I'm very honored (and surprised 🙃) to be included in the coindesk #mostinfluential2023 list this year! I'm not so sure I deserve it, but I sure do appreciate it 🙏

Always be sure to diversify your assets 👇

$40,000 giveaway! If $cake passes $20 in the next 18 days (Feb 28) I'll give 2000 total CAKE away - ten winners, 200 CAKE each ($4000) Just need to: -follow me and @PancakeSwap -retweet this -comment why you love #BSC more than Ethereum Let's get there together!

.@TokensoftInc just doxed the KYC of about 5k users - full names, wallet addresses, and IRL addresses - because they believe they are "bad actors" gaming airdrops. Even if they are gaming airdrops, you should never dox your users. wtf is wrong with these guys? cc @tier10k

@PancakeSwap poppin off $BNB poppin off @SwampFinance poppin off @money_blizzard v2 launching @Mdextech launching (largest HECO project) Big day in #BSC! @cz_binance @BinanceChain @BinanceAngels

TLDR: Across Protocol/Bridge ($ACX) team used secret votes to extract ~$23m from the Across DAO’s treasury for their own private company's benefit. Background: I’ve many times posted about DAOs that are DAOs “in name only” - that is, organizations that pretend to be run by “the people” but where in reality all decisions are made by a very few select insiders, often team members. Across Protocol - although a relatively well-respected entity in the crypto space, backed by true chads and OGs - appears to be one such faux DAO. Across is a crypto bridge that ostensibly runs on a DAO structure. The token holders of $ACX are led to believe that they are the stewards of the destiny of the protocol, and that those leading the project are acting to the benefit of the $ACX holders. However, if you look more closely at the governance proposals (and who votes on them, and how), it becomes clear that the DAO serves more to benefit Risk Labs, a separate for-profit company by the same team as Across, than it does to serve the Across DAO members themselves. On information and belief, it seems the Across/Risk co-founders and insiders orchestrated governance proposals that let them secretly subvert the “democratic” process of the DAO, and extract ~$23m (at today’s value) from the treasury they were meant to protect. In doing so, they directly harm the current and future $ACX holders by creating significant amounts of potential future token sell pressure. FYI/disclosures/disclaimer: Over the past few months I have spoken at length with Kevin Chan (Treasurer of Risk Labs) and Hart Lambur (CEO) about this upcoming post, both of whom were very responsive. I also spoke briefly with the head of marketing, James Richard Fry, to try to help coordinate their disclosure of what has happened, but he was almost completely unhelpful and was (at best) dismissive of the issues. My hope was that what I’d found on-chain was incorrect, but unfortunately it doesn't seem it was. I gave a lot of time to the Risk Labs / Across folks to let me know if any of my points were inaccurate and to let the public know about what they’d done themselves, but they decided not to do so, so unfortunately I’m having to spend my time writing this post. There is a non-zero chance that I've gotten something incorrect in this post - but I did as much due diligence as I reasonably could before going live with this information. I currently hold a long position in $ACX, have done a very large OTC with the Across team before, and hold long positions in virtually all of Across’s competitors. So, in a sense, I’m “fudding my own bags.” What Happened (Part 1): In October 2023, Across project lead Kevin Chan submitted a public proposal to the DAO requesting 100 million $ACX tokens, valued at around $15m at the time of this X post, to be transferred from the DAO to Risk Labs, the Across founders’ private, for-profit company. snapshot.org/#/acrossprotoco… This proposal was framed as a strategic investment in the future of Across Protocol, and for those who worried what would happen with the massive amount of distributed tokens, the proposal explicitly stated that tokens won’t be sold for 2 years. The proposal did not guarantee the money would be used for Across, there were no formal agreements between the two companies, and in fact Risk Labs does or has worked on projects separate and apart from Across, such as Oval. But the Across DAO should pay for this work? When the vote went live, it looked like it had a lot of DAO voter support - but this was illusory. On-chain analysis shows that the proposal was, in fact, being secretly pushed through by Kevin and his crew. While Kevin used his public “KevinChan.Lens” address to propose the grant itself, he cast a massive “yes” vote in secret from a separate wallet: maxodds.eth. The wallet was somewhat easily linked to his friendtech account, as well as to named addresses of family members of his. Kevin didn’t act alone, though: it seems that several folks from the Risk Labs team worked together to vote this massive grant through. Another team member, Reinis FRP, also used millions of $ACX across several secret wallets to vote “yes” on the proposal. And the second largest voting wallet in the entire proposal, accounting for almost 14% of the total vote, was initially funded by Hart Lambur, who founded both Risk Labs and Across. So, it seems the team made a proposal for a huge treasury grant “in the open,” then used a web of hidden, insider-controlled addresses to make it look like there was “community approval” for the vote to pass. It looks like a staged vote, orchestrated by insiders, to benefit their private business to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. What Happened (Part 2): A little less than a year later, and after the first vote went through without consequence, the team came back for even more money. This time, they asked the DAO for “retroactive funding” of 50m $ACX, worth $7.5m at the time of this post. And once again, Kevin’s secret wallets did much of the heavy lifting: maxodds.eth and a new wallet funded by it contributed 44% of the total “yes” votes. There was more to this second proposal that was problematic, though. In the discussion forums for the new grant, the team said they had been selling token options agreements (in simple terms: selling the rights to the tokens) from the first proposal to “strategic investors.” If you remember, the first proposal clearly said there would not be any selling done for 2 years - and it was on this basis that supposedly the community (although in reality the leadership) had made the initial grant. And one more thing of note: had the team not voted on this proposal, it wouldn't have reached quorum - meaning that it wouldn't have had enough votes to pass at all. Why It Matters: In any other industry - be it publicly traded companies, non-profits, governments, whatever - there are strict rules against what’s called “self-dealing,” and others that tell us how we should act to prevent other breaches of duty. These ethical and legal guidelines have been established for a few hundred years in order to prevent the erosion of trust in the entities that have outsize influence on our lives. In government, politicians are supposed to not vote on laws they will personally benefit from, or if they do, they have to do full disclosure. In business, if an insider of a publicly traded company is selling their shares or there is an arms-length deal that will benefit them, this has to be disclosed to the public. Even in non-profits, there’s a concept called “private inurement” where a non-profit can lose its tax-exempt status if its board members use the funds of the non-profit to benefit insiders without disclosure. The goal of a DAO is to mitigate principal-agent issues - so if one or a few voters who are also management are able to pass a proposal that benefits themselves elsewhere, then it goes against the principle of DAO governance in the first place. If they do it surreptitiously, secretly, in my view this shows us that the purpose was to mislead the public, which is a far worse violation of ethics, and maybe laws. Otherwise why not disclose the conflicts of interest, and/or use wallets everyone knows are yours to do the voting? More directly, the extraction of these $ACX tokens directly harms the current and future holders by not only draining the treasury, but also creating significant future potential sell pressure during the “unlocks.” Final Thoughts: If the team members of crypto protocols feel they absolutely must vote on their own proposals to siphon funds from the public to their own private businesses, at the very least they should provide clear disclosure statements saying so, such as: “the team will be voting for this, and they are benefited personally by the $x that is being asked for. There is no guarantee that the team will do anything at all on behalf of the DAO, there are no agreements in place saying so and won't be, and the team will be voting affirmatively for this proposal with their own personal wallets.” Then, at least, the public can know that there are conflicts of interest, and vote/sell/buy their tokens accordingly. But really, team members just shouldn't be voting on their own DAO proposals, and should exercise good governance, as has been done across the world for hundreds of years, to eliminate even the perception of bad faith and/or self-dealing. Almost all DAOs in crypto are total scams or at least facades. Frankly, I think that the “insider” threat to investors in crypto is quite a bit larger than the threat of the “outsiders” (hackers etc) who I usually work to recover money from. We can do better, and should, if we want to be taken seriously as an industry. Until then, if you yourself are running a project and thinking about doing some underhanded activities, remember: the blockchain is forever. 🙂

