A reading from the book of rooster:
To be clear from the jump: I take no credit for or ownership of the ideas here. I view growing this DAO as a collaborative effort and encourage anyone inspired by anything I say or do to steal it and make it their own. In that same spirit, I feel like I’m on the ball here and I’m going to run it, no matter what name is on it.
Disclaimer done. Now what is a stored ape?
Take the coolest NFT you can imagine and stick it on a phonon card. Stash it somewhere hard to find and set out an elaborate series of puzzles and clues that point to its location. Market the contest to all the NFT degens, crypto-nerds who like solving puzzles, and anyone who wants that sweet sweet blockchain approved pointer to an image file. All you need is time, wits, and a phonon-capable device.
From here, I can imagine similar contests at every hackathon and crypto con. A physical faucet that checks if a phonon card has already used it, and if not will output phonon-bound PHONON token, native phonon, a POAP, whatever. Some kind of solar powered device might be used for something like geocaching, holding a single NFT at a time and automatically accepting a swap for any other phonon-bound NFT.
For a while I’ve been selling Phonon Protocol as the last-mile for crypto, the avenue for those chain-bound billions to reach the real world and start acting like real money. The more I think and talk with all of you, the more I realize I only hit part of the target with my pitch. As someone who has poo-poo’d NFTs for a long time, I think I’m starting to see them as the way we get the humans that don’t find joy in figuring out tokenomics or governance or how to build a financial system that is free and honest…how we get those people to join the Phonon revolution.