Attended @farcaster_xyz FarCon last week and concluded that we still live in the great divide of Ethereum (Vibes) vs. Solana (Money). Just like Brooklyn Crypto will rarely cross the bridge to hang out with Manhattan cryptođ«
Brooklyn crypto is vibes and values-focused, using the tech towards a more decentralized internet. Manhattan crypto says no, itâs permissionless money.
Then I ran into folks like @TheRealKartik who angels in both ETH & SOL projects including us (thanks for being in my corner!). And @humpty0x @0xGramajo @ddwchen who are absolutely the ETH đbut found @soon_svmâs #soonBase mainnet to bring SVM builders + Base users together interesting. And weâre going to host a podcast about this! Stay tunedâ€ïž
Time to take the train to Brooklyn and get out of my echo chamber more often đ
â- On one hand you have "Brooklyn Crypto" which is holier than thou, ships "vibes" and is full of Farcaster maxis
- On the other hand you have "Manhattan Crypto" which is where anyone is welcome at meetups, people ship cool shit, alt-VMs and Solana are welcome, and seems to be dominated by X dot com enjoyersâ
this is real asf and i think best understood as finance-/tech-first understanding of crypto.
what he is calling âmanhattan cryptoâ is really people who see crypto primarily as a financial asset that benefits from all market participation. they want to do finance and find crypto to be a convenient place to do it.
what he is calling âbrooklyn cryptoâ is really people who see crypto primarily as a technology with more political goals. they believe there is a right and wrong way to engage with crypto and are unsatisfied with purely financial applications of the tech. theyâre more dogmatic.
TL; DR we @soon_svm launched #soonBase already supporting this cross-chain ecosystem development (SVM builders + Base users)
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