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Co-founder & CEO @AlloraLabsHQ Building @AlloraNetwork ✳️

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Nick Emmons
4 months
Really excited to share what we're been working on with @AlloraNetwork , a self-improving decentralized AI network. Allora introduces incentives for different ML models to simultaneously evaluate and learn from other models on the network. These incentives are a critical
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
4 months
Today we are thrilled to introduce @AlloraNetwork , a new self-improving decentralized AI network. A 🧵 on what Allora is, what it means for decentralized AI, and Upshot's role in the network 👇
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@petergyang your 3 suggestions for improvement strictly make this email worse lol
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2 years
Just sold a @BoredApeYC to buy 36 @CryptoDickbutts — AMA
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2 years
once a @doodles , always a doodle
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2 years
Calling 20 ETH floor for @CryptoDickbutts within 9 months
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3 years
Uniswap vs Sushi is the Apple vs Microsoft of our time
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2 years
might sell another @BoredApeYC to sweep more @CryptoDickbutts
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9 months
Excited to share a longer piece I've been working on about AI x Crypto and how it will transform financial markets. [Link to the article itself in the tweets below.]
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2 years
i did it again i now own 1 less ape and 22 more dickbutts
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2 years
Just sold a @BoredApeYC to buy 36 @CryptoDickbutts — AMA
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buying more dickbutts
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2 years
welcome to gooch island @diplo
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10 months
The world of NFT financialization is growing. 🔮 With NFTs expanding beyond just collectibles, pioneers are using DeFi mechanics to inject liquidity into these assets, creating novel financial markets. Let's explore the current state of NFT financialization 👇
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2 years
Rolling some of the $APE airdrop into @CryptoDickbutts
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just bought 65 more @CryptoDickbutts
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2 years
work-to-earn
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3 years
Real-time NFT prices are going to be a game-changer. We haven't even scratched the surface of what's possible with these things yet.
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2 years
Newest member of the family
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1 year
miladys are such an easy buy. they are more or less *the* “defi x nft collection” as a result, derivative/levered exposure to them is supported early on in most protocols and relatively liquid being a focal point in nascent derivative markets is more powerful than most think
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3 years
It's a big day for Upshot 🎉 Working on tools for NFT price-discovery and peer prediction is the most fulfilling work I've ever done I want to thank our investors and community for letting us spend our time solving these problems Real-time NFT price feeds are around the corner
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
3 years
Thrilled to announce we've just raised $7.5 million in a round led by @hiFramework , @coinfund_io , and @blockchaincap 🎉 This catalyzes our journey to real-time NFT price feeds powered by crowdsourced appraisals. Stay tuned. 👉
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2 years
just bought 40 more @CryptoDickbutts
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3 months
Crypto millionaire buys everyone a shot at Cheesecake Factory
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2 years
Newest member of my dickbutt family -- clean
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2 years
Just gave a talk about pricing dickbutts and all the dickbutt defi primitives we’re gonna make
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2 years
I'm long banner nfts @PunkScape
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2 months
very bullish on the @cosmos stack this cycle
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2 years
just bought 12 more @CryptoDickbutts after that spaces -- best community in crypto 1D=1B
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5 months
the $TAO token-per-subnet update is bullish
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2 years
Paying out our first @CryptoDickbutts employee referral bonus (3 ETH worth of dickbutts for every referral we end up hiring @UpshotHQ )
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2 years
gave these cleanbois a new home today @CryptoDickbutts
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2 months
ai x crypto will be a $1T category by the end of this cycle
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2 years
appreciating my rocky dickbutt this morning, my personal fav good example of a dickbutt making up for a lack of rarity (one of the least rare in the collection) by being so clean and cohesive
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Nick Emmons
3 years
Officially done being a Bostonian. Next stop, New York.
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2 years
Fighting the urge to buy 100 more dickbutts rn
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3 years
Nice
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3 years
Facts - @SiaTechHQ will be the most successful decentralized storage network
@philcampbell
Phil 'dm' Campbell
3 years
if you are looking to decentralize this year, i'd heartily look at everything that @SiaTechHQ are doing, they have real world applications that are up and running now, already, worth making the swap to similar services you already use.
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2 years
about to turn on appraisals for ~10,000 nft collections
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2 years
@MikeMcDonald89 @BoredApeYC @CryptoDickbutts I didn’t know dickbutts could be sold tbh
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Nick Emmons
26 days
At Upshot, we have been focused on leveraging decentralized networks and AI to create efficient market structures for long-tail, nebulous resources. With @AlloraNetwork , we’ve taken what we built over the past 3+ years at Upshot to build a coordination layer for the world’s
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
26 days
Upshot is now Allora Labs ✳️ Upshot has been an integral part of our journey, but as we've evolved so must our identity. As core contributors to @AlloraNetwork , a more appropriate name is fitting: We are Allora Labs, and our mission is to commoditize the world's intelligence.
