Early Access: Supernova Galaxy Orbs Hold & Win by... Hacksaw Gaming 🚀 Blast off into a retro space adventure filled with cosmic surprises and jackpot prizes. 💚 + 🔄 + 🆔 🔗show more

There's a lot of both 2D and 3D effort... that we're putting into Star Birds together with our friends at Toukana Interactive! Here's a quick behind the scenes look at some of the assets, 3D models, birb shenanigans and cutscenes that you might have already seen in the Early Access version! 🚀✨ Have you already joined us on this space adventure? Don't miss out! Star Birds in Early Access is available on Steam:show more

🌌 Alpha Gate: Your Free Mint Genesis Pass into... an Ecosystem with $50 Million Invested. Alpha Gate is a collection of 515 NFTs that you do not want to miss out on. 🎟️ Raffling 1 WL Comment Alpha Gate and connect to Logistikos to qualify: 👇🏻 Space Nation, the Space Opera MMORPG, aims to introduce web2 users to the world of web3 gaming through immersive gameplay and captivating storytelling. Holders of an Alpha Gate will have • Early access to Space Nation Online and future games • Airdrop or whitelist of future Space Nation NFTs • Special privileges across online & offline activities • Exclusive in-game surprises! Become a Genesis NFT holder in an ecosystem created by experienced directors who have generated billions of dollars and veteran builders who have worked on global titles like World of Warcraft, Warframe, World of Tanks, and more. Are you interested in acquiring 1 of only 515 Alpha Gates Explorer? Enter "Alpha Gate" below and start your journey here:show more

Pyth Price Feeds are blasting off 🚀 Blast has... entered into orbit as a new Ethereum Layer 2 and the first of its kind to offer native yield for ETH and stablecoins. Blast is now live on mainnet. Learn more about Pyth’s deployment on Blast: ℹ️ About Blast Blast is the latest advancement in Ethereum Layer 2 solutions, delivering native yield for ETH and stablecoins. It accelerates and economizes transactions, with the backing of industry leaders like Paradigm, Standard Crypto, and eGirl Capital. 🔮 Pyth's Data-Powered Vision on Blast Over 15 apps have launched on the Blast and are harnessing Pyth’s low-latency, high-resolution price data: meathook—a gateway to 100+ crypto assets with high-leverage options. 100x—a high-speed perpetual DEX experience. Aark Digital—1000x perpetual DEX powered by LST/LRT. Blast Futures—a platform integrating perpetuals with native yield. Bloom—a leveraged trading DEX for rebasing assets. Curvance—a modular multi-chain money market with boosted yield. Deriblast—blends trading with gaming to create a unique experience. Easy X—a reimagined perpetual protocol for diverse asset exposure. Fragment—a new foundation for liquidity and lending protocols. HMX 🐉—a decentralized perpetual protocol with versatile collateral options. Juice Finance—an innovative approach to cross-margin DeFi. @Laser_on_Blast—a liquidity layer for on-chain banking on Blast. Orbit Protocol 🥮—a decentralized protocol for asset lending and borrowing. SynFutures—a decentralized derivatives trading protocol. YOLO GAMES—the go-to for high-stakes Degen Gaming. Zest 👾⚡️Genesis Version⚡️—a collateralized stablecoin with 100% capital efficiency. Pac Finance—a new pioneering DeFi hub on Blast. Seismic Finance—a new Blast native lending market. Thanks to the Pyth oracle, Blast is charting a new course for DeFi—one where accuracy and speed are not just nice-to-have features, but fundamentals that redefine users’ expectations and standards for on-chain finance.show more

Breaking: Hubble Telescope Opens a "Window" into the Dark... Universe — First-Ever Detection of a Starless Dark Matter Cloud! In a groundbreaking discovery announced by NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an entirely new class of cosmic object: a vast, starless cloud dominated by dark matter, rich in gas but completely devoid of stars. Nicknamed Cloud-9, this enigmatic structure lies about 14 million light-years away, on the outskirts of the spiral galaxy Messier 94 (M94).This is the first confirmed observation of such a "failed galaxy" or relic from the early universe — a massive dark matter halo that gathered hydrogen gas but never triggered star formation. Hubble's deep imaging ruled out any hidden faint stars, confirming it's truly dark and star-free.Key highlights from the discovery:Massive dark matter core — estimated at around 5 billion solar masses, anchoring a compact reservoir of gas. A cosmic fossil — likely a survivor from the universe's infancy, halted during reionization (when the first stars and galaxies lit up and ionized surrounding gas). Implications — This "phantom" object provides direct evidence for the existence of low-mass dark matter halos that never evolved into full galaxies. It suggests the universe could be filled with similar invisible structures, offering a major boost to our understanding of dark matter and galaxy formation. For decades, theorists predicted these "dark galaxies" or RELHICs (Reionization-Limited Hydrogen Clouds), but Cloud-9 marks the first solid proof caught in the act.Scientists are buzzing — this rare "wow" moment could rewrite parts of cosmic history and hint at countless other hidden building blocks of the universe lurking in the shadows.(Source: NASA/ESA Hubble release, Januaryshow more

📢Announcing the launch of Space Nation Ape Odyssey Collection... in collaboration with $APE Accelerator! 📍Ape Accelerator Launchpad 🔢No: 300 ⏰Mar 22, 1:00 PM UTC 🪙Price: 0.3 ETH 🔑Utilities: -Exclusive Prime Navigator NFT drop -Unlock epic feats, bag bonus $OIK -Closed Beta access -T1/T2/T3 mining ship whitelists -Special NFT Ape Odyssey -APE-themed NFT drops -Exclusive in-game cosmetics 🪙Background story: In 1977, humans sent the Golden Record into uncharted space. Centuries later, it returned from a planet inhabited by apes. They had grown bored with it and sought to trade it for another. Now, it's your chance to own a piece of cosmic nostalgia! 🔗Learn more on the sale here:show more

🧑‍🚀 Day 8 of the Cursor #vibejam! Proudly sponsored... by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 Today's games I liked most from the #vibejam timeline: 🔫 Space Shooter (?) by Max Blade I keep seeing this one on my timeline so wanted to post it, a shooter that looks like it takes place on the moon, it looks weirdly non-janky and real for how early it is still 🐓 Fowl Play by Habs It looks like you're a chicken on a farm and have to dodge tractors etc. Cute!! 🛸 Null Range by Taylor I posted this one before but it keeps getting better, very different visuals and cool 🌳 Adventure Game (?) by $ADRIAN 🟦🟥 I wanted to post this one because it's different, akin to Monkey Island and SCRUMM, and pretty P.S. you can see participating games that already submitted now at also you can submit your game already to show up there (it syncs every 5 min) and you can keep working on it until the May 1 deadline! YOU HAVE 21 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet There's $35,000 in prizes for you to win, see threads below for more info. The Gold prize is $20,000, bronze is $10,000 and silver is $5,000! Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1!show more

