SHILL Issue 25

#SHILL 

SOLANA NFT/DEFI/TWITTER COMMUNITY 

GOONEY TOONS 

Move over NFT gaming make way for 

storyline NFTs 

DEFAULT BLOCKCHAIN 

Wait, what? Where are we going in 

the space? 

OPENSOL DAO 

Eth has $SOS, Solana...welcome 

$HELP 

ISSUE #25 

0.025 ◎ 

TONGUE TIED 

Up and coming mint using mouths as 

the muse.

McNatt 

THIS 

In 

ISSUE 

25

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From 

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the Editor 

FINAL issue for 2021. Wise 

words or ramblings? 

Gooney TOONS 

What better way to 

launch your NFT than 

with a backstory! 

18 GAMING & DEFI Is this the future of 42 

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Beginner Investor 

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@RabeehK tells it as it 

is as a newcomer to the 

crypto space. 

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23 hoping 

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blockchain? Which chain 

can achieve this? 

PROBABLY NOTHING 

Dropping, holding and 

OPENSOL DAO 

Ethereum has $SOS and 

now a Solana project is 

developing $HELP 

SHILL the Mint 

Dropping, holding and 

hoping 

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SOLANALYSIS 

7D Volume rankings 

MOVERS 

SolsWatch analysis of 

current NFTs on market. 

TONGUE TIED 

Interview with an up and 

coming NFT project worth 

keeping your eye on. 

ALPHA Mints 

Keep an eye out for this artist! 

URS ARTISTS ROYAL GANG 

The one-of-one mints you 

wish you had ALPHA about! 

NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE 

Sam Bankman-Fried reflects in 

crypto as a broader market. 

DESK DUDES 

Insight into the birth of an 

NFT. 

CRYPTOLIZERS 

Interview with fully doxxed 

Gage about his ‘living’ project.

the 

from 

EDITOR 

@Pixeltoy 

Here we are. The final issue if #Shill zine. For. The. Year. 2021! 

2022 here we come! Markets are about to pick up through January, 

onboarding new, unsuspecting traders ready to turn their hard earned $ 

into $$$. Come February - REKT! Never invest more than you are willing 

to lose. Golden rule. 

Issue 25, and what better way to see the year out than with a SUPER 

BUMPER issue. Over 70 pages! You don’t want to know the hours that I 

put into this issue! Hopefully, you - reader think that it is worthwhile. Over 

1900 weekly readers you would think that this zine IS doing something 

right? 

HUGE issue with too much to mention. I will mention one artist though 

that, although I don’t own a piece (gold class NFTs) I have the utmost 

respect for this person. As an artist, As an entity. As a sage. @Dat_a_ 

bstract who recently I had the pleasure of listening to on Twitter Spaces. 

Databstract is not about keeping the knowledge in one place, they are 

about sharing it with the broader community. A true sage. It was during 

this Spaces that he spoke some true wisdom. Wisdom that, I am sure 

if I asked them to repeat it would be hard to recall but it was captured. 

Recorded. Typeset. To you Databstract goes the final cover for 2021! 

Would love to chill and drink a Hibiki one day in your company. 

I had a quick glance over at https://www.solanalysis.com/upcoming 

while researching content for this issue. All I can say is ‘OMG’. The only 

way these mints can be supported is if the Solana ecosystem grows. 

Exponentially. Hold on to your Sol, people are going to get REKT! 

#Shill zine is looking for artists/projects that would like to support this 

zine with giveaways for our readers. If you would be willing I would love 

to hear from you: pixeltoy.sol@gmail.com #Shill zine also appreciates 

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every RETWEET of the pinned Tweet on @Pixeltoy profile. No joining 

Discord. No tagging your friends. Just RETWEET. Roadmap for 2022 

is to have 5k readership by end of year. 5k readers weekly. Shill 

readership is at 1900+ right now. Why not 5k? 

Ok, now go read! Enjoy. And remember, there is no COMMNITY 

without U! 

