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@tgnakins

Nov 24, 2025

I keep hearing people say AI will change everything. Cool. Maybe it will. But there is a question I can’t shake, and it bothers me more the longer I sit with it.

If AI runs on our data, our effort, our tiny daily contributions, why do we get nothing back?

One part of me says, relax, everyone gives away data every day. People seem fine. They scroll through TikTok, they let Spotify curate their mood, they let Google Maps follow them everywhere. They correct autocorrect, mark emails as “not spam,” skip videos, like posts, answer tiny prompts like “Was this helpful?”

All of these look harmless.

But the other part of me knows they are not. People don’t complain because they never see what happens behind the curtain. They don’t see how the model studies your late-night playlists, how it learns your mood from your scroll patterns, how it shapes itself using every tiny correction you make.

Your habits, your work, your choices, your taste everything becomes training fuel.
And all the value goes upward to people who never acknowledge where the intelligence came from.

Theirs no visibility, no control & no fairness.

1/4

I try to excuse it: maybe this is just how AI works. Centralized data. Centralized decisions. One giant brain controlled by a few people. It’s fast, it’s efficient, and most users seem okay with it.

But that pattern has cracks.

Once you peek behind the curtain, you notice:

• nothing is transparent
• nothing is verifiable
• value flows one way
• rules change overnight
• your behaviour becomes someone else’s product
• your voice notes, images, searches become training sets
• you never get a say, and you never get rewarded

Contributors have theoretical power but none in practice. And this is not a side issue (it’s the root). If trust disappears, the entire ecosystem rots.

And it forces a harder question:

If AI gets its intelligence from millions of tiny human behaviours i.e from your playlist skips to your typing corrections then why should the people who supply that intelligence remain invisible?

2/4

So I ask myself what makes something like @LazAINetwork's iDAO different. Because every project screams “community-driven.” Most give you a Discord channel and an emoji poll.

But iDAO is structural & not symbolic.

Contributors don’t orbit the edges because they sit at the center.

• They approve datasets
• They shape AI asset lifecycles
• They influence reward flows
• They coordinate fraud checks
• They defend contributor rights
• They help guide how agents evolve

These are decisions that determine the direction, fairness, and integrity of the entire system.

And governance isn’t bolted on but it’s baked in:

• DATs track contributions
• Quorums validate quality
• Fraud proofs stop manipulation
• Value splits move automatically
• Updates must respect contributor ownership

The system and governance walk together & not against each other.

And no, not everyone needs to participate. Most users don’t want to vote. What matters is that contribution ties to ownership. What matters is that the value doesn’t vanish into a black box.

3/4

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@tgnakins

Oct 28, 2025

Nigeria’s internet has a problem.

220M+ people. Booming tech scene.
But less than half have real broadband access.

Here’s how a community-owned network called @dawninternet is flipping the script and building Nigeria’s internet from the ground up

A Thr~ead↓

For decades, a few telecom giants controlled everything:
the towers, the cables, the gateways.

They decided who connects and how much it costs.

But DAWN Network believes there’s a better way
one where the people own the internet itself.

Instead of paying a big telco for data,
DAWN lets communities build the network themselves.

Each person installs a small rooftop antenna, connects it,
and earns tokens for keeping the network alive.

No middlemen. Just neighbors powering neighbors.

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@tgnakins

Sep 25, 2025

Metis Is Evolving Beyond L2: Here’s Why I’m Excited as a Community Member

For a long time, I thought of Metis as “one of those Ethereum L2s.” Faster transactions, lower fees, optimistic rollup tech (you know the drill). But recently, I came across a letter from the @MetisL2 team (@ElenaCryptoChic), and it became clear: they’re no longer just positioning themselves as a scaling solution.

Metis is now building something much bigger: a full-stack economy that merges blockchain infrastructure with AI-native applications. And as a community member watching this unfold, I can’t help but feel excited.

Metis now describes its ecosystem as three interconnected layers:

>> Andromeda → The battle-tested settlement and trading layer. Think of this as the foundation: secure, decentralized, and proven.

>> Hyperion → The AI-optimized infrastructure layer designed for higher throughput and lower latency. This is where raw speed and performance get supercharged.

>> LazAI → The application and data layer, where AI agents, apps, and user playability come to life.

What stands out is that these aren’t siloed tools. Instead, Metis wants them to work as one connected economy i.e a place where infra, data, and applications interact seamlessly.

Here’s where it gets fun: Metis is not starting with dry infrastructure use cases. Their first experiment is @LazbubuAI, an AI companion that evolves over time and interacts with its holder. It’s not just an NFT; it’s a living digital character.

The response has been massive:

>> Over 90,000 whitelist signups
>> More than 10,000 “DAT” mints already

This is important because playability and emotional connection are what can turn infrastructure into a real community. Instead of “just another dApp,” users are engaging with an evolving AI companion that pulls them deeper into the ecosystem.