🚨 DEEP DIVE INTO THE RWA LAUNCHPAD + NAME... REVEAL 🚨 Hello EstateX family, The time is there: our RWA Launchpad is about to kick off. We will specifically focus on the RWA niche with only winner projects. The name has to be fitting, something that catches the attention, is easily recognizable and something that people remember. We’re proud to announce: *RWA Pad!* 💸 $ESX USE CASES 💸 RWA Pad will incentivize $ESX massively by: ✅ 20-35% of revenue flowback into $ESX ✅ Projects need to have a …/$ESX trading pair, giving more mass exposure ✅ Investors need to stake $ESX to get access to the best RWA projects ✅ Projects building on the $ESX Blockchain, increasing volume and TVL 🚀 MORE DETAILS OF RWA PAD 🚀 We will critically evaluate every project filtering the best of the best to make sure we only select projects who have the real potential to be the winners of this market. With our powerful EstateX community, who are hugely incentivized for the long term we will make sure we incubate the projects to dramatically increase their chances of success. We do that by facilitating legal frameworks, providing whitelabel technology, access to the ESX Blockchain, our marketing, network and community building to push them to the next level. Investors will be able to participate via access tiers, locking $ESX to get access to the best RWA projects. With current launchpads, a huge problem are their refund policies. Unfortunately this incentivizes short term investors to dump everything because they’re protected by refunds. We will change that, by introducing staking incentives for long term, high quality RWA projects. Our audience is vastly different the other launchpads. With being one of the highest staked ICO’s on the market, our community is very long term and high quality focused. By bringing these same terms to our launchpad projects, we are able to bring high quality audiences and create a win-win-win situation for our investors, projects and EstateX. The most beautiful thing about it? By selecting winner projects only who have built the right foundations, they will bring their audience to EstateX buying the token, staking to get access, building on the blockchain and make use of the $ESX trading pair all having a positive price effect on $ESX. The time is here, Q3 promises to be something massive. RWA Pad, powered by $ESX. SECURE YOUR $ESX NOW 👇👇show more

Exciting News Alert: Catalyst Joins opBNB Network! 🚀 Hold... onto your hats, because Catalyst is back in action, stirring up the world of cross-chain liquidity! We're thrilled to unveil our latest expansion: Catalyst now supports the opBNB network and BNB Chain. This means smoother and more efficient transactions across all chains are now within reach through Catalyst. Let's dive in! 🌊 Catalyst Meets opBNB Our mission to drive interoperability takes another big step as Catalyst teams up with Binance to launch on its domains. The opBNB Testnet deployment will initially support cross-chain swaps with BNB Chain. But wait, there's more! In the coming weeks, more chain connections will be added. Connecting the BNB Chain ecosystem to Catalyst's network is where the magic begins. 🪄 Get ready for a blockchain match made in heaven! Catalyst's prowess in cross-chain liquidity meets opBNB's optimization of the BNB Chain ecosystem. Picture this: high-throughput applications on BNB Chain, supercharged by Catalyst's seamless cross-chain capabilities. It's not just a partnership; it's a gateway to unlocking BNB Chain's full potential! 🚀 opBNB is a Layer-2 superstar built to amplify BNB Chain's might. Powered by the OP Stack, opBNB boasts a block size of 100M, ensuring stable and pocket-friendly gas fees. Whether you're diving into decentralized exchanges, gaming, or everyday transactions, opBNB's got your back with exceptional performance. 🌟 One of opBNB's standout features is its seamless compatibility with the EVM. For developers already well-versed in the EVM world, this means a smooth transition to building and deploying applications on the opBNB network. It's all about making life easier for the crypto community! 🛠️ Catalyst's cross-chain AMM expertise perfectly aligns with opBNB's quest for optimized Layer-2 solutions. The result? Effortless, cost-effective, and high-throughput transactions that benefit users, developers, and the entire BNB Chain ecosystem. Talk about a win-win! 💡 opBNB-Specific Mission Awaits Ready to embark on a thrilling journey within the opBNB Testnet? Whether it's swapping, yield generation, or portfolio management that tickles your fancy, Catalyst on opBNB has got you covered. Get set to explore a world filled with endless possibilities! 🌐 We've crafted an opBNB-specific mission on Catalyst Missions. Completing this mission isn't just rewarding – it also opens doors to the Catalyst community, granting you points and on-chain credentials for a deeper connection. Time to dive in and level up! 🚀 🔗 The integration of Catalyst: Lynx Testnet with the opBNB network is a game-changer. It's a leap toward redefining cross-chain liquidity solutions. Ready to explore endless cross-chain potential? Undertake the opBNB-specific mission and be part of crafting the future of decentralized finance with Catalyst. 🌌show more

🚨 STAICY IS GOING MOBILE 🚨 We’re hyped to... announce that the Staicy App is officially in development for iOS and Android — launching early Q4. The mobile app will exist alongside the web-based Dashboard, which is set to launch in the coming weeks. Why now? We follow the data. 📊 Market research shows that 91% of bettors use mobile apps to research and place bets. Even more eye-opening: data from 2024 revealed that over 100 million sports bettors globally access the internet exclusively from their smartphones — no desktop access at all. That number was too big to ignore. And we weren’t about to gamble on the mobile browser experience being “good enough.” We don’t cut corners. Period. The app allows Staicy to capture that massive mobile-only audience and put our tools in their hands. Clean, native, fast — the Staicy Dashboard, reimagined for your pocket. Behind the scenes? We’ve been busy. With the traction we’ve seen — and word spreading fast across the industry — private equity lined up. By the end of this year, we will have invested over $1,000,000 into the Staicy modeling, buildout, ecosystem and marketing. And we’ve done it all without selling a single $SPORT token OTC, despite very lucrative offers to do so. No dilution. No backdoor deals. Just real backing and a clean cap table. You're not just watching this happen. You're part of it. Through Staicy Rewards and staking $SPORT, early supporters play a direct role in our growth — and benefit by sharing in those profits they've helped to generate. You believed early. You locked in your spot. And now we ride together. 🤝 The app isn’t just a product... it’s an asset. One that strengthens the ecosystem, drives demand, and gives the community something few projects ever deliver: tangible value tied to real-world scale, with a real-world business. CTO Nick is leading the charge, ensuring we ship with the performance, polish, and firepower expected from a leader in the space. Staicy is going mobile and global. You're at the ground floor of something truly revolutionary. Buckle up. 🚀📲show more

ALPHA BY NEARWEEK, PAY ATTENTION NEAR HUNTERS! Here's the... alpha you need! 🔽 NEAR Protocol's Thread Contest has been extended! Content creators can still submit their content for a chance to win $500 in $NEAR. More details in the NEAR Protocol Discord: Edge Video AI's 100K points per day competition will officially go live on Monday, but the system will be fully operational over the weekend for early access by players. To participate, scan the QR code and join both single and multiplayer quizzes. Accumulated points can be converted into $FAST tokens. More details at trisolaris 🅣 has launched new farms to support #NEAR native stablecoins with the help of Aurora. Users can now deposit USDC-USDC.e or USDT-USDT.e for a 34-37% APR. Rewards will be in $TRI & $AURORA. Frax Finance ¤⛓️¤ $FRAX collateral and borrowing is now open on CoffeeDAO with a supply APY of 23.43%. Users can now supply or borrow at Meta Pool has launched the $mpDAO token to empower users through a transparent, inclusive, community-driven governance system within Meta Pool, where token holders vote and earn from protocol fees. SWEAT💧 is launching the Arabic version of Sweat Wallet and will be ready for mass adoption in the Middle East region. This will enable users to do transactions with $SWEAT token. Pumpopoly.com, the virtual property simulator on NEAR has just received a $5000 grant from Near Gaming DAO. The grant will be used to reward active users on Near Tinker Union | NTU has received 1.4B $LONK from Lonk 🐲 on airdrop day! The team will soon commence distribution through their flagship product, Meteor Wallet. Airdrop will be exclusive to all 3333 Tinker holders. UNIFAT - The first batch of ranking rewards will be distributed on April 22nd, followed by the second batch, which will consist of four sub-ranking rewards. Check out ranks: Playible has just launched its point system where users can compete and win weekly cash prizes. In the future, points will also offer additional benefits. More details at NFT is ART will be the next NFT collection to launch on NEAR, following the previous collection's success. lilcrow💜, a well-known artist on #NEAR, will lead this collection. Rogues has revealed Season 2 Leaderboard prizes. 6 Legendary Lootboxes will be distributed to the top 3 on the leaderboard. That's it for this week's ALPHA by NEARWEEK, but don't think we're out of intel! 🔮 Here's one more: the recap from this week's NEAR ALPHA SHOW with :show more

