Co-founder of @meta_angels and CEO of Stellar (@techstars NYC2013). Author of Here's the Plan. Idea volcano.
Feb 27, 2022 • 48 tweets • 18 min read
We launched @meta_angels not only with 10,000 spectacular PFPs from @aslanruby – but also with 10,000 unique angel descriptions.
In the spirit of open sourcing Web3 so others can iterate, I’m going to pull back the curtain on exactly what we did.
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Back in December, as @aslanruby was generating angel traits at lightning speed, I came across @kediwen’s article about how @crypto_coven used OpenAI’s GPT-3 artificial intelligence to generate the text for their articulations.
When I fell the NFT rabbit hole in November (thanks to @max_siegman and @curiousaddys), I started to wonder about whether NFTs could tokenize abstract concepts like access and opportunity. That idea is the seed that started @meta_angels.
A thread on NFT lending. 🧵
My mind started whirring about all the things that could be tokenized. Textbooks! Rental properties! The title to my house!
I was constantly imagining which IRL things around me could someday be NFTs.
Jan 1, 2022 • 33 tweets • 7 min read
Can we talk about NFT “whitelists”?
Before even digging into how problematic the existing structures are, let’s take the simpler first step of not using the term whitelist at all. (1/x) 🧵
You know how everyone keeps saying “we’re early” in this space? That means it’s early enough to easily make a correction and stop using a loaded term. (2/x)
