Corbin Page (@corbin) • Hey
Web3 Builder & Investor
Publications
- Airpods+podcast during a haircut? 💇
1 - Super rude
2 - Amazing
3 - Never tried it
- On crypto middleware...
Read: We used to read balance/history straight onchain but now use aggregator APIs like Covalent/The Graph
Write: We're used to transacting directly onchain but will use transaction aggregators like Enso.finance, Socket, etc to bundle transactions across millions of assets, protocol, & chains.
- What are the most memorable or iconic Lens posts?
Bonus points if you link it.
- If you think friend.tech is cool...
We’re at the very beginning of a wave of web3 social experiments… 🌊
If you want to launch a web3 social project in 3mos contracting or join our @patchwallet team full-time…
DM me or apply 👇
http://tinyurl.com/4zwecfrt
https://paymagic.notion.site/bf3fc5c492014604b4b572d86adb4987
- New screenshot essay:
LLM Dog collar 🐕🤝🚶♂️
Sounds silly (stay with me) but LLMs may be good enough now to be a universal translation device across species. We talk with dogs now, what if you could expand the expressiveness 10x.🤔
https://launch.mirror.xyz/i2XOVEX8ZS6WUxZSzOFinJWJJ4w02NFOM2VayECGX5Q
https://launch.mirror.xyz/i2XOVEX8ZS6WUxZSzOFinJWJJ4w02NFOM2VayECGX5Q
- Crypto philosophers will wax poetically about onchain incentives rewiring the world to organize & operate in peaceful harmony.🌎🤗
But then scoff at airdrop farmers & memecoiners... 🙄
Like bro, it's the same thing.
It just doesn't look like what you have in your head.
🌶️🌶️🌶️
- With the Pool Together ruling pretty favorable, what other lossless crypto primitives should be built?
Lossless subscriptions - Deposit $500, interest goes to pay for service, withdraw your $500 at any time.
Lossless NFT raffles, lossless membership pledges, etc.
- With Twitter/Reddit/StackOverflow turning off their data APIs given the value for LLMs…
I think this “Helium for API access” crypto protocol would really work.
What do you think?
https://launch.mirror.xyz/8AtVHn66XyfIpPbFALla0WqFGMgUVq29hc3Oh17Mqqs
- Finally announcing my new project built on ENS...
📛📛Usernames.club 📛📛
Check out some crazy things you can do on top of CCIP Read!
All feedback welcome! 🙏 I'll be responding below.
https://twitter.com/corbpage/status/1666458937430777857
[Corbin Page on Twitter](https://twitter.com/corbpage/status/1666458937430777857)
“📛 📛 Introducing https://t.co/pW4UztVeWw 📛 📛
Launch community namespaces to earn income for your L2 or DAO!
.punk .ape .linea .socks .zkevm .whatevs ...
Powered by @ensdomains CCIP Read & resolve in wallets under https://t.co/q3ziSLjfvu.
Here's what can be built 👇👇👇”
- What are your hot takes on the PGA + LIV merger?🏌️♂️
* LIV would never be profitable selling tickets and sponsorships
* PGA execs got a bag💰 to do the merger 🤑
* Biggest losers are the top loyal PGA players
* “Sportswashing” was a PR campaign and will now fade away
- Hot take: Meta Quest gets a boost after the Vision Pro announcement.
* TAM increase as spatial compute hype/devs grows.
* Meta borrows hardware learnings from Apple (toggling immersion, eye/hand controls, etc)
* Different GTM (cheaper/gamier) but the best apps will be on both.
Bring on the competition!! 🤼
- Ultra fast AI model for image generation via API and pass in the prompt, with really good caching.
Does this exist?
You could then have evolving generative NFTs by setting the tokenURI and prompt via onchain data like NFT attributes across collections, price feeds, and evolving based on block num.
- Do you have weekly goals that you’d hit more often under peer pressure?
I try to intermittent fast 3 days a week but regularly fail.
I’m thinking of posting publicly for peer accountability.
Would you do the same for any of your goals?
We’ll add crypto incentives on top ofc. 🤗
- The year is 2028…
AI / SaaS tools costs are now bigger than payroll costs for Seed stage startups.