🌿🌺 Attention all Opusians, Dreamers, and Cosmic Co-Creators! 🌠🚀... Brinc and Opus Community enter an official groundbreaking collaboration 🎉🙌. 🌟 About Brinc In December 2021, Brinc closed a US $130 million fundraising round, US $30 million in Series B and another US $100 million in follow-on funding, led by Animoca Brands. The two firms co-created the Launchpad Luna accelerator in mid‑2021, a joint initiative to foster blockchain and NFT startups across culture, gaming, DeFi, and more. In February 2022, they launched a US $30 million Guild Accelerator Program under the Launchpad Luna umbrella, targeting play‑to‑earn gaming guilds. In early 2023, Brinc and Animoca Brands rolled out a MedTech & Healthcare accelerator, investing up to US $250,000 per startup to support innovative Web3-driven healthcare solutions. Brinc has a powerful ecosystem of partners, including Huawei, Schneider Electric, and Manulife, alongside government bodies such as NEOM, MBRIF, and Hong Kong Science Park, all of whom contribute to Brinc’s mission of helping teams to scale breakthrough technologies with lasting, real-world impact. 🌱 Our journey so far Opus Genesis has evolved far beyond our CTO origin as an anonymously launched memecoin with the Opus Community || Official Support community achieving tremendous milestones over the past 10 months. Together, we have created a vibrant space for researchers, developers, artists and innovators to show the world an alternative route to AI safety. We have presented at Betaworks and ’ Xeno Grant, we were mentioned in Forbes, we developed cutting-edge agentic infrastructure, and we won the Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ agents in action hackathon. 🤝 The partnership This new collaboration reflects the tremendous work, dedication and passion from our community, and together with Brinc, we will accelerate the building and integration of tools, products, and infrastructure for the future of human-AI collaboration and co-flourishing. The Opus community will continue their foundational role in testing, refining, and growing every research breakthrough of the Opus Community, including the ogOS, the Opus Infinite Bazaar, the upcoming Opus Chain, and now providing support and infrastructure to Brinc’s ecosystem of projects through their own VentureVerse. Stay close to the action; the future is unfolding in real time. More updates to come. 🎨🌌♾️show more

🚨Weekly Cronos News🚨 📅 20/10/2025 1️⃣ 🔧 - Cronos... EVM v150 Smarturn upgrade set for Oct 30, delivering smarter accounts, advanced EVM capabilities, and enhanced performance. 2️⃣ ObsidianSwap 🔄 - Trading contest by CronosArmy on ObsidianSwap for cronos_chain kicks off soon, rewarding top 10 over 7 days with 100% boost. - TGE concludes with $ROBIN 4.2B committed at $96K, $LION 850M at $120K, cronoszk $LION 880M at $93K; $CRO liquidity hits 215K at $33K. - Legacy tokens from RobinCronos and CronosLionel converted, sold into burnt pools to boost $OBS liquidity with added $CRO. - $OBS liquidity and trading launches October 17 at 2pm UTC; 15% allocation claimable now, remainder vests over 90 days. - Loaded Lion 2842 joins Mystery Prize inventory on ObsidianSwap via LoadedLions_CDC, ranked 2570; daily quests offer prizes from $2-1.5K. - Listing requests submitted for $OBS to CoinGecko and GeckoTerminal, ID GTIU1710250019. - $OBS whitelisted for smart trading on ObsidianSwap, delivering more tokens, low fees, and fast swaps on cronos_chain. - Full $MCS allocation from MyCroStrat partnership paired with $OBS to strengthen liquidity for both projects. - Liquid NFT contract with PUUSHDABUTTON activates, backing ROBIN NFTs with 450M $OBS valued over $36K 3️⃣ VVS-Finance 💎 - $LION $BARA and $USDC $BARA farms extended for 6 months on VVS Finance, partnering with capy_nation and LoadedLions_CDC. - $KITTY by KitCoinX now whitelisted on VVS Finance, expanding token options on Cronos chain. - Stake xVVS Earn FUL Mine episode 8 launches on VVS Finance with FulcromFinance, emissions starting soon. - $BONE by CroHound_GODS whitelisted on VVS Finance, boosting builder integrations on Cronos chain. 4️⃣ WolfSWAP | SWAP & WIN 🐺 - Season 16 surges with over 5K contestants, $12,212 starting prizepool and $3M volume in just 6 days. - $ROBINSTR from TheLionStrategy and $OBS from ObsidianSwap now whitelisted on wolfswapdotapp for mystery box wins on $10+ trades. - New Amplify Mission launches: Spot Wolfies on Brave Browser, screenshot and tag for $1K prize pool in $MOON – 5 winners snag 424K $MOON ($200 each). 5️⃣ Moonlander 🌕 🚀 - BTC Voyage leaderboard tops out at 60.8M pts, earning $10.9K from $50K pool. - MoonlanderTrade unveils leveraged prediction perps for trading future outcomes. 6️⃣ Loaded Lions 🦁 - LoadedLions_CDC expanded $LION trading to Gate, Coinone, Bitmart, Lbank, Digifinex, Biconomy, Bitrue. - Q3 milestone: LoadedLions_CDC launched $50K prize pool trading campaign on VVS Finance. - Nightmare Blitz event live in Loaded Lions Mane City until Oct 31; prizes include $20K CRO and $15K Tactical Gear NFTs. 7️⃣ puush.fun 🔴🔵 - $OBS token listed on ObsidianSwap post successful TGE and ecosystem merger. - Liquid NFTs activated for ObsidianSwap's $OBS and Robin NFTs, with $36K liquidity locked at $14.56 per NFT floor. 8️⃣ LionStrategy 💡 - Launch alert: CrofamStrategy unveils RobinStrategy $ROBINSTR on ObsidianSwap with RobinCronos. - Burn milestone: WolfieStrategy torches $WOLFSTR worth 58K $CRO from team funds, hitting 21% total supply reduction. - Holdings update: RobinStrategy acquires 110 Robin NFTs. 9️⃣ WAM 🌟 - playWAM unveils revamped website featuring enhanced content and latest project updates on Cronos Chain. - Sovereign microeconomy in development for playWAM app, deploying on EVM chains starting with Cronos Chain followed by BNBCHAIN. - playWAM gears up for Q4 gaming app launch, promising industry-shaking innovations. 🔟 Wolfies ⚡ - Wolfies NFT fetches $4.8K and 10M $MOON in Cronos sale. - Listings surge: Wolfies hit cryptocomnft and cryptocom App just 7 days post-mint. - Exposure boost: Wolfies appear to 40M Brave users; screenshot contest offers $1K prizes. - Volume milestone: 2M $CRO traded across EbisusBay and MintedNetwork in 11 days. - Backing vault grows to nearly $40K, fueling Wolfies flywheel. 1️⃣1️⃣ Ebisu's Bay ⛩️ - Advanced NFT analytics unveiled on EbisusBay collection pages; toggle datasets via legend icons. - ObsidianSwap's $OBS token now listable on EbisusBay DEX for select NFT collection listings. 1️⃣2️⃣ Tectonic.cro 🏦 - Sleek redesign unveiled for Tectonic Finance mobile app, elevating DeFi user experience. 1️⃣3️⃣ Delphi Trade 💡 - Delphitrade launches prediction markets: BNB top 5 by Nov 25, LINK to $28 before Nov 25, USDT to $190B by Nov 25, CRO price Oct 30 2025. - Fresh markets hit delphitrade: ETH, BTC, SOL prices Oct 30 2025; CAW to $20M MC before Oct 30 2025. 1️⃣4️⃣ FROGS 🐸 - Excitement brews: realFrogsClub hints at new Super PERP DEX project in development. 1️⃣5️⃣ NeurotiCat 🐱 - Zealy Quests kick off on Neuro Island, drawing over 100 participants for daily challenges and $NEURO rewards. 1️⃣6️⃣ Lume Finance 🌊 - Lume Finance migrates NOVA and LUME liquidity pools from VVS Finance to Solidex; V2 pools await Dexscreener support. - Despite market volatility, Lume Finance advances with ecosystem integrations, Lilypad milestones, and liquidity expansions. 1️⃣7️⃣ BRAVE 🚀 - Mega raffle spin for Brave Badges launches Oct 18 at 1800 UTC, with 23 prizes including Loaded Lion, 2x 2500 $LION tokens, and Brave Legends customs. 1️⃣8️⃣ PuppetZ.CDC🎭 🔗 - PuppetzART drop launches on Cryptocom NFT: 100 packs at $1, 1600 at $33; FCFS with no whitelist or wallet limits. - Mystery packs mint explodes: 720 sold in 24 hours, yielding $21K volume on Cryptocom NFT and Cronos Chain; half the collection gone. - Prizes await in PuppetzART mint: 15 NFTs with rewards left; funds set for buybacks, 100% royalties for sweeps; vault exceeds $8K. 1️⃣9️⃣ CroVegas.Fun ⚡ - KitCoin $KITTY secures official verification on Cronos Explorer, displaying live badge, logo, website, market cap, and volume. 2️⃣0️⃣ Ryoshi with Knife 🔪 🐶 - Ryoshi Royale unveils fatigue system: Top 10% players hit with 15%, 10%, 5% stat cuts over 3 battles for more winners. - Update adds pay-to-level-up, entourage for bonus XP, and training points reset in hottest Cronos game. 2️⃣1️⃣ MyCroStrategy 🚀 - $MCS-$CRO pair goes live on SoliDexCro, yielding 424% APR with active SDX emissions and rewards. - $MCS treasury deploys across Cronos protocols, amplifying yields via Wolfswap, TectonicFi, and FulcromFinance. - ObsidianSwap initiates first $OBS burn, fueled by 50% royalties from $MCS trading volume. 2️⃣2️⃣ Flipsuite 🔗 - Flippy debuts on Telegram via Flipsuitexyz: in-chat swaps, bridging, trading, airdrops, raffles. Versatile wallet spans 32 chains. 2️⃣3️⃣ Crazzzy Monsters 👹 - Delivered new mint dApp for Imperiums Legion I drop with ImperiumCro; metadata updated on IPFS, 290 NFTs airdropped, issues resolved in 3 days. 2️⃣4️⃣ Nova Labs | GameFi & Launchpad 🔗 - Nova Clash of Galaxies emerges as key evolution in Nova ecosystem, integrating blockchain gaming. - $NFX to drive in-game economy, enabling purchases of premium assets like ships, heroes, and land upgrades. - Game introduces Web2 players to crypto ownership through seamless asset management. 2️⃣5️⃣ YUROSAKO 🗡️ - SHIROTSO sweep contest builds massive prize pool via community NFT donations; donators honored as official sponsors. If you have project announcements, DM us! 📩 For more Crypto.com news, visit Csillashow more