Pixeltoy 

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https://gooneytoons.studio/comic

Continued in the next 

issue of 

#Shill

A BEGINNING CRYPTO INVESTOR: 

THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS. 

@RabeehK 

Lesson: HODL! 

Where do I begin… I guess I’ll start from the beginning. A few years back, enjoying a 

cigarette outside of my workplace during lunchbreak, I’d often hear from @Pixeltoy 

about the rise of cryptocurrencies. The benefits and the infinite opportunities to make 

money by trading said currencies. At first I was apprehensive, sceptical, and often 

questioned my friend trying to unearth any rational reason not to invest my hard-earned 

money. That is of course, until he showed me his earnings and his well-established 

portfolio. 

You see, I like to take good care of my money. I began by investing 30 dollars across 

three of the major cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin, Ethereum and of course, Solana. Not bad 

for someone who once thought “hodl” was a misspelt word of hold. I purchased an 

incredibly small portion of all three currencies. My returns were paltry, disheartening 

and filled my head with dejection and despondency. I pressed on and continued to 

invest money. 

A couple months have passed since and I now own a total of 8 coins. Riding a roller 

coaster of emotions each day that passes. Waking up to gains upwards of 30 percent, 

only to lose 25 in a matter of hours. Often enraged, I’d message @Pixeltoy complaining, 

infuriated at the prospect of losing my hard-earned money. To which he constantly 

refers me to his charts. This would ease my frustration, if only a little. My journey 

continues…2 months in and I feel as though I am beginning to make some incredible 

gains. My advice #frens is rather simple. HODL! And no, this is not a spelling error! 

Lesson: Patience 

It’s safe to say that patience has never been one of my stronger attributes. Nothing 

has changed there. Cryptos are like that ex-partner who you keep going back to. The 

sex is great but every so often she treats you poorly. Doesn’t cook, doesn’t clean, just 

lays in the bed until you have your way with him/her. The constant shift between the 

highs and lows wearing heavy on your mental state. Waking up in the morning after 

a substandard purchase the night before, leaving me with agonising feelings of guilt 

and buyers’ remorse. 

Two hours pass and that guilt slowly changing to feelings of glee and content. These 

feelings of course, are very short lived. Watching the charts spike only to plummet a 

mere hour later. Feeling like Mike Tyson in his prime, I’d love nothing more than to bite 

the ears off all my coins. Teach them a lesson, you know… either rise or get out of my 

life. 

Once again, I found myself seeking advice from my friend better known as the “pixeltoy” 

at my workplace. The author of this magazine. I sought out his expertise in ways to 

remain calm during a strong dip. He reassured me, as usual, that it is all a part of the 

process and again showed me his charts and his very successful portfolio. Feeling a 

little better, and admittedly jealous, the upwards trajectory of my earliest coins began 

to show. My patience starting to pay off. Literally. As I write this now, a strong dip is 

among us. Time to buy. Remain patient. Reap the benefits. Repeat! 


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blockchain 

GAMING 

DEFI 

cryptogamingexperts 

Let’s start off with a disclaimer: the future will be multichain and 

crosschain with many winners, losers, and strange participants who 

just stick around. 

Today we’ll be making the case that Solana, an emerging Layer 1 

blockchain, is quickly being chosen as the “default” blockchain when 

it comes to multichain and large-scale cryptocurrency projects. 

Let’s Be Brave with DeFi 

The first example of Solana being chosen as a default came at their 

recent Breakpoint conference in Portugal, where javascript creator 

and Brave browser CEO Brendan Eich announced that Brave would be 

using Solana as the “default” for DeFi in the Brave Wallet. 

You can read more about their relationship on the Brave partners with 

Solana article on Brave.com. Our important takeaway from that article 

includes the following: “Brave will integrate the Solana blockchain 

into the Brave browser, providing default Solana ecosystem support 

to Brave’s 42 million monthly active users and 1.3 million verified 

Creators. Brave will soon default to Solana for cross-chain and 

Solana native DApps.” 

