Mad News #61 🏄 Ride The Wave, Fock It.
Mad News #61 🏄 Ride The Wave, Fock It.
Drift unveils Mad Lads NFT giveaway, Backpack sponsors #Hackenversary competition, introducing $MAX to the Exchange, Blackwing points boosters for Lads, and a look at the community content creators.
Welcome to the Mad News!
Drift celebrates PYUSD on Solana with a Mad Lad NFT giveaway 🎁
Backhacking through the #Hackenversary Quests 🧙♂️
Listing the $MAX token from blockchain gaming studio MATR1X 🎮
Blackwing has certified mad lads on the payroll 🛩️
Mad content creators outdo themselves week after week 👏
Solana and Miami go together like DeFi and financial freedom 😎
Gone mobile in the Blinks of an eye 📱
…and more!
Drift celebrates PYUSD on Solana with $80k incentive pool and a Mad Lad NFT giveaway 🎁
Drift is giving away $80k and a Mad Lad NFT in recognition of the newly integrated PYUSD (PayPal's Solana token).
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PYUSD on Ethereum, the first PYUSD variation that launched in mid-2023, already boasts a Top 100 token ranking by market cap.
PYUSD on Solana launched a few months ago and is already closing the gap in daily usage and market cap.
Paypal has their own Solana-centric event, the Global PYUSD Portal Hackathon, with a generous prize pool and end game of being showcased at Hacker House Hong Kong in October.
Sign up for the hackathon here.
Backhacking through the #Hackenversary Quests 🧙♂️
Backpack has collaborated with Hacken to sponsor the 7th #Hackenversary Quest, to embark on the quests head to Galxe and complete all the challenges.
There is a wallet with 50,000 HAI in it. To access the wallet, you must obtain the seed phrase, which we have divided into 12 individual words.
To find them, you will need to go through all relevant Hacken resources! Some cues are literally on the surface, while others are hidden behind trapdoors and military-grade encryption.
Listing the $MAX token from blockchain gaming powerhouse studio MATR1X 🎮
$MAX is the primary governance token of the MATR1X gaming ecosystem.
Holders of $MAX will benefit from exclusive access to new games, treasury distributions, airdrops and an incentivized staking program.
They recently hosted the first professional Web3 esports tournament which resulted in almost 2M viewers.
Some of their most popular titles include:
MATR1X FIRE
Matr1x Battle
CASTILE
Evermoon
GEDA
Blackwing has certified mad lads on the payroll 🛩️
Blackwing is one of the first platforms to offer a 1-2 punch which benefits both Backpack users and Mad Lads holders.
Not to mention that they announced it with the utmost fockin’ style.
Blackwing is described as a modular blockchain which facilitates 'liquidiation free' leverage trading through their novel Limitless Pools.
Check out the Blackwing platform here.
Mad content creators outdo themselves week after week 👏
Market up? Lads create.
Market down? Lads create.
Some of the most consistent content creators on the blockchain are Mad Lads holders who have been making memes, commissioning IRL paintings, spray bombing train cars, jumping off of mountains, writing songs and everything in between.
This culture bloomed during the very earliest days of Mad Lads history when the 'Peaky Blinders' artwork was leaked and Fock It. emerged as a calling card for the brand.
The Mad Memes repository houses hundreds of fan art pieces, check it out here (and suggest new entries in the comments!)
LAD OF THE WEEK: Jay 🔵
New holder Jay dropped an absolute masterclass on the current meta of Solana from a fresh perspective.
This research piece is a great place to start out for Solana novices and offers an interesting take on where Mad Lads and Backpack fit into that lore.
So, by setting my PFP to Mad Lads, I’m signaling that I fully resonate with the vision, culture, and the broader context of Solana, and I aim to convey this understanding within the industry as a researcher.
Jay's feed is chocked full of informative threads and deep dives into everything crypto.
Solana and Miami go together like DeFi and financial freedom 😎
Solana is back in Miami but this time rather than having an IRL storefront the newly minted 'The Port' will be a place where developers, builders and anyone else moving the Solana needle can meet and collaborate.
Fun fact, the 'Port' portion is an acronym that stands for Philanthropic Organization of Radical Technologists.
Gone mobile in the Blinks of an eye 📱
The next chapter of Dialect’s Blinks opens with a Mobile SDK package, the tooling needed to enable Blinks on mobile devices.
Actions and Blinks allow users to share Solana anywhere on the internet by unfurling URLs and providing interactive experiences. The idea originated from the concept of smart messages and transaction requests in Solana Pay.