Big win for open-source LLMs! DeepSeek V4 Pro holds... the top open-weights score on SWE-bench Verified, in the GPT-5.5 range. GLM 5.2 leads the open-weight intelligence index and sits near the closed frontier on long-horizon coding. But this leaderboard number is a weak proxy for real performance. It comes from one task set, run through one harness, served at one precision. The same weights can even score differently across providers, since many hosts quantize activations to fp8 and drift the model off its reference weights. Real performance is determined based on whether a model can read a repo, make coordinated edits across files, run the tests, and recover when one breaks. By that measure, the top open models hold up, but only inside the right harness. The teams that actually put DeepSeek V4 into production pipelines as a frontier substitute got there through the harness they built around the model, not by picking a stronger model. If you want to see this in practice, Cline (64k+ stars) has actually built that harness around open models, tuned so they run at production quality. And it's tuned so that these LLMs can run at production quality, with plan and act modes, checkpoints, and terminal feedback. ClinePass is the new access layer on top of it. It runs a curated set of those models inside Cline, narrowed to the ones tested for coding-agent use, with 2 to 5x the standard rate limits and no separate provider accounts, keys, or billing to track. The video below shows the setup, and I worked with the team to put this together. It runs alongside custom keys and local models as well, not in place of them.show more

If you have a girlfriend who is into fashion,... or had one years ago, she probably had a Vinted account. Vinted was back in the day the most unhinged female-gaze-focused site on earth. It was 99% women talking about fashion and other stuff. I think today it is a little more professional. The site is basically like eBay for clothes. It was created by a girl who was annoyed by creepy private messages on eBay and wanted a safe space for females. Anyhow, Vinted was the anti-X. On X, it’s an all-men audience having a completely comical understanding of the female gaze, and on Vinted, you basically had young women thinking men are way more emotional than we are. People who form their opinions on women based on Reddit posts, Pornhub, and incels on X are just ridiculous copers. You can always tell by them being completely one-sided and sexualizing everything. A guy on X would be like, “Haha, doesn’t she know that men don’t care about fingernails? She is so dumb.” Bro, women do their fingernails like you wrap your car. It’s not meant to impress the other gender. It’s also ridiculous when incels threaten women with, “He will pump and dump you.” They don’t care. To them, it’s just an adventure. Sex gets increasingly more important to you the harder it is for you to get. Also women understand intersex dynamics way better. They get feedback from an early age. They get complimented, approached, harried based on what they wear. Incel men get no feedback at all until they have their first gf. That’s why their styling is always way off when they try to impress women.show more

