to download anything.
Cets 01:16:15
They've actually got an Nvidia client that you can stream through your desktop. And to be fair, man, it's so clean. I run a 2019 MacBook and it was hitting 30 frames a second perfectly. You just need a good Internet connection. So big things coming from Ape chain. I know you say no shilling, but this is. I'm not involved with them at all. I'm just saying what they're doing is really cool. Go get. Go get involved. It's sick.
Gary 01:16:39
No, and I think those kind of shares are just absolutely amazing. You know, we need to get involved. We need to. They've been building what they've been building other side. Like, I minted my original other deed. I paid over one Ethan Gas to mint it. I sold it a top. But, you know, they've been building that for a while. So it is exciting to see it finally come to life. And it's exciting to see them stepping into Solana. I'm bearish on every project building their own L2 unless they needed. I'm very bullish on projects that decide to. To build on Solana and. And tap into our community here. Frogana. What? You got to close us out and then I'll wrap us up.
Frogana 01:17:13
Yeah, man. I was just gonna piggyback off Peachy. I was actually in the same game other side game he was in. I was actually in your line, dude. I was frog overlord.
Cets 01:17:22
You were in my line. No way. That's crazy.
Frogana 01:17:25
Yeah, I was like, dude, that relay was so fun. But yeah, just to piggyback, man. Other side is amazing. And if we're talking about. Just to circle back to the first point with Pengu versus Ape, think about what Pengu is doing with the L2 versus how other sides. Like, you know what, we're just going to integrate our into everyone else's and we're going to make it fun. It really goes to show how the mindset is. And another note, Bayc invented the word wheel. You never bite the hand that feeds you. That's one thing I learned growing up. They invented the wheel and the model that every single project uses. Even Luca, he's no exception to that rule, man.
Frogana 01:18:04
So you can't. You can't fight that battle without knowing all the cards on the table. And lastly, I do have a spaces this Friday with Simple Farmer not chilling here. He's the head of defi and development over over at APE chain. And we're. This is actually the topic of conversation. What's Raid? How's it going to affect Solana? What's the benefit? You know, how is this going to affect the broader ecosystem? And you guys are more than welcome to come. I'm inviting projects from Ape, Chainside and Solana side. So it's a nice community, cohesive conversation and just going to be a great time.
Frogana 01:18:40
And I also bring in other games Team Machiavelli so we can talk about the other games in the other side as well. So all of you are welcome and that's that. Great spaces. Gary and I will be here more often. The vibe and energy here is just top tier.
Gary 01:18:56
Yeah, I appreciate you so much and you know, definitely check out the spaces. Like one of the things that we want to do here is, you know, shine light on as many opportunities as possible. You're here. Not everybody's here full time. Some of us are. But you know, find what you like. We're talking to the Solana gaming team about doing some stuff in here to share what's going on in Solana. Like you want to find as many of those things. Like if you like gaming, dig into gaming and find some gaming projects that you love. If you like collecting, dig into some NFT projects and find some of that. If you like, you know, the vibes of a mean coin community, just really get into that. But we want to shine the light on as much of that as we can. I'll wrap us up here with a couple of things.
Gary 01:19:30
So we added Sabbats and Matthew and Larry Nibbles to the allow list to get a GM Solana giraffe. So you're all on the allow list. The three of you. You'll get a free mint. We've been watching all the wallets. We'll get 20 of you added to the Barky allow list. So you'll get a free airdrop from the Barky token that's getting ready to drop. I'm watching the chat right now. Go ahead and put some giraffe emojis in the bottom pill. Right? I just want you to spam it with giraffe. We've got 348 comments down there. We're going to pick one of you that's spamming it with giraffe right now to win a free giraffe that's going to come from us as a gift.
Gary 01:20:10
We've got five that we'll give away over the next four months. We've got one today and then we'll have another one in September, one in October, one in November, one in December. Tomorrow we've got a hell of a show for you. We've got Dirk coming in from D5Tuna. They're building one of the coolest things that I've seen on Solana. The tuna tokens. Absolutely cooking. But they're building a really fun AMM or these kind of one sided liquidity pools. Most when you go and set a limit order, most of it's cranking off Chain, meaning we're watching the price on chain and then when the price hits, we trigger a transaction to try and sell your tokens or buy your tokens.