Let’s Be Social Globally 

for 

If the news about Brave isn’t enough to sell you on Solana’s 

upcoming default status, let’s have a chat about another upcoming 

market sector, web3 social media. This user-first, decentralized and 

permissionless dream social platform is being built out by many 

small and large development teams. What those teams need to scale 

include funding and a platform to scale on. Solana can be a perfect 

platform for web3 social, especially compared to other blockchains 

with smart contracts, due to very affordable transaction fees (under 1 

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penny USD), and a goal to make 

them cheaper over time. No one 

would want to pay a even $1 

transaction fee when tipping a 

friend $0.50 in crypto for a good 

social post, or perhaps paying 

to share, or any other social 

mechanic at scale with crypto 

pretty much falls apart when you 

look at high transaction fees. 

This is likely one of the main 

reasons Reddit cofounder Alexis 

Alohan has picked Solana for his 

web3 Social media $50 million 

investment. That investment 

was matched by Raj Gokal, 

cofounder of Solana, via the 

Solana Ventures fund, bringing 

the investment in social web3 

on Solana to an impressive 

$100 million. 

“Solana fees are $0.00025 per 

transaction, but they fluctuate 

over time. The fees are set by 

the competition for block-space, 

which increases when the traffic 

on the blockchain increases. 

Compared to Ethereum, Solana 

has 60 thousand times lower 

fees. This is because of the 

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high scalability of Solana compared to Ethereum. As Solana keeps 

scaling better, the fees will decrease even more in the future.” – 

Solberg Invest 

We have even already seen Solana based web3 social apps being 

tested in the wild, such as sosol – https://sosol.app/ (pictured 

below) It will be a very exciting space to watch and you can’t help 

but imagine what reddit would have been like it karma points had 

a cryptocurrency behind them at the birth of the platform. Lots of 

interesting questions and propositions develop when intertwining 

incentive-based content creation or moderation, or voting/sorting 

in reddit’s case. 

Let Us Game 

Our last point resides in a market and venue we know well, gaming! 

I love video games of all types, from my first Atari, to the NES, to 

the Playstation, Dreamcast, Gamecube, then Xbox, PS3, and PC 

gaming throughout many of those console eras. Now we have the 

new VR and AR gaming, as well as our favorite, blockchain gaming. 

One of the misconceptions gamers have about blockchain gaming 

is that it is simply a way for game companies to milk more money 

out of them via crypto. While we can’t promise this won’t happen, 

and likely it will at times, we want to stress that will only be a small 

portion of the capability of blockchain and cryptocurrency gaming. 

As an example, play to earn games like Axie Infinity have shown to 

be profitable for many thousands of players, especially at a global 

level of economic incentive and return. Axie Infinity had scaling 

issues though, and had to quickly (and likely at high cost) develop 

and migrate users to a Ronin sidechain L2 off their native Ethereum. 

With Solana, games that integrate NFTs, or pay out in cryptocurrency 

tokens can perform at acceptable speeds, at an acceptable network 

cost (fees called “gas” or “rent” in blockchains) First we look at the 

speed of transaction from blockchain to user wallet, and we can 

see that Solana has some serious advantages compared to other 

leading blockchain technology. With under 1 second transaction 

time, an average of about .4 second transaction latency, as well as 

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transactions per second (TPS) 

of over 65k, Solana can deliver 

in-game rewards without waiting 

up to 5 minutes for confirmation 

(Ethereum) or even up to 2 min 

for layer 2 solutions (Polkadot), 

or up 10 minutes (Cardano, 

Bitcoin) Anything over a few 

seconds from transaction start 

to confirmation finality will be 

a horrible user experience and 

interrupt the engagement and 

focus of the game. Why with 

web3 and new technology would 

we want to reintroduce loading 

screens and waiting times? 

Seems backwards and we think 

the user will demand more, and 

gravitate towards those games 

with better user experiences. 