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@tgnakins

Aug 13, 2025

2,800+ Media Nodes. 600M+ minutes of calls. 176K+ active users.

This is not a regular streaming giant or a telco, this is a people-powered network that’s rewriting how real-time communication works.

And in Act II: The Nexus, Chapter 2, you can help battle-test it. 🧵👇

Here’s a thing most people don’t know about…

Even if you’re just 50 meters apart, your voice might travel hundreds of miles, first bouncing between distant servers before looping back to your friend’s device.

This happens every single time you connect on a call.

That’s why…

>Calls freeze mid-sentence
>Games lag at the worst moment
>“Can you hear me?” becomes a meeting soundtrack

This is often the case because it's the path your data is forced to take,& not your WiFi speed

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Nakins

@tgnakins

Aug 2, 2025

AI is evolving fast.

But under the surface, there’s a major flaw no one’s fixing:
The AI revolution is built on broken & borrowed data.

And @LazAINetwork is the hard tech that's solving this.

Let me show you why

AI today looks impressive but it’s deeply centralized.

A handful of tech giants control the models, the compute, and most of all… the data.

They decide what gets trained, who gets paid, and who gets left behind.

Not only is it unfair, it’s inefficient.

The core problem is DATA.

⪼Public internet data is running out
⪼ Private data can’t be shared safely
⪼ Contributors get zero compensation
⪼Quality is inconsistent and hard to verify

And yet… the entire AI economy runs on it.

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@tgnakins

Jul 24, 2025

Is it really possible to do everything in one crypto app?

Why do I need a PhD to use crypto?

You swap on one app, bridge on another, stake through a third and still forget to hold gas on the destination chain.

All that… just to move $50?

This is the system we’ve normalized.

And honestly, It is wild.
For a long time, I just assumed this was the price of being early.

But recently, I came to realize that there’s actually an app already built to solve this exact problem.

It’s called.@HeyElsaAI .

And it’s already doing what most apps have only been promising for years.

HeyElsa… is not a wallet.
It’s not a dashboard.
And it’s definitely not one of those tools that claims to simplify DeFi but still expects you to do all the work.

This is something different.

Elsa is an AI-powered crypto co-pilot.

You talk to Elsa like you’d talk to ChatGPT:

> “Swap $20 to SOL and stake it.”
> “Send 10 USDC to Optimism.”
> “Buy top trending meme coins.”
& Elsa figures it all out and executes for you.

It feels like using ChatGPT but for crypto.

When you sign up, Elsa gives you a secure MPC wallet just from your email.
(You can use that or connect your wallet instead)

– No seed phrase
– No browser extension
– No complicated setup

Just email → and you’re live on-chain.

Elsa removes all the usual pain:

– No more needing ETH to pay gas
– No switching chains
– No bouncing across bridges or dApps

If you say the outcome. Elsa finds the best way to make it happen.

And now… let me show you just how real this gets 👇

Before I discovered Elsa, this was literally me:
DeFi didn’t need to be this hard.

Here are real things I’ve done with Elsa:

– “Send $10 USDC to a friend on BASE” → done.
– “Buy trending meme coins on Solana” → done.
– “Stake ETH on Arbitrum” → no stress.

And here’s what sealed it for me:

The team behind HeyElsa sent me $50 USDC through the app real funds.

No delay. No issues. & It landed instantly.

Didn’t expect it. But hey Elsa delivers. Literally.

x.com/HeyElsaAI/stat…

It’s not just convenient.

Elsa is actually *smart.*

It checks real-time DeFi data:
– Best rates
– Risky pools
– Gas optimization
– Routing paths

It acts more like a strategist than a tool.(Depends on how you want to use it)

And it’s not doing that alone.

Elsa is powered by serious infrastructure:

– @AnomaNetwork for modular intents
– @EnsoFinance for real-time routing
– @selfchainxy for MPC wallet abstraction

Next, let’s talk security & who this is really built for 👇

Worried about security?

Elsa uses MPC (Multi-Party Computation) & so no seed phrase and no single point of failure.

Your keys are split across encrypted shares.
You stay in control & Nothing is exposed.

And no Elsa is not only for beginners.(Tho very beginner friendly)

Power users can:
– Set stop-losses
– Automate strategies
– Stake across chains
– Assign agents to manage actions under rules you define

Elsa grows with you.

There's something bout Elsa that makes DeFi easier & feel natural.

– You say what you want
– You approve the plan
– It gets done

No multiple apps. No chaos. (Can only result to clean outcomes)

This is not a fluff. Elsa has already:
– Processed $20M+ in volume
– Raised $3M from top Web3 VCs
– Integrated with 8+ blockchains
– Built on Anoma, Self Chain, Enso

If you’ve ever said:

Same here.
And that’s why I’m introducing HeyElsaAI.

It actually listens.
It executes smartly.
And it simplifies crypto like no one else.

👉 Try it here: app.heyelsa.ai/referral/D1ACCT
🔔 Follow @HeyElsaAI to stay updated it’s just getting started.

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