Mad News #69 🔁 Lads Minted For 6.9 SOL
Mad News #69 🔁 Lads Minted For 6.9 SOL
Wormhole Badge is still giving, a Lad appears on Forbes, planning the first Mad marathon in China, Moo Deng fever at all time high, Backpack leads charge for SOON network support and more. Fock it.
Welcome to the Mad News! 📰
Wormhole Badge is still giving, a Lad appears on Forbes, planning the first Mad marathon in China, Moo Deng fever at all time high, Backpack leads the charge for SOON network support and more. Fock it.
Wormhole badge Lads sit firmly on top 🌀
Mad Lads and airdrops are synonymous terms at this point. Tallying up the total number of airdrops, token claims and other benefits was a near impossible task (full list located below).
Wormhole's W TGE (Token Generation Event) was one of the most highly anticipated drops and occurred during peak 'airdrop season' at the beginning of 2024.
Mad Lads were able to claim a Badge which has since revealed itself to be the gift that keeps on giving.
Eligible Mad Lads will receive 16000 W.
3200 liquid on W TGE and the remaining amount will vest daily for a year.
The flaming hot 'Skull' trait received a 25% higher allocation than a base line Lad (20,000 vs 16,000).
Unlike many airdrops, Lads $W claims have a strict vesting schedule and enable a slow release of tokens into the market.
The claim process itself takes place within the Mad Lads xNFT which means that the W tokens belong to the individual NFT instead of a specific wallet address.
When a Mad Lads changes hands, so does the wormhole badge and token claims.
This has resulted in an interesting dynamic where Mad Lads with a Wormhole badge and unclaimed tokens are highly sought after and command a strong price premium (20+ SOL).
Wormhole plays a vital role in the future of blockchain interoperability and the W token is considered an important asset by many traders.
tensor_hq makes it easy to identify the Wormhole badge holders and check the claim status of W directly on their marketplace.
According to this unofficial dashboard by zpencer, just under 40% of the Mad Lads NFTs hold a Wormhole badge in their inventory.
As of this week, around 10,000 W tokens are still locked up in the vesting schedule and will be released through early 2025.
Mad Lads holders have amassed airdrops, token claims, discounts and boosted trading yields at a mindboggling rate, in no particular order:
@PythNetwork (3,000 $PYTH
with extra 1,000 $PYTH if holder KYC'd on Backpack Exchange)
@PythNetwork (1/1 Pythia Mad Lads NFT)
@wormhole (678,823,000 W allocation)
@dymension (706 $DYM per Lad)
@PikeFinance (500K $PIU allocation)
@ZetaMarkets (800,000 $ZEX allocation)
@tensor_hq (1/1 Tensorian via raffle on Backpack Exchange)
@DeFi_Land (Mad Lad #5351, 7x DeFi Land NFTs)
@MatricaLabs (Blocks NFT whitelist, a Bitcoin project)
@yesyescoin (5% of $YES supply allocation)
@bluefinapp (TBD)
@infinex_app (20,000,000 allocation)
@tryscales ($SCALES allocation)
@AethirCloud ($ATH allocation)
@FOCK_coin (12,600,000 $FOCK per Lad)
@_portals_ (TBD)
@zero1_labs ($DEAI allocation)
@solarchons (NFT allocation)
@Kyupad_xyz (NFT allocation)
@TheVorld_ / ASTROKIDZ (NFT allocation)
GRAY (225 GRAY per Lad)
WAO, ARMANI SEXY LASS (~8,250,000 $WAOSY per Lad)
NOBLE (20 $NOBLE per Lad)
DRAKO (~4,500,00 $DRAKO per Lad)
@XNET_Mobile (100,000 XNET allocation)
ZUES, BLZE, WEN, KMNO and many more.
Whoever does the math on what all of the token drops/allocations were valued at in $USDC on the day of their release will win LAD OF THE WEEK.
The party don't start till Lads walk in 🎉
Check out more details and photos about the first ever Mad Lads meetup in Madrid in Mad News #67.
LAD OF THE WEEK: WhiskyTitan 🥃
Magical moments where crypto enters the traditional zeitgeist are far and few between, WhiskyTitan made it happen this week.
