Mad News #62 🎤 Tristan Speaks On Community Building
Mad Lads holders & Backpack users make out like bandits with boosted rewards, Tristan talks shop about building crypto communities, Eclipse mainnet and cross-chain swaps in Wallet and loyalty airdrop.
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Mad Lads holders and Backpack users are constantly receiving boosted rewards 🎒
We're quickly entering a world where holding a Mad Lads NFT and using Backpack Wallet is a must-have.
Ensofi is the latest in a long line of crypto dapps which place Mad Lads holders and Backpack users on a pedestal with points boosters:
25% on Tensor (expired)
10% on Zeta Markets (expired)
5% on marginfi (expired)
10% on NX Finance (active)
50% on Potatocat (active)
10% on Blackwing with an additional 200% booster 🤯 for Mad Lads holders (active)
EnsoFi is a p2p crosschain lending platform which allows users to lend and borrow crypto across different blockchains (Solana, Sui, Monad, Pyth, etc.)
The Arena App also embraces the Backpack x Mad Lads power punch and offers a limited edition Mad Lads badge to celebrate the Backpack Wallet integration.
Purple Frens 🤝 Mad Lads
Monad Pad, the official launchpad of Monad, is releasing an NFT collection called Purple Frens and is holding a whitelist collab with Mad Lads holders
.Purple Frens adopts the meme-culture of Monad and takes it to a whole 'notha level.
Tristan Yver goes deep on building Mad Lads community in Eclipse interview 🔵
Tristan relives the early Mad Lads and Backpack community building days with 'Ethereums first SVM L2', Eclipse.
The interview serves as a blueprint for bootstrapping a community movement and channeling the attention into product.
LADS OF THE WEEK 💎
The Mad Lads community gets stronger as the pressure is turned up and their resolve has no end in site
.Holders T3 & Jrej continue to flex their conviction with fan art and a custom Galaxy grip.
Leela is parading around Portals rocking a custom Mad Lads avatar.
Rolex Gold captured this Mad Lad in traffic.
CONSPI drops absolute fuego bars.
These Lads embody the 'fock it mentality' to the core.
Eclipse Mainnet (🐮,📷) goes live in Backpack Wallet
Eclipse is an Ethereum L2 (rollup) which utilizes the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) to scale transaction speeds and reduce costs
.SVM + EVM architecture is becoming one of the most popular (and feasible) ways to utilize Ethereum apps with the ease of use that Solana provides.
The integration with Eclipse is fully released in Backpack's browser extension and will hit the mobile applications soon.
Learn more about Eclipse here.
Embracing seamless multichain transactions with Wormhole's Native Token Transfers (NTT) 🌪️
Backpack Wallet launched to the public with both Solana and Ethereum token support on day one. Earlier this year it added SVM <-> EVM token swaps powered by Wormhole.
Now the crosschain swapper has expanded to support Arbitrum, Base, Polygon and Optimism.
Wormhole Native Token Transfers (NTT) work by "locking" or "burning" tokens on the source chain and minting the tokens on the destination chain.
The option to 'lock and mint' or 'burn and mint' hinges on different developer and blockchain needs.
Learn more about Native Token Transfers here.
Replace your wallet with a Backpack 🔄
Backpack solidified it's presence in Dubai with the VARA trading license, a must have for legitimate crypto trading exchanges.
Since then a dedicated office has opened and several key members from the Backpack team have taken up residence in the city.
Longtime business operations guru nt_ape is representing Backpack in the upcoming Founders Villa, a communal co-living experience in Dubai for founders building exciting products on Solana.
Use the communal co-working spaces, pools and gym to connect with each other. Get noticed by VCs and angel investors.
MAX'ing out on Backpack Exchange loyalty drop 🪙
Backpack surprised traders with the MAX Loyalty Drop, an airdrop which rewarded consistent daily and weekly use of the Exchange
.All users who traded on Backpack Exchange every day from July 4th-30th received 1000 MAX, and those that traded every week received a drop of 400 MAX.
The drop was based on activity from July 4th to July 30th.
Gearing up for Solana breakpoint with Armani on top of the main stage 🎬
Backpack has announced major product news at each of the last two Solana Breakpoints (first in Lisbon, Portugal and later in Amsterdam, The Netherlands).
Breakpoint in Singapore will surely promise the same level of excitement, Armani Ferrante has recently speculated that what Backpack is working on now is the most important product release to date.
Backpack makes mining $ORE look easy ⛏️
Ore emerged as Grand Champion in the Colosseum Renaissance Hackathon when walked away with $50,000 USDC and a direct track to mentors and VCs.
They have swept the Solana community by storm and are positioning themselves as the anti-inflationary gold standard of crypto
.The 'Bitcoin on Solana' project recreates the early Bitcoin mining experience with a new (#OnlyPossibleOnSolana) proof-of-work system.
Ore makes mining more accessible with an algorithm that is "memory hard", allowing anyone to mine using common devices like mobile phones or laptops.
The process to mine$ORE is simple with Backpack:
Select the Mine button
Don't worry if you are late to the game, $ORE has a 40-year linear supply distribution.
Nigeria continues reign as fastest growing crypto region 🇳🇬
Regional growth focus has been a pillar of Solana's story and it has manifested beautifully with Nigeria's booming crypto community.
Solana Allstars Nigeria (AllstarsNG)
Superteam Nigeria (SuperteamNG)
IRL meetups occur across the nation with dedicated spaces in three of Nigeria's most traveled cities
Instantly claimable Tip Cards are #OnlyPossibleOnSolana 💳
The term 'OPOS', or Only Possible On Solana, originated with the Code team and their lightning fast payment tooling
.Fast forward to today and Code has deployed their Tip Cards and they are the clear front runners in P2P payment apps.
The Tip Card is simple to set up and even easier to use.
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