Developers can deep link from X/Twitter to a mobile wallet for a smooth signing UX (among other improvements).
There is also a new distribution route for your Blinks via dscvr.one, a decentralized social platform.
If you're still not up to speed on Actions and Blinks, tune into this informative chat from the Blinks development team and builders with hands on experience.
Scroll down to the PODCAST CORNER section for a deep dive into Blinks with Dialect founder.
Don’t forget that Solana has $400k in Blinks grant funding available. See the details here.
Solana is playing 2300 chess while other tech companies are still playing 3D Pinball ♛
In a crypto world where we're constantly bombarded with product product product, Solana has began creating content that is actually entertaining. And it works.
Thoughtful writing and world class production leads to what is probably the best advertisement ever created for a blockchain event.
This goes along with a rebranding of sorts for Breakpoint, the single largest Solana event of the year.
This is the fourth Solana Breakpoint and the event planning team's kung fu is strong after *literal* years of practice and hundreds of hacker houses.
Among an already industry star studded lineup, Iggy will be heading for Singapore this year to appear on stage for the masses of $MOTHER lovers.
Helius research docs are an illuminating read for the crypto curious 💡
Mert, founder of Helius, has been a vocal proponent of streamlined technical blockchain content since the beginning of time.
Helius's regularly updated blog is a treasure trove of high level crypto topics and recently they pushed a (slightly less technical) complete overview of how the Solana blockchain works.
Solana embarks on latest leg of world tour 🗺️
Solana holds more IRL events than any other blockchain (combined probably) and is continually working on ways of connecting to the real world in a meaningful manner.
The Ukrainian reality provides clear cut examples of why permissionless, decentralized technologies are imperative in times of uncertainty.
Solana has a global presence in more ways than one. In a literal sense, dePIN project Hivemapper has now physically traveled 25% of highways in the world.
Solana expands ranks with newest regional Superteam 🍁
Canadian Solana maxis made it official with the launch of Superteam Canada.
I expect there to be more moose-based product branding in the ecosystem ASAP!
PODCAST CORNER 🎙️
Validated
A Blockchain Dev's Guide to Leaving Cities w/ Austin Adams (Anagram)
In this unconventional episode, Austin talks with Austin Adams of Anagram and Metaplex about his decision to leave urban life behind.
Unlike most of his peers who work in major tech hubs, Adams has settled in rural Texas, where he spends his free time farming and operating his tractor.
Their conversation explores the benefits and challenges of working on cutting-edge technology from a remote location, contrasting the ironic loneliness of city life with the sense of community found in rural living.
Solfate Podcast
How do Solana actions and blinks work?
The discoverability and accessibility of Blinks are limited to specific browsers with wallet extensions installed. However, there are plans to make Blinks more widely available and user-friendly.
The conversation explores the challenges and potential of Blinks and Solana Actions in revolutionizing the internet. The guests discuss the uphill battle of creating an open ecosystem in the current environment of mega companies and intentional blockades.
Logan Jastremski Podcast
Deep diving Macro with Quinn Thompson of Lekker Capital on Digital Asset Trends | #EP 138
Quinn Thompson is the CIO of Lekker Capital a Digital Asset and Macro Hedge Fund.
One of the oldest Crypto funds on navigating markets with Coinfund Founder | EP #139
Jake Brukhman is the the Founder and CEO of CoinFund. CoinFund is where web3 capable meets web3 capital: cryptonative technologists who invest in the future before it’s a trend.
Unlayered
Searching For Truth By Building A Decentralized Quora I Isaac Simons, Gator Labs
This week, Sal and ZenLlama speak with Isaac Simons from Gator Labs to discuss their new app "Chomp" - which is available for use right now.
Chomp intends to incentivise the seeking of truth through a gamified consensus platform whereby users are rewarded through token incentives to try and provide the consensus response to posed questions.
Think of a decentralized Reddit or Quora where truth, rather than sensationalism, is incentivised.
Bell Curve
How Jito is Unlocking Restaking for Solana | S8 Finale | Lucas Bruder
Lucas Bruder from Jito discusses their newly launched restaking platform for Solana. The conversation covers the history of Jito's products, the design choices behind their restaking solution, and how it differs from Ethereum-based platforms like Eigen Layer.
Lucas explains the flexibility of Jito's approach, allowing for various assets including governance tokens, and discusses potential use cases such as oracles and keepers.