As of right now the tokens that $aol lp fees will be buying back will start off with - $aol of course $bonk $glue since wlfi isn't out yet, what should the fourth one be? Or should we just stack it in the treasury for future needs? Eco tokens will also make up a good chunk of this of course, don't worry

1) I'm a $magic whale, former maxi, and I'm selling all of my bags and opening shorts. here's why- tl;dr- 1) @treasure_dao team selling their magic (50% off spot!) 2) whales dumping 3) team lies to investors 4) probably going to $0 (told to my friend tech a couple days ago 😉)

I'm very proud to have worked with the @eulerfinance team the past weeks to recover the almost $200m stolen from their protocol! Similar to the StableMagnet fiasco last year, this yet again proves that criminals don't always get away in crypto. You're not as anon as you think!

just converted a ton of my $toshi to $miggles Toshi has had an amazing run (on coinbase now!) and I'm very happy I bought it about a year and a half ago, but for one reason or another, I still think miggles has longer legs in the end, so I had to buy a bigger stake of it

1) Investors in @AlchemixFi lost over $13m in the recent @CurveFinance hack, but together we've been able to recover most of that 🙏 But would you believe me when I said that of all companies, @coinbase REFUSES to give back over $1m of the stolen funds? So insane! Read 👇

UPDATE - after 2 weeks of literally chasing down the Stable Magnet guys and girls who stole over $20m from innocent victims on #BSC, most of the $ is now recovered. Let it be a lesson to scammers and thieves: the world doesn't stop at your computer screen. Many more details soon.

Rumors floating in small groups rn that one of my favorite projects in crypto, @Treasure_DAO which has the $magic coin on arbitrum, is getting listed on Binance soon. I'm not saying anyone should buy it, but just sharing some data I've heard a couple times lately...

I'm both proud & disappointed to be working to bring the hackers of @CurveFinance and other protocols to justice. Proud bc I get to work alongside others like @zachxbt who care so much about protecting crypto. Disappointed bc another person is gonna go to jail bc of their greed.

America.fun ($aol) will officially launch on the Solana blockchain next Thursday, October 9th. For the first two weeks, it'll be a significantly more curated, paired-back version of the website than what we will release afterward. The goal is for us to release the website's features in a limited fashion at first, then roll out the more complicated features soon thereafter so we have time to consider community feedback in the first few days. I wanna say a huge thanks to the thousands of supporters that have been supporting $aol, and to the tens of thousands who registered on the mini-site we had open for a few days previously. Everyone will be remembered. 👌 When the site is launched, on day 1 we will have a single token that launches, and I'll announce it here. Anything else will NOT be an official America.fun token, so anything you see that is not the one we post on Twitter, you can consider a scam. As everyone knows, for the launch of a launchpad to have strong momentum, it needs to start strong and "prove itself" via some good launches that people can succeed on - so I hope y'all will support us in making the launch as strong as possible. Please try not to be paper hands :-P As I noted before, the site's LP fees will be supporting the projects we care most about who are pushing forward the American ethos via buybacks, and tokens will be paired against usd1 for anyone who wants this. I'm super excited! Any questions, feel free to ask! @americadotfun @bonkfun @bonk_inu @RaydiumProtocol @SolanaFndn @worldlibertyfi

