NFTs — the Sunday NFT Show

Host: proof (@the_alpha_dgn) & Makaveli (@MakaveliDlaCruz), standing in for LoKi (@lokithebird) · Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2026 · Duration: 1:36:42 · ~13 speakers

TL;DR

• With LoKi out sick, proof and Makaveli ran the weekly show, which turned into a long, upbeat deep-dive on Simple Farmer's "Anvil"/Stonk Brokers infrastructure and why NFTs feel alive again.
• Core thesis: Anvil mints tie an NFT directly to a standard ERC-20, so the token can list on DEXs and centralized exchanges, giving JPEGs deep, real liquidity and turning floor-price PvP into a collaborative, LP-paired PvE.
• Simple Farmer previewed a big week — two to four "special projects," including an NFT mint that runs entirely through the Anvil AMM (all NFTs go into the pool; you buy the token to withdraw the NFT), plus a bonding-curve launchpad and a coming V-DEX.
• Ernest Lee detailed Unvault: cross-chain mints to eight chains at once, per-collection AMMs, the "divid" royalty-redistribution tech (which Stonk Brokers already uses), and a Genesis Bugs mint using token-bound 6551 rewards.
• Recurring theme from Justin, Achilles and others: this echoes the experimental spirit of "the first 21 days" of NFTs and finally aligns financial gain with long-term holding — investment-club energy rather than dump-on-normies mechanics.
• A somber note ran through the room: a project (heard as "Merryman") rugged and hurt community member Warner; speakers rallied around him and used it to argue for founder voice-doxxing as a vetting norm.

Highlights

• [15:52] Justin frames the "why now." Justin (@justfred_ar)^* argued the meme era had no room for experimentation, and what Simple Farmer figured out is how to align financial gain with community: you make liquidity by holding rather than by selling and leaving. He compared it to on-chain investment clubs.
• [10:01] Timing vs. execution. Makaveli pushed back gently on the "he timed it perfectly" narrative, crediting Simple Farmer instead with matching narrative, product and chain and looping his existing communities back in — "you could not have timed any of this," with Robin Hood launching mid-July.
• [11:18] The liquidity problem NFTs never solved. CHESUS noted people clipping 30–40 ETH at a time barely moving the chart, and Simple Farmer later crystallized it: no founder had ever given "deep liquidity to JPEGs" before.
• [32:03] Justin's technical distinction. The NFT is directly correlated to a standard ERC-20, so unlike old fractionalized NFTs it can list on DEXs and CEXs — and the "orchestration" that pumps meme coins is here publicly transparent because computers run it.
• [47:01] Simple Farmer's roadmap. He previewed the coming week's mint that goes 100% through the Anvil AMM, explained why Anvil gives teams far more royalties plus perpetual LP-fee revenue, and noted the Mansur mint got two CEX listings within 12 hours.
• [54:08] The "super cycle" pitch. Simple Farmer said mirroring pump.fun-style infrastructure — many mints as tokens, a Jupiter-level swap layer, and the coming Stonk Brokers V-DEX — is the path to an NFT super cycle, keeping the ~$700–800M/yr in DEX fees "in the trenches."
• [1:02:29] Ernest Lee unpacks Unvault. Cross-chain NFTs across eight chains (vaulted on one, unvaulted on another), per-collection AMMs, the "divid" tech redistributing royalties to active holders, and a Genesis Bugs mint where 6551 token-bound rewards accrue from your activity and travel with the NFT when you sell.
• [1:01:01] The Warner rug moment. Achilles and proof paused to shout out Warner, who got hit by a rug; proof's line — "we blame it on his head, not on his heart" — set the tone, and Simple Farmer turned it into a call for founders to at least dox their voice on a Space as a vetting step.
• [1:20:00] Don't dump on normies. Simple Farmer's sharpest riff: the meme-coin playbook pushes garbage to the top to dump on the 99% of liquidity that lives outside crypto — the opposite of what builds long-term; push exceptional products so newcomers still have upside.
• [1:21:28] Atari's bot question. Atari raised the "tough conversation" about the first-come Genesis Bugs mint favoring botters over people spreading wallets across collections; Ernest confirmed anti-bot steps he couldn't fully detail, and Makaveli noted rewards still require actual participation.

