basil (propagation arc)
@itsbasil
zooming out against a cosmological timeline because the all is one & there is nothing else $degen was the big bang—overnight distribution, reflexive price, cultural gravity it proved tokens can bootstrap networks *before* they exist; it proved that tokens themselves *are* integral to network growth four nebulae are cooling into form here: - launcher (capital rails + token infra) - engagement (raw culture + mimetic surface) - creator (sticky talent + narrative payloads) - apps (retention + recurring txs) (likely to breakdown into tooling/utility, trading & gaming)
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basil (propagation arc)
@itsbasil
outside of maybe $clanker there’s no dominant token in any layer yet; liquidity & mindshare slosh between them, which is necessary in ecosystem nascency currently, we’re pre-silo—early enough to shape how gravity sets; good for discovery, bad for depth which is why everything feels like an echo how a layer stratifies into a silo (galaxy): 1. crowning → it becomes the default exchange medium in the layer 2. hardening → infra + UX wrap around it 3. propagation → sub-projects denominate in it, spinning up micro-economies in the process (downstream, a new sun for a new solar system) we’re at step 0… order books still thin; attention fragmented…
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basil (propagation arc)
@itsbasil
one $degen per layer puts us past the event horizon the flywheel: airdrop → price pop → charts on X → users join → new devs build → more usage → more fees + burns each loop lowers the cost of onboarding the next cohort while simultaneously increasing the probability of another $degen the operator & the trader in formation: – link layers early (cross-list, co-quest, compose) – back tokens setting higher lows, not headlines – compress time—narrative half-life is 7 days – stay liquid—winners 10×, losers 0.1× we’re watching gravitational clustering in real time if we anchor liquidity to the brightest cores, the fc macro snaps into place—stable enough to support the next cycle of builders & capital; predictable enough to mitigate switching costs
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Roadu 🎩🦊
@roadu
basil if you were going to make a project that didnt need a token at this time would you still create a token and then airdrop it while worthless (minus whatever buyers bite at a one sided liquidity pool) although just adjacent to the project not used in it? as ive written this i realize ive described many successes
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