Announcement: $2.2 million giveaway! The time has arrived (read ALL details below!) - If $hosico passes $0.10 by July 4th, and stays above $.10 for at least 7 days, I'll give $100k away - 5 $hosico supporters, $20k each If $hosico passes $1 by September 1 (Labor Day), and stays above $1 for at least 7 days, I'll give $1m away - 5 supporters, $200k each But wait, there's more! @csin02 has decided to *match my giveaway* - so each tier above is doubled, meaning an additional 10 supporters can potentially get some free cash! This is what you need to do to participate: -be sure you follow @Hosico_on_sol -comment here with your favorite cat color and/or cat breed -engage with at least 5 Hosico X posts (comment or retweet) over the duration of the giveaway -if you're a holder of the token, hold it to the end of the giveaway dates As one more bonus - I can say that you can get Hosico not just on Solana, but as of yesterday, you can also get it on @GlueNet via the Hub - hub.glue.net. (you have to bridge usdc in via an EVM chain for now, you can do this via stargate.finance/ or in the Hub itself) - and I've heard there may be even more announcements and bonuses coming from Glue by Monday, so you may wanna follow that account and turn notifications on... At the end of each giveaway round, myself and @csin02, and probably the Hosico and Glue accounts, will post the wallets who are eligible to get the free cash. There will be 7 days to DM us, then there will be a proof process. If it has not been claimed by those 7 days, the free cash will be forfeited. [if you are not a holder and cannot become a holder, you can participate in this by doing the commenting process above, then sending me a dm requesting to be a part of the giveaway] Disclosure: I am a co-founder of Glue, and a holder of both $glue and $hosico

.@KitaroNFT is the first NFT project in a while that makes me think of maybe changing my pfp ngl

idk where they're based, but dox'ing is illegal in many places, as is releasing personal customer info - this is not only dirty, but potentially dangerous for both the victims and the project leaders themselves

I'm lost on how any of this is a @cz_binance or @binance issue - if 3comma or you lost your api key or had it stolen, that is really really frustrating, but I don't see how it's anyone's issue besides you and/or 3comma. What am I missing here? How does blame/ownership go to cz?

think bigger

dog bless Singapore

V – Vision A – Accountability L – Leadership O – Optimism R – Resilience $valor

what could this mean 🤔😇

Did anybody catch my talk at #TOKEN2049 today? $aol

What people don't get yet is that $aster is likely CZ's insurance plan for Binance. Aster won't stay a perp dex; it'll likely have many of the functions of Binance cex. It already even has an "Earn" category. When you think of it through that lens, how do you value it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

lookonchain is just gonna announce it anyway, so fyi I just picked up another $5k of $VALOR on behalf of America.fun

Some of the announcements I've heard rumors of coming are so big, it's wild - can't wait to see if some of these things come to fruition. If so, this is just the beginning of the growth on some assets. I'm positioned accordingly.

1) I'm not an advisor to Bonk, so people saying that are being disingenuous/lying 2) ask yourself, "why would they lie?" - then look at their names (ending in .pump for example) - and you have an answer. always consider the source when reading/hearing something 3) it's important when you "call someone out" you are as honest and clear as possible to the public. those who follow me have have seen the call-outs I've done, and how much diligence and research I put into it to make sure the public sees both the good and bad of the projects I'm bringing attention to. those posts sometimes take months to do, I ask the projects or people involved for their feedback or perspectives before I post, and I make sure what I present is just and true. in fact, many times I am a token holder of the project I'm bringing negative attention to, so people know I'm not just fudding someon else's bags to help myself 4) however, fudsters against me invariably ignore these codes of conduct and fairness, and reality - and instead post rage-baity nonsense. for example, one post recently talked about me making money on y wallets, but ignored all of the linked wallets across which I *bought* 7 figures of that same token token to help support it, and am down in value bigly. why wouldn't they include that info? because it would go against their narrative. so they post one piece, but not the rest. it's misleading rhetoric 5) I won't engage directly with people who are disingenuous (including replies here btw), but felt it was important to note these things above for anyone who's wondering, especially at the part about me advising Bonk, which I'd love to have done over the years but have never had that offered to me 6) back to work 👌

feels like today is a good day for some buybacks eh? $aol $valor

When there is a "first token minted on aol launchpad" I'll post it - til them, dyor, lots of scams going around rn

with letsbonk, all tokens end in "bonk" with pumpfun, all tokens end in "pump" it's been confirmed today by the devs: all $aol tokens will end in "USA"

I'll say it again bc some are spreading confusion: there are only three official tokens launched from America.fun as of rn: $aol (the eco token) $burger $valor All paired against $usd1 🫡🇺🇸 Anything else is a scam!

fyi, $usd1 being now minted on Solana doesn't mean there's any liquidity for it yet - so, if it takes some time to get liquidity, the beta launchpad will have it where you can launch tokens with $aol as the pair in the meantime, so long as I can get that confirmed by the dev team (I'm 99% sure)

No more duplicate tickers... 🇺🇸🦅

0 tokens have been officially launched by the America.fun launchpad so far - even if you see some that look like they have, on chain. All officially launched "aol-related tokens will have the contract end in "USA", remember. Also, CTO team let me know today that the site will have the ability to search to see if a token is "officially" launched via the launchpad, or if it's just people plugging into the open source launch ID and using that to trick people.

I guess everyone remembers what launchpad is pairing tokens against usd1 on Solana, right? $aol

The Solana, $aol based $usd1-paired launchpad is in "bug squishing" mode for the beta and is still expected to have a rudimentary version public this week. All the bells and whistles won't be ready yet, but it should be live and doing what it's supposed to do 👌 I think it's reasonable to expect the first CAs, all ending in "USA", to start getting created not too long from now... I'll announce when it happens though, don't buy any scams. Linktr.ee/aol_coin for the links!

