Zagabond

Azuki has changed lives.

Some people sold and left. A few said thanks, most didn’t and that’s fine. No one owes me anything.

My focus is on the ones who are here today.

We’re not looking back. We’re building something they’ll wish they never faded.

Azuki is taking web3 to Cannes Lions, the world’s biggest festival for brands & culture.

Next week, our head of franchise (@MissJess_T) will be on stage with Dentsu sharing how we’re building a web3 anime brand for the next generation.

Azuki

TradFi and crypto are merging. Soon it’ll all just be called finance.

Twitter pfps were the first digital real estate that gave NFTs a place for us to flex.

Punk w/ fidenza bg… it gave you instant status. That led to the last NFT bull run.

Twitter was on the right track with verified NFT pfps, tipping, etc. But then the X rebrand came along and the roadmap became less clear.

Now enter Telegram.

It’s what we all use as the primary messaging app in thjs space. What’s dope is that crypto is embedded, which enables an ecosystem of mini apps, NFT gifts and stickers, and games.

And it reaches 1b users. That’s 2x compared to X.

X still has the edge in viral broadcast. TG is built for deep communities but the lines are blurring. X now has private chats. TG is scaling public channels.

Pfps were just the start. Imagine your entire chat screen as digital real estate. I think that’s where we’re headed.

As NFTs grow across new chains, Ethereum NFTs will only become more iconic.

Nothing beats watching real communities form around NFTs.

100k onchain holders of @animecoin!

The first sector coin that represents the most powerful fandom in the world.

$ANIME is anime.

Ethereum.

A strong meme/ticker captures attention. Culture and fundamentals keep it.

Volatility is inevitable. But when the vision is clear, every downturn is an opportunity to strengthen the movement.

That’s the beautify of Anime 2.0.
$ANIME is anime.

They say they miss the old Azuki from 2022.

The reality is, if we stayed the same, we’d be dead.

Back then royalties were flowing and the playbook was different. Sticking to that model is a losing strategy. Instead, we expanded further on our vision for an open anime universe.

Anime.​com is on its way to becoming the #1 fandom platform for a billion anime fans.

Animecoin is trading on major exchanges with nearly $200M volume in the past 24 hours, onboarding new holders daily.

And Azuki is the brand and community leading the way.

The Azuki IP is resonating globally with millions of views on our content, and the key animator for Akira came out of retirement to work on our next anthology episode. Japan is paying attention - the biggest anime publishers are spinning up their own web3 teams inspired by what we've built.

The $ANIME army is growing with Azuki in charge.

And we're just getting started...

The biggest Azuki initiative yet? Still to come this year.

The next generation of anime creators will have the tools, capital, and distribution to build the future of anime.

We're seeing it with Azuki. And the rest of the world is next.

Animecoin

Verified human tweets

A keyboard SDK that timestamps your keystrokes and compresses into a ZK hash, signs with your wallet, and auto tags each post you make on twitter.

Twitter then verify the proof and you get a “Human Verified ☑️” tag on your tweet.

Who's building this?

Most "web3 games" are just traditional games but with tokens. Nothing wrong with that but I do think the category name isn't fully accurate.

The real web3 games to me are memecoins, pumpfun, $LOUD, etc.

These are money games that blend capital markets, social mechanics and attention loops.

So if we reframe memecoins as games, the question becomes: how do we make them more fun, fair, and less extractive?

That’s where the innovation is headed.

I like Loudio (don’t have any tokens).

Because it’s important to me that we experiment within web3. That’s how novel things are born. Or it “fails”, but a small nugget inspires a future success.

At the same time we also gotta be loud outside of web3. That’s also how we grow the space.

This belief is why I’ve pushed Azuki to do some nerd stuff like working w flashbots on TEE apps ie Bobu magic show.

And at the same time, why I’m excited to be on stage at the largest convention in LA to talk about anime 2.0

Congrats @spencer on the Moonbirds acquisition! Great to see web3 IP in capable hands.

Yuga focusing on Apes makes sense, so this move feels like a good fit for both sides. There's real synergy between web3 IP and TCGs, excited to see that play out here.

Crypto makes the world more malleable.

Markets shape perception. And perception shapes reality.

AI slop is getting a bit better. They don't all start with a question followed by a statement like

"Azuki is web3 anime huh? Now that's a tagline that hits hard."

But let's see what we get in the comments here lol

Original Goku genga secured from a recent trip to Tokyo.

I would draw DBZ for hours as a kid. And the left facing side profile just instantly reminded me of Azuki. Really happy I found this one.

I’m bullish on collecting genga and cel sheets from iconic anime. Physical NFTs 😂

Step by step towards Anime 2.0

Animecoin

Azuki is web3 anime.