Gary 01:20:44
What Dirk's doing with Defy Tuna is they have one side of the liquidity pools that they're building that set on chain. So when your price hits, they have to push through your liquidity in order to get to the next price. So you're guaranteed that your limit orders get hit. Sometimes I place a limit order and I've used a lot of different platforms and they don't always get hit. Sometimes the price moves too quick, sometimes it wicks down for a second and it doesn't feel. And other transactions fill the void. When you're using something like what D5 Tune is building, your transaction will get hit no matter what. So if you've got an order to buy tokens and you say, you know, I'm willing to buy Gary Coin or Jupe or.
Gary 01:21:22
Or any token at this price, as long as somebody's willing to sell tokens, your order is going to get filled. Same way on selling. If you want to sell at a certain price and you set your trigger point, you don't have to worry about if it wicks up there for just a second. As long as someone's willing to buy at that price, your order is going to get filled. So we've got dirt coming in tomorrow that's going to talk to us. Let me hit the bottom. Look at the purple pill. Let me sort by latest. Let me find some giraffe emojis in here. Let's pick a winner to give a free giraffe away to. I've got tomorrow's space pinned up to the top. Make sure you set the reminder for that. We've got spaces every single day.
Gary 01:21:55
I see Smiley and slideshow and Dave and GED and Brenda and AI, Danny and Ruly and slideshow and Sooner and crypto made. And Jerry and Smiley and Nisi and A Nicks. I see so many giraffes down here in PLOF 87 and Giddy and Joel and Gerard and CEO and Slideshow. There's Nisi again. There's sooner again. There's crypto made. Judd dropped a wallet. No giraffe emojis though. Judd. L Judd there. Gotta drop those giraffe emojis. Slideshow. And Duckett and Phil and Denise somehow to butchered that.
Gary 01:22:31
And Giddy and sooner and Smiley and slideshow and Annabelle posted a nice picture of a giraffe. Let's see. I'm Just looking. I'm looking, I'm looking. Trying to find someone. Jj, why don't you pick somebody? Who you got? I'll give you a second to get back to your mic. You're probably in the. In the chat, just like I am.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 01:22:49
I'm in the chat and I was gonna. I'm over here egging people on some. Max engage. Max eng. Engage. Max engage. Let's see here. Let's see here. Let's see here. Let's make it fun. I feel like I need a. A drum roll.
Gary 01:23:04
I don't know that I have a drum roll. I think so either.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 01:23:06
Let's go ahead. And I'm just gonna scroll and stop at a random. Stop at a random. Stop at a random. Stop at a random. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Hey, that's good enough. All right.
Frogana 01:23:20
All right.
JJ 🦒🦒🦒 01:23:21
Today's winner is going to be SciShow Base Eve.
Gary 01:23:30
Let's go. So we're gonna get a giraffe over to your accounts, over to your wallet, so you'll get a message from Gary Club. Squid is behind the Gary Club account handling production here with us. JJ is my co host. I appreciate kits and aesthetica and Shanksy and bar and fragana for coming up today. If you want to come up and participate live, all you got to do is raise your hands. We'll talk about different stuff every day, different topics. What's going on in Solana. We'll give space. If you've got something we haven't talked about, like Shanksy talked about apecoin and what they're doing to come over and we. We dove into that for just a second. So the goal of this space is to get you, the audience, connected to Solana, right. So we can learn.
Gary 01:24:10
I don't know everything. J.J. doesn't know everything. We are not the experts. We're just the two people hosting the show. We're going to learn from you. We're going to create with you. We're going to buy with you a couple of things, and then we'll get into our disclaimer right at the very end. One thing you'll find from JJ and I is we're not going to dump on your ass. We put a rule in place between JJ and I that if we feature a project, we bring someone on stage and we showcase them. We won't trade their tokens for six months. We may buy them, but we have to hold them. We can't dump on them. So it's just one of the things that we've implemented in ourselves. So you can trust that JJ and I will not be dumping on your asses like most of the other founders are doing. Nobody gets paid to step up on stage. So we're not. We're not paying people to jump up on stage. We're not charging people to jump up on stage.
Gary 01:24:49
We're here for the community. We're building for the community. We're building for you. Squid, I'll let you hit the disclaimer and then we'll wrap up. We'll see you guys tomorrow.