How about an $aol trivia night in the tg, this time tomorrow? (830am utc) $2000 given away, 10 winners, each getting 10% of the total prize pool!

Part 1 - Crypto launchpads have become mostly net-extractive casinos. I’m tired of seeing users getting rekt and good teams getting harmed, when it doesn’t have to be this way. So I’m working with the $aol CTO team to launch something a bit different: an ecosystem, including a launchpad, that’s not just a home for memes - but a fair launch platform for builders and users. Over a few tweets (one now, another in an hour or so, etc) I’m gonna introduce myself, what the USA(.)fun platform is gonna be, and try to answer some common questions I’ve gotten from partners and investors. Brief intro to me: my name is Ogle (obviously) - over the prior decades, I’ve built (and sometimes exited) several large tech businesses in the Web 2 space. I’ve been in crypto since late 2012, entering because of cypherpunk alignment and a general interest in new technology, cryptography, and social experiments. I’ve spoken at virtually all major crypto conferences, have been on most of the major podcasts, in most major newspapers, and was listed as a “most influential person in crypto” in Coindesk for helping to recover over $500m of hacked funds from people and protocols who have been harmed by “bad guys” in crypto over the years. I am an advisor to World Liberty Finance on the security side of things, and a major ongoing supporter of net-positive projects in crypto, including Bonk. I am also co-founder of Glue, which is a blockchain focused on helping new people get on-chain safely and easily. We’ve been valued as high as $1.41b because many people see the vision there, but my expectation is that as it continues to grow, even more will realize the true value of helping get more Americans Online, Literally. $AOL For hyper-clarity, nothing I’m working on or discussing is endorsed or affiliated in any way with any other company that is mentioned unless or until something otherwise is said by another company. As you can see, I’m someone who likes to build big projects with big values that are able to touch a lot of people. I’m hoping this project can be part of that process, so in the next tweets, I’ll be describing in more detail what exactly is being built and why it matters. I’ll post part 2 asap, hopefully in less than an hour -

the America.fun LP fees from the past couple days will be used exactly how we said they would be: buying back some tokens again! included in the buyback are: $aol (5 figures), $valor (5f), $burger (4f), $wlfi (4f), $glue (4f), and $bonk (4f) CAs below -->

some people are looking for a platform that not only incentivizes traders, but also doesn't promote scammers or dev rugs, and focuses on quality - America.fun is building this $aol @americadotfun

$aol launchpad launch soon! a little bit behind, but not too bad, and the America.fun site is in a better place now - hopefully I'll have something to announce during the token2049 panel tomorrow soon™

I love when meme projects do more than just meme - that's why I invested heavy in Bonk, and it's why I invested heavy in Miggles. Miggles x Doge collab is also super cool, maybe some cool merch to come when the cats and dogs work together?

I have to say, America.fun ($aol, @americadotfun) launched on precisely the wrong day - less than 24h prior to the massive market collapse. We couldn't have had worse timing 🙃 Despite this, the first launch token @BurgerOnAmerica has done almost $10m in volume, and although price is down on both $aol and $burger right now, both teams are continuing forward aggressively. The $aol product is being worked on nonstop by several members of the CTO team, and very significant connections have been made who are helping to support the project. America.Fun got Twitter support from some of the best people you could hope for - Bonk, Solana Foundation, Mable, toly, Raydium, and so many others (thank you ALL btw!) - and hopefully will continue to get that support as time goes on and the product gets even better. Success is often determined by decisions you make during the tough times. I'm supporting America's launchpad and the projects associated with it, and I hope you will too.

