I’ve submitted DEGENBID to the @colosseum Crypto World’s Fair hackathon. Hitting submit finally gave me a moment to look back at the past month. When you spend every day fixing the next thing, it’s easy to forget how much has changed. I’m building @degenbidfun around a simple idea: give crypto communities a shared goal they can actually see. Find your project. Back it with a bid. Move it up the leaderboard together. Every accepted bid contributes to the team’s score and records the individual supporter’s contribution. That idea took a lot of work to turn into a usable product. A month ago, we were still discussing how to move the platform’s mechanics into our own smart contracts. Since then, I’ve built and deployed the BIDCOIN protocol on Robinhood Chain, with six-hour bidding rounds, season standings, reward claims, referrals, and automated round transitions. Then came the work of making participation easier: • Payments across EVM and Solana. Route discovery, quotes, wallet linking, approvals, and recovering the flow when someone switches to their wallet app and comes back. • A better mobile experience. Reworked navigation, search, filters, reward access, and bid confirmations. DEGENBID can also be installed on a phone as a PWA. • More ways to discover projects. Tokens, NFT collections, and Web3 projects now have dedicated profiles. I added a community map, token charts, recent trades, holders, and built-in buying and selling. • Participation through Telegram. The bot supports BID purchases and team bids, with shareable cards that let people bring their project into other chats. • Season 2 and UPBIDER. Launched on October 10, with competition standings, personal progress, tickets, and participation rules. Behind all of that were days spent on indexing, database queries, RPC limits, caching, security fixes, and checking that the interface reflects what actually happened onchain. The biggest lesson this month came from the small details. Returning from a wallet app. Understanding an approval. Finding your team. Seeing your bid reflected on the board. Each of those moments can determine whether someone completes the flow or leaves. I also presented DEGENBID at @SuperteamUKR Ukraine’s Demo Day 🇺🇦. Explaining the product out loud helped me step back from individual features and focus on the experience I want communities to have. The final submission is in. My next focus is bringing more communities into the arena, watching where people get stuck, and learning what gives them a reason to return. Thanks to Superteam Ukraine, everyone who tried the product, and everyone who gave me direct feedback along the way. If you run a token, NFT, or Web3 community, I’d love to see you try it and hear what you’d improve.

Yesterday I demoed @degenbidfun at Superteam Ukraine’s Demo Day 🇺🇦 @SuperteamUKR A week ago, I had a very different version to show. Since then, I’ve shipped: • An interactive community map and richer project pages • UPBIDER Season 2 competition pages, standings and supporter profiles • Telegram bot updates for buying BID and tracking purchases • A smoother bidding flow, plus a lot of mobile UX fixes The idea behind DEGENBID is simple: back your token community, move it up the onchain leaderboard, and make that support visible. Presenting it helped me step back from the code and explain why I’m building it. Big thanks to Superteam Ukraine for the opportunity. My Colosseum submission is almost ready. A few final pieces to wrap up, then it’s time to hit submit. Try it and tell me where you get stuck 👇