Next let’s look at network fees, 

referred too as “gas fees” on 

Ethereum and other blockchains, 

and called “rent” on Solana. 

Network fees on blockchains 

range from $0.0015 (Solana) to 

$0.01 (Binance Smart Chain) to 

$0.25 (Cardano) to $1 (Polkadot) 

to $15 (Ethereum) Obviously 

fees over $1 make many 

transactions of micropayments 

and microrewards unfeasable. 

I would even arge that even 

pennies per transaction, such 

as Cardano, Polkadot, and 

Avalanche, are limiting to global 

adoption of any ingame economy. 

If you’re getting paid pennies or 

$0.25 for an in-game action, how 

would it make sense to pay $.25 

or $1 fees? Or even $0.01 could 

be a limiting factor if the payment 

is only $0.05, which could be 

the case in some economies 

of scale. These factors explain 

why Solana Ventures, Forte, 

Griffin are investing $150 

million in blockchain gaming. 

In addition, we’re seeing games 

like Aurory and Star Atlas, using 

SPL tokens (cryptocurrencies 

on Solana blockchain) gaining 

huge amounts of community 

funding via NFT projects as well 

as outside investors. Some may 

say they have chosen Solana 

as the future default blockchain 

for cryptocurrency integrated 

gaming. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXcqIYflv8 


andon 

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PROBABLY 

NOTHING 

TOP TVL GROWTH ON #SOLANA 

@solana_daily 

Last 7D, @Aldrin_Exchange has taken the 

lead with 28% growth in terms of TVL of 

the Solana ecosystem. This phenomenon is 

contributed by the stable pool on Aldrin which 

provides up to 25% APR! What a reward for a 

stable pool! 


@OpenSolDAO 

OpenSol 

DAO 

We got the $SOS and $HELP is on the way! Inspired by @The_ 

OpenDAO 

OpenSol will be a 100% community driven DAO with a fair distribution. 

We have a developer team donating their time and resources to build 

a claim site that will distribute tokens based on trading volume on all 

major Solana NFT exchanges including, @MagicEden_NFT, 

@SolanartNFT, @AlphaArtMarket @DigitalEyesNFT and @holaplex. 

The team will have zero stake in the $HELP token. The primary 

goal will be to launch fairly and then set-up initial DAO governance 

elections in 1-2 weeks post launch. The goals of the OpenSol DAO 

will be determined by the DAO, but the original focus will be on safety 

in cryptocurrency and NFTs as well as supporting emerging artists. 

We will seek council from the biggest names and organizations in 

the Solana NFT space to help craft a group that’s primary focus 

is improving the quality and safety of the Solana ecosystem. To 

start, the OpenSol DAO will function with a group of volunteers until 

elections will be held. 

The tokenomics are listed in the discord listed below. 

$HELP Tokenomics 

100 Trillion Total supply 

HELP Token Distribution 

• Airdrop based on volume traded on all major Solana NFT exchanges 

50%. 

• Liquidity 10% 

• Staking rewards 15% 

• OpenSolDAO initial funding 25% 

OpenSol DAO 

-DAO will vote on all major initiatives which promote safety and 

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support for the Solana NFT community. 

-Support verified victims of scams and rugs 

-Promote education for safety in cryptocurrency and NFTs 

-Support for emerging 1/1 artists 

-Collaboration with NFT communities 

-Grants for developers that integrate the $HELP token into their 

ecosystem 

-General charity drives 

-A multi-signature wallet will be used to manage the DAO funds 

The initial group that is creating OpenSol and $HELP have no financial 

interest in the $HELP tokenomics. SolNet is donating the developer 

time and resources and SockDAO is helping to manage the discord, 

twitter, and rally support through the Solana community to ensure a 

smooth launch and see the community through to a DAO vote on a 

council to manage the project after token launch. A temporary DAO 

Council of 11 trusted members will be formed to see the DAO to the 

formal election. Formal DAO Council votes will be set for 1-2 weeks 

after token launch. 

