Highlights
Lyss opens on the eve of year one.
She pulled up the original 19 Oct 2025 post announcing the daily Re:Envisioning Web3 space — "If you care about builders, community, and actual progress, pull up" — and reflected on how far the room has come in 355-ish consecutive spaces, through IRL events, Discord, and the biweekly Otherside hangouts.
G EEN checks in from Shanghai.
Back after a month away because he moved to China to learn Mandarin, he said hi, praised the reveal-party music, and discovered that Lyss is studying Mandarin too — they traded an offer of study materials and voice-note practice before he ran off to meet a friend on campus.
Super asks the room about artists launching PFP collections.
Jed's answer: a 10K PFP is effectively a startup raise, and if it's "just art," the math doesn't work — a top artist could sell a 500-piece drop at 1 ETH instead. He used Palm/Dreelander as the model path: build a small collection, build the core community, then scale 26:49.
BRAINPASTA on the artist's trap.
Asked bluntly how hard it is to sell a 10K even at a dollar or two, he said it works better anonymously (cite: Goblin Pound revealing the artist post-mint), and noted a top-selling artist whose banner collection sat unminted until he passed. Jed's follow-up: and then you're a scammer for life, and apparently not allowed to make art ever again 29:50.
The hot seat.
HELL was invited up to describe the person behind the PFP in 30 seconds, no projects, no coins. He got through it over a noisy background and offered his name — Avi. Verdict from Jed: a four, but welcome to stay, and at least we got a name, which counts for points.
Jed's Think Tank monologue.
Moving with intention means nothing ships without a reason. He laid out the origin — Dan's Recap First analytics tool, Burningbush's live-written Regen Noir stories — then the structural idea: the Re:gen Think Tank as a community incubator, builders keeping the serious majority of equity and funds, with Jed's network and Lyss's spaces network as distribution. The bar is set by what Regen Noir already is: "if you're not at 75%, 80% of that, like we're probably not gonna bring you on" 42:38.
Burningbush tells his side.
He shared that he's on the autism spectrum and how daunting it can be to put creative work in front of people, then walked through the build: showing Jed things, Jed asking how any of this happened in four days, the ask being literally $250, the mint going from 250 to 400, selling out overnight, and his daughter singing the big Fug song from the game on her tablet and telling her friends to go play it 52:38.
Moon on founders who quit instead of pivoting.
He called it an immense responsibility — people invest money, time and energy — and argued that walking away after a year because "the idea didn't work" isn't an option when a pivot is available. Jed agreed and added his own ledger: a $1 free mint, no royalties for the first ~22 months, six ETH raised and given back to the community, and the view that you stick around for the single that turns into the grand slam 58:19.
The Moon identity bit.
Jed spent several minutes not realizing the badbad Community account on stage was Moon, whose phone had died, while Lyss quietly let it play out waiting for the penny to drop. Between Moon High / Moon Seeker / Moon and the purple mancer PFP, Jed declared the whole thing was living rent-free in his head and that he was out of the Moon-account business for good.
UNCLE CORVUS.
He came up calm (which, as he noted, is when you should worry), said plainly he can't buy anything right now because things in Australia keep getting squeezed, and that he's set a date to leave — "a backpack and a pocket of hopes" — aiming for the States around 2027. Jed sent him two Regen Noir passes on the spot, one for him and one for a friend, in exchange for a photo of him on his nitrogen-coffee bike, which Lyss immediately pitched as a Williamsburg business plan.
Dong Socks, culture.
He explained the origin: a friend swearing off dating, a joke about grandma knitting him a little white flag, a decade of running bit, then Ape Chain. Part two was the public-service angle — don't send unsolicited pictures, send a dong sock instead 1:39:36. Burningbush had an AI track written about it before he'd finished talking 1:40:21, Jed swept five, and a second, Yummy-voiced version followed 1:47:17.
Lyss closes the loop.