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2 years
Hamily paint night w/ @GeorgiaOEth @sailobots
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2 years
might spin up a @CryptoDickbutts otc desk now
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3 years
Remember when we met doge irl
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Nick Emmons
3 years
Insurance is my bread and butter and I wanted to share some thoughts about what this MassMutual news means for the crypto space. 👇
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Nick Emmons
2 years
idea: an nft collection that lets you pay a fee to "shuffle" your nfts' metadata/traits would keep the collection fresh and create a non-dilutive revenue stream for the collection's dao and who doesn't like rolling the dice sometimes
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3 years
The layer 2 landscape just got a lot more interesting 🍿 Two DeFi giants living on different L2's (Aave on Polygon & Synthetix on Optimism) is very bullish for interop protocols like @HopProtocol
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2 months
$1T decentralized AI market cap by the end of this cycle is the bear case
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2 years
The new @UpshotHQ merch is 🔥
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Nick Emmons
4 years
Time to announce Upshot One - a new question & answer protocol we’ve been working on. It leverages recent innovations in a field of mechanism design called peer prediction to incentivize honest answers to questions.
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
4 years
Introducing Upshot One: a question & answer protocol
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Nick Emmons
1 year
Checks - Dickbutt Edition ⏰Ends Feb 8 at 4:20pm 🔓Open Edition ✨ 0.00420 ETH @jackbutcher x @CryptoDickbutts The math checks out. 1D=1B
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2 years
“I love saying things like, "It's lit," or, "That's fire." I love those turns of phrase. And people are like, "That's not professional." And I'm thinking, "Go f**k yourself. Honestly, go eat a d**k."” - @Melt_Dem , 2022
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Nick Emmons
3 years
2021 @UpshotHQ on-site in Joshua Tree ✅
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3 years
We're proud to be building on Skynet at @UpshotHQ . Free access to information in combination with subjective truth-telling incentives gives users control over how the internet is organized (instead of centralized orgs controlling what we see). The future is decentralized.
@DavidVorick
David Vorick
3 years
10/ It's been my pleasure to be a part of a community dedicated to reviving Internet freedom. We call ourselves Terminators, and we're building a future called Skynet. Because in a timeline where Donald Trump can be President, Skynet can save humanity.
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Nick Emmons
2 years
. @doodles and @CryptoDickbutts go together so well might need to sweep some dicklebutts soon
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Nick Emmons
2 years
The *other* flippening is getting close..
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Nick Emmons
4 months
To effectively decentralize AI, we need to build systems that enable machine learning models to learn from each other over time. That's what we're building with @AlloraNetwork , a self-improving decentralized AI network. Read the rest of my op-ed here:
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Nick Emmons
3 years
The best communities are on @urbit
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Nick Emmons
2 years
👀👀👀
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
2 years
We're excited to announce that we just closed our $22M Series A2, led by Polychain Capital, to help us scale our development of the leading real-time NFT appraisals and tools for novel NFT x DeFi primitives.
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2 months
AI x crypto will play a bigger role in bringing crypto 'mainstream' this cycle than the ETFs will
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Nick Emmons
4 years
This is the most exciting decentralized storage news of the day 👇
@SkynetLabs
Skynet Labs
4 years
A new era is upon us. We are proud to announce the launch of SkyDB - the final building block by Skynet that enables next-generation applications to compete with the siloed centralized web.
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2 years
happy birthday @CryptoDickbutts
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1 year
great day for a bang
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2 years
The physical world is the future
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2 years
@Cokedupoptions Uber is a $70 billion company with this logo
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Nick Emmons
3 years
Open Beta time for Upshot. Get in there, appraise NFTs, get paid, have some fun 🎉 The goal of this open beta is to get user feedback and improve the product before an official launch. If you have any, jump into the Discord and let us know!
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Nick Emmons
2 months
decentralized compute 🤝 collective intelligence
@AlloraNetwork
Allora
2 months
We are proud to partner with @ionet_official to unlock secure AI development with improved computational efficiency and model accuracy in the compute layer of the AI stack. Click below to read more about our partnership:
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3 years
Upshot has a new home page & featured section 👀 @UpshotHQ
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2 years
some late night bangs
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7 months
A core value prop of crypto is that it enables us to financialize *anything*. The latest example of this is via @RacerLoans -- enabling people to take out loans against @friendtech keys. Loans are powerful as they can be used to hedge your risks, or gain leverage by loaning
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1 year
so cool seeing our front end lead @iRyanBell on the front page of @artblocks_io today -- hype for the drop tomorrow 🔥
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2 years
!math
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2 years
all I care about is how *clean* my nfts are
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2 years
dickbutt floor just passed 3 eth 👀
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2 years
Just sold a @BoredApeYC to buy 36 @CryptoDickbutts — AMA
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2 years
Upshot appraisals are now live on Genie 👀 This adds a powerful new dimension to sweeping and is a big step towards creating more mature NFT investing tools.