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Part 3 - previously, I talked about how there are three core issues that the team is trying to address: net-extractive models, cabal coins and similar scum, and creators+users who aren’t rewarded enough. I also introduced how I think there is a type of user who is not being addressed yet: those who are looking to protect their downside, play a little more safely, but still have huge upside opportunities that they sometimes see in other launchpad implementations. Now I’ll tell you some of the actual things that are gonna be happening at USA(.)fun, powered by $aol - some of the specific solutions and features that are being built as initial parts of the ecosystem. This list is NOT exhaustive - I don’t want to put all of the upcoming ideas out into the public - but it should give you an idea of where the team’s head is at. 1) The One-ticker solution: on the upcoming launchpad, every token name is considered a scarce asset. We’ve seen many times how there will be multiple versions of the same named token, creating confusion in the markets, and ultimately causing a lot of harm. The way this is being addressed at USA(.)fun is once someone has registered a token $ticker, it is gone forever - unless it doesn’t graduate. This is an architectural decision to fight spam, reward quality, encourage speed, and reduce confusion. When I say “unless it doesn’t graduate,” what this means is the following: if someone comes and chooses a ticker quickly, say $papasmurf, it will be reserved for that creator for a small period of time. The time is to be determined as of right now, but if the token hasn’t graduated by the end of that timeframe, then the initial launch will be considered a “failure,” and the ticker name will be back available to be claimed. The LP of the previous one will be removed - what we do with that is outlined further below in the "bonus" section. With this implementation, you can be sure that the token’s contract address ending in USA (remember, all tokens launched on USA(.)fun will end in USA) that you see is the “right” one, without having to worry another one will come a few minutes later by a cabal that will ruin your investment. 2) Anti-cabal Protections: just like the USA’s values, we believe in an egalitarian system where everyone should have a chance at winning, no matter if they’re rich or poor, connected or not. To that end, the platform will have two core features that make it different than others in this regard. First of all, there will be a small fee in $aol to deploy a coin in the first place. Right now, on other platforms there are no penalties for bots to just deploy thousands of tokens with no intention of ever having a “winner” - they’re just created to farm fees and/or dump on people who don’t realize their bad intentions. Now, by implementing a small fee, we will reduce the likelihood of getting massive amounts of spam and fraud, while also still allowing anyone the ability to create a coin if they just hold a few dollars of $aol in their wallets. This, of course, will also act as a token sink for $aol itself. Secondly, we are implementing limits on how much supply a creator of a token or a single address can buy at launch. If we can limit this, then it also limits the ability for someone to bundle, and then dump, on the retail investors This is technically somewhat difficult to implement, but we can at least make it more difficult on the front-end, while monitoring ways that people use to get around the restrictions on the back-end. 3) Rewarding Creators and Users - One of the keys to keeping people around is rewarding users for participating, and rewarding creators for the work they’ve done to make the platform itself successful. To that end, USA(.)fun’s launchpad will not be taking any of the LP fees directly for itself. I believe there are other ways to make money with the bigger ecosystem that is being worked out, so for the launchpad, all of the fees will be going back to net-positive activities - aka no extraction. These activities include normal things you expect like sending large portions of LP fees directly to the creators, but also some more novel features too, to introduce a bit of fun to the system. From the LP fees, there will also be a “buyback” of aligned tokens, as we have talked about on the preliminary roadmap. These buybacks will go to buying $aol, $bonk, $glue, and (if it comes to Solana) $wlfi. Additional to this, the buybacks will go to supporting America-aligned tokens that are launched and doing well on the USA(.)fun platform. As a reminder, you don't have to be literally American to appreciate and believe in the American ethos, which values freedom and opportunity. USA(.)fun hopes and expects to have a large contingent of users who are not "American" by birth, but may espouse some American values in certain ways. 4) BONUS - one more thing I wanna mention: every day there are large amounts of tokens that never graduate, and the LP fees from those are basically wasted. What we’ll be doing is for those tokens that don’t graduate within a certain amount of time, we will take the LP fees on those and use them to do a daily support purchase of the top tokens that do graduate. This is separate and apart from the LP fees mentioned previously that go to buybacks - this is a separate chunk that is going only to those that graduated within the day, to help support their initial upward trajectory, and to reward their early success. Thanks for sticking with me - part 4 is where I’ll talk about the ecosystem, other aligned projects (why we are supporting bonk, glue, wlfi, usd1), and philosophy. Then part 5 will be after that, which will answer some of the “frequently asked questions,” as well as go into some of the value-drivers for the $aol token itself then I’ll have one more announcement for you after all of that... however, these posts will come in a few hours as I need some rest, I’ve been typing for many hours straight now haha - let's all get Americans Online, Literally! $aol

1) Just fyi I've been minimally assisting @0xSisyphus with the recovery of the stolen funds, including by connecting him to the law enforcement in the appropriate countries (including USA) who are now on the case.

I'll be chatting with the guys from Valor in about an hour to see what kinds of things they've got in store... I think it'll be a community q&a style, so come with questions and join the conversation!

while working on some back-end/integration things for the $aol site (which itself has been done for several days now), the cto team decided it'd be wise to launch a mini-site for those who are actively helping to share the word about the upcoming launchpad - I'll share the url later today, it's simple and almost done

6 figures of usd1 / aol liquidity added ... and already by far the highest volume of any non-stable usd1 pair that I can see

I'm honored to receive the first 1/1 pfp from the crew at @MrMigglesOnBase I'll be honest, I got into miggles as a quick momentum play a number of months ago, intending to go in and get out fast. but when I realized how hard-working, organized, serious, and *kind* the team was, I realized I should stick around and do what I can to be involved in their project and help them along. So I've given advice here and there, connected them to people and projects once in a while, but otherwise done nothing, while they work their tails off traveling around the world doing deals and making friends and spreading the love. I'm always surprised at how they are consistently treating everyone, including naysayers, with respect along the way. I'm not saying this coin will make you rich, because I don't like to endorse tokens in that way, even if I'm bullish myself. But I am saying you'll have a hard time finding a kinder, harder working group of people than the team at the Miggles CTO, made up of the folks at the @purrLabs incubator - so if good people working hard to bring good vibes (and hopefully good returns) to the world is your thing, give them a follow and keep up with the Miggles project.

I was outside today for a bit to touch some grass. I was relaxing and thinking, when I heard something and looked up at the sky There I saw a bald eagle chasing down a lesser prey. It looked for a minute like the eagle wouldn't catch it, but eventually the eagle won, as always

I'm gonna do a quick Spaces in 1.5 hours if anyone wants to join - may host it here or may host it on the America Fun account, not sure. Topic: general q&a

Exactly why America.fun exists - to help enforce the $usd1 adoption. Looking forward to helping grow it!

if anyone wonders about my own personal conviction to $aol and supporting its first launch, $burger - I've personally put in 6 figures into buybacks so far, and will continue to support them. I'm saying this publicly so that nobody accuses me of insider trading or something, but I believe in the future of the @americadotfun platform and am investing accordingly.

America.fun It's time to choose America @americadotfun

There is only one launchpad being built with the American ethos at the core - and it's being built around $aol Go to America.fun while the mini-site is still available All CAs end in USA Pairs against USD1* Buybacks support WLFI*, GLUE, BONK, and AOL

Good point 🤔

can't show you too much but -- the launchpad website built around $aol is making solid progress 👀 behind the scenes, several key talks and plans are being made as well with some of our most important connections...

dog bless america 🇺🇸

agree with everything he says here - and it's why America.fun was made tbh $aol still want the opportunity to make $, but don't want to worry about being scammed nonstop? well - @americadotfun full website launching soon. two tokens already out: $burger $valor

"Should we listen to the community and make $WLFI tradable? 👀📷☝️" 👀

it looks like @rushimanche is suing @movementlabsxyz ...?

