Armani Ferrante (hiring) @armaniferrante Twitter profile

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

6 months

Lads, the time has come. We launched Anchor, the framework. We launched Backpack, the wallet. We launched xNFTs, the protocol, We launched Mad Lads, the community. And now, we launch X.

The Block

@TheBlock__

6 months

Backpack launching cryptocurrency exchange with Dubai license

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

So WTF are xNFTS?

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

We started this company about two years ago. It's been the hardest but most rewarding years of my life. We were down. We were out. Most people thought we were dead. But never did we quit. Never will we quit. And with the conclusion of this round, we are so back.

Backpack 🎒

@Backpack

2 months

We're happy to announce our $17 Million strategic series A round led by @placeholdervc .

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Solana will be fine. DeGods will be fine. Polygon will be fine. Ethereum will be fine. Don’t get lost in the soap opera. We have a long bear to build out of. The amount of users in crypto is pathetic. Focus on solving problems and growing the pie. Ignore everything else.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Right now @solana really feels like a family.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

FUD is your fuel. If you're not getting FUD you're not doing anything important. People will boo you from the stands only because they can't survive in the arena. Congratulations to @weremeow and team for building one of the best products and now communities in the industry.

meow

@weremeow

3 months

Quite intense what we worked so hard to figure out: 1. The fairest, most community first funding we can think of* 2. Have the most accountable token management ritual I’ve ever seen We get fudded and lied about these exact 2 things. CT is intense indeed. Lesson learnt. *Our…

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

Wait what?

DEGEN NEWS 🗞️

@DegenerateNews

5 months

BREAKING: @MadLadsNFT FLIPS @Azuki IN FP

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Are you going to PFP your @MadLadsNFT ?

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Billions of requests. Things that went wrong. - crushed by ddos (and extortion) - coingecko api down - twitter spaces broken - cloudflare ui broken - rpc node 1 data center rugged - rpc node 2 unable to handle capacity - bots trying to rug the public phase Fock it.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

Airdrop entitlement is next level.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

With the large inflow of people and newfound attention directed at @MadLadsNFT , I think it's time to re-introduce old and new friends to exactly what the project is all about. Attention is everything, but you have to earn it.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

The Lads are going to Asia. We’re not focking around.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Are there any @MadLadsNFT I’m not following?

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

It's only now starting to sink in that @MadLadsNFT is a top 10 NFT across all of crypto.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

7 months

With this new feature, I can confidently say @xNFT_Backpack is the safest place to hold your @MadLadsNFT . Introducing NFT collection locking. Quite literally, Only Possible On @solana .

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Don't mint this.

Mad Lads

@MadLads

1 year

On 4/20, Mad Lads will mint for 6.9 SOL.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

LADS FOLLOW LADS comment below 👇

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

Starting off on the right foot. The Exchange Public Beta.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

What if we look back on the @DeGodsNFT bridge to @ethereum as an inflection point for @solana NFTs? There’s now going to be an army of high value Solana native holders on the most valuable NFT chain in the world and that might just be a good thing to break down tribal barriers.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

In your quest for a quick flip, remember this didn't happen over night. We've been at it for a lifetime, @MadLadsNFT for a year. We're going big. 10x bigger than you think. But it's not going to happen over night. It'll take years. Trust in the process, and do the work.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

In general, you have to actively do something to get a reward. If you don't do anything other than buy something, you don't get anything. It's that simple.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

Probably an unpopular take, but @y00tsNFT is some of the cleanest NFT art on any chain.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 years

For every new technology, the pace of innovation exceeds the pace of education. If there's tons of examples to copy and paste, you're late. If you're confused because there's no docs, good. You've discovered a secret that has yet to be revealed to the rest of the world.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

It's so fricken cool seeing BAYC and Punks posting Lads.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Solana, I'm sorry in advance.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

Today, we beginning our journey to bring @Backpack Exchange into the USA. It'll be slow. It'll be steady. It'll be hard. But it'll be worth it.

Backpack 🎒

@Backpack

2 months

USA Welcome to Backpack Exchange. We're going live in 11 states.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

So another crypto startup raises cash in the middle of a bear. Now what? Well, a lot. But first, some history.

◢ J◎e McCann 🧊

@joemccann

2 years

Let’s goooooo @armaniferrante An ‘iPhone launch moment for Web3’? Coral raises $20M from FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto to build Backpack

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

13 days

Reflecting on one year into Mad Lads. How to build community. ❤️

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

What's easy to miss right now is that @Backpack has caught lightning in a bottle outside of CT. We're currently rolling at ~$800M 24h volume. Have done ~$2.5 billion over the past four days. And are competing for the top SOL + SPL markets in the world. 🤯

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

10 months

You might now realize it, but now is the most important time in the cycle. Now is the time to work harder than you have ever worked in your life. Just do it.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

Did someone ask for memecoin prices on @xNFT_Backpack ?