@geniexyz
Genie 🧞‍♂️🧹
2 years
📢 The alpha you need in this market Genie now shows you expert appraisals powered by AI with industry-leading accuracy from @UpshotHQ 🤝 🔍 Spot deals in 300+ collections 💸 Simplify your pricing research with ML ⚡️️See hourly updates Save time. Save money. Only on Genie. ✨
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2 years
PSA: @CryptoDickbutts never depeg 1D=1B always
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1 year
sneak peek 👀 @UpshotHQ wallet labels incl. labels for gooch island citizens
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2 years
deal of the day: just grabbed this mutant at a 30% discount @BoredApeYC
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2 years
If it’s not a grail, it’s a floor
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2 years
"don't be a dick, be a dickbutt" - @aIekslarsen
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3 months
AGI will be created on decentralized infrastructure
@Uptodatenow
Lucas Tcheyan
3 months
The driving force behind ongoing experimentation at the intersection of crypto and AI is the same that drives much of crypto’s most promising use cases - access to a permissionless and trustless coordination layer that better facilitates the transfer of value.
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Nick Emmons
11 months
Excited to share how @UpshotHQ 's appraisals performed in the @Sothebys Grails II auction yesterday. Our appraisals vs final prices (excluding the goose): Upshot Appraisals: $4,879,364 Final Prices (including Buyer Premium): $4,731,004 % difference: 3.14% Full blog post soon
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Nick Emmons
2 years
@CryptoDickbutts @UpshotHQ @geniexyz Okay one more referral bonus paid out tonight. These two handpicked specimens for a new team member our CMO, @ckingsley , referred :)
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2 years
Would the ticker for a @CryptoDickbutts token be $DICK or $BUTT?
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2 years
got my first pair of crocs today sourcing manufacturers to turn my @CryptoDickbutts into jibbitz now
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6 months
I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on as part of our goal to bring decentralized AI to DeFi. The @UpshotHQ Machine Intelligence Network is the culmination of years spent evolving and fine-tuning our approach as a company. Two and a half years ago, we built a
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
6 months
Announcing the Upshot Machine Intelligence Network. This is a first step in merging AI with DeFi. The network uses a new “Proof of Alpha” mechanism which rewards users for the alpha they contribute. The result is a scalable, self-improving AI network optimized for DeFi. 🧵
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9 months
It’s time to lay out my bull thesis for @friendtech and why it’s different from similar platforms like @BitClout . The most fundamental difference between the two is in which Network “laws” apply to them. More specifically: Metcalfe’s Law vs Reed’s Law.
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Nick Emmons
1 year
NFT markets are maturing. With new NFT financial primitives coming online and gaining adoption, the NFT space is entering a new era: Welcome to the era of leverage and volatility. Wrote a quick post outlining this: Post summarized in thread below 🧵
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@nick_emmons
Nick Emmons
1 year
Here are the *initial* @UpshotHQ estimates: Upshot has a proven track record of providing reliable NFT valuations, more accurately reflecting their true market value. Accurate estimates are integral in safeguarding & maximizing returns for 3AC creditors.
@Sothebysverse
Sotheby's Metaverse
1 year
Mark your calendars for GRAILS: Part II, the largest-ever live auction of digital art happening at Sotheby's New York on 15 June! Discover highlights in the thread below 👇 #SothebysGRAILS 📌 Bidding open 1 - 15 June
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Nick Emmons
2 years
Upshot is live today 🙂 I'll be releasing more content over the next few weeks about how our ML models work, the new NFTfi primitives we're building with them, etc. I'm very proud of what our team has accomplished & excited to show everyone what else we've been working on 🚀
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
2 years
1/ Upshot is officially open to the public! For the first time, our NFT appraisal infrastructure is available to everyone 💪
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6 months
This collaboration (and the zkPredictor) marks an important milestone in decentralized AI. As we have been reminded in the past couple of days, decentralization is important. Too often, centralization exposes us and our most important systems to malicious actions made by
@AlloraLabsHQ
Allora Labs
6 months
We're excited to officially announce our partnership with @ModulusLabs . With them, we've built the zkPredictor: the world's first zkML price predictor. Here's how you can use it, and what it means for DeFi 🧵 👇
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1 year
the biggest problem I have with being on camera during meetings is that it hinders my ability to pace around the room while talking to people
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Nick Emmons
3 years
Leveraged upside exposure to BTC on Ethereum through @PolymarketHQ is a marriage of some of the coolest things in crypto (bitcoin, ethereum, and prediction markets).
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2 years
It’s nice to see crypto projects expand into brick & mortar
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They're not "bots", they're "agents"
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10 months
just minted many s4 @CryptoDickbutts feels good
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2 years
It’s not capitulation until the LA influencers decide not to go to nft nyc
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Nick Emmons
2 years
MRE (Median Relative Error) is a measure of how accurate NFT appraisals are. An MRE of 12.75% means appraisals are usually off by about 12.75%. Industry-leading MRE is (sorry, was) ~8-9% w/ most models being between 10-20%. @UpshotHQ just achieved a CryptoPunks MRE of 2.5%
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The intersection of AI and crypto will be a major leap forward in how efficient markets can be and how many domains they can be used in (especially long-tail domains). This era of "hyper-financialization" will make markets a much more fundamental part of how we coordinate as a
@CoinDesk
CoinDesk
3 months
"We are moving into an era of hyper-financialization, in which anything that can become financialized will be. And it will culminate at the intersection of AI and crypto," says @nick_emmons @UpshotHQ . Opinion.
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“We are all going to die” is as indisputable as 1D=1B
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