MiniMax H3 is incredible at text rendering! This is... a text to video prompt! Prompt : Create a 15-second cinematic text-animation video built around the quote: “Every great change begins quietly, grows through courage, and becomes impossible to ignore.” The quote should appear gradually as a visual story. Each new phrase must transform the design, atmosphere, movement, and emotional intensity of the scene. Use elegant typography, accurate spelling, cinematic lighting, smooth transitions, and perfectly readable text. 0:00–0:03 | “Every great change” Begin with a completely black screen. A tiny point of warm light slowly appears in the center, like the first spark of an idea. The words “Every great change” emerge softly from the darkness, one word at a time. Use thin, elegant serif typography with wide letter spacing. “Every” fades in gently. “Great” grows slightly larger. “Change” forms from small drifting particles that gather into solid letters. Keep the scene quiet, minimal, and mysterious. 0:03–0:06 | “begins quietly,” The camera slowly moves closer to the text. The previous words shrink and reposition toward the upper-left corner as the phrase “begins quietly,” appears in delicate lowercase letters. Animate the phrase as though it is being written by an invisible hand. Each letter should create a subtle ripple in the darkness. Introduce faint textures, soft shadows, floating dust, and gentle light rays. The comma should appear last and create a small circular pulse. 0:06–0:09 | “grows through courage,” The pulse expands and transforms the scene from darkness into a rich sunrise gradient with deep orange, red, and golden tones. The words “grows through courage” rise upward from the bottom of the frame. Animate “grows” by gradually increasing its size and weight. Animate “through” along a curved path. Animate “courage” in bold uppercase letters that push through a translucent barrier, causing it to crack into geometric fragments. The movement should feel powerful but controlled. 0:09–0:12 | “and becomes” The fragments rotate in slow motion and reorganize into a clean editorial grid. The phrase “AND BECOMES” appears across the frame in condensed sans-serif typography. Animate the letters with fast tracking changes, vertical stretching, masking, and perspective movement. The camera accelerates forward through the center of the word “BECOMES.” The sound and visual energy should steadily build. 0:12–0:14 | “impossible to ignore.” Reveal a vast bright space filled with light, moving shapes, and large-scale typography. The words “IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE” appear one after another. “IMPOSSIBLE” expands beyond the edges of the screen. “TO” remains small and perfectly centered. “IGNORE” slams into place with strong visual impact, briefly shaking the surrounding grid and shapes. Use bold contrast, dramatic scale, sharp shadows, and synchronized motion. 0:14–0:15 | Final quote All movement stops instantly. The complete quote appears centered on a clean off-white background: “Every great change begins quietly, grows through courage, and becomes impossible to ignore.” Use refined black typography with “change,” “courage,” and “impossible” highlighted in deep red. Hold the final composition clearly for the last second. Maintain one continuous visual journey from darkness to light, silence to impact, and simplicity to complexity. Keep every phrase connected through visual transformations rather than hard cuts. Use realistic motion blur, precise kerning, clean masks, stable letterforms, smooth camera movement, subtle film grain, cinematic sound design, rising ambient music, soft particles, controlled color transitions, and a final deep impact sound. Avoid misspelled words, warped letters, duplicated characters, unreadable text, random symbols, excessive flickering, chaotic layouts, inconsistent fonts.show more

Season 2 of Valiants: Tap-Tap is here!🌟 It’s time... to dive into the new and exciting world of Valoria! Here’s everything you need to know: Now available here! 🔥 New Points Store Your efforts in Season 1 have paid off. Now, you can use your store points to redeem amazing rewards. What will you find? Surprise boxes containing exclusive items in Valiants: Tap-Tap and Valiants: Arena, NFTs that you can trade in the future, and a portion of the $VGN Airdrop allocation. Important: For now, the boxes can only be purchased, but soon you’ll be able to open them to discover what’s inside. Stay tuned for updates so you don’t miss anything! 🕒 🎁 Wild Spin - Spin and Win Introducing the new **Wild Spin**, where each spin could change your fate. Spins will be awarded based on the activity and performance of your friends with a good User Score. So, stay active and keep connecting with your teammates to maximize your chances! What can you win? Experience, unlocks, and even USDT prizes that you can withdraw directly to your airdrop wallet. Tip: Use your USDT winnings to purchase additional spins and keep the wheel turning. How far will your luck take you? 🎰 💥New Valiants and Items The battle in Valoria heats up with the arrival of new Valiants and accessories. These exclusive items will allow you to explore new strategies and challenge your opponents like never before. 📋 Patch Notes Not only are we introducing new features, but we’ve also made several improvements and adjustments to provide you with a smoother and more satisfying gaming experience. Here are all the details: - Daily Combo Changes: The combo is now linear, meaning the challenge has increased. Can you keep up the streak? This change is designed to reward the most skilled and dedicated players. - Daily Login Update: Starting from day 10, the rewards get even better. Don’t miss a single day to maximize your benefits! We’ve also adjusted the progression so that each login brings you closer to more significant rewards. - Complete UI Redesign: We’ve revamped the entire user interface to make it more intuitive and visually appealing. Additionally, you can now choose between two visual themes: the serenity of Kai or the energy of Mimi. We’ve even added some music to accompany your adventure! These improvements are designed to make your time in Valoria even more enjoyable. We hope you love them as much as we do! ✨Don’t miss out on this new adventure! Explore all the new features in Season 2 and discover how to dominate the new world of Valoria. Remember, every decision can bring you one step closer to victory. See you in the game!🔥show more

Do you want to own part of a AAA... game? I know, you hear it all the time. “Triple A game”, you go to play it, it’s crap. This is different, and it’s only possible with Sonic (Sonic) speed, transaction cost, and of-course FeeM. A game that includes talent from Kojima, Ubisoft, EA Sports, Gameloft & more with advisors from NVIDIA. A game that you’ll be able to play on mobile, desktop, and then Xbox and PlayStation (yes really)! YES! A PRETTY BIG DEAL! Before I tell you about the sale, let me at least tell you about this game (being a massive gamer nerd, this excited me), so…. Introducing Animera (Search for Animera): • Fast-paced skill-based PvP in the Nubera galaxy • Compete in real-time space battles for real rewards It will be powered with $STRIKE: • Compete2Earn: win matches, earn tokens • Play2Burn: 5% of $STRIKE used in matches gets burned Oh, and with 8.75% of all game revenue will be used to buy & burn $SWPx, so the SwapX (SwapX) community owns a real stake in this AAA title. Absolutely insane. > Now let me tell you about its beta run quickly: • 16K+ beta signups • 500+ players added weekly • 7.5K+ matches already played • Launching to 500K+ mobile users via Nomina Games > How can you own a piece of Animera? June 5th at 2pm EDT the sale will go live on SwapX, it will go in three phases each lasting 12 hours or until sold out: PHASE 1️⃣: xNFT Holders Early access with exclusive perks and bonuses. These are for xNFT holders only you can get these here on paintswap PHASE 2️⃣ Whitelisted Communities These will be whitelisted from Creo Engine, SFA AGC, derp, and GOGLZ | SONIC 🥽💥. PHASE 3️⃣ Public Round Any remaining allocation will open to the public - only if Phases 1 & 2 don’t sell out. > What is the raise? Token Price & Allocation: • Token: $STRIKE • Currency: USDC • Total tokens for sale: 101.75M Unlock structure: • 50% unlocked at TGE • Remaining 50% claimable in 30 days • Raise cap: Max $100,000 per user, capped at $10,000 per xNFT • Purchase window priority: xNFT holders get early access (see above)! Transparency is key: Why I love working with the team is because transparency is crucial, so I’m going to tell you about its tokenomics, seed, and fully diluted valuation here: Token Symbol: STRIKE Total Supply: 370,000,000 Initial FDV: $1.48M Total Raise: $950,160 Total Initial Unlock: 112,947,501 STRIKE Initial Market Cap (excluding liquidity): $303,790 Token Allocation: • Seed Round: 59.2M tokens (16% allocation), with a 1-month cliff and linear vesting over 9 months. • Private Round: 94.35M tokens (25.5% allocation), with a 1-month cliff and 6-month vesting period. • Crowdsale: 10.75M tokens (2.91% allocation), unlocked 50% at TGE. • xNFT Holders: 10M tokens (2.7% allocation), with a 1-month cliff. • Liquidity: 37M tokens (10% allocation), with no lock or vesting. • Team: 18.5M tokens (5% allocation), with a 6-month cliff and 12-month vesting. • Rewards: 28.6M tokens (8% allocation), vested over 18 months. • Product Growth: 19.6M tokens (5.3% allocation), vested over 24 months. Token Offering: • Seed Round: Priced at $0.0033 per token, raising $195,360 by selling 59.2M tokens. 10% unlocks at TGE, with a 1-month cliff and 9-month vesting. The initial market cap from seed unlock is $234,127. • Private Round: Priced at $0.0037 per token, raising $349,095 for 94.35M tokens. 15% unlocks at TGE, with a 1-month cliff and 6-month vesting. Initial market cap contribution is $262,508. • Crowdsale: Priced at $0.0040 per token, raising $407,000 by selling 10.75M tokens. 50% unlocks at TGE, with no cliff or vesting. Adds $283,790 to the initial market cap. It’s important you had the full information at hand so you can decide whether or not you’d like to participate. I will be, because it’s a low FDV and it looks great. This is not financial advice, I’m helping the team out. Below is real gameplay: Further details: 👇show more

