Spotlight
crypto social product studio @spotlight. building the next gen capital markets platform
@mjc716
@clanker Reintroducing Spotlight
A product studio building on the frontiers of internet capital markets (ICM)
Read on for more about the vision, the $SPOTLIGHT token and the airdrop 🧵 👇
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@mjc716
Yes, finalizing the contracts for Flow, our CCA-powered capital markets platform this week
Firmly believe that bonding curve launches will fall out of favor in 2026. They are a solved game
Some people say the draw of CCA is that it make launches more "fair"
I think it's more that it dimensionalizes capital origination, meaning it opens up new strategies for gaining edge. It's not just the same few script junkies running light variations of the same strategy
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@spotlight
This week:
- finalizing Flow contracts
- writing something about CCA
- spec'ing out next frontend release
That is all.
$SPOTLIGHT
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@mjc716
Just published a preview version of Flow, our next gen capital markets platform powered by Uniswap's new CCA contracts
Wrote up a piece on the vision and what's to come, including a link to the app, which you can use to participate in the ongoing Aztec token auction
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@spotlight
Working to have a preview version of our next gen capital markets platform out this week
$SPOTLIGHT
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@mjc716
no liquidity, no allocations, just $thanks 🙏 🙏
just reply thanks to this cast to receive some
sending $thanks in honor of the holiday and in appreciation of the community
mint is open for 24 hours
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if you want to acquire some, you should respond to this cast or ask a friend who minted to send you some
will be afk for big chunks of today. if it breaks, it breaks
happy thanksgiving
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@mjc716
> people are just jealous that the snipers made money and they didn't
sure, maybe some people. but the real problem is that bonding curve launches are effectively a solved game and if we keep on this path, people are going to stop playing completely
they already are
the idea that a ~$1.5m tax to purely extractive actors is "just part of the game" is preposterous
people need to be able to make money in markets, which means people will inevitably lose money
but if the surface space for finding edge is confined to a highly technical set operating black box strategies, we no longer have anything worthy to sell
no i'm not just complaining. yes, i'm building a better model. no, i don't know if it will work but it's genuinely a different approach and not just a regurgitation of the same primitive
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@spotlight
Our claims site is live!
If you contributed to the Museum and received preSpotlight
OR
if you hold $PRO, $RIDDLE, $PSWAP or $SOCIAL
You are eligible to exchange for $SPOTLIGHT
https://app.spotlightcrypto.xyz/claims
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@mjc716
One reason I'm incredibly excited and energized by the studio concept for Spotlight is that I decided last night to put the prediction markets-adjacent project that I've worked on for a month on hold, and instead to build something on the new CCA contracts, which are brilliant and will become the new standard
Some people might, in full sincerity, read this and think that this decision indicates a lack of discipline or follow-through, but I'd tell them that 1) being among the first to market in this space is the bigger opportunity and I'm well equipped to execute on it and 2) the beauty of being my own boss and not raising from VCs is that I don't have to care
Anyway, I'm at that stage of a new project where my mind is buzzing with ideas and sleep will not come easy. Next up is the hard part of actually getting it done
We introduced our new hub token model at launch a few days ago. That means that the new project will drive value to the $spotlight token in some form (liquidity, b2burn, burn2b, etc.). TBD on how
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