Mad News #37 📱 Backpack Is Hiring Mobile Developers
Backpack is hiring mobile developers, Mad Lads holders prepare for more airdrops, Pre Season hype causes trading volume to explode and users can now onramp fiat directly in the Exchange.
Welcome back to the Mad News! 🗞️
Backpack is hiring mobile developers ASAP
Lads holders prepare for more airdrops
Pre Season hype is first glimpse of Backpack Rank
Exchange referrals net users 30% of transaction fees
Onramp fiat directly in the Backpack Exchange
1/1 Mad Lads x Tensorian winners
Solana Mobile racks up 100,000+ preorders
…and much more!
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Backpack is hiring mobile developers ASAP 📱
The Backpack developer team remained lean during the initial building phase, now it’s time to scale.
Reach out to Armani directly on Twitter. Share a combination of your GitHub, resume and experience.
Lads holders have netted several thousand dollars in airdrops 🪂
Mad Lads holders have received numerous meme token airdrops over the last several months including FOCK, NOBLE, WAO ARMANI SEXY LASS and Chonky.
Holders have also been first in line for “bluechip” airdrop allocations from Pyth, Dymension and Jupiter.
Upcoming airdrops:
Complete requirements for external airdrops as soon as possible or risk missing out.
This isn’t even my final form 🟠
Pre Season hype has driven the Backpack Exchange to new levels of attention.
The concept for the Pre Season is simple: create trading volume and climb the leaderboard.
Your Backpack Exchange trading volume will be a key factor in determining your Backpack Rank
Pre Season is a simplified pre-launch version of the Backpack Rank
Backpack Rank is a competitive tier system where your placement is earned with Deposits, Withdrawals, Trades, Referrals, Event participation and more.
It has been less than a week since launch of the Pre Season and the previous 24hr and 7d volume records have been evaporated.
The platform logged more than $600M trading volume in less than one day.
The influx of trading activity has placed the Exchange on top of Binance and Coinbase for SOL/USDC volume for the first time.
Pre Season trading has sparked a flame in the broader crypto community 💥
Media coverage of Backpack and the Mad Lads is steadily increasing over time with spikes around event announcements.
Mad Lads’ Backpack Exchange surpasses $300M trading volume in 24 hours
Backpack Crypto Exchange Soars with $300 Million in 24-Hour Beta Trading
SOLANA-BASED BACKPACK EXCHANGE INTRODUCES TRADING VOLUME POINTS SYSTEM
Backpack Introduces Innovative Points System to Boost Engagement on Solana Platform
The first rash of shill videos have made their way to YouTube and are starting to rack up the views (and referrals presumably).
Referrals play pivotal role in Rank strategy 📈
Referrals have a duel role on the Exchange, on one hand they help you climb the Backpack Rank leaderboards.
They also net you a whopping 30% of trading fees of each KYC’d account that you refer to the platform.
Rewards will be claimable once per week through your dashboard, although the first claim period has yet to be announced.
Cash or credit? 💳
Fiat onramps powered by Banxa opened up on the Backpack Exchange this week.
The integration boasts some of the lowest exchange fees of any CEX and is a solution for users around the world who struggle with fiat onramps.
VIP traders are allowed to directly wire USD funds from their traditional bank to the Exchange (current limit of $100,000 per transaction).
Check your Lads. 🎒
Armani Ferrante broke his Twitch stream sabbatical to select the Mad Lads x Tensor 1/1 NFT winners.
A special congratulations goes out to the Mad Lad 1/1 winner, Bean.
I can't believe I won the raffle. I graciously accept this gift from the universe and more specifically from Backpack Exchange. I will name my first child Armani if it is a boy, Backpack if it is a girl. -Bean
Contestants earned tickets to the raffle in numerous ways:
1 Mad Lad = 10 tickets
1 Tensorian = 10 tickets
1 Mad Lad Gold = 1 ticket
⚛️⚡️ x Tensor points = 1 ticket
🎒 x Backpack Exchange volume = 1 ticket
Participants in the 1/1 raffle were pleased to receive their “glitched” soulbound Badge.
The events with tensor_hq are just getting started
Backpack Exchange volume matters
Tensor points matter
Check your Lads (again!) 🎒🎒
Wormhole Badges were distributed to Mad Lads holders who participated in their Discord event
It is assumed that the Badges will guarantee an allocation of Wormhole’s highly anticipated token drop.
Tensor was quick to update their trading platform UI to show whether or not the Lad holds a Badge in their inventory.
The current price delta between badged and un-badged Lads is around 45 SOL.
Wormhole is a suite of tools which enables the transfer of tokens between different blockchains without the need to trust a third-party exchange.
The two teams have been poking back and forth at each other for weeks.
Lads are unbothered, moisturized, staked 🥩
As Backpack products gain popularity the Mad Lads become more and more scarce.
As of February 16th, 2024 there are 277 Mad Lads listed (just 2.78% of the entire collection).
LAD OF THE WEEK: Ant 🐜
There is a special kind of magic that happens when passion meets consistency. In NFT land, those two things are paramount in forming a close-knit community.
That brings us to our LAD OF THE WEEK, Ant!
Reply guys, repost junkies and content creators are all roles that must be filled in order for a crypto community to flourish.
This kind of commitment does not go unrewarded and Ant is one of many community members who have embraced the Mad life.
Got 7.2k $DYM
Thanks Mad Lads
Thanks Armani, Tristan and all the team.
Lads on top.
Fock it.
If you haven’t already, make sure to give Ant a follow!
Mad AI Contest II: “Year Of The Dragon” 🐉
Thousands of images were generated, 300+ entree were submitted and 750+ votes casted in the second Mad AI Contest.
Participation was more than 2x compared to the first competition and confirmed that more of these events will be hosted in the Mad Lads Discord.
It’s a Backpack-ception with Degen City 🏙️
Part of Backpack’s bedrock and early history are xNFTs, tokenized applications that can be launched within the Wallet.
Degen City hits us with a role reversal of sorts and invites users to ‘download’ the Backpack Wallet in their virtual city.
Although the Degen City is not open for immigration yet they are crushing it in the art teaser department.
Lifestyles of the young and yatted 🩸
The artists at Degen City aren’t the only ones putting in work to support the Mad Lads brand.
Former LOTW sms enshrined the 1/1 Pythia Lassie on his body forever as she joins his cadre of beautiful ladies.
Tristan Yver speaking schedule is packed 🛫
Tristan Yver is jetting all over the world to speak at events starting with NFT Paris, mtndao v5, ETH Denver and TOKEN2049 Dubai.
Solana Mobile continues to defy expectations in hardware space 🖥️
Solana Mobile’s “product” racked up more than 100,000 preorders during their $450 Founders Window period.
This event yet again highlighted the comically huge chasm of cost between Solana and traditional payment rails.
We did 20m+ in Solana Mobile sales with Shopify Solana/USDC, paid $0 fees.
The credit card sales cost us over $600k in fees on about the same volume.
That’s 3 full time engineers.
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