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

Dream big, lads.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

The lowest effort, highest upside thing you can do is like, follow, and retweet all @MadLadsNFT individuals. We are one.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

While it's easy to nitpick this comment with the (important) trade offs @solana makes with its architecture, the sheer scale of what it's attempting to accomplish has never been done before. We should be rooting for the team--along with all the other crazy innovative L1s.

toly 🇺🇸| bip-420

@aeyakovenko

2 years

@GenesysGo . @Cointelegraph there is a tiny typo in the title, should say: Solana, while congested from crippling load, handled more transactions then all the EVM chains combined

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

4 months

Partnership of the year.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

Officially a Bad Kid.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

- no utility - no road map - no market making just art, vibes, and more vibes @MadLadsNFT

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

7 months

A year post FTX and we're still here. Knocked out. Spit on. Kicked on the ground. But we survived. Scars and all, Solana has transcended into an unstoppable force. And although this year has been about survival, it's also been about rebirth. At Breakpoint, I'll share what's next.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

11 months

Honestly after having our heart torn out by FTX, literally, figuratively, and financially, it feels like nothing can stop us.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

If you want to build wealth, stop looking for the next flip and start looking for the group of people you want to spend a life time with.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

8 months

rizzed up

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

Clean.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

11 months

So yet another NFT launches staking, why should you care?

Mad Lads

@MadLads

11 months

dropping in the next 24 hours

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@armaniferrante

1 year

1 billion requests mitigated, oof

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

11 months

Ok so wtf is @MadLadsNFT Soul Abstraction? The guide:

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

- connect your bank - connect your ledger - connect your keys - connect your card - connect your portfolio - connect your dapp - connect your community Anywhere in the world. All inside @xNFT_Backpack .

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

What’s incredible about the @weremeow show is that you have a world class hype man combined with a world class product builder. The combination is deadly.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

I'm sick of losing. Let's get this W.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

this is the announcement of the announcement

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Mad Lads. Locked in.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

I don't care what anyone says. I'm going to blame the outage on cNFTs.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

It's really heart warming to receive messages from people that are supposed to be your competitors. Hard to articulate but I think we've all been battered and bruised so much that it just feels different now. Feeling thankful.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

My brain can't really comprehend this. Punks, Apes, then Lads has always been such a far off, aspirational dream, but turns out we're already living in the Punks, Apes, Pudgies, then Lads moment. 🤯

DEGEN NEWS 🗞️

@DegenerateNews

2 months

BREAKING: @MadLads IS ONE NFT MARKET CAP FLIP AWAY FROM "PUNKS, APES, THEN LADS"

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

8 months

In the four months since launching @MadLadsNFT , I've moved the family across 4 different countries, 5 locations. I've placed all wealth into the company. I've paid myself enough to barely cover rent. We're standing on the beach. Backs against the ocean. No looking back. All in.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

As we reach the end of the staking phase for the inaugural @xNFT_Backpack Exchange beta, some numbers to share from our compliance team. ~ 150k KYC submissions ~ 115 approved ~ 5k rejected ~ 30k pending If we haven't reviewed you, we're working our butts off to get to you.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

Solana is seriously too fun.

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@armaniferrante

1 year

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

Reminder that if you don't want people tracking your wallets, you can restore your privacy by depositing into @Backpack Exchange and immediately withdrawing to a new wallet address.

Phantom

@phantom

2 months

Introducing: Wallet Watcher 👀 Add any wallet as a view-only account in Phantom. 🧐 Watch the wallets of friends, traders, and industry leaders 🧪 Try out Phantom for ETH and BTC before you import 🔍 Discover what top collectors are accumulating

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 months

I don't know who needs to hear this, but, for the record, that was a joke.

Mad Lads

@MadLads

2 months

30 minutes. Season 2. It begins.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

One small step at a time.

Backpack 🎒

@Backpack

6 months

Simple trading of SOL/USDC is live:

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

9 months

fam, we made it

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

yooooooo

Wormhole

@wormhole

5 months

Fock it. Get your Backpacks ready. @MadLadsNFT @xNFT_Backpack

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 month

Using @birdeye_so with the @Backpack side panel is next level.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

4 months

I don't know why prices go up and down, but I do know one thing. Transitioning the world's compute over to state verifiable systems is one of the most important engineering problems of our lifetimes. And we should do everything we can to accelerate that timeline.

@jason

@Jason

4 months

I keep asking folks for actual business or consumer applications that would justify solana being worth [ checks notes ] $46b (!!!) and no one can name a single one that has any scale. What are solana’s revenue or earnings? This isn’t financial advice, but if the market cap is…

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

. @Claynosaurz is a great example of NFTs done right. No rev share. No passive income. No promises. But if their IP is in every household around the world, the artwork becomes a cultural phenomenon.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

10 months

All of crypto Twitter moved over night to a centralized, closed source Twitter clone with zero innovation while collecting all of your data and violating every ounce of privacy you can possibly have. There’s a lesson somewhere in that.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

. @solana pay

GitHub - anza-xyz/solana-pay: A new standard for decentralized payments.

