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Excited to announce @variantfund led a $6.7M seed in @oncyber_xyz, home to the best immersive 3D experience for NFTs. Cyber’s gallery spaces recently hit a ~$40M market cap and are populated with digital art collections worth well in excess of $100M How’d we get here? 🧵

I think we’ll realize that the early text-to-image “prompt-based” era of GenAI undermined creativity while the “controls” era unleashed human creativity in unimaginable ways. the tools evolve, but creative vision, precision, taste, and skills will be more vital than ever before.

You might not “own” your Twitter followers (you can’t take them if you leave), but you get to leverage the platform for distribution. You could theoretically launch your own version of Twitter if you want more ownership - but it’s practically useless if there’s no one there to read your tweets.

A better Twitter tip system than the tip jar: - $0.01 to like a tweet - $0.05 to retweet - $0.10 to post a reply 70% go to the tweet author, and Twitter keeps 30%.

Homogeneity of style: A Substack newsletter can have an About page, but that’s it. There will never be anything like Nadia’s notes which are a regularly updated half-baked stream of consciousness, or Guzey’s list of Tweets or even Nintil’s categories.