Ghoston's 101-night high score in the Stefano's arcade, a same-day fix so the game full-screens properly on mobile, a reminder that every Regen Noir reveal is effectively a "rare" because it unlocks the whole site, Wolf's roundtable at 9am and a breast-cancer-awareness community space next week, and the full daily spaces schedule. Burningbush played everyone out with a lullaby that named half the room 2:01:12.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 0:25 – 7:02 | Music open — Tom McDonald, Dax |
| 7:11 – 15:21 | Lyss opens: one year of Re:Envisioning, Regen Noir reveal, Discord/Otherside housekeeping |
| 15:21 – 19:10 | Dating-era alpha from Jed; G EEN checks in from Shanghai |
| 20:44 – 31:36 | Artists launching PFP collections; art vs. community vs. raise |
| 32:13 – 35:04 | Hot seat with HELL |
| 35:04 – 44:47 | Jed's Think Tank monologue: intention, IP, incubator economics |
| 44:47 – 55:33 | Burningbush's build story; creativity, support, Regen Noir mint-out |
| 55:33 – 1:01:33 | Pivoting vs. quitting, founder responsibility, chains and Robinhood |
| 1:01:40 – 1:08:12 | The Moon account mix-up, bad bad, New York pizza water discourse |
| 1:08:12 – 1:15:21 | Lyss on Think Tank standards; Shark Tank comparison |
| 1:15:21 – 1:30:07 | UNCLE CORVUS; IRL stories, Nobu, Calm Cool Collective |
| 1:31:22 – 1:35:02 | Jed's "Brooklyn Infamous" track; the jabroni setting |
| 1:36:18 – 1:54:24 | Dong Socks: origin, two custom songs, sweeps |
| 1:55:22 – 2:04:40 | Announcements, schedule, goodnight song |
Notable quotes
They would tell you, the IP is the utility. You can go build with your IP. You're blessed to build with your IP. Well, building a business is a fuck ton of money… you're proliferating their brand.
Maybe before, you're just an artist selling editions… but afterwards, if it don't mint out, suddenly you have a lot of people calling you a scammer.
Honestly, dude, if you can give me 250 dollars, I think I can build all of this.
Not everyone gets the golden pass, not everyone gets the golden buzzer, if you will. There has to be a real plan.
I'm prepared to leave here with a backpack and a pocket of hopes, hopes, and dreams.
Let this be a quick little note from our sponsors, Dong Socks. Tonight, tell your lover the sock stays on.
Who said what
- Jed (@jed_131) — host. Drove the thesis of the night: move with intention, flip the IP-as-utility deal, and let community builders own the majority of what they build. Also the night's primary impulse sweeper.
- Lyss (@Lysss302) — co-host. Framed the Think Tank against the Regen ethos and the almost-one-year anniversary, set the quality bar and vetting expectations, and ran the closing announcements and spaces schedule.
- Burningbush (@BurningBush_eth) — co-host, called "Lee" in the room. Builder of Regen Noir and the Stefano's arcade; shared his build story and his experience as a creative on the spectrum, and generated live AI tribute songs all night.
- Superhighgasfees (@SHGFees) — opened the substantive discussion by asking whether artists should launch PFP collections and whether the attention would feed back into their 1/1 work.
- BRAINPASTA (@brain_pasta) — the artist's-eye reality check on mint-outs, anonymity, and reputation damage.
- Moon (@AfRedwave) — dialing in from the badbad Community account after a dead phone; made the case for pivoting over quitting, and picked up his first Regen.
- UNCLE CORVUS (@unclecorvus) — checked in from Australia with a candid read on his situation and a plan to relocate; left with two Regen Noir passes and a farmer's-market business idea.
- Dong Socks (@dongsockswtf) — guest of honour in the final act; told the project's origin story, took a song and a sweep, and is making a woodworking gift for Rita.
- G EEN (@iamgreengyptian) — brief check-in from Shanghai, re-entering spaces after a month away.
- Yummy The Artist (@Yummy_TheArtist) — the voice of the second Dong Socks track, back for a quick goodnight.
- HELL (@Abhinandan75303) — hot-seat contestant; scored a four and an invitation to come back.
Worth a full listen
- 20:44 – 31:36 The artist/PFP conversation is the most substantive block of the night, and the three-way between Super's hypothetical, Jed's "a 10K is a startup raise" framing and BRAINPASTA's lived experience doesn't compress well.
- 44:47 – 54:35 Burningbush's uninterrupted account of building Regen Noir, from the $250 ask to his daughter singing the game's song. It's the whole Think Tank pitch told as a story rather than a structure.
- 1:36:18 – 1:54:24 The Dong Socks segment. An origin story involving a friend's dating sabbatical and a grandmother with knitting needles, two AI songs produced live, and a founder sweeping the floor mid-chorus. You have to hear it.