New grad founder Amit just hit nullM ARR with no other FT employees, 2 human contractors, and 10 autonomous agents. His margins are as incredible as his AWS costs.
- Welcome to Patch Wallet!
- Creating, refining, and testing regex expressions has been my favorite use of ChatGPT so far.
I don't need to know exactly how the expression code works (I'm focused one level higher) but can describe the rules in plan english and update/refine it as test data is passed to it.
Really nice experience. 👌
- Whether you like it or not, memecoin trading has crypto PMF. 🐸
Sure it’s part of the “speculation” sector and it’s got a certain ick to it but it’s got traction.
More than just trading, it includes culture/memes/community/entertainment wrapped together. Very similar to WSBs.
- I’m gonna create a Lens client called Spicy Takes 🌶️
It has politically incorrect and non-mainstream opinions but they are data-driven and reasoned out.
The slogan will be “An Unsafe Space”.
Would you download this app?
- What are examples of airdrop hunting providing real utility?
* Drive users to test early products, chains, and apps
* Boosting social following / RTs
* Deploy capital to DeFi protocols early (solve cold start)
What else?
- Browser : Search :: Wallet : Swap
The Search action happens more often but Swap is more directly monetizable.
Love Internet of Value vs Internet of Information comparisons. They are fun thought experiments.
- You’re onboarding a techie friend into crypto.
What 2 NFT projects / groups do you show them?
What 2 tokens/dapps do you show them?
What’s accessible, fun, and showcases the positive side of crypto?
- Would you pay $10/mo for an ad-free internet?
How would it compare vs what you pay for streaming services each month?
If you could split the money amongst how you spend your attention, which sites/creators would get the most?
Lensters/Wikipedia editors/YouTube creators/thoughtful bloggers/etc
- What's the best way you've incorporated ChatGPT / AI into your workday?
Considering running an AutoGPT session and trying to automate more manual tasks.
- Went to a wedding this weekend and almost nobody asked me about crypto/NFTs/whatshouldIbuy… 🤗
Felt great. Really enjoy bear markets sometimes. 🧘♂️
- Personal feed - Aggregate your notes, photos, social posts, etc across all apps into a chronological timeline with complete privacy.
Similar to the Facebook timeline back in the day but across apps and completely for you with good search. Kind of a digital brain.
Would you use this? What do you use today?
- What’s the best IDE for moving to an AI-driven coding workflow?
VS Code with some plugins? Replit? Others?
Node/React/serverless/Supabase stack.
Just a Sublime guy rn looking to upgrade my tools. 🧰
- Title insurance is going to cost me ~$10k next week. 🤦♂️
Real estate title has always been my favorite blockchain use case. See Meridio below. 🏠👇
It's also the use case that has the most legacy system blockers to running on crypto rails.
Maybe one day anon. One day...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/25/realestate/a-blockchain-building-in-bushwick.html
- Standards for smart contract wallets are maturing fast! Check out the latest from @AlchemyPlatform and @rhinestonewtf. 👇
https://mirror.xyz/konradkopp.eth/V6WjJzDGWfQeTIytmmFAVlug0_yC-W3BM6Q46SlvWGY
https://bit.ly/3UZsmf2
- What Top 10 Lists do you follow the most? Which do you care about the most?
App Store list? Top Grossing movies? Top L2 activity?
Appreciate the feedback. Doing some user research.
- Mr Beast's Law: With no growth, everyone gets 10% less famous each year on the internet due to increased competition for users' attention. If you're not growing, you're shrinking.
It's inflation for social capital.
👆Heard him talk about this on a couple podcasts. Cool to think about. Agree or disagree?
- Is there a VIX for NFT markets yet?
- You're trading on a DEX...
Would be cool if you could input a swap and it generated the swap tx and a backrun tx where you regained the slippage.
Bundle the txs together via multicall or userOps for AA wallets and submit as a group.
- App Store for account abstraction wallets
Would you use this?
- Has anyone just sold pre-funded smart contract wallets via card payment 💳 before?
If you can protect against reasonable chargebacks, it’d be a great onboarding mechanism.