Notable quotes

• "What he did is something that no founder has been able to figure out, and that's give deep liquidity to JPEGs." — CHESUS [11:18]
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• "If the primary motivation is financial, and the primary way to get that financial is to sell… that's in direct tension with community." — Justin [16:14]
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• "The rest of the world wrote this off as a scam, but they would be surprised to see there's millions of dollars a day in liquidity flowing through projects." — Makaveli [31:22]
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• "If normies are 99% of the liquidity of planet Earth, why would we want to dump on them?" — Simple Farmer [1:18:29]
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• "It's really not PvP. It's literally like whoever does better, it's better for all of us." — Simple Farmer [1:17:16]
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• "We blame it on his head, not on his heart… welcome to Web3." — proof, on Warner's rug [1:01:01]
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Topic timeline

Who said what

• proof (@the_alpha_dgn) — Co-host driving the show; repeatedly framed Anvil as "infrastructure" (barren land needs plumbing before people arrive) rather than a passing narrative.
• Makaveli (@MakaveliDlaCruz) — Co-host from the "third coast" (Houston); credited execution over timing, championed the decoupling of collectibles' value from crypto, and closed with "participate, don't hate."
• Simple Farmer (@OxSimpleFarmer) — The architect; explained Anvil AMM mints, LP-fee revenue, transparent on-chain mechanics, CEX ambitions, the V-DEX, and the "don't dump on normies" thesis. Also called for founder voice-doxxing to fight rugs.
• Ernest Lee (@ernestleedotcom) — Tax attorney / Unvault; detailed 8-chain cross-chain mints, per-collection AMMs, the "divid" royalty tech, and the token-bound Genesis Bugs rewards.
• CHESUS (@chesus) — Reality Check host; grounded the convo with the Pup Cup backstory, the liquidity-depth problem, and cycle-narrative history.
• Justin Fredericks (@justfred_ar) — Enterprise-tech voice; connected today to 2021's experimentation, drew the standard-ERC-20 distinction, and preached patience.
• AKYLLES (@akylles) — Framed the mental shift from buying NFTs "as products" to co-building; recalled the 2021 Nike/RTFKT debate.
• Big Rugg (@ChiefNeckbone_) — "Rugged Tony"; upbeat on Robin Hood, the Clarity Act, and web2/web3 harmony.
• ATARI (@atarigod) — Community cheerleader who also asked the pointed bot and CEX-listing questions; mining "dirt" with a saxophone.
• DWebbs (@DW3bbs) — Builder back in demand thanks to the new token standard; ApeFest-bound.
• Nuclear Samurai (@nuclearsamurai) — From "brain rot world"; asked whether Genesis Bugs are soul-bound (rewards are token-bound, the NFT is not).
• M.R (@masoudrahhal) — Compared this moment to CryptoPunks' misunderstood 2017 debut; "you're still early."

Worth a full listen

• [47:01]–[51:38] — Simple Farmer's core explainer. The clearest single stretch on how Anvil mints work, why LP fees beat one-time mint revenue, and the 12-hour Mansur CEX listing. Summaries flatten the mechanics; hearing him lay it out is the payoff.
• [1:02:29]–[1:09:30] — Ernest Lee on Unvault + Genesis Bugs. The cross-chain minting and 6551 token-bound rewards are genuinely novel and easy to garble second-hand — worth hearing him and Makaveli talk it through in real time.
• [1:18:29]–[1:25:58] — The "quality over hype" close. Simple Farmer's normies/liquidity argument plus Atari's bot challenge and Ernest's answer capture the room's ethos better than any paraphrase.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.