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Introducing Smolbound — a next gen take on blockchain games that combines a life sim, light combat, multiplayer factions, and decentralized trading.
We aim to scale Smolbound into a 100 year game by blending and modernizing P2E and UGC incentives. 🪄✨
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Treasure marketplace is being exploited. Please delist your items. We will cover the costs of the exploit—I will personally give up all of my Smols to repair this.
I cannot fathom what subhuman targets a fair launch marketplace for robbery, but they will not defeat the community
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All the monkeys will be given away for free.
RT and like the status below, post the evidence of it in the "retweets" channel of the smol brains discord, then drop your ETH address in "address" channel:
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All but 10 of the stolen NFTs have been returned to the owners (wow). As promised, the team will be reimbursing the owners from our personal allocations while the DAO plans additional steps.
Thanks to the amazing community for helping to retrieve them. Good vibes conquer all.
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Hey Smol community, please don’t bully anyone. The project was meant to be silly, and to help people laugh at themselves more and love other people more than money. Let’s please get back to that. 🙏
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$MAGIC ✨ is enabling the formation of a "decentralized Nintendo"
Treasure is a base layer on which many games, metaverses, and DAOs can be built. Inside the machine, a feedback loop is happening.
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I vow to keep making free mints that make people happy even if this evil individual exploits every single one.
This is just the beginning.
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A year ago today, I forked Loot in about 30 minutes late at night.
$MAGIC took off, but no one could’ve known how big it would get—all because of the community who crafted it. Thanks to everyone who played a role in bringing
@Treasure_DAO
to life 🙏 We’re just getting started.
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Treasure is going to start listing Smol Customs made by
@commonopoly_
on the marketplace in recognition of his uniquely vital contributions to the project.🥂
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Treasure is going on
@BanklessHQ
on Thursday. What is the most creative way to showcase all of our community contributors (in audio format)?
Best answer gets a full Smol set 👨 👩 🚗 🐕🌋
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Smol Brains hitting a 6 ETH floor on a L2 proved that free mints are here to stay.
Smolville will show that a project can give derivatives a space to flourish and still protect the value of the original NFTs.
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Bayc follows me on Twitter, gotta go call my mom and dad and tell them I made it hahah
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The Treasure community is the first interoperable gaming ecosystem in history.
Let that sink in for a minute.
One day, interoperable game worlds will have daily active users in the billions.
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From $0 fair launch token to AAA game producer in seven months.
WAGMI
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Smolville will be like on-chain Animal Crossing, but with a multiplayer aspect
#AlphaLeak
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Prices are down bad. Makes me sad for everyone experiencing their first cycle.
If you feel yourself tilting, then get off your computer and go for a run. Don’t listen to strangers telling you what to do with your money. Protect your mental health first.
You will be ok.
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To my MAGIC frens who are despondent about the bear market: the team has ample stablecoin runway. Our vision is correct—we believe this to our core—and there are two dozen full-time people building it now.
There were times to worry (fall of 2021), but those days are behind us.✨
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Hello new NFT frens. Ever heard of
@osmosiszone
?
Pretty soon you'll be able to use your ETH assets at a fraction of what actual Ethereum costs, without being frontrun by bots *AND* getting to use your assets for multiple simultaneous purposes (superfluid staking)
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Today: this game is broken, the ecosystem is so basic
Next year: oh wow, this is a fully fledged metaverse with dozens of community contributors. How did they have time to build all this?
The tides will turn
@Treasure_DAO
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My classics professor in college told me I was never going to get a real job because I didn't pay attention in school.
Now I make computer coins tradable by pixelated monkeys. I showed her.
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Building a Web3 Juggernaut on top of Web2 Gaming 👇
The most complaint about crypto games is that they're not any fun.
@Treasure_DAO
will solve this by building our on-chain economy on existing web2 games. Treasure will access 100x the user base by doing this.
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I keep a list about nice stuff that people said Smols brought to their life. Estranged siblings reconnecting after familial tragedy, affording a child’s surgery, etc.
NFTs are love multipliers. Thank you, frens. ❤️
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In five months, Treasure went from a $0 valuation to a billion dollar DAO with dozens of contributors who bleed passion for the project.
If you’re fading that, anon I…
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All you have to do in a bear market is identify the people who are smarter than you and read their writing to learn to think like them. It’s easier to do when things move slower.
GM.
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Bear markets are bullish because you get to see founders’ true intentions when things aren’t running hot.
DeFi collapsing was a cliche of the builders making too much money and getting apathetic. That’s a feeling I can’t relate to and will keep building with driven people. 💪
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$OHM community deserves respect
They brought positivity and welcoming to the whole DeFi space. Their token model is genius and innovative. If you’re laughing at their token price, you might be dead inside. Stay strong, Ohmies. ❤️
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I will give 2 smol brains, 2 smol bodies, 1 smol car, and 1 smol land to a random person who interacts with the tweet below
Like / RT / follow our fren E
@SmolBrainsNFT
#smols
#smolsfollowsmols
You think with such an active community we can get 1000 smols to interact with this tweet?
gm!
