Lazy HAL retweeted
$RHUB on arb isn't just a cat meme.
It's an ode to staying free and rich within, whatever life throws at you.
A message worth rallying around imo, will see what the future hold
On rhubarb and arbitrum:
I've been following @bfresh since the Stonkbroker launch, and it made me realize how interesting the arbitrum ecosystem actually is. Yet its cultural moat is at ground zero: no NFT collection, very few coins people are rallying around. You could even argue TON has a stronger onchain culture.
Beyond being an infra provider, arbitrum has one big differentiator compared to Base, BNB, or Robinhood: it isn't a company's chain. Offchain Labs built it, but it's governed by a DAO, with ARB holders voting on upgrades, the treasury, and the Security Council. Dare we say one of the most successful DAOs out there?
The other difference is that ARB sits at a low market cap for a chain of its size. Think about how crazy it is that PONS could flip ARB, the token of the chain powering the chain it lives on.
@bfresh has been encouraging people to experiment on the chain: xitter.cf/bfresh/status/20944057…
I don't know if that's one man's wish or the spirit of the whole offchain team, but it got me thinking: what would a fresh flagship coin look like, one that truly represents arbitrum and is unique to it, not a ripoff of another chain's culture?
Memestocks are great, but what makes a memestock on arbitrum unique compared to the ones from robinhood or solana?
That's when the ARB pairing clicked. Pairing to ETH doesn't make sense to me, especially if you're bearish on its valuation like @santiagoroel, and especially if you believe coins should be paired with the asset meant to capture the chain's value (which, one day, is supposedly ARB).
Then there's rhubarb (more on this later), a meme based on the 1951 film about an alley cat who stayed independent and free, whether broke or rich. To me, that's exactly what arbitrum stands for: an independent chain, and freedom tech in its own way.
Rhubarb was my idea, and I'm gonna use the cat in the AI videos I enjoy creating. But an idea is nothing on its own, so I assembled a small crew of devs and creatives to turn it into reality, with my direct support and advice.
No memecoin, culture coin, or cult coin can thrive on the back of one man, though. As Murad says, a coin shows its value during the red candles and the dumps, and only time makes a distribution truly organic.
I have a vision for this meme, and if it plays out, it's an insane opportunity. I'll keep pushing it, but a free, independent cat roaming arbitrum, paired to the chain's own token, only goes the distance if the arbitrum community, current and future, makes it theirs.
We also chose to launch on uniswap v4 with our own bonding curve that burn supply at each buys instead of taking the easy v3 route. If I'm supporting such initiative, I'd rather push innovation forward.
I've done my part by putting a new character on the table for the arbitrum trenches, and I'll keep showing up for it. Rhubarb is here to push the ecosystem forward alongside OGs like @boopthecoin, not against them as some holders are trying to PvP it, but together.
Because rhubarb stacks three things: the rich-cat memetics the internet is already full of, real lore from a real film/book, and a moat no other chain can copy, since its identity is tied to arbitrum and its arb pairing.
Whether I get applauded or called a grifter will ultimately depend on the price action, and I’m okay with that. god knows I’m genuine and idc about haters (I actually do, working on it LOL). The last time I was involved with a coin was back in 2021. If I'm doing this, it's because I believe in the thesis:
For rhubarb to help shape the cultural layer arbitrum has been missing.
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Lazy HAL retweeted
It takes real courage to say that Hypio is the only NFT that was traded for real capital (and not to wash-trade volume) in the early days of hyperevm, to the tune of $50M plus in volume and therefore deserves an airdrop if anyone does.
Not that I think anyone really does! But if we’re making arguments…
The NFT that itself was an airdrop/reward does not have the same claim!
Lazy HAL retweeted
As they have been wont to do, people will overthink $HYPE at these levels and the next levels, saying many of the things we’ve heard before: it’s not cheap anymore, there are so-and-so regulatory risks, robinhood or lighter (or a tag team of both as it seems to be), binance et al will take them out. Overthinking trade.xyz and nitpicking innovations rather than recognizing them for what they are.
I’d advise you to listen to Peter Thiel’s interview discussing one of his biggest trading errors, that being selling Facebook too early. He thought that the easy gains were in and that scaling up from 100B to 1T would be harder than getting to 100B was. He points out the incorrect assumption and that it was actually easier for Facebook to scale once it had reached critical mass.
A year ago, two years ago, there were a lot of reasons to doubt a fledgling (and then dominant upstart). Regulatory concerns, whether other perp dexes would be able to vamp with points programs, Binance and so on. Whether HIP-3 would work - whether HIP-4 now will work. Many of those questions have been answered with a resounding yes.
And yet people will talk themselves out of this trade for having proven itself to be too good of a winner!
We’re talking about infrastructure for all of finance. Hyperliquid successfully did the “defi future of finance meme”. And people will go out looking for Ohm forks or memecoins. You wonder why all the memes are dead on Hyperliquid? Because the people here aren’t retarded. You want me to trade this coin for an account that posts once a day by someone who can barely read?
It’s better to be lucky than good, and sometimes all you have to do to be lucky is to keep it simple, stupid!
Hyperliquid
Lazy HAL retweeted
Born from the first HyperEVM NFT community @HypioHL
Deployed on the first HyperEVM launchpad @LiquidLaunchHL
Traded on the first HyperEVM DEX @HyperSwapX
THIS is where HyperEVM began.
Shoutout to all of you, the hyperliquid community, for making it happen and bringing HyperEVM to life.
alright buddy 😃👍