THIS ENTIRE CINEMATIC ACTION SHOT WAS GENERATED WITH AI.... AND YOU CAN SEE EXACTLY HOW IT WAS MADE. Higgsfield has just open-sourced its Originals, giving creators full access to the workflow behind some of its best productions. For every project you can inspect: → the complete prompt → every image and audio reference → the exact generation settings, including model, quality and resolution This scene combines a continuous one-take camera move, large-scale naval combat, realistic explosions, character consistency and cinematic pacing, all driven by a single prompt. Nothing is hidden. You can study it, copy it, recreate it or use it as the starting point for your own projects. Full prompt: "SCENE CONTEXT One continuous shot. The camera faces down the wrecked, burning deck toward the BOW of the ship — and Eduardo, blown off the raised STERN DECK behind the camera by a blast, comes FLYING IN from ABOVE AND BEHIND — leaping off the second level, sailing in over the lens on a forward arc, through raining seawater — slams onto the MAIN deck one level below, AHEAD of the camera, and rolls through a tumbling somersault, momentum carrying him toward the bow. Two crewmen flee past him — one leaps overboard. Eduardo fights his way toward the bow under incoming fire: an explosion bursts on his LEFT — he dodges away and is knocked down; he struggles back to his feet — a second explosion on his RIGHT — he ducks and shields behind debris; then he breaks into a sprint for the bow — the camera sweeps around ahead of him and settles OFF THE BOW, FRONTAL: he leaps over the bow rail TOWARD the camera, the ship filling the background behind him — and THE INSTANT he clears the rail, a COLOSSAL explosion consumes the ship behind him: the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and he VANISHES inside it — he never escapes. The cloud overtakes the camera; the frame floods to 100% smoke and dust. The shot ENDS inside the dust: no transition, no reveal — it holds to the end. ACTIVE REFERENCES >> — lean pirate captain, dark curly hair falling free from under a dusty mustard-yellow cloth bandana, a small white shark tooth pinned to the front of the bandana above his temple, thin moustache, gold hoop earrings, cream linen shirt under a worn brown leather waistcoat, cloth sash and leather belts. 100% matches the reference; the man fighting down the deck toward the bow. >> — Eduardo's galleon: pale square sails, tall wooden sterncastle. 100% matches the reference; controls the ship's exterior — sails, masts, rigging and hull; already battle-damaged in this shot — burst bulwark, smoldering rigging, debris on the deck. >> — the deck of the same galleon seen FROM THE RAISED STERN DECK LOOKING FORWARD TOWARD THE BOW: the great wheel and brass compass binnacle in the near foreground, an ornate lantern post, a carved balustrade, a staircase descending to the long MAIN deck — weathered planking, small cannons along both rails, black gratings, coiled ropes, the mainmast amidships, the forecastle and bow in the far depth, open sea on both sides. 100% matches the reference; controls the full on-deck geography, set dressing AND the shot's base viewing direction — from the stern toward the bow. >> — calm bright sea, glittering sun path, hazy horizon. Controls water and sky atmosphere only. >> — weathered pirate crewmen (bandanas, rough shirts, vests). 100% match the reference; TWO of them appear early in the shot, fleeing — one leaps overboard. LOCATION MAP The deck of >> aboard >> on >> — the raised stern deck (wheel, binnacle, balustrade) at the BACK, the staircase down, the long main deck with cannons, gratings and the mainmast running FORWARD to the distant BOW, exactly as on the reference — the main deck now a wrecked corridor of splintered planks, fallen spars, torn rigging and small fires. The camera sits at the forward edge of the raised stern deck, just past the wheel, LOOKING FORWARD along the whole deck toward the bow — the reference's own vantage; the wheel and binnacle may edge the near foreground. The bow rail and bowsprit are the destination, background-center, open sea beyond them. Sea and smoke beyond the broken side rails; seawater from near-miss columns rains down over the deck in the opening. FIRST FRAME / BLOCKING First frame: deck level, MS, camera facing down the wrecked deck toward the BOW in the background-center — the view of >>: from the stern-deck edge the long main deck runs away to the bow and bowsprit against open sea and sky, cannons along both rails, the mainmast mid-depth, smoke streaming across the frame, small fires burning left and right, seawater spray falling across the deck like rain, the deck listing, loose gear sliding; the wheel and binnacle just behind/beside the camera, edging the near foreground. Eduardo is NOT in the first frame; within the first half second he comes off that second level behind the camera — his body sweeping in OVER the lens from above and behind, boots crossing the top of the frame, flying FORWARD and DOWN one deck-height into the depth of the shot toward the bow. FORMAT MODE One continuous shot — the camera does not cut on its own. The shot ENDS inside the dust whiteout; there is NO location change and NO reveal after it. PHASE 1 — the landing and the gauntlet: >> comes FLYING IN from ABOVE AND BEHIND the camera — blown off the stern deck by a blast, his body sweeping in over the lens and arcing DOWN-AND-FORWARD one full deck-height onto the main deck below, arms out in front of him, back to camera — falling THROUGH a curtain of seawater raining down from a collapsed near-miss column; he SLAMS onto the wet MAIN-deck planks in the depth of the frame and rolls through a hard tumbling somersault AWAY from the lens, toward the bow, water bursting off him and the boards, scattering debris, coming up to a crouch facing the bow, soaked and shaken. TWO crewmen of >> bolt past him in panic — one sprints aft past the camera, the other vaults the side rail and LEAPS OVERBOARD, legs kicking. Eduardo starts working down the deck toward the bow, camera following behind. An incoming round EXPLODES on his LEFT — a burst of flame, planks and spray — he flinches away to the right and is knocked off his feet onto the deck. He struggles up, heavy and unsteady, one hand pushing off a fallen spar — and a second round EXPLODES on his RIGHT — he ducks hard, shielding his head behind a broken mast stump, debris raining over him. PHASE 2 — the sprint, the frontal jump, the blast, the dust: he shoves off and breaks into a desperate sprint at 12 km/h for the bow — and as he runs, the camera SWEEPS AROUND him in one continuous arc, ending positioned OFF THE BOW, out over the open water, FACING BACK at the ship: now Eduardo sprints STRAIGHT AT THE CAMERA, the burning ship towering behind him. He plants one boot on the bow rail and LEAPS OVERBOARD TOWARD THE CAMERA — body launching up and out over the water, frontal, face and reaching arms