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Oct 5, 2021 8 tweets 5 min read Read on X
One of the scary things about the #Solana NFT space is you never *really* know who's behind the projects

Will they rug? Can they deliver on the "roadmap"? gmi?

Well - what if I there was a project with an all-star team and an already proven concept?

Enter @photofinishgame 🧵 Image
What is it?

A digital horse-racing game which lets players buy, sell, breed, train, and race horses against each other.

All while earning real money.

Think @zed_run, but no gas fees. Built on #Solana.

(Image from the team's previous game) Image
Who's the team?

Well, remember EA Sports? Take a few of their top vets, add in some great engineering talent, some awesome community managers and boom.

This isn't their first rodeo either. The team's previous game has 13 MILLION players, and a Google Play Store rating of 4.7! Image
Still not convinced?

The team literally develops the horse racing simulations that NBC sports uses on TV ().

More features:
- Genetics-based breeding system
- Realistic race simulations (weather, distance, age effects)
- Spectator betting
- Sick PFPs
How to get involved?

You can purchase a Stylish Stud. The floor is about 7 SOL right now, which isn't too bad. One of them just sold for 500 SOL ().

The Stylish Stud gets you:
- a VIP pass to the game
- male horse for breeding
- more perks TBD Image
Can't afford to drop that much?

Well, for Stylish Studs to breed, you also need Fine Fillies (the female counterparts).

5000 of these will be available. An announcement will be made regarding a drop for these on Friday ()
What if you can't get one of those either?

There will still be another drop (sale?), for the horses that you need for actual racing. TBD.

Even if you can't buy a horse, I'd recommend to at least keep tabs on this project or take notes from it, it has huge potential.

Roadmap: Image
I know it sounds like I'm shilling, but I'm genuinely excited for this one.

As always, don't just take my word for it - do your own research!

Resources:
- photofinishhorseracing.com/index.html
- discord.gg/8wz6hwE
- stylishstuds.io

Disclaimer: I own 1 Stylish Stud.

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Sep 23
hold up wait, i totally missed this

but if you look at basescan

there was a period of rougly 500+ blocks with 0 user transactions (i.e., an outage)

am I reading this wrong or why was there absolutely 0 coverage for the biggest L2 in crypto being down? Image
you gotta be kidding me man

there was ZERO media coverage. still no coverage at all actually, except for the base status page mentioning an incident of "delayed transactions" Image
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some upcoming things:

- 2 killer consumer features
- Frankendancer (Solana client w Firedancer networking stack)
- ZK compression (Solana 1,000x cheaper with zk)
- Firedancer (no comment needed)
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oh and ore v2
oh and also runtimev2, hopefully doubling block cap, async program exec, multiple leaders, etc etc
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Jun 9
this is arguably the best application of crypto I've seen yet — everyone needs to talk about it more

traditional mapping is a monopoly, expensive, and inefficient

how it works is that Google has cars that drive around and gather data periodically and charge super high fees since this data is very hard to get

with crypto, you can give people all around the world the ability to earn by adding dashcams to their cars and map the world in real-time

the result is that you get:

i) much fresher mapping data (Google Maps might take months to re-map something!!)

ii) much better economics

iii) much better composability and network effects

the end result is a much better real-time world map than any centralized institution can provide

the team behind it is @Hivemapper and they're building on SolanaImage
this is so sick — crypto enabling better real world systems Image
and of course

we had on @aseidman, one of the most based founders I've ever seen, on Lightspeed

one of our most popular episodes:

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Mar 9
the situation is escalating fast Image
i am confident this will change her mind on crypto
bro stop buying these whenever I tweet lol, I am **not** trading these

I don't hold anything but almost all SOL and some BONK, JTO, WEN lol
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Dec 28, 2022
hot take

OG ETH crowd (who genuinely care about the future of crypto, not just their own bags or twitter engagement) will actually come around to appreciate SOL

now that tourists & predators have been washed out — only the real ones who want a better future will be left
ETH & SOL approach scaling much differently —but I don't see why that has to be a fighting point

the *real* problem is that crypto apps barely have PMF

it doesn't matter who can scale to handle the next billion users...if there's not a billion users who even want to use this
that is to say — EVM & SOL, while having some overlap — do ultimately enable different design spaces

we need to explore these design spaces relentlessly to maximize the number of possible applications with mass PMF
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Jun 13, 2022
There's a lot of noise / negativity out there due to the market - it's easy to ignore some of the positive signs and signals behind the scenes.

Let's take a quick look at some promising SOL charts 📈
Users

Even though the price of SOL (and all crypto assets) have tanked - it's promising this hasn't resulted in a drastic loss of users.

With over a million active wallets - we're much better positioned for the next cycle.
Activity

- New NFTs are still being minted (and trending upwards)
- More money is being moved around using Solana rails
- Users still keep transacting with no massive downturns

Usage & activity are much more important than price
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