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⌐◪-◪ → Ohio State's commencement speaker just tried to orange pill 60,000 people and got booed. He claims he recently discovered Bitcoin and took ayahuasca to write the speech.

It's a shame that college students are still so anti-crypto; colleges should be strongholds for freedom and democracy. Besides, bitcoin might also be young adults' best hope at accelerating the wealth transfer from older generations to younger ones.

Then again, maybe the audience isn't anti-crypto and just thought it was cringe.

Either way, one thing's for sure. The number one question every millennial's grandchildren will ask them is → "Why didn't you buy Bitcoin? WTF were you doing?"

⌐◪-◪ → Fantasy Top is taking the web3 space by storm, surpassing 31,300 active players — but what exactly is it?

TL;DR: It’s a "fantasy sports" style game where you draft five Twitter influencers instead of athletes, and get points based on their engagement. Check out @Zeneca’s post for a detailed breakdown.

But why all the hype? Well, aside from it (allegedly) being super fun, people are making serious money:

• Top sale 18.9 ETH, seller profited $50k in 24 hrs

• $1.25M payout to content creators aka ‘Heroes’

While it’s unclear how long the party will last, one thing is clear → SocialFi is inevitable. It better aligns incentives between creators/followers and creates organic growth flywheels.

Some other good resources:

• Gameplay by @wardaddycapital

• Game stats by @0xjaypeg

• Strategies by @Deeze

• Models by @0xthemolt

Whatever you do, don’t risk more than you are willing to lose 100% of. More likely than not, these cards are worth nothing in 5-6 months.

⌐◪-◪ → The viral memecoin launcher Pump.Fun is making more daily revenue than Uniswap Labs, according to DeFi Llama.

While I haven’t spent meaningful time in the app, I’ve got to say it’s one of the ugliest UIs I’ve seen in a while, perhaps proving the old design principle “form follows function” — like Craigslist, lol.

While everybody is raving about this headline, I think there are two important things to point out:

• This is the 24-hour daily revenue chart.

• Uniswap Labs ≠ Uniswap V1/V2/V3 (the DEX).

For context, Pump did $445k in revenue in 24 hours, and Uniswap (V1+V2+V3) did $2.42M. So the headline you’re seeing is a bit misleading but still pretty impressive for Pump.Fun.

Bonus meme on Fantasy.Top and Pump.Fun.

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