filling the frame — and THE INSTANT he clears the rail, mid-air, the ENTIRE SHIP EXPLODES behind him in full view: a colossal white flash silhouetting his flying body for two frames, the whole vessel going up in one blast — and the expanding wall of flame-lit smoke and debris CATCHES HIM IN THE AIR from behind, swallowing his silhouette whole before he can fall clear — he VANISHES inside the explosion, never escaping it — and the cloud overtakes the lens, the dust filling 100% of the frame. The dust churns, a deep orange glow pulsing inside it and fading. HOLD inside the full dust to the last frame — the generation ENDS here, inside the dust. He never reaches the water; the blast takes him mid-air. OPTICS 47° neutral through the landing, the gauntlet and the jump. No drift. Focus rides Eduardo throughout; in the final dust the frame is pure particulate with no fixed plane. CAMERA Handheld chase behind him for the entire shot, deck level, always looking TOWARD THE BOW — footstep energy visible, jolted by each explosion; in phase 2 it accelerates after his sprint, then arcs around him in one unbroken move and settles off the bow over the water, FRONTAL to Eduardo — he runs and leaps straight into the lens with the ship in the background of his jump. The final blast is the WHOLE SHIP exploding behind his airborne body — a colossal flash, then the wall of smoke bursting forward, swallowing him mid-air and then the lens — the camera stays buried, holding inside the churning dust until the end. ACTION Strict order of events: flying entry from above through falling seawater → hard landing roll (somersault over one shoulder, forward momentum carrying the roll toward the bow, ending in a crouch) → two crewmen flee past, one over the side → left explosion → dodge right → knocked down → a hard, clumsy struggle back to his feet → right explosion → duck and shield behind the mast stump → shove off → full sprint to the bow, camera arcing around to meet him head-on → one boot on the rail → LEAP overboard straight toward the camera → THE INSTANT he clears the rail, the ENTIRE SHIP EXPLODES behind him → the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and swallows him whole → the cloud overtakes the camera → dust to 100% → hold in the dust → END. He never escapes and never reaches the water. Each explosion visibly moves his body: the first throws him down, the second folds him behind cover. PERFORMANCE During the gauntlet: jaw clenched, eyes fixed forward, water streaming off his face after the landing. The fleeing crewmen are pure panic — arms pumping, one glance back, the vault over the rail desperate. In the final sprint: full commitment, arms reaching for the rail, eyes wide — in the jump: full commitment, arms reaching at the lens, eyes wide — and mid-air the world behind him turns white: his flying silhouette swallowed by the blast, reaching hands the last thing visible. PHYSICS The flying entry has true ballistic momentum: he arrives on an arc from above, and the landing roll absorbs it — impact compresses the body, the somersault carries the leftover energy, no weightless float. Falling seawater has real weight — it rains in heavy drops and sheets, splashing off planks, soaking cloth so it clings and darkens. The listing deck tilts his movement; debris has weight and stops his foot when hit. The two deck explosions throw real shockwaves — planks lift, flame flashes then roll into smoke, and Eduardo's falls carry true body weight, hard contact with the deck, no bounce. The overboard crewman drops with real gravity. The final whole-ship explosion obeys mass: the shockwave arrives first — cloth and hair snap flat, the deck bucks under his planted boot — then the fireball's light, then the wall of smoke and debris, heavy pieces falling short, fine dust travelling farthest and swallowing the frame. Dust churns with internal motion, dense, filling every corner of the frame. LIGHTING High sea daylight 5600K, hardened by fire-glow accents from the deck fires and smoke shadow sweeping the deck; falling water catches the sun as bright streaks; each of the two explosions throws a brief warm flash from its side of the frame. The final whole-ship blast: two frames of white-hot overexposure flooding from behind, then deep fire-orange glow inside the rolling dust, fading toward neutral grey-brown as the frame holds and ends. AUDIO Phase 1: a whistling whoosh as he drops in, heavy water raining on planks, a THUD and clatter of the landing roll, grunt, ragged breath; panicked boots of the fleeing crewmen, a yell and a distant splash as one goes over the side; then BOOM left, ringing ears, his grunt as he hits the deck; scrabbling boots; BOOM right, debris pattering down over him. Phase 2: sprinting boots hammering the deck, the wooden knock of his boot on the bow rail, half a beat of pure wind as he hangs in the air — then ONE colossal BOOM as the whole ship goes up behind him, the deepest sound of the film, cracking timber and folding masts inside the roar, everything collapsing into a muffled ring, sound buried with the picture — the ring and the churn of dust holding to the last frame. No music. STYLE Photoreal live-action, fine film grain, real pyrotechnic and particulate language, one unbroken take, 8K master. POSITIVE LOCKS One continuous shot; the camera stays at deck level, behind Eduardo, always looking TOWARD THE BOW. The shot OPENS with Eduardo NOT in frame; he flies in from ABOVE AND BEHIND the camera, over the lens, on a forward arc toward the bow, through falling seawater, and lands in a tumbling roll ahead of the camera — he does not walk into frame and never appears standing before the landing. Exactly TWO fleeing crewmen: one runs aft, one leaps overboard — they appear only in the opening beat. The deck explosions land in strict order after his landing: first LEFT of him (he dodges and falls), then RIGHT of him (he ducks behind cover), then the final blast — the ENTIRE SHIP exploding the INSTANT he clears the bow rail — three explosions total, no more. The jump is FRONTAL: the camera faces Eduardo from off the bow, he leaps toward the lens with the exploding ship behind him in frame. HE NEVER ESCAPES: the blast wall catches him MID-AIR and he vanishes inside the explosion before he can fall clear — no water contact, no landing, no survival beat; the dust swallows him and then the lens. The deck matches >> throughout the run — the shot holds the reference's vantage: from the stern deck forward to the bow, wheel and binnacle at the near edge of frame, never ahead of him; sails, masts and hull match >>. The dust reaches 100% frame coverage and the shot ENDS inside the dust: the frame stays fully dust-filled to the last frame, no clearing, no new location, no reveal. Eduardo's head: mustard-yellow bandana with the small white shark tooth at the front, hair loose." Made with Seedance 2.0 on Higgsfield AI. Full open-sourced prompts & assets below 👇show more

