Captain @PirateApe_Crew, Founder @SlabForge. Slowly, then all at once. A Pirate's life for me! 🎶
Lisboa 🇵🇹
Joined January 2025
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The @NFCsummit in Lisbon was awesome! 🇵🇹
There was so much great art, both digital and physical.
I got to meet and talk to different people & founders, which was very interesting.
Above all, it was the amazing community who made it such a special experience. Long live NFTs!☀️
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
NFTs 1.0 - only the art
NFTs 2.0 - social utility
NFTs 3.0 - programmatic utility
Like everything in life, there’s pros and cons to each but the truth is 3.0 isn’t a new meta, rather it’s a new paradigm. Embrace it.
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
Ahoy Shipmates 🏴☠️
We’ve battled through the trenches, kept the ship sailing and the crew is stronger for it!
A lot is happening below deck and @PirateApe_Crew will always be part of the @opensea
We would like to thank all the Sailors from other communities that have stuck around and sailed with us through the tough waters 🌊
First Community, All Else The Sea⚓️
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
Just did the math and I'm currently sitting on $1,035,651 USD in unrealized airdrop gains.
Unrealized in the sense that the projects I farmed didn't do their TGE and airdrop yet
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
NFT’s are a collectible - this isn’t a debate this is a fact
In a time when 99% of regular people on earth 🌎 react with “scam or fad” when they hear the term NFT .. we have …
10,000’s of people collecting them ..
Now .. they can do much more and are a functional collectible which we have never seen before .. so .. they will continue to innovate …
Man this a fun era ❤️‼️
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
I spent my life in foreign lands.
So many men have tried to rug me, I don't remember all their names.
I have been sold like a broodmare.
I've been chained and betrayed, trapped and liquidated.
Do you know what kept me standing through all those years in exile?
Faith.
Not in any gods, not in myths and legends... in myself.
In @PirateApe_Crew.
The world hadn't seen PirateApes in centuries, until my children were born.
These primates hadn't crossed the sea, any sea.
They did for me.
I was born to rule the Seven Seas, and I will.
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
Shout-out to @Walkers_HQ for this fire nft i won in a rumble in discor dope going to go check ut @PirateApe_Crew and see what they got cooking.
Thanks fam for the win and the prize
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
The best case scenario for NFTs is strong brands building in multiple sub genres
If the recent NFT AMM protocols make
you uncomfortable, or if you’re a holder of a NFT AMM and talking down on IP NFTs you’re both getting it wrong
While there may be competition for short-term attention on CT, it is excellent that NFTs have new strong use cases to attract holders
I don’t see long-term competition here. Both categories are extremely beneficial to the NFT space, and success in one area can benefit the other.
We definitely need to see more of this type of experimentation to continue to mature NFTs as an asset class
But it’s also important not to lose sight of the long term vision if you’ve been working toward something
Not every project needs to chase every new thing, but that’s why these experiments are such a value add for the space
This isn’t supposed to be a WAGMI post, not every new idea or old idea is going to win. But I’m seeing a lot of content adjacent to “IP NFTs are dead”, and I think some folks have lost the plot
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
I am perpetually bullish on culturally significant NFTs and wrote this long post explaining why the asset class is significantly undervalued. Strap in frens.
Before we begin: gm.
The market cap of all NFTs is 1.6BN, but NFTs improve every value driver over traditional art and collectibles which are multi trillion dollar markets.
Why will NFTs as an asset class be more valuable in the future?
- NFTs live on the blockchain and are fundamentally different from digital art that came before it
- In 2016 people said BTC “wasn’t real”, today they say “NFTs aren’t real, scammy, etc” Just incredibly wrong
- This sentiment is great bc it creates opportunity for those paying attention
- computing arts have incredible depth and combined with a novel network like Ethereum, there is a wellspring of innovation happening right now around gen art, algorithms, community engagement, visual display, coordination, etc…
- Network art and collectibles will forever change the world. The new relationship that artists can form and engage with their community is fascinating and highly addictive
- NFT community is engaged and obsessive. I’ve never seen anything like it. There’s so many great subcultures and categories to collect. AI art is not art 😂
- NFTs have perfect provenance with low carry costs
- They come with global capital markets available to anyone with an internet connection
- Art loves attention and NFTs have built in memetic distribution via the Internet
- NFTs will be the core primitive of new human civilizations (e.g. 6529)
- Permissionless networks, communities and societies colliding with art and culture is an unstoppable force and probably the coolest thing ever
- The people collecting high value NFTs right now are the best investors in the world. They are tech forward, entrepreneurs, doctors, developer, artists and amazing humans
- the space is permissionless. There is no cabal. There are only exceptional networkers with capital in a tiny space and most all of them are great people. While they support lots of artists they can’t support everyone. It is what it is.