Part 4 - In my previous post I talked about a few of the features of the USA(.)fun launchpad that are meant to solve some of the problems of net-extractive models and “cabal” activities. As mentioned though, the vision here is not just a launchpad: the goal is to create an ecosystem - a flywheel - that is designed to be a net-positive force and influence on Solana (at first). We want to get as many Americans Onchain, Literally, as possible. $aol The system is being built with the philosophy that “a rising ride lifts all boats,” and to that end, we’re attempting to create a system that rewards collaboration and long-term value creation by others whose ethos aligns well with those of USA(.)fun. Ecosystem Support - Unlike other major launchpads that have a history of just taking fees and withdrawing them from the ecosystem, as mentioned previously, USA(.)fun will use all launchpad LP revenue for net-positive activities. To this end, a percentage of those fees will be directed to a program that does buybacks of various tokens. After doing the buybacks, in some cases it will result in a subsequent burn (for example with $aol) - and, notably, in some cases it will result in token distributions to those who are holding the $aol token in their wallets. The way this will likely work is that once per day the non-$aol tokens that are bought will be allocated to $aol holders, and those holders will have 24 hours to claim them on the USA(.)fun website. Unclaimed funds will go to protocol-owned liquidity for later usage. The following are the projects we consider aligned and which will be included in the initial buybacks, so long as they exist on Solana at that time. The list is subject to change under certain circumstances. For any tokens that aren’t available on Solana at the time of USA(.)fun launching, the CTO team will decide how to distribute the buybacks differently. 1) $aol - this is our own token, so it goes without saying that we want to ensure its long-term value 2) $bonk - it’s indisputable that Bonk saved Solana a few years ago, and the Letsbonk platform is where $aol itself was launched. They’ve shown us all the power of a community-first approach, and this project will proudly continue to support the Bonk project 3) $wlfi - this token does not currently exist on Solana, but in the case it does, it’s an obvious project to support via the LP fee purchases. The team at World Liberty Fi are working day and night to help bring net-new people on-chain and make sure regular folks have access to what the blockchain and crypto can offer. It only makes sense it would be included in the buybacks here as it is clearly aligned. If $usd1 comes to Solana at some point, we are also committed to pairing all token launches against $usd1 4) $glue - this is a chain I co-founded that is focused on bringing as many people on-chain in a safe, secure, and easy-to-use manner as possible, primarily via the Hub, found at hub(.)glue(.)net. The ethos couldn’t match USA(.)fun’s more than Glue does 5) Last but not least, a daily buyback will be done of those projects that launched on the launchpad and have shown particular alignment and/or traction Decisions for which launchpad projects to support with LP fee buybacks will be made at first by the CTO team (with transparency), but later the mechanism for which projects get supported will be determined by two other methodologies: first, by a definable metric that we will release later (related to holders, traction, volume, etc), and secondly: by vote of those who hold $aol. Yes - the community will be able to decide who gets the support of a portion of the LP revenues! I was going to announce this in the last part of my tweet series, but I think it fits better here, so I’ll come up with something else to leak instead in the last part. ;) Also, as stated in Part 1, none of the tokens or projects mentioned, even those we are going to be supporting with buybacks, is meant to imply an endorsement or affiliation in any way with any other company, unless or until something otherwise is said by the other company. Gamified Elements - as noted, we take the idea of getting Americans Onchain, Literally $aol very seriously. The theme isn’t just a random catchphrase - the CTO team will keep meme culture alive by building a system that’s fun and engaging, not just cold and transactional. Just because these tweets are very detailed and slightly dry shouldn’t imply the “feel” of the site will be anything less than a really fun, nostalgic, unique experience. We have a ton of ideas here for keeping things fun and interesting... I’m not gonna post them all, but here’s a teaser of some of our thinking: -LP distribution from dead projects - as mentioned previously, we’ll be taking LP fees from tokens that don’t graduate within a certain time frame, and use those fees to do a daily support purchase for other tokens on the platform that do graduate - this is separate and apart from the distributions of normal LP fees I mentioned previously above. This is a way of creating a bit of a game theory mechanism that ultimately rewards success and provides a “safety net” for investors who back winning projects -Wouldn’t it be interesting if you launched a token that did particularly well, you could get a real-life CD, a la the late 90s, themed to your token, delivered to you at no cost? Similar to YouTube plaques and the music industry rewards given to artists who sell a certain amount of albums, the creators who achieve market cap levels that reach “gold,” “platinum,” etc can have a physical way of commemorating that. I won’t say what part 2 of this idea is, but I can say it involves rewarding the holders of those tokens too, and it’s a pretty cool idea if I do say so myself! -There will be numerous ways to engage with the USA(.)fun website that are low or no cost, but which will eventually be rewarding to those who do so. Similar to how I’ve hosted several “trivia nights” in the $aol Telegram, we have lots of ideas on how to scale these fun and engaging activities that can also be rewarding to those who do well and/or get lucky. All Contract Addresses End in USA - We want every token launched to be a reminder of the ethos the team espouses at USA(.)fun. As many of you know already, every single token contract address launched on the website will end in "USA” as a clear signal of our identity and values. We embrace the free market, American spirit, and a commitment to giving people opportunities to better their lives without having to have huge amounts of money or connections. Every CA will be a reminder of this. Now that I’ve told you who I am, why this platform is being built, what some of the core features are, and who we consider ourselves to be aligned with and will support - Part 5 will consist of an FAQ to answer questions I’ve gotten over the past couple weeks. I’ll also dive into some of the tokenomics and the different roles of $aol. There is a non-zero chance this doesn’t get posted tonight as I am fatigued already, but I will do my best!

