Highlights
One year of persistent Otherside.
Makaveli marked the anniversary of Otherside staying "on" since last July — Nexus, new challenge areas, and yesterday the first community-built deed (Tropical Virtual) — and plugged the Chaos Trials event at 1pm EST.
The news dump.
Loki ran the week: FWA launching on Robinhood, a Chimpers football jersey, Yuga's fee-free NFT swap platform, Pudgy Penguins at San Diego Comic-Con and the Pudgy toy cars in Shanghai, and — the day's headline — Creeps getting acquired.
Creeps changes hands.
Robert revealed his team (via SiriSync) acquired Creeps, having previously partnered with original artist Cychrome on Meatbags. His pitch to a burned community: "less promises and just more execution." He hinted the wider team includes people who worked on the Apecoin/Otherside launch and CPG creatives behind Gel Blaster, Happy Dad, and Zippo.
Adam's Godzilla-vs-Kong energy.
The room gushed over the cinematic announcement video. Adam Weitsman (@AdamWeitsman) joined at 35:51 to say his role is simply to "support founders" — he bought the Creeps 1/1, loves Cychrome's art, and wants collabs with Yuga, Luca and others.
Chesus vouches for the community.
CHESUS called Creeps holders "diamond-handed motherfuckers" who "outlasted the founders," and stressed the depth of Cychrome's art and lore.
FWA, explained the hard way.
Atari admitted he'd field-tested both sides and lost, then walked through it: stake an NFT + back it with ETH, spinners gacha-roll to pull it, most people only pull TTTs, and winners choose the NFT, 85% in ETH, or FWA tokens. At 1:04:34 Callum framed depositing as "becoming the house" and detailed the 14-day farm and burn/buyback mechanic. Anon, Luna and Atari all landed on the same note: cool for degens, but the risk/reward doesn't pencil for a Bored Ape or 100 ETH.
Anon's stablecoin NFT.
Riffing on a Tether-CEO meme, Anon built a tiny-dino 404-token NFT on the Stable chain with a dev in under a day — a stablecoin-denominated collection meant to remove ETH volatility from floor prices. He conceded a CryptoPunks derivative may have beaten him to "first."
The Unipeg conviction play.
Anon called Unipeg (Uniswap v4 hooks, Genesis + micropegs, Pokémon-style scarcity) his highest-conviction bet in five years — a possible "SPX-style" slow burn — while disclosing he's a top-20 holder.
Warren's counterpoint.
Warren (@TheArtOfWarren) made the case for one-of-one art and provenance in an "inefficient" market, lamenting how Foundation and Zora dissolved value, and rallied the room to "make NFTs cool again."
Maha ties it together.
The financialization thesis: the market is hyper-financialized and PTSD-ridden, so pure "art + lore" no longer moves — projects now need a gamified finance layer (Unipeg, Stonk Brokers, Wolf Game, dumpster, FWA) to earn attention in week one.
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:52–10:30 | Intro, hype, Otherside 1-year anniversary & other games |
| 10:30–14:14 | Weekly news roundup |
| 14:14–42:39 | Creeps acquisition deep dive (Robert, Callum, Chesus, Adam) |
| 52:00–1:09:22 | FWA mechanics & risk debate |
| 1:11:24–1:15:10 | Stable chain & meme coins |
| 1:16:21–1:23:04 | OpenSea mobile app praise & airdrop hopes |
| 1:29:27–1:33:34 | Royalties, volume, real-world assets, AI |
| 1:35:32–1:43:38 | Nakamigos & Unipeg conviction |
| 1:44:00–1:51:42 | Warren on one-of-one art & market reflection |
| 1:52:50–2:03:42 | Financialization thesis, Marfa, dinner tour, sports |
| 2:03:49–2:04:44 | Outro |
Notable quotes
I'm not sure if I will ever build a Ponzi Loki. I like playing Ponzies, but I don't like doing them.
They're diamond-handed motherfuckers… they outlasted the founders of creeps.
Less promises and just more execution and giving the communities things to rally behind.
I've also wasted a lot of money on gacha phone games. So I don't need another gacha in my life.
I'm very confident that this one's gonna do something special.
NFTs are one of the most innovative technologies of all time, and I'll die on that hill.
Who said what
- LoKi (@lokithebird) — host on the far side of the world (10pm his time); ran the news roundup and MC'd the guests, with a running bit of "invoicing" anyone who made a connection and gatekeeping via "how many shadow wolves do you own?"
- Proof (@the_alpha_dgn) — co-host; banter, hype and reposts wrangling; happily accepted the label "the idiot."
- Makaveli (@MakaveliDlaCruz) — co-host; Otherside/other games evangelist and the room's excitement engine.
- Robert (@rbrtmb) — new Creeps lead; execution-over-promises approach, dialing in from Australia late at night.
- Callum (@CallumMelly) — Creeps supporter and its clearest FWA explainer; leaned all the way into the "shape-shifting lizard" bit rather than take a Creeps PFP.
- CHESUS (@chesus) — Creeps community voice, vouching for holders and Cychrome.
- Adam Weitsman (@AdamWeitsman) — backer; "support founders and great artwork," plus Marfa party host and sports tangents.
- VQ (@voxelqueen) — early FWA observer and animation-studio owner offering Giphy/trailer help to Creeps.
- Atari (@atarigod) — DJ who tested FWA firsthand (and lost) to explain it.
- Anon (@anonchain) — Nakamigos/Unipeg maxi and stablecoin-NFT builder; a running gag as his connection kept dropping mid-take while driving.
- Luna (@LunaPrime) — gacha skeptic, OpenSea-app fan, and self-deprecating vibe-coder building a Stable dex and "a better Twitter."
- NFT Drew (@nft_dreww) — praised the OpenSea app and tracks royalty/churn data at the 30-day mark.
- Warren (@TheArtOfWarren) — one-of-one and provenance advocate; late arrival, big closing reflection.
- Maha (@Maaaaahhhaaaaa)* — delivered the closing thesis on gamified finance as the new NFT meta.
- Wonderbread (@wonderbreadx) — asked about the fate of invasion passes and runes under new Creeps ownership.
- Lynqoid (@Lynqoid) — cool-cats/shadow-wolves regular whose Discord card game folds in holders' Shadow Wolves.
- KewlChick (@KewlChick_) — asked how people prefer to earn allowlist access (redirected to a poll).
- Speaker 12 — trader ("I'll teach you how to lose money any day") organizing a multi-city community dinner tour with Mad Potters.
Worth a full listen
- 58:34–1:09:22 the FWA breakdown. Atari and Callum's back-and-forth is the clearest live explanation of the mechanic you'll find, complete with real dollar figures, and the whole room reasoning through whether "becoming the house" is worth it.
- 1:38:02–1:43:38 Anon on Unipeg. A dense, conviction-heavy walkthrough of v4 hooks, micropegs and Pokémon-style scarcity that the summary flattens; worth it if any of that intrigues you.
- 1:47:00–2:00:52 Warren then Maha, back to back. The show's most substantive stretch: Warren's art/provenance lament and Maha's financialization thesis are essentially two halves of the same argument about where NFTs go next.
* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.