- All that time we've saved from google maps, amazon shopping, wfh, facetime etc…
...all of it goes to 2FA'ing every app on the damn internet 😅
- New screenshot essay on A-line: aggregate orders in a long line to save time.
https://launch.mirror.xyz/WytcMu6mCJN5Ix0TZZwUtDoacJZoP_oktRtoLWTzoVI
[W3P: A-Line](https://launch.mirror.xyz/WytcMu6mCJN5Ix0TZZwUtDoacJZoP_oktRtoLWTzoVI)
Mobile app that connects multiple people in line for tickets, food, swag, etc.
- March 2024: L2s and Rollups incentive apps to build on their chain through block space rewards, just like TVL during the height of DeFi.
Spammers emerge filling up useless block space to farm rewards.
- How would you solve the ENS domain squatting problem?
What’s the best crypto system design you’ve seen for this?
Will tip 🤑 the best reply. 🤝
- “Original sin of web3 was trying to disrupt financial services industry”
Heard this on a crypto policy podcast. Might be sad but true.
But crypto’s most powerful application has always been money vs identity / dec web / privacy / anything else.
- Airdropped $5+ in wETH to the 1st 100 RTs on our product launch announcement! 🪂
If you RT'd and qualified, check app.patchwallet.com/claim. 🎁🤝
Embedded DeFi/NFT primitives (airdrops/tipping/collecting) into familiar social/chat UIs is the future! 🔮
https://twitter.com/patchwallet/status/1635347305615495170
- Digital payments are increasingly everywhere. P2P, B2B, subscription, bnpl, tipping, creator tools, etc.
You don’t think “let me log into my bank and pay Netflix or reimburse a friend”.
Crypto will 10x this trend and similarly you won’t go to MM🦊 every time. Wallets will be embedded with access control.
- Account abstraction is a leapfrog moment for wallets.
We’re just starting to see the differentiated features:
Avocado - Network abstraction and no need for native gas tokens
Patch Wallets - A wallet before you sign up
Safe - Plugins and modules for smart wallets
Biconomy - Gas abstraction & full embedded SDK
- .lens .sol .nouns .apt .btc .bnb
Benefits of name services:
👓 Human-readable alt to address hashes
🌐 Are the original digital property
👯♂️ Lean into the meme/tribal/flexing aspects of the space
💱 Are tradable/speculative
💰 Can create recurring cash-flow for projects
I bet these just become “usernames”.
- Every crypto meme brand should launch a name service.
.nouns
.bayc
.safe
.mask
I will die on this hill.
If you’re a top 5-10 name, in five years you can have continuous cashflow with or without royalties.
DM if you want to collab on this. 🤝
- NFT 1.0 - pfps
NFT 2.0 - usernames
- Account Abstraction is jquery for wallets.
Just like code moving from server to client-side, AA moves some protocol logic to the wallet.
Gas mgmt, managing approvals, permit2, governance delegation, delegate.cash, subscription payments, etc.
Few…
- Introducing Patch Wallet! 🩹
Every twitter, email, & phone number has a wallet automatically that only they can access. No onboarding or custodian.
A new *Wallet Protocol* built on top of EIP-4337! 🤯
https://launch.mirror.xyz/Kwb5Cx_Uj0rrTtR-pnJT0WrVBYa_X-iVpEb1x7SSPNE
[Introducing Patch Wallet](https://launch.mirror.xyz/Kwb5Cx_Uj0rrTtR-pnJT0WrVBYa_X-iVpEb1x7SSPNE)
Every twitter user, email, phone number…has a wallet automatically that only they can access. No onboarding or custodian required.
- Some past fav memories from ETHDenver:
👺 MolochDAO launch live onstage. First major DAO since The DAO and started “investment clubs”
😻 Vitalik rocking the rainbow kitties shirt kind of starting Ethereum fashion culture
🌊 OpenSea presenting about NFT marketplaces in 2018/2019
What others?
- Thoughts on Base:
🔵 Base is the first of 10+ companies to launch their own rollup over the next 1-2 years.
💰 It will be hard to gain market share without protocol incentives in an increasingly competitive space.
🧪 Coinbase still has innovative muscle and that's really great for the ecosystem.
Love this move. 🏆
- 2020: DeFi
2021: NFTs
2022: Bridges
2023: Rollups
2024: Smart Contract wallets
You heard it here first anon.