I had a call today with the dev team of the launchpad for the $aol CTO - launchpad basic functions have been completed and are functional. front end and several pages are complete. it can mint a token that ends in USA every time without issue. when it launches, it'll be a beta for sure, an mvp, but it will be functional as noted. so, things are coming along. hopefully within a week we can show something publicly!

the first couple weeks of launches on america.fun will be from "curated" teams that have gone through vetting and are committed to supporting their tokens and projects. the $aol team will, of course, also be supporting those initial tokens and projects in all ways.

the preliminary $AOL Strategic Roadmap probably nothing?

dog bless america 🇺🇸🦅

Lots of inbound projects are interested in being in the first wave of launches on the $aol launchpad apparently - ty all for your messages 🙏 If you're a project that would also like to talk, hmu in dm here or on tg (same username) and I'll connect you to the CTO team

I will not be paying KOLs so stop asking if you see what's being built and believe in it, then buy in. if you don't, don't. just because you're popular online or have an audience doesn't and shouldn't mean you get freebies while everyone else has to pay, sorry

Make $Aol Great Again

Part 2 - Ok, now to dive into the “why” of USA(.)fun and $aol As I mentioned, I’ve been in crypto for over a decade, and have watched the launchpad landscape evolve over the past few years. There are three core issues that I (and others) have identified that need to be resolved for the launchpad space to have staying power, and the CTO team at $aol is laser focused on fixing these. The issues are the following: 1) the current model is largely net-extractive. Most launchpads are, in essence, designed to extract value from users and creators in order to enrich the platform itself. This is why you have situations where certain launchpads - I won’t name names - have been able to generate almost $1 billion in revenue just from fees, with none or almost none of that going back to the creators and users. Essentially, the house always wins, and a "fair launch" is mostly a facade - in fact, some reports say that 98% of launches on those same platforms are literally fraud. I believe the community should itself benefit from the success of the platform, as opposed to just fund it. Bonk (via Letsbonk) has had incredible success lately due to the fact that they focused heavily on making sure that those who are actually using their platform are being rewarded for doing so. I think that Bonk does an excellent job of that (in fact, $aol was launched on Letsbonk…), and I also think there’s space for a different kind of user, too, which I’ll explain later. 2) The prevalence of “cabal coins” who bundle launches, steal other creators' good ideas, etc, then dump on the public is a significant issue experienced with launchpads. Sometimes “bundling” is done for reasons that are not meant to be harmful, but the vast majority of the time it’s harmful, very quickly. This turns the token launches into games of chicken basically, where investors have to be hyper-paranoid and very attentive to charts, because it could be the case that they go from a positive investment to losing everything literally with one person’s click of their button. This makes it very difficult for legitimate projects, and for investors, to actually do well for themselves. Sometimes, you even have legitimate and decent teams launching a token - only for a “cabal” to launch the exact same $ticker and logo a few hours later, pump it up, and everyone who was in the “real” and original token get harmed. Not because the original investors weren’t there early, or investing in a way that made sense - but because small groups of others simply decided to screw retail to benefit themselves. This way of doing things obviously violates the principles of a fair system. Our platform has answers to these issues that should resolve the majority of them for the retail users, and make it actually hurt those bad guys trying to blatantly extract from retail. 3) Hard-working, good creators and investors aren’t rewarded enough. Letsbonk was and is a massive step forward in creating a more collaborative environment - I think they’ve done and will continue to do an incredible job of making sure people who make projects and tokens that have success are rewarded for doing so. Meanwhile, they have done a very good job of building an ecosystem around $bonk (and to some extent $gp), which is helpful in building support by people already invested in those projects, such as myself. That said, we do see opportunities to improve the model for a certain type of creator and investor - one who is perhaps a little less focused on 10 minute trades, and more focused on protecting their downside, and investing in tokens that are more likely to get huge. In other words, there is a market, we feel, where the focus is on quality vs quantity too - and we believe these will be net-new users, not cannibalistic to the Bonk ecosystem. These are the three core issues we’re tackling head on. In part 3, which I’ll be sending in a bit, I’ll start to go through some of the specific solutions and features of the usa(.)fun ecosystem (not just launchpad) that are designed to solve the aforementioned problems.

just a reminder of this great partnership Graduated tokens from $aol that reach certain levels will get the ability to be added to quanto for perp trading Quanto, sol perp dex, is gonna get some action soon. Glad to be aligned 🫡

a couple rumors going around so I wanted to clarify: some of you may have already heard that the CTO team of $aol / America(.)fun is doing a raise round of $500k from KOLs and other strategic individuals/teams in the crypto space. this $500k is in exchange for 5% of the LP fee revenue shares on the platform. (if you're someone we haven't talked to yet but you're interested in participating, dm me asap) the reason for this raise is that since $aol originally launched as a "test token," there isn't a lot of cash for the team to work with. so the team needs to raise a few bucks to be able to build some of the novel features that are in the internal roadmap, to pay for things like the implementation fees of high-tier exchange listings, and so forth. so, 10% of the LP fee revenue allocation is being set aside for "fund raising" - 5% now in this round, and 5% down the road if we need/want to. IMPORTANT: this private round is *not* selling any $aol tokens - it's for rev-share of the LP fees specifically. anyone who wants to buy $aol tokens still need to buy them on the open market. ALSO: it will still be the case that those users who hold and stake $aol on the website in the future will be able to receive a pro-rata allocation of the fees - the goal is to reward those who are believers in the protocol and help it grow! tldr: -America(.)fun is in the middle of a $500k private raise for 5% of fee revenue (LP fees) -spots limited & priority have been given to investors who are able to provide utility aside from capital, eg. network, integrations, etc -this private round is *not* selling any $aol tokens - it's for rev-share of the LP fees specifically -future $aol stakers are unaffected

Should we do another $aol trivia night in the telegram this weekend?