- If 6529 succeeds it is the mega bull case for NFTs. There is still a lot of work to get there but iykyk. It’s not just a NFT project but a beautiful vision of freedom and decentralized coordination in an increasingly centralized world.
- Incredibly few understand 6529 right now. Soon it will be much clearer
- The NFTs that are highly sought after and valuable today will be exponentially more valuable when the nft collector base grows again. Yes, xcopy, punks, etc are just getting started
- NFTs will be cool again. A NFT is just a new technology primitive. trends come and go. Collections come and go. Art is forever. People love collectibles.
- Not every collection will make it but things like cryptodickbutts are cool and hilarious and an evergreen collection. Many such cases. Stay Opepen to new ideas.
So what’s holding us back right now?
- Some will say wallets and security and difficulty with getting onchain and discovery, etc
- I think it’s much simpler. Art is upstream of wealth.
- Valuable NFTs live on Ethereum bc it is designed to run forever and NFTs can be stored with long-term trust guarantees.
- Ethereum is always running and has many clients, a huge community and is censorship resistant with low counterparty risk
- However Ethereum has been in a bear market for many years. To me it is that simple.
- RWAs are coming onchain, Agentic finance is loading, DeFi has PMF, etc
- Ethereum is slowly becoming the settlement layer of the world
- my view is NFTs are upstream of Ethereum wealth.
- As wealth is generated on Ethereum the scarce assets on the network will be highly sought after
- A counterpoint is 1 billionaire collector could send NFTs much higher, which is silly to contemplate. It is a tiny asset class
- I have no timelines. Buy what you like and are willing to hold to 0, which is most NFTs. NFA
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
One of my biggest secrets to making it as a creator:
Support people and projects when there’s absolutely nothing in it for you.
Most of the time they won’t notice. They won’t thank you. They won’t reward you. That’s fine my friend.
Just keep showing love, supporting good people, and expecting nothing in return.
Eventually, the right people notice. Just one opportunity is enough to change everything.
The same philosophy applies if you’re building a project.
Support other builders. Celebrate their wins. Give without keeping score.
99.8% of the time, you’ll probably get nothing back lol.
Do it anyway.
Love given with expectations is a transaction. Love given freely has a funny way of finding its way back to you.
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
Hey fellow sailors. Apologies we haven’t check in for a while. We were out sailing when we found ourselves in some pretty rough seas. We found a nearby island to take shelter and assess the damaged to the ship.
Over the past few months we’ve been regrouping and strategizing.
Due to multiple factors the development of the Saved Souls game has unfortunately been delayed indefinitely.
The good news is that we’re not going anywhere. We’ve regrouped and are ready to continue on our journey. As Captain always said, “a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
Thank you to all who continued to stick with us throughout these trying times. If you left or were never apart of the SS fam we would love to have you join the community and help us in shaping our future.
Keep an eye out for more updates and feel free to come say what’s up in the discord. Looking forward to seeing and hearing from you all.
Much Love Everyone!
-Saved Souls
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
@PirateApe_Crew X @Walkers_HQ RAFFLE
Win a Pirate Ape NFT on Sunday, 9th August!
Requirements:
✅ Mint at least 1 Night Walker NFT
✅ Follow our X
✅ Tag 5 friends
🕯️ Winners will be selected on discord
Join the entry and Good luck 💙💚⚔️
discord.gg/tPaZqrcuAs
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
I haven't heard from him in a little bit, but good excuse to reconnect with an old friend: I nominate @gubeat29
A fellow Canadian to start, but also a gem in the space. He did everything in his power to save @PirateApe_Crew from it's past, built some incredible things, all while still supporting so many great communities around the space, while very few gave him the time of day or support he deserved in return.
I know he already holds some Squigs, but the other two would look great in his wallet. An underrated collector and supporter in the space deserves nothing but the best.
Thanks for the opportunity to share another couple great communities with him.
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
I said it before & I’ll say it again: NFTs can be your keys to anything, depending on what the project intends it to unlock
It can be as simple as being key to ownership, where ownership is the utility, similar to punks
It can be a key to club membership, similar to bored apes
It can be a key to owning first-edition collectibles, similar to pudgy penguins & azuki
It can be a key to being shareholders, similar to claynosaurz
It can be a key to owning tokenized stock portfolios and earning stock-token dividends, similar to stonkbrokers
Builders can make NFTs unlock anything imaginable, as long as it’s technically possible and buyers can choose the NFTs they want to own based on what it can unlock for the them today &/or in the future
nixxon 🏴☠️ retweeted
Ahoy and GM 🌅 Happy 4th Birthday to the @PirateApe_Crew 🏴☠️ The NFT seas have been rough, but these simians are rougher! 🫡
