JED TALK 🎙️ | Chatting in chats? Let's get REAL

Host (@HostXweb3)^* described losing two days to AI tools and marveling at how far the tech's come "before flip phones." Jed built on it, noting too few teams are actually shipping content: "some of the content that we could put out every single day is just going by the wayside."

With his socials shut across the board in Australia, he still showed up between church duties, teasing run-app and protocol updates and something "pretty special" cooking in the lab. His mood set the tone for the whole room.

From a UK hospital bed, Shmug delivered the room's thesis — build for real life, not clout. Real-life giveaways beat NFT giveaways, retro/pixel is swinging back, and he's building things for ordinary people for free just to show them what's possible. He also described his own reinvention of a duck-hunt game: Hot Potato, a spud gun that overheats as you fire.

KOKO (@Bayc364) framed the current moment as on-chain activity heating up and a healthy signal we've bottomed or are near it. His advice: position now while it's quiet, and stay a student — "the worst thing you can do is tell yourself you know everything, even if you've been here a long time."

Money Miller laid out the missing layer he's building toward: NFTs prove a wallet controls a token, but nothing yet enforces what a holder can license, monetize or transfer. He wants creators to configure rights cryptographically instead of "renting content" on platforms silently feeding IP to AI.

KOKO pointed to Uniswap V3's liquidity-position NFTs as the coolest thing he's seen — a tangible, sellable, value-bearing representation of your stake — and later (41:06) compared a good founder to a musician whose superfans reward good work with liquidity.

Jed recalled being gifted a ~$5,000 X copy mint by a collector when he couldn't get it himself — the moment that pulled him off Nifty Gateway and into the community. "Who the fuck would do that? It wasn't about the money."

Money Miller introduced and played his newest song, written after hearing too many founders say I built this community. The track's reframe — communities aren't kingdoms to own — was the emotional peak of the night.

A Nigerian caller made an energetic case for Monad's speed and room for builders; Jed gently pushed the "why Monad over Sol?" question a few times before calling it — "it's four o'clock in the morning in New York, we could come back and talk about Monad another day."

Money Miller closed the room with a tongue-in-cheek anthem that sent Jed spiraling into fond memories of the meme-coin super cycle — including the time he told a friend to sell all his ETH for MOTHER.