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TONGUE 

tied 

SOCIETY 

I am really excited for this issues interview. A new project launching soon 

with fantastic artwork! I won’t take @AllyGrounds thunder away so… 

welcome @tonguetiedsociety. Let’s start with a little about you as an artist 

and nft creator. 

Thank you so much for having us! I am based in NYC and have been a painter 

for about 7 years. I’m 23, and really started my painting career when I was 

in high school. I’ve never really taken the traditional art path, as I started so 

young that most of the time, I haven’t really known what I was doing while 

doing it. When I discovered NFTs and the opportunity it provides artists, I 

was immediately drawn to them. 

What bothers me about the traditional art world is that artists don’t get 

properly compensated for their talent and work. In splitting 50% of their 

profits with galleries, it becomes incredibly difficult for artists to make 

a living. NFTs give artists agency back, allowing them to take control of 

their own careers. They are not only able to keep all the profits for their 

work, they’re also able to make a royalty on secondary sales. I also think 

it’s incredible that artists can now connect directly with their collectors and 

people interested in their work, eliminating any sort of middleman. 

I’m interested in how you came up with the concept. Tongue Tied Society. 

Have you created lore for this project? 

I have painted 

mouths for quite a 

while. It does seem a 

bit strange, but really 

mouths are the most 

powerful part of 

one’s body. Mouths 

are where human 

expression comes 

from, and how we 

communicate. It’s 

how we express 

love, and for me it 

represents what it 

means to be alive. 

Our society is a 

place for creatives, 

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innovators, and people who break boundaries - it’s a place where one goes 

to feel truly alive. The Tongue Tied Society and the artwork on the cards 

represent all that makes us human, and in being human, we sometimes get 

tongue tied. This also ties into the legend we created behind the artwork. 

What do you see as your biggest accomplishment so far? Considering the 

project’s presence began in November on Twitter. 

I think that our biggest accomplishment is just being able to grow to this 

size and have the opportunity to connect with such incredible people. Our 

Discord is full of insanely talented members who choose to come and 

share their story with our community. It’s a daily occurrence that you’ll see 

someone sharing their career goals and accomplishments and asking for 

advice in our chat. 

We feel super lucky to be in a place where our members feel supported, 

safe, and open with us. While we aren’t a project that has tens of thousands 

of members on Discord and Twitter, we make up for it in the strength of our 

community ties. We do plan to keep growing and building our community 

as we get closer to launch but are keenly focused on maintaining a healthy 

and happy community. 

Now that we have the foundation of our community, we are looking forward 

to launching our website and announcing our official mint date soon! 

The Lit Jesus project has a team of artists working on their artwork that is 

then scanned to create NFT. You are working on a project of 5200. How are 

you able to hand paint this volume? 

In this collection, there are actually 100 unique, hand painted layers. It’s a 

generative project so the artwork is algorithmically layered to make 5,200 

one-of-a-kind cards. 

The developer on our team 

has created a program to build 

these unique cards based on 

the rarities of each layer that 

I assigned. Each of the layers 

were painted over the course 

of my career, along with many 

painted in the last few months, 

so a ton of time went in to paint it 

all. Many of the layers come from 

my large-scale oil paintings, so 

their original size can be around 

5ft (1.5m) tall, and other layers 

come from smaller paintings 

that I created specifically for this 

project. 


This project is incredible to me because it creates so much variety on pieces 

that I have painted and loved over the course of my painting career so far. 

Seeing two pieces layered together that I never imagined would be together 

really changes your perspective on the amount of creative freedom you can 

have! 

BTW, we are inspired by the Lit Jesus team and have actually gotten to be 

friends since we announced the Tongue Tied Society! 

What’s your long-term vision for the community on Discord which currently 

stands at 6000 members? 

