DeTribe

celeb meta summary there's a lot of new people currently entering crypto because of how easy it is to launch coins now imo there is two pathways to musicians/artists/celebs joining crypto 1) value additive 2) value extractive in large most celebs fall into the 2) bucket by launching coins or NFT projects that only last for a few weeks, or by given bad advice by people on their teams or close to them who legit intend to rug the project quickly for low-mid 6 figures the ease of launching projects makes it extremely easy for retail to speculate on new launches quickly, so if celebs control a large % of the supply that is instantly liquid they can sell early killing the project people like sahil & others will offer cash up front for little to no work like posting a contract address or recording a video about the token -> launch token -> rug it same day nobody in crypto is going to buy these coins now that people are aware another issue is that there were not many actual applications last cycle outside of DeFi for celebs to use that made sense for their fanbases, this is slightly different this cycle 1) value additive, is the more ideal way of celebs joining crypto from my pov this looks like, investing your capital into crypto startups, buying tokens that are already actively trading, interacting with the crypto community & using the protocols that already exist if you do this before launching any project, it is a lot more likely that it will be received well by the crypto community because they'll see that you are interested in learning about the space & being involved long term. A lot of celebs rug for low 6 figures when they could be making mid high 7 figures or more if they move the correct way. A good example of this is Nas with his coinbase investment, more recently a good example imo is Saquon with his Monad investment + BTC. as far as which crypto apps you could be using, @drip_haus is the most popular social app on solana currently, you can think of it similar to a decentralized youtube where fans can interface directly with artists. Instead of earning ad revenue from Google, drip pays artists & musicians through direct tipping from consumers of their art. There are weekly "drops" where artists can release vlogs, art, music snippets, or anything else they want to & consumers tip them for those releases, then those are converted into NFTs that live forever on the @solana blockchain some other apps @friendtech - tradable fan clubs / social tokens on @base @follows_app - tradable fan clubs / social tokens on @solana w/ other features @audius - decentralized spotify @moolah - turns people's time into a tradable token, people can exchanve specific amounts of time for a message, video call, or other activity, makes sense for those who have super fans who want to interact with them other general apps to use in crypto @jito - staking solana @JupiterExchange - decentralized exchange aggregator for trading on solana @BullpenFi - trading bot for trading alts on solana @marginfi & @KaminoFinance - lending/borrowing stables & coins on solana @TipLinkOfficial - cashapp on solana for onboarding new people @tensor_hq - trading NFTs on solana don't just immediately launch a pump fun token, & don't listen to anything sahil has to say many others also willing to give advice on here, writing this because I am getting tagged by someone new every other day