Congratz to our LOTW, web4O!
Titled "Bourbon & Blockchain: The Future Of Rare Whiskey Trading", the @Forbes piece is another brick in the movement to bring crypto to the real world.
Although you may not recognize WhiskyTitan from Mad Lads comment sections or group chats, that's for a good reason: he's building @BAXUSco.
Heads down builder mode is a clear cut sign of the 'fock it mentality' that Mad Lads have become known for.
He's also building a family, baby WhiskyTitan is already crypto redpilled.
Follow @web4O right now!
Lace up your shoes Lads, we're going on an adventure 🏃♂️
Mad Lads are hitting the Chinese countryside for the Oxfam Trailwalker fundraiser.
Since 1986, more than 100,000 participants have raised over HK$600 million to support Oxfam’s various poverty alleviation and emergency relief projects in Africa and Asia, including Hong Kong and mainland China.
The 40KM (24+ mile) route snakes through Sai Kung and ends on Kowloon Peak.
Four Lads have already signed up for the November 15/16 event and all are welcome to join the group.
Sign up here and contact smallpotatoben or the Chinese Mad Lads community account (madlads_mcm) for any questions.
Mad murals pop up in Argentinian SEZ (Solana Economic Zone) 🎨
Solana NFT royalty adorns the walls of El Nueve (canal9oficial), one of Argentina's oldest and most popular television networks.
Solana projects featured include:
This is a promising development on the heels of the first ever Solana Economic Zone, a month long event by formacity with the goal of introducing blockchain solutions to traditional industries.
DENG! That is a cute hippo 🦛
Moo Deng fever has officially hit the cryptoverse.
The pygmy hippopotamus was born a few months ago and turned into a viral sensation on the back of TikTok.
It wasn't long before a memecoin, $MOODENG, was spun up on pumpdotfun and quickly climbed to a $100M+ market cap.
$MOODENG is the perfect example of how an IRL meme can transform into one of the hottest memecoins ever.
Culture starts offchain.
g(sv)m to all the real ones 🐮
In case you missed it, eclipseFND has a mascot and his name is turbo.
Over the last several decades the IRL world has watched mascot culture shrink from peak popularity in the 1970s to barely tolerable insurance sales tools.
Crypto brands have brought them roaring back to meta.
Discover more about Eclipse in Backpack's 'What is Eclipse SVM?' Learn article.
Collect the SOON Pioneers Test Badge with Backpack Wallet 💻
Currently, Backpack Wallet is the only crypto wallet that works with soon_svm.
With SOON, we aim to be the most efficient rollup while reducing costs & raising performance by 10X in every eco, relative to the highest performing EVM, complimented by a culture friendly towards non-Solana devs.
Heat Seeker'ing missiles 📱
solanamobile announced their secrecy veiled 'product' at TOKEN2049.
The Seeker is the first "definitive web3 mobile device" which offers a smooth interactive crypto environment while not compromising on the cell phone hardware performance that consumers have become accustomed to.
This means easier to use crypto apps with a better camera, battery life and storage capabilities.
Interested in getting closer to the Seeker community? Check out SagaMobileDAO.
Wormhole is the interoperability platform 🌉
Wormhole has been working towards a seamless interchain bridge for several years and the latest (and by far greatest) iteration is on portalbridge.
Portal currently offers token bridges between 17 different blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Base, Sui and many other blue chip chains.
Wormhole is by far the most prolific interoperability champion.
Solana Villa brimming with top builders 🏝️
IslandDAO has made it's home on Koh Samui, a small stretch of land in the South Eastern gulf of Thailand.
The coworking space is called Villa Solana (seriously, look it up on Google Maps) with a capacity for 100 builders at a time.
The islandDAO_DL team has received more than 600 applications to attend the month-long event with several hundred confirmed attendees.
therealchaseeb joined the mix and has already influenced the local flora and fauna to adopt the blockchain.
Extended length hacker houses and coworking spaces have become a hallmark of the Solana, something that has been embraced by the leading builders in the ecosystem.
They provide a casual location to collaborate on professional projects while also being able to cut loose outside of the office.
Some of the sponsors were first born during similar events:
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