Our long-term vision for our Discord community is to become one of the 

foremost places for art enthusiasts and collectors in the digital world to 

congregate and meet one another. The ultimate goal of our community is 

to become like a Web3 Soho House, where our members feel at home and 

inspired within our digital Discord home and at our in-person events. 

We also plan to 

highlight other female 

NFT artists within our 

platforms and hope 

to source new artists 

from our community 

members. This means 

that we’ll be creating 

channels for new 

artists to share their 

work, their process, 

their vision and ask for 

advice and feedback. 

As I’ve broken into the 

NFT space, especially 

as a female artist on 

Solana, I haven’t been 

able to easily find a 

place like this. Where 

I would be able to 

learn, ask questions, 

and find collectors 

for my art. I want our 

community to be this 

space for new artists 

in the future who want 

to learn about NFTs! 

Do the Tongue Tied 

Society NFT’s allow for 

future expansion? Can 

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you let us in on where the roadmap may be heading? 

We’d love to do another collection after we launch the TTS collection in the 

future! Our team’s current priority, though, is ensuring that the launch of this 

first collection goes smoothly. Once we launch, we’ll be able to plan more 

accurately what’s next ;) 

Roadmap wise, we’re planning to make prints of the NFTs available for 

holders post mint. We’re also working on planning some awesome events 

for our holders to meet in person! 

Apart from this, will there be ‘utility’ for the TTS NFT range? What could this 

look like? 

The utility of the Tongue Tied Society project lies in community. Here are 

some of the major benefits that we are building out for holders and our 

community: 

- Physical artworks: We will be making physical prints of your 

unique NFT available to order 

- Exclusive Tongue Tied Society Events: We will be hosting 

exclusive members-only events in major cities where Tongue 

Tied Society members will be able to meet one another in 

person! Your NFT will be your key to access these events 

- The Tongue Tied Society Female Fund: We will be using a 

portion of our mint to support other female founded projects 

on Solana and sourcing leads from our community 

- Exclusive Partnerships: We are working to partner with other 

projects to offer our members special access to collaborations 

and more. We are also working to collaborate on special 1/1s 

with other popular projects 

Thanks for your time. I am sure SHILL readers are going to love your 

project. Is there something I may have missed that you would like to add? 

Any concluding thoughts regarding the NFT space at large? 

Our founding team is overall excited to be able to participate in this space 

in any small way. We are highly encouraged by some of the recent interest 

in Solana from investors across the space and are looking forward to the 

future growth of this market. We hope that this project can encourage other 

types of traditional artists to branch out into NFTs and generative works. 

We also are working to bring traditional art collectors into the NFT space 

with this crossover collection. Thank you so much for taking the time to 

interview us! 


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original is an animated gif 

@Official_JamesJ

@digitize_ai

@0xlxxr

@DOMOSOL_NFT

@xxalfsyr

@fingacode

NOT 

investment 

ADVICE 

SBF @SBF_FTX 

I’ve written a bunch about FTX’s roadmap. But I haven’t written 

much about crypto’s. So, here goes. 

So: what do I think crypto _should_ do, as an industry? Well, 

let’s look at where we are, and at where we want to be. 

What crypto already has: 

a) A solid userbase. There are probably ~200m crypto users 

worldwide. 

b) Smart contracts. I think it’s hard to overstate how important 

this was for the space: it’s what brought crypto from digital 

gold, to web3/metaverse/defi/etc. 

c) potential use cases: remittances, payments, store of value, 

NFTs in the metaverse, information transfer, social media, 

tokenized assets, disintermediated finance, etc. d) the start to 

scaling solutions: new L1s, L2s, lightning, rollups, etc.; tx/sec 

is now ~50k 

e) An enormous amount of attention. Seriously, crypto 

punches _way_ above its weight on this one. Crypto market 

cap is ~2.5T, less than Apple or Microsoft. Which gets more 

attention, though? 

So, overall things have been going well the last few years. 

What’s still missing? 

Well, let’s start with the obvious: regulation. There has been a 

lot of tension between industry and regulators, and both sides 

have, in many cases, left feeling frustrated. 