A new standard for decentralized payments. Contribute to anza-xyz/solana-pay development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

2 years

State of the Anchor ⚓️

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

One week into the first phase of the @xNFT_Backpack Exchange Beta, and we've - staked ~370,415 SOL - processed ~170,000 deposits and ~140,000 withdrawals - approved ~116,000 KYC applicants - traded ~500,000 SOL and ~3,250,000.0 PYTH Time to catch a breather.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

You’re used to people fucking around. We ain’t fucking around.

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@armaniferrante

2 months

Crazy token extension wallet flow: - view nft - convert to tokens - swap tokens into SOL - convert tokens to NFT - list NFT on tensor Only possible on @solana . Only possible on @Backpack .

GH0STC0IN

@GH0STC0IN

2 months

This is MASSIVE @Backpack just integrated the FIRST NO-FEE HYBRID De-Fi Bridge in-wallet! Now you can trade the tokens, bridge to NFT, and trade the NFT via @tensor_hq nearly completing the entire arbitrage process all in one seamless wallet UX 🤯WA0 👻💜🎒

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Friends, while others waste their time focusing on hate and anger, digging in every hole and crevice looking for something negative to latch onto, we focus on being kind and building amazing products. That's all that matters.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

Lads on top.

DEGEN NEWS 🗞️

@DegenerateNews

5 months

BREAKING: @solana -BASED @MadLadsNFT BECOMES THE COLLECTION WITH THE HIGHEST 24H NFT SALES VOLUME

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

Note the timestamps

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Ridaaa

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

yoooo we made the Wall Street Journal

*Walter Bloomberg

@DeItaone

6 months

#BITCOIN 🔸Ex-FTX Employees to Launch New Crypto Exchange Called Backpack -- WSJ 🔸Ex-FTX Employees Can Sun, Armani Ferrante, Will Lead the Venture -- WSJ 🔸Backpack Looking to Sell 10% Stake at $100 Million Valuation -- WSJ

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

6 months

162,000 SOL volume in the first hour

Backpack 🎒

@Backpack

6 months

Simple trading of SOL/USDC is live:

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

3 months

Eliminating NFT spam in the next @Backpack release.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

4 months

Looking for artists for something new. Apply by sending me a custom @MadLads .

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 year

The most impactful mind shift is to stop thinking of yourself as a holder and start thinking of yourself as a contributor. Once that happens, anything’s possible.

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

1 month

Help us test the @Backpack Exchange mobile beta:

Backpack

Backpack - Crypto wallet and exchange

backpack.app

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Armani Ferrante (hiring)

@armaniferrante

5 months

2024 will be year of @MadLadsNFT

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@armaniferrante

1 year

I know there's a lot of you that have been in @solana since the beginning, don't have a @MadLadsNFT WL, want one, but for some reason haven't messaged me (you're probably too busy). MESSAGE ME!

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@armaniferrante

1 year

Real talk. The majority of us have been getting rugged left and right by NFT projects pitching grandiose roadmaps and larping around as creators when they're really just totally incompetent startups. You want utility? Screw that.

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@armaniferrante

6 months

Can someone tell the charts to chill. The devs need to code.

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@armaniferrante

3 months

Get some rest folks. Tomorrow we ship a new release. 👀

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@armaniferrante

6 months

Clayno showing what they're made of, and it inspires the hell out of me. This team is next level.

Claynosaurz

@Claynosaurz

6 months

Welcome to Claynotopia 🌋

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@armaniferrante

2 months

As we continue to grow, as new friends come into the @MadLads fold and start learning about who we are, it's important to stay grounded. It's on each and every one of us to remind people of our values as a collective. It's a rug. Send it to zero.

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@armaniferrante

1 year

Free the BONKz! Use @MagicEden 's Open Creator Protocol (OCP) on @xNFT_Backpack -- now. 🐶

BONK!!!

@bonk_inu

1 year

$BONK is meant to be open source for everyone to build upon. We are disappointed to see an exchange limit trading using OCP. We hope industry players re-evaluate this decision so $BONK can continue to help highlight the composability of Solana.

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@armaniferrante

1 year

Solana nfts have never felt stronger.

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@armaniferrante

2 months

So fast there’s no loading indicator. @Backpack Exchange coming to mobile, soon.

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@armaniferrante

1 year

IF YOU GOT A RUG IN PUBLIC LETS FOCKING SEE THEM

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@armaniferrante

5 months

Loyalty, loyalty, loyalty.

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@armaniferrante

5 months

The amount of attention the @MadLadsNFT community can generate is insane.

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@armaniferrante

2 years

The level of disrespect and cognitive dissonance in the Solana community around Serum is alarming. Should've spent the past year building scam AMM farms and launching NFTs instead of public goods everyone uses.

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@armaniferrante

3 months

Lads next.