Re:Envisioning Web3 | Fireside with SimpleFarmer on ANVIL

She runs the welcome, rattles off the previous day's lineup, flags that Chris Vaughn is on tonight's Ninja Cat stream, and notes 32 days to Consensus with passes still available for communities, media partners and students 12:54. Jed's answer to "how do you do everything" was characteristically brief: "unhealthy living" 13:19.

Jed's framing of his guest — ships daily, has shipped something new overnight again — lands on a theory: "either a cyborg, an AI, or he has like three clones of himself." It becomes the running joke of the Space, revived every time SimpleFarmer casually promises a fix in a couple of hours.

Born in Bosnia in 1994, relocated to Germany as a refugee during the war, into the US around 2000 — New Jersey, then Georgia, then Auburn — followed by Russia, Austria, and now Cyprus. He got into crypto through Offchain Labs/Arbitrum, built on a layer-3 that later died ("it's not my fault, I didn't work for them"), and was pointed at ApeChain by Arbitrum before the team hired him. No CS degree, 100% self-taught 19:22.

One liquidity pool as the house backing every bet, polymarket odds ingested as data and converted into multipliers, parlays minted as tradable NFT bet slips — sell your slip mid-parlay if you're two legs in and nervous. The house pool cleared roughly 120k ApeCoin. He's now working with Ernest Lee of Board Counsel on regulatory compliance toward an iOS app 21:53.

After Pixel Pups, SimpleFarmer built a tool that pulls holders of any collection and rates each wallet 0–10 on trading/flipping behavior, so teams can whitelist 5–10s and skip the known free-mint flippers. He looked up Jed's wallet mid-Space: a 7, "rated a Chad." His own ApeChain rating: a four 41:58.

The pitch: bots can usually knock a floor down 10–20%, but against an AMM they get two or three percent, and that arbitrage value recirculates to stakers instead of leaving the ecosystem. When the explanation got deep into fee tiers, governance quorums and lending, Jed asked for the crayon version 29:50 — SimpleFarmer's own verdict was that it sounds far worse than it feels to use 30:25.

The room's resident pessimist-by-trade walked through the decay problems other NFT-token hybrids hit, asked what happens when the token trades in a market that doesn't care about the NFTs, and got the key answer: the token is non-inflationary — nobody can dump it without first depositing NFTs or buying it on the open market 53:10. His closing read: the downsides exist, but they're no worse than the downsides NFTs and tokens already carry separately 1:36:42.

Deployed Tuesday: 42 ETH in collection volume, over 200k in token trading volume, and roughly 60% of the supply locked across the staking pool, lending pool and AMM. SimpleFarmer's read on why the chart looks different from a typical free mint: "our floor is very sticky… the AMM is absorbing a lot of sell pressure" 1:17:08.

Having already tested Anvil with Jimmy's on Ape, he put it plainly: he can't think of a reason not to stake, cycle the token and corresponding ETH into an LP, and collect fees — especially given you can't realistically sell 250 of anything on OpenSea without wrecking the floor 1:32:22.

She connected the lending leg to something that had literally happened in the community the day before — people WETHing NFTs to scrape together funds for a mint. Borrow against the NFT instead, do the thing, get it back. Jed added the Blur-era version of this, where the sharp traders looped loans into Apes and back into Pudgies, with the caveat that Blur loans could be called the next day.

He tried, on the phone and on stage, to get SimpleFarmer's backstory out of him and got "infancy to I just built this protocol." Lyss's diagnosis: "It was very Aaron Rodgers." Jed signed off with the thesis of the whole hour: innovation takes big balls 1:51:29.