On the one hand, it’s not clear what the process is for 

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token issuance, platform 

registration, and stablecoins 

in many jurisdictions. This 

makes is hard for the industry 

to move forward as securely, 

and hard for institutional 

players to get involved. 

On the other hand, many 

regulators have found it 

very difficult working with 

crypto companies: instead of 

working collaboratively, we’ve 

seen a ton of examples of 

tension boiling over. 

What else? Well, blockchains 

are starting to scale, but 

it’s not enough yet. We’re at 

~50k TPS; industrial scale 

applications often require 

millions. And, while digital 

assets hold huge promise for 

payments, in practice very few 

are done with them today. 

So, how do we get there from 

here? As we close down the 

most explosive year in crypto’s 

history and look forward to 

2022, what does the industry 

need to focus on, and get 

right? 

Let’s start with regulation. 

The biggest thing here is to 

work collaboratively on ways 

to address current regulatory 

gaps while allowing liquidity 

to move onshore -- to the 

US, and to Europe, and other 

jurisdictions. 

Stablecoins are maybe the 

most straightforward: create 

a reporting/transparency/ 

auditing based framework to 

ensure they are backed as they 

say they are: https://ftxpolicy. 

com/stablecoins This would 

solve 80% of the problems 

while allowing stablecoins to 

thrive onshore. 

It’s important, while doing 

so, to make sure that an 

open network can grow; if 

the network is restricted to 

existing banks, it defeats 

most of the purpose. 

Second, there should be 

standard markets oversight, 

in a unified regime that 

creates similar standards for 

spot, futures, etc. And third, 

a disclosure, registration, 

and anti-fraud-based regime 

for token issuances. https:// 

ftxpolicy.com/areas-forcrypto-regulation… 

The goal of all of this is to 

come out stronger. To emerge 

with customer protection and 

regulatory clarity in a way that 

consumers and institutions 

alike feel comfortable 

interfacing with the digital 

asset ecosystem. 


And I’m optimistic that we might get there in the next few 

years; that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. How about 

use cases? Well, the biggest blockers are network effects: for 

crypto payments to work well, both the buyer and seller need 

to support it. 

This means slow, hard work; building out the network until it 

approaches transition points where enough merchants and 

consumers use crypto that payments and remittances start 

flowing. And, similarly for blockchain based social media and 

information flow. 

Tapping into the existing userbase of video games could be 

huge--billions of users and hundreds of billions of dollars each 

year. But this only makes sense if it makes the virtual worlds 

more engaging, not less. 

The real goal, here, is to take a great game, and integrate NFTs 

in a way that makes the game better. And, meanwhile, networks 

need to keep scaling. I always laugh when a blockchain says 

they’re already fast. None are! Fast means millions of TPS. No 

one is there yet. 

What matters the most is having a concrete roadmap to scale 

to millions of TPS and executing well on it. So, there are some 

concrete things that the crypto ecosystem needs to manage 

well over the next year. But more generally, everything matters. 

I may write more on this later, but one of the core theses I’ve 

come to believe over the last few years is: Everything is the 

same; everything is commensurable. If you want to grow trust 

in the industry, regulation matters. But so does UI/UX; and each 

scam detracts. 

Every time we can do something great and beautiful and useful 

as an industry, we move everyone forward. Every time we fuck 

up, we all take a step back. 

Let’s keep putting one foot in front of the other. 

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CRYPTOLIZERS 

Welcome to #Shill zine. To begin with, 

let’s find out a little about you Gage. How 

did you come to the blockchain space 

and the Solana ecosystem? 

One of my close friends is a slack 

channel with a few people who were 

hardcore lovers of solana. At the time 

I was primarily on eth and polygon 

networks. My friend convinced me to 

try solana for the ignition hackathon 

they hosted and honestly, I never looked 

back. It felt stupid of me to be paying 

200$ a transaction on eth when it’s a 

franction of a cent on solana. Even the 

5$+ fees on polygon seem like a joke in 

comparison, and anyone into NFTs tends 

to understand the possibilities once they 

get cheap instant transactions for the 

first time. 