👀 8888 $aol

step by step

they might have forgotten to tag @MrMigglesOnBase - but I didn't, here you are. Happy 1 year bday!

obviously $aol wouldn't partner with bad folks - glad toly came around 💪

Elon said yesterday that the Trump Gold Card is in "quiet trial" and look what's showing up on Global Entry applications now (see pic)... it's only a matter of time accordingly, I'm heavy in $GOLDCARD which launched earlier today - GsSUx3qENEAn5MDQLGYHYs7ThtPXsnwCkKwqv1ZWbonk

Some America.fun stats for the past few weeks (I won't share these after this first time probably so that our competitors can't see our progress) : Google analytics on fire 🔥 -39,000 new and active users in the last 30 days. -222,000 page views in less than a month. -Users engage deeply: 170,000 scroll events and 141,000 active engagement events tracked. -Singapore leads with 19,000 active users, followed by China, Ukraine, United States, Canada, UK, and Hong Kong. -Momentum is growing fast: 6,000 users joined in just the last day, and 30,000 in the last week. Onward and upward! $aol @americadotfun

coinmarketcap.com/view/wlfi-… Potentially some good opportunities in there if you're betting on the wlfi meta (I am, of course) $aol

The time has come

Article on Yahoo Finance about @americadotfun $aol! This is not a press release, but an actual article, btw! Enjoy :-) finance.yahoo.com/news/ameri…

Confirming this is true 🙏 My interest (as always) is in helping keep people in crypto safe. Some of the heaviest hitters in crypto are combining together to advise on what will almost certainly be a huge and impactful project to a lot of new users coming into the ecosystem. For those who have asked, this has no official association with @GlueNet, and I'm acting in my personal capacity here. Not that Glue wouldn't be happy to have WLFI build on it of course! - but I just wanted to clarify the position from which I'm acting here. If any questions please do lmk!

Just got shown the latest version of the $aol launchpad visuals and it is fiiiiiiiire 🔥🔥🔥

the fact that they literally have the IP rights officially from Coinbase has to mean *something*

So, the letsbonk test token I launched the other day has actually... done pretty well. $aol is the ticker I launched as a bit of a joke, a throwback to the OG days of the world wide web. AOL helped get a zillion new people onto the Web, just like Glue is working to do the same for new users in crypto, along with other chad projects like World Liberty Fi of course, which will probably totally change the game. Very quickly a bit of a "CTO" team formed itself - they made a website (aolcoin.fun/ - and a new one coming soon that's super cool), made an X account (@AOL_coin), an X community (nitter.app/i/communities/19457026…), and a tg (t.me/officialaolcoin) Behind the scenes right now there are significant talks with significant players happening that are meant to make $aol into a "thing" as opposed to what I had intended, just a test token. I have ideas for how to utilize the token to help $aol itself, $bonk, $wlfi, and $glue - since all are working toward very similar goals. I want to stress that this is being pushed by other folks who see a vision here, but I am facilitating introductions and helping strategize inasmuch as I can on a day to day basis. Kinda wild where this "test token" has gone, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes.

I won't forget the people who supported me and the projects I'm working on And I won't forget who didn't

$valor listed 🔥 aol coded

Exciting! • America Dot Fun will launch new AOL tokens, fueling one of the fastest-growing ecosystems on Solana • Quanto will list these tokens immediately on perps, unlocking leverage, deeper liquidity, and broader trading opportunities. (after specific metrics are reached)

3) I'll update what the process of recovery looks like when the time comes, but I wanted to post the good news. Scammers - get a job. Or at least don't steal from my friends and other members of @BscGemz. cc @cz_binance @binance @RektHQ @Cointelegraph @BinanceChain

$25m stolen, $25m recovered, in less than 6 hours I'm proud to have gotten to work on the negotiations here with the team at Thala, and I'm glad the exoloiter made the right choice so quickly. Good day for everyone involved. 🦾

Launched on America.fun as a curated launch, $valor is an absolute chad team

fyi, I have started a ~$25k total Jupiter swap recurring purchase (~$25k/120 per cycle) of $aol for my own personal stash, to be completed over the next couple hours. I think big things are gonna come and would like to own more of the token than I already do.

Is SBF sitting next to a Nicolas de Stael artwork during this interview? If so, guess we just found ~$20m for the creditors?

I remember when people thought that Pancakeswap wasn't a Binance project 🤠

The $aol CTO team is expanding and looking for several roles. You'll need to be ok working for tokens for a little while, and the time commitment is at least several hours a day, but if you wanna be a part of the project, message me on tg (same username as here) if you have any of the following skills, and I'll connect you to someone - -front-end dev experience -Solana (Rust) experience (especially with defi and/or tooling) -ux experience (especially for consumer-facing retail sites and apps) Note - I don't make the final decisions at the project, so you don't need to sell your skills to me aggressively. I give advice and input. $aol is not likely to only be the token of a launchpad - there are a lot of things that the team is ideating on and considering building - and there need to be some more members to accomplish it. Get in early, build some cool stuff, hang with cool people, and potentially have a good outcome!

Anybody else in the mood for a $burger?