Day 319 of trying to be a responsible adult and fix my sleep schedule. Went to bed at 11:30, thinking today was the day. Woke up at 1:30 AM and walked 3k steps around my room at 4 in the morning. 🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️

I respect very few teams the way I respect the lords and saviours at @jito_sol They’ve done so much to drive Solana forward and continue to drop initiatives that make Solana objectively better.

The ONLY app I use daily on @base → @avantisfi All the new features fit like puzzle pieces making Avantis one of the most euphoric trading experiences. → ZFP: Trade high-lev with zero open/borrow fees. Only pay on profit → Flashblocks: Made Base v fast, nearly matching HL performance → New smart wallet: Keep custody while trading seamlessly (no tx popups) Quite possibly going to be a rocket ship from here.

$275k in rewards every 14 days. That's $7.1M in rewards every year. For the next 20 years. All thanks to @initia's VIP. Highly inspired by Curve's gauge but instead of liquidity pools, VIP rewards organic usage of the Interwoven Rollups on Initia. Here's a breakdown of how it works: 1️⃣ The Gauge Vote. Every 2 weeks, there's a vote. Anyone with voting power votes for rollups listed on VIP. At the end of the cycle, 80% of the pool is distributed proportionally to votes received. 2️⃣ How to acquire voting power? Simple: stake INIT. Either vanilla staking or in an INIT/USDC LP through Enshrined Liquidity. Every staked INIT = voting power. Want more influence? Lock your staked position! The longer you lock, the more your influence. 3️⃣ The bribing games 🌶️ @CabalVIP makes it spicier: rollups can bribe Cabal's collective voting power to boost their VIP rewards!! The bribes are passed on to Cabal depositors every cycle (pretty sweet APYs so far) 4️⃣ The reward pool 80% of the pool is decided on votes. The other 20%? INIT TVL! This portion is allocated based on INIT TVL on rollups. The more INIT a rollup houses, the more rewards for their users. This encourages the rollups to build productive and interesting use-cases focused on INIT. 5️⃣ Your slice of the pie Now you know how rollups get their allocation. But how do individual users get paid? Each rollup decides this themselves. VIP allocates the rollups to tokens, but it's up to each rollup to design their scoring system and reward the right actions. Here's how it works: 1. Rollups post their scoring criteria on the Initia forum. 2. At cycle end, they assign each user a score based on that criteria. 3. Your rewards = (your score ÷ total rollup scores) × rollup's allocation Example: If you score 100 points and the rollup issued 1,000 total points, you get 10% of whatever that rollup received from the 275k pool. This means each rollup has a firehose of incentives through VIP but it's on them to use this wisely and incentivise what's best for their app & users. 6️⃣ How do users get paid? All VIP rewards are distributed on the Initia L1 as esINIT, a conditionally vesting version of INIT. esINIT unlocks 1/26th every 2 weeks over a year. But here's the catch - you only vest your full rewards if you maintain at least half your original score in subsequent cycles. Alternatively, you can lock your esINIT into INIT-USDC LP for a minimum of 1 year. This guarantees your full allocation but locks it entirely for a year. Essentially: cliff vest vs conditional vest, plus you earn solid liquid APR while locked. Stay active to earn gradually, or lock up for guaranteed rewards + yield. --- Bottom line: Use @initia. Be productive in the Interwoven Economy, get rewarded for it. It pays to be early.

It’s insane how well it pays to actively use apps on @initia You get paid every 2 weeks through VIP based on your activity across the rollups and there so many underrated opportunities to make bank. Then lock-stake your rewards in INIT-USDC for a year and earn 50% apr liquid

First time ever getting a perfect score on a test. Surprised that the @initia VIP quiz was actually tough, not many would get a perfect 100. 1/3rd of the stuff you learn from group chats, not even the docs.

Initia's VIP hands out 14.3M tokens/year for using the Interwoven Rollups (/@InitiaEco). Sounds like a death spiral? Nah. The system's built for long-term aligned players. These rewards aren't liquid! 550k tokens drop every 2 weeks but vest over the next year, unlocking as long as you keep using the rollups. Even if everyone maxes out: just 40% of the rewards are actually unlocked by the year's end. Phew, look at my quant dawg.

Spent an hour and a half putting together a monitor arm on my new standing desk only to take it down two minutes later. ama.

Reign of the USDC whales is coming to an end on @EchelonMarket 🐋🩸 For the first few stages of Initia’s VIP, Echelon has won huge. Amassing 370k+ esINIT rewards for the users. But on Echelon, USDC has ruled. 75% of rewards went to USDC lenders and borrowers. Echelon built up a huge USDC stash (88% of TVL). INIT lenders got ONLY 25%. Borrow side not incentivised. 2 months into mainnet and it's time to shake things up. Starting in 24 hours: → 45% of rewards will go to USDC lenders/borrowers (down from 75%) → 52.5% to INIT lenders/borrowers. This shall finally build a healthy supply APY for lent INIT on Echelon. → Rest is used to incentivise milkINIT, sxINIT, and deINIT deposits which should help build up demand for these assets further! This change also opens up the field to v interesting and profitable farming strategies. (1) Supply a bunch of sxINIT, (2) borrow INIT, (3) supply sxINIT again. Loop maxxing. This position will then be earning: amplified staking yield, bribe rewards from cabal, and VIP rewards on both supply and borrow side! Love this tweak by the Echelon team. Initia DeFi is starting to warm up the engine :)

→ company raised $3m → builds a "questing platform" → ai hype ai hype → biz shut down → company now makes an ai agent kit many such cases.