Your concept for your NFT offering is a 

novel one. NFTs that can have any audio 

from your computer and make them 

come alive. Can you tell us a little about 

this idea and how it works? 

Of course! Once I saw solana rolling out 

nft support for html based nfts I realized 

nfts had just hit their 2.0 moment. If an 

nft can be a standalone html file it means 

it no longer has to be an un-interactive 

piece of art! Meaning instead of just 

looking at a photo I could actually PLAY 

with an nft and have it be interactive. 

Like an nft that's a full blown video 

game for example. Because gamedev is 

seriously hard, I decided to have a toneddown 

version of interactivity for my first 

collection. Audio visualizers seemed to 

be the obvious choice when I considered 

my own passions. 

Once you buy a cryptolizer(as the mint 

is already over). You can play any sound 

THROUGH it. The nft itself processes 

that audio into visualizations. This is all 

done via html, css, javascript. That code 

is baked together into one standalone 

html file and minted onchain. 

Gage, you have taken a bold step 

with doxing yourself early on. Is this 

a personal belief you have given the 

current trends across NFT projects? 

(lots of rugs, soft rugs, NFT projects that 

fail to deliver etc) 

Honestly the crypto space can be 

dangerous at times. I used to be a full 

time streamer on twitch under the alias 

abrownbag (now gagebachik there too). 

It basically came down to two things. 

The fact I was already doxxed from my 

time playing video games professionally 

and the fact I always planned on making 

cool ass shit. 

I figured people would appreciate 

projects made by someone they could 

talk to and interact with. Someone they 

could potentially meet up irl with and 

not just see behind an anime profile pic 

(which I also have nothing against btw). 

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Your Youtube video, the latest one, 

guides the minter through creating 

their #Cryptolizer. Have you found that 

the Cryptolizer community are picking 

the concept up and running with it? 

What are some of the ‘wow’ moments 

you had during the first creations 

made by minters? 

cryptopunks. They now sell for millions 

of dollars but when they launched, 

they were completely free. Since I 

feel I’m doing something similar with 

cryptolizers (first ever dynamic nft set 

or nft2.0s) I decided to follow suite and 

make the entire first mint free. 

I found that my project was extremely 

hard to explain to people since there’s 

never been anything like it in the nft 

space on ANY blockchain really. It took 

lots of education for people to have 

their… OH SHIT moment. I’d highly 

recommend taking 6mins of your day 

to watch this video: #Cryptolizers NFT 

Tutorial 

I recorded that video live on stream and 

that’s when most of my community 

started to realize just how cool these 

NFTs are. 

Let’s talk about roadmap. Where do 

you see Cryptolizers going? What 

are some future developments the 

community can look forward to? 

Right now, cryptolizers are pretty 

exclusive. There’s only been 100 ever 

minted! I’d like to future of the project 

to be collabs with musicians and 

artists to bring even cooler versions 

of these visualizations. I would also 

like to do a public mint. All of this will 

depend on the hype we can generate 

as a community. I hope as people start 

to take note of these, I’ll be able to get 

them in the hands of more people. 

I’d like to touch on a statement you 

published on the Cryptolizers website 

“I'm going to take a play out of the 

original nft and make them all free.” 

Can you elaborate on the reasoning 

behind this? 

One of the biggest and original 

nft collections was obviously 

Because honestly, just as I imagine 

cryptopunks back in the day, I wanted 

people to have them! I figured once 

they could use and see how awesome 

they are they’d become believers. Then 

more people would follow suite for 

a public mint. (so far everyone who’s 

minted is quite excited for the future of 

cryptolizers. I’ve never seen my discord 

more active lmao) 

Thanks for your interview today with 

#Shill zine. I look forward to where 

Cryptolizers takes us. 

Thanks for having me

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