Goated move by @PirateNationFDN taking @beast_ico onboard to help crank up the volume about @ProofOfPlay as things progress towards some sort of public launch of the platform ($POP?) I'm GLAD the team are now starting to aggressively push the ProofofPlay narrative. If you have not yet heard about ProofofPlay then maybe it's time to start paying attention. "Proof" is used everywhere by all the onchain games that matter like @onchainheroes @playgigaverse @PirateNation to power all randomization. Every single roll, or flip, or move is powered by Proof's Verifiable Random Function (VRF) generator. If you play any of the Abstract games, you are using Proof's tech with every move. "Proof" is turning into THE infra layer powering onchain gaming, but it also can do so much more beyond just being a BETTER random number generator (which by the way is a big fucking deal) than any of the alternatives. This is not a gaming token or an app, it's infrastructure and with the ability to offer better and cheaper alternatives to major blockchain infra offerings compared to the likes of Chainlink. WHAT ProofofPlay can do for blockchains and apps is the narrative that the PirateNations team needs to start selling in earnest, because few people know yet. But with the ICObeast move, I think that's going to change, and change quickly. On the investor side for undervalued bets, I think grabbing $Pirate to get access to what Proof of Play is doing is a good mid to long term bet here. It's one of the few gaming projects still shipping with some sort of PMF, and it's directly tied to a much bigger, much more important infra layer that can service needs beyond just gaming. The PirateNation eco has been bashed down hard over the past 12 months, yet at the same time the infra powering the game (ProofofPlay) has only been gaining more and more usage as widely used platform. Only the market has not been able to adequately price this in given it's been masked by the game the team have been shipping out (PirateNations). But PirateNations is, imo, the sandbox used to build and optimize ProofOfPlay. The only way you can get access to a potential $POP token (and the infra) is by staking $PIRATE for PoP points or/and loading up on assets in the pirate ecosystem (Pirate NFTs) which will certainly be given some stake in the Poof eco. Been a long time since I shouted out PirateNations, but I have a lot of respect for the team who consistently and stubbornly have been shipping product at both the game and infra level. Where other teams have given up, this team has only been shipping and shipping. I expect a lot of big moves on the gaming side too with some key PirateNation expansions to find some big PMFs. Personally, I have been staking all of my $PIRATE for close to 2 years now. This is my 'seed' investment into ProofofPlay. I'm down $ on my early by (I doubled down my token bags at .18-.20c early 2024) with the rest of the token holders who bought in early...but I'm certainly rich in PoP points. I'll be closely following where things go with ProofOfPlay. Big moves yield big things.

But I respect the team here. They are non stop trying to ship. The market will do what it does, but these guys have an impressive output. I can bet on them and STILL bet on them despite being off on the timing of my $PIRATE buy ins. I do believe this will be mitigated if ProofOfPlay succeeds though.