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Namik

πŸ‘€ Speaker
403 total appearances

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Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

We capped the nine hundred ninety nine mil because we didn't think it was fair to buy a unicorn valve and from like from the from mega.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

And yeah, it ended up, you know, oversubscribing by like 25x or something.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Obviously, you know, Bitcoin was not at 70k.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

And yeah, that's basically been the thesis.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

The thesis has been for better or for worse that we don't necessarily think airdrops make sense.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

We think that like, if the potential users want to be owners, they can be owners.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

And we basically gave them access and we try to have price discovery be accessible to, you know, participants who aren't just VCs.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Yeah, let's see how it pans out when the time comes.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

But we do think that, I mean, I'd personally rather have like 10,000, 15,000 crypto users as an investor base.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

They love crypto.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

They understand why this industry needs to exist, as opposed to like a couple of big VCs that are great, but it's just like two free people.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Less momentum, I'd say.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Reddit did something similar, actually, with their mods.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Power users of Reddit were able to invest in the pre-IPO for Reddit, but maybe we should get rid of that one.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Securities laws, whatever.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

We're in different phone booths.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

So we're working on it.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Bingo, bingo.

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

I think the goal is apps, right?

Bankless
MegaETH Mainnet is Live! β€” The Next Era of Ethereum Scaling

Like we want to get some of these apps live and we want people using some of these apps and seeing what's special.