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You can’t build trust-deepening technologies like NFTs without being vulnerable to abuses in trust. But vulnerability is the cost of genuine human relationship. Trustlessness is an inhuman ambition.
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Just a reminder—Treasure built a billion dollar ecosystem without charging anything. Free mints, fair launch farms.
Very few projects in NFTs are actually anti-fragile.
#BuiltDifferent
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A bittersweet day—I am leaving Osmosis to focus on growing Treasure full-time
Got my start at Osmosis and learned almost everything I know about DeFi from watching Sunny and Dev invent it in real time. Have no doubt that Osmosis will soon be the biggest AMM in crypto. 💪
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Hey frens, reminder not to put in more than you can afford to lose, and don’t FOMO into an NFT based on a stranger’s advice. Another project will come along — you haven’t missed your chance.
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There are three main people building Treasure’s economy —
@_gaarping
@notrealend
and
@pugmassacre
None seek the limelight or shill themselves, but if I leaked the Zoom calls of what they are building, they’d turn the head of every serious DeFi investor in the space
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Treasure has been weighing options for awhile to build its own Cosmos blockchain. No matter what happens on Arbitrum, the project is fine. 👍
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Cheating on my self-imposed Twitter sabbatical quickly:
Smolville will have buildings and statues of people that meant a lot to each of us as individuals. What would you put to represent your life? Who would you commemorate with a statue? We’ll incorporate as many as we can.
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@Treasure_DAO
is legit one of the best things that happened to me. Thank you for sticking by us. We will do better and be better.
Onwards and upwards!
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Got started in crypto writing uncredited articles for $60 a piece before Sunny gave me an opportunity that changed my life.
This is a good place to be, if we make sure to give back to people just coming up. We really can all make it.
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Thinking about making a story about monkeys fleeing by spaceship away from an apocalyptic volcano explosion, but looks like BAYC came up with it
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❌ Squeezing the last dime out of your community before the bull run ends
✅ Retroactive airdrops for the diehard community when the next bull run comes
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2021: NFT devs take your ETH to stuff their treasury, buyers pray they’re legit.
2022: Builders get no ETH upfront. Their treasury is full of their collection’s native token. They work to build trust and create exchangeable value so their treasury is worth something.
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It seems Arbitrum has chosen its memecoin. $SMOL it is. Excellent work, Smols.
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Fair launch is the cheat code for attracting high integrity, long-term thinkers to collaborate with.
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I hope to my core that Treasure succeeds, even if the current team fails the community and has to be replaced.
There’s so many people who kept the thing afloat in their own way. Without their unique contribution, it would’ve died. That’s beautiful and should be protected.
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Proud of Treasure for having been 40% of Arbitrum’s total network activity over the last 18 months.
Well done, community.
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Smolville will be web3's first breakout game. See you in 2024, Smol Brains. 🪄✨
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For Smolville, we are going to open source the tooling that went into building it so others can quickly add onto it with us. (
@commonopoly_
is coming to Smolville). Smol derivatives will be able to earn Smolcoin also, but they'll have to build public trust to be able to spend it.
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L1 gas prices will continue to increase in the long-term— even after ETH 2. Vitalik has said as such and the future is on roll-ups.
This means decentralized NFT trading will eventually be fully on L2. Treasure is pursuing the winning business model for a 10 year time horizon.
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Starting a video series to explain the Treasure project in more detail — in a few weeks I'll focus on the Treasure Chain and why MAGIC will evolve from Arbitrum's
#1
gaming ecosystem into the web3 leader overall. 🪄✨
Kicking it off by explaining
@smolverse
for newcomers.
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Huge thanks to Arbitrum for including
@Treasure_DAO
in the airdrop, and well done to all the protocols who were included!
Looking forward to exercising our voice in the DAO to help maintain Arbitrum as the premier L2.
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Imagine thinking the Smol brand will fade away given that every person who sees a Smol starts smiling
Not happenin
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Love how people DM me for NFT alpha now
Little do they know I dropped 100 ETH into Art Blocks at the generational top
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Hey thanks for the kind words-I let the haters get to me for a second. Way more supportive people than not. Excited to keep building with y’all. 💪
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@Treasure_DAO
now has 8 figures in its treasury just from marketplace volume and free mints. Treasure has never charged for an NFT or $MAGIC (never will), and the treasury continues to grow. Very exciting!
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The daily volume of $MAGIC yesterday was 1,000x more than its entire market cap in 2021
That is insane. LFG 🪄 ✨
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The metaverse isn’t going to be some fancy thing with VR and 3D land. It’ll look like what we have now, but with web3 native communication channels and much more authentic ways to show people you’re thinking about them.
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$MAGIC ✨ in the Top 100 coins!
Congratulations to the Treasure community. Bright days ahead ☀️
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Smol Brains community is now making 3D smols out of 2D custom smols they made for each other last week.
February is going to be insane.
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Also, dropping some alpha here: Smolcoin is coming in Q2, and part of the ecosystem fund will go towards funding the Smolville Art Institute inside smolville.