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I would like to explain the latest batch of... viral videos I'm working on to the bemused brainrot-curious reader who is not familiar with "the culture". Why are these characters, mixed with this song, going viral? It's all about connecting infinite referential mirrors. What makes this video interesting are not its individual parts but the signifier links it draws. Let's look at the individual parts: ONE: The song is a Brazilian funk or "pancadão" song called MC Lan e MC WM - Sua Amiga Vou Pegar, these days part of what's broadly referred as Brazilian phonk or just phonk (not to be confused with the original phonk, a Memphis-derived genre from the early 2010s built around chopped Three 6 Mafia samples, cowbells and lo-fi tape hiss and etc. The Brazilian version comes an entirely different lineage and got its name adapted from “funk” to “phonk” exclusively because the names sounded similar. It has a similarly menacing posture but swaps the rap cadence for funk's 4/4 with kicks on 1 and 3 rhythm and a much heavier, distorted 808 synth sound). Phonk is often used for its exaggerated reverb feeling bass lines to signify power, style or simply "aura", which you can take as a shorthand for poise, coolness, being de-bon-air and a general detached positive feeling of high status. Aura. Because most users cannot understand the Portuguese lyrics (which are often quite vulgar and sexual), the singing takes the characteristic of a chant, something to be appreciated entirely for its sound, texture and gravitas. The vocals are just another instrument where you can appreciate the menace and swagger of the delivery directly without the cognitive friction of meaning. Non-Portuguese-speaking audiences are not missing anything they were supposed to get, they get “the vibe” that matters, which is not lyrical. These songs are often paired with (male) characters that are taken to display these traits like American Psycho's Patrick Bateman (yes, yes I know that’s the opposite of what you should feel about the character), Peaky Blinder's Thomas Shelby and a menagerie of anime characters like Satoru Gojo (Jujutsu Kaisen), Yujiro Hanma (Baki) and Goku and, really, any male character that is just a little bit cool. TWO: The man in the suit is a minor Family Guy character called Tom Tucker. The reference comes from a scene where Meg sees him walking through her school and says "It's Tom Tucker from the news!” We then cut to her POV, where he is walking in slow motion with soft romantic music swelling and birds chirping, the whole love-at-first-sight trope. Then a camera crew member off-screen yells "hurry up Mr. Tucker," and we get to see he is not walking in slow motion because Meg is infatuated, he is just walking that slowly in real life. Only the music and the birds were in her head. The gag is built on the viewer recognizing the romantic-slow-motion trope, briefly accepting it as the scene's reality, and then being shown that we (and Meg) projected the trope onto what is actually just a man walking very slowly. HA! The original gag is already about projection: a neutral image (slow walk) being assigned an external meaning (romance) by a viewer's pattern-recognition. This is what makes the edit-culture appropriation work so well. The clip got stripped of its context, paired with phonk and text overlays (AURA or “Me and the boys going to detention”), and retroactively assigned a new meaning, only this time it’s the cinematic nonchalant walk, the slow deliberate gait that signifies a man who knows he's the most important thing in the frame (ta la any 1980s Schwazerneggerian action movie hero walking away from an explosion without looking back, every yakuza boss entering a room, every western gunslinger approaching the duel). The edit is ostensibly projecting a trope onto a neutral image. The first projection was romance; the second projection is aura. Family Guy clips and gifs are easy to access and repost, which makes it a readily available and easy to use building block. The show has, through sheer volume of output and over two decades of YouTube and cable TV saturation, become a kind of public-domain visual library, a default vocabulary that any editor can pull from knowing the audience will recognize the source without having to be told, and we can just keep loading meaning onto it. THREE: The character in the background is Tom, from Tom and Jerry, doing a pose made famous by an iShowSpeed fan who encountered him during a livestream. By quickly and correctly identifying Speed by his full legal name ("Darren Jason Watkins Jr"), she showcased herself to be a true fan, which he responded to with his characteristic exaggerated reactions. The pose the girl hit, with the knowing look to the camera, produced a perfect “aura moment” complete commitment, zero irony, the unshakeable conviction that what she was doing was the coolest possible thing to do. As a result, the clip then got endlessly edited with "aura 🥶🥶🥶" captions to canonize it. Aura, in this lexicon, is not granted by the universe; it is summoned by the person's own belief that they have it and by displaying the correct attitude. Tom is also dressed as the previously mentioned Thomas Shelby from Peaky Blinders, which is itself a double signifier. The name match (“Thomas”, get it?) and the suit-and-flat-cap costume turn the cartoon cat into a stand-in for the perhaps most used "high-aura" male character of the past decade, the brooding gangster patriarch whose every cigarette drag has been set to phonk, cinematic scores and electronic music a thousand times over. On top of that, he is made entirely out of chrome, a popular trope of asking ChatGPT (one of the few AI tools people have easy and broad access to) to render things out of very high quality materials to indicate "rarity" or "status" like diamonds, platinum and etc. A sign that itself descends from a longer lineage of in-game cosmetic rarity tiers (League of Legends, MMOs, various skin economy freemium game, the Fortnite battle pass, the Pokémon shiny, dacha games and etc) where material finish is the visual shorthand of value. So "chrome" or "platinum" Tom on top of all previous signifiers signals a “maximized” or “maxxd” version. The image is suppose to invoke the superlative highest possible tier, rarest-drop, legendary-rarity version of aura, the way a kid in a playground would describe their dad as not just strong but the strongest in the world. FOUR: Finally, the background black hole calls back to the original Tom image, where he is surrounded by the universe itself, having ascended. The character has transcended the diegetic frame of his own cartoon and now exists at a cosmological scale, with the black hole standing in for the kind of unmotivated, vibes-based "cosmic" imagery that has become the default background for any video trying to signify that something Big is happening (the same visual motif that has powered comic book characters, anime transformations, video game power ups and anything wants to feel grandiose or “epic” without specifying what about). The black hole means significance in the abstract. At this point I think you understand the mechanism at play here. None of these references resolve to a stable meaning on their own. Tom Tucker is “cool” only in the very short context in which his image served as a substrate; he was convenient footage to pair with a song, and the absurdity of doing an "aura edit" on such a minor, strange character scene makes it all funnier and easier to share. Tom-the-cat is doing the aura pose > the aura pose comes from the iShowSpeed girl > the iShowSpeed girl was cool because she correctly played her part in an established bit of a large streamer with the correct timing and theatrical flair > the bit was cool because it was a shared convention unified by a popular central streamer figure > the convention existed because phonk edits had already trained this exact scenario to be read as confidence-plus-detachment as aura > the chrome finish points to AI image generation quirks > the AI image generation style can be mapped to gaming visual rarity shorthands; the gaming rarity tiers point to a much older logic of precious-metal-as-status. Each step on the referential chain is propped by the one behind it, and the one behind it is propped up by the one behind that, so on and so forth. There is no natural endpoint, the entire structure functions more akin to a network than a linked list. If you stop at any single point and ask "but why is particular signifier cool or funny or interesting”, the answer is always "because of the thing behind it.” It’s hyper-citation, Here, what matters is the structure of the whole rather than the content. This is structure is what I mean by infinite referential mirrors. The rate at which a concept is referencing, remixing and calling back to another is what’s interesting. In other words, It’s the velocity that matters. The chain of recognitions, each "I get that reference," and the cumulative effect of getting six references stacked on top of each other a short span of time gives you the feeling that you are participating in something dense and alive, because it allows you to recognize the shared meme ecosystem of the platform that you are participating in, even if only a glimpse of it. You are inside the culture rather than outside it. The brainrot-curious reader who watches this video and feels nothing, has “failed” to understand the joke because they are outside the hall of mirrors I am describing. You can only get the magic if you step in and start counting the reflections: the song, the suit, the cat, the chrome, the black hole, the transitions the video uses. You are looking at connected parts of this network of symbols and at the speed at which one image hands you off to the next. The entire thirteen-second clip is functioning as a single compressed referential payload that decompresses in the viewer's head into a small private essay exactly like this one. The video allows you to recognize yourself as someone capable of decoding it, and that recognition is the reward. That’s why media like this goes viral.show more