LFG
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Hey Smol community, if I unfollow you, I don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but I’m experiencing an increasing deluge of messages begging for money and it’s making the platform unusable for me
Wish you all well, more good things to come
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This is going to be the second time Common starts the
@Treasure_DAO
bull market
Post your favorite custom below 👇
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Doing a free drop on L1 in the next few days for people who donated to
@PoolyNFT
or owned a Seed of Life on L2
No utility or roadmap, just fun
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Smols was always a memecoin. Thank you to the community member who created $SMOL.
Rise, Smols.
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Universal basic income for NFT pfps, denominated in the collection's native currency, is going to be the turning point that makes metaverse economies "real."
It sounds ridiculous (because it is), but the metaverse Forex is coming.
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- Private seed round for influencers
- Team walks off after month one with ~$3 million each, unvested and not even in their native token
Another “decentralized” OS killer down.
@TroveByTreasure
will be the last fighter standing
@DegenSpartan
(1/6)
To address this:
First off, the amount is incorrect: it’s closer to 10,500 ETH and we have 10+ full-time team members.
You can verify the amount on the blockchain by checking ETH transfers sent out on the analytics tab from the team address.
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What if you could accessorize your Smol Brain without having to mint a new item? Introducing the Smol wrapper (wSMOL)
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Smol Brains gave 0 NFTs to influencers or paid for marketing. We made people happy, and that was enough.
Bullish on good vibes.
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If you own a BAYC, Pudgy, or Punk, you will soon be able to overwrite the on-chain traits of an existing Smol Brain to trait match your pfp. Expanding to 30 other L1 pfps in Q2.
Benefit of owning and repping a Smol pfp coming soon also.
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I put together a reflection on Treasure so far and why the DAO is going to become the first decentralized video game publisher to reach global audiences.
MAGIC will work. It just needs time to distill.✨
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Have spent 14 months of my adult life brainstorming how to create an evolving on-chain civilization of pixellated monkeys while listening to a chorus of ridiculous people saying I rugged them for not solving it sooner.
What an absurd journey. By summer, the dream will be HERE.🙈
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-The metaverse is built, not bought.
-L1 is not sustainable for decentralized NFT trading
-CC0 and fair launch projects will become the base layer metaverse
These are some of the most unpopular theses in NFTs right now, but I stand by all of them as inevitable over five years.
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The metaverse isn’t a place. It’s a deep integration of the Internet into existing places—decentralized brands, identities, and content that were born online but become ubiquitous in the real world.
The biggest winners will be communities, not the companies building VR/AR.
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Resilient communities with good visions for their project will end up absorbing 90% of other communities’ mindshare during periods like this. Opportunity is knocking.
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@NftQueeny
@SmolBrainsNFT
It’s gonna get better. Everything so far has been our storytelling, but now it will be community decision-making every step of the way. I can say confidently that no one has ever done in NFTs what Smol Brains is about to do.
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Dropping another NFT project
@smolbrainsNFT
Here's how it works. You start with a monkey. The monkey is either smol brained, or big brained, or somewhere in between.
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What an amazing gift! Thank you
@ImperativeNFT
for my Southern smol.
Blessed to be part of such a giving community.
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Also the price has gone down 90%+, and the team’s Twitter mentions are still filled with positivity and support.
THIS is the kind of community that emerges from the bear market as a force to be reckoned with.
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Smol Brains community feeling really quiet lately, so here's your pump-up talk:
The Smols invented evolving NFTs, non-custodial NFT staking, and were one of the first on-chain MMORPGs. If y'all don't think the Smols have more tricks up their sleeve after that, anon I...
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Turn notifications on for tomorrow if you own a Smol Brain
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Treasure community made L2 its home and turned it into a household name when only a few people knew what it was. We said a fair launch would win out over VC funded rivals with 1,000x more runway.
Went from a $100K ecosystem fund in 2021 to the most promising ecosystem in NFTs.
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Treasure marketplace did 6% of OS’ volume yesterday, with only three collections in the inventory
Just wait until
@TroveByTreasure
$MAGIC Daily Liquidity Report: 2/15/22
-
@Treasure_DAO
marketplace volume is through the roof! Today we did 6.6% of
@opensea
's volume. I don't think you realize how bullish this is!!!
- Liquidity at an ATH of $59mm
- Trading volume is up 11% and transactions are up 20%
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Bearish on the idea that the solution to OpenSea is fragmented, royalty-free marketplaces.
Requiring builders to secure all their capital upfront is a perpetual incentive to make a 10K pfp collection and rug. We need more free mints with ample royalties for successful products.
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Coingecko finally corrected the valuation for $MAGIC ✨
Top 200. We did it 😊🥂
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Bitcoin started as an experiment by one programmer to make the world a fairer place. We can change the world with NFTs if we set our aims higher than money or status.
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P2E is dead. There is no going back to the days of speculative ponzis with their own tokens.
What is next? A single platform with two+ popular games sharing the same currency. The utility is the platform, not speculation.
See u in tha future $MAGIC ✨
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Smols have done more volume than like 95% of adopted NFT projects, and most crypto users don’t even know what Arbitrum is
You’re early, anon
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