Hourglass Dapp Launched!
Hourglass Collective has announced its Dapp launch. The project team has organized a X Spaces coverage on December 24th, 2023 to talk about main pillars with the colleagues from ecosystem and collective. If you would like to listen full coverage here it is a decoded text. The text might have some typos but mainly corrected.
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Jett (Host)
Hey guys, we’re just going to give it another minute or so to let everybody get in here and then we’re going to get started. It’s going to be an amazing spaces. Really excited to have Coach K here. A lot of legends here. Jared is here Goalie dude Psychonaut Braha.
And you probably have seen a lot of talk about Hourglass. A lot of people are confused as to what’s going on. They know that we got some stuff going on behind the background. Suddenly everyone’s talking about us. And here we’re going to finally really shed some light as to what what is going on and this is what we’re going to do.
We’re first going to just talk about the Dapp launch itself. That’s coming up and then we’re going to go backwards and we’re gonna talk about some of the very, very basics of hourglass, because we’ve recently had a bunch of new people come in and a lot of them We need to review who’s involved, how incredible the leadership team is, some key points about the token, the Tokenomics, the origin story, so to speak. And then what we want to do is that we want to, I want to introduce you to some of the leaders here. Coach K has been incredible. You can kind of see it in the weight chart ever since he he came on.
The resources that he’s brought on as an educator, as a super connector, as a his alpha group, his his KOL network and reach has been amazing. Same thing with goalie dude here. Make sure you’re following him. He’s a speaker, Jared. He’s been a Kol super connector.
Suddenly, if you’re suddenly seeing all these folks that are tweeting about Hourglass, who are pretty important people in crypto, it’s because Jared and Braha have have been spreading the word like crazy and they’ve done an incredible job. Also, follow Crypto Psychonaut. Let me invite you to speak. I just Psychonaut dude you got to accept the invite to speak when you get a chance and so we’re gonna you’re gonna meet the team unfortunately Brian Evans who who’s been instrumental in all all of this and he was a actually a huge part of the whole evolution of hourglass into this launch station. He unfortunately can’t make it because he is literally at the airport with relatives you want to be here but he he’ll be in a future spaces and he he’s amazing.
And lastly, what we’re gonna do after you meet the team, the very we’re going to save the best for the last. Because if you have a launch station, what you need is you need an epic road map of launches that we’re involved with. And we’ve so far only really revealed the very, very, very tip of the iceberg. There are so many projects that we are collaborating with and working with and partnering with that are going to be involved with the hourglass launch station. It’s really going to blow minds and this is going to take place throughout all of 2024.
Not only do we have over 10 projects that are going to be involved with the hourglass launch station, some of the some of what I think are the absolute best projects in web three period are the deal flow is just incredible. And and I’m everyday myself Brian, Jeff we’re I mean we’re in back-to-back to back meetings and exploring new opportunities and and creating new alliances and that’s that’s really what Web three is all about. It’s about creating these alliances and everyone wins together and so, so let let’s get started with the nitty gritty. So the first thing that I just want everyone to know is that we’ve decided that we are going to officially launch the Dapp and make it available for weight staking on on December 30th. And so that’s just seven days from now.
We didn’t want it to get in the way of you know, like the literally Christmas Eve, Christmas, the day after. And so it just made sense to have it. We wanted it to be this year, it’s very, very soon. So I mean it gives some time people some time also if they need to get their weight in order to in order to stake it then they can do that. But that’s just days away.
So a little bit more about the the launch station it and the Dapp is, it’s a very, very simple Dapp to begin with. And what it does is this, you’re able to stake your weight and then you gain what is called Hourglass Power Points based on two very, very simple algorithms factors. And one of them is just how much weight you staked. And then the other one is you can choose a staking term. So you can choose like one month, three months, six months a year.
And the longer the term, the faster your Power Points accumulate. So this way you’re you’re gaining points via time itself so that it’s good to be in early because you’re accumulating Power Points the the whole time as it rather than if you start six months from now then you’re then you’re not you’re missing the that. Where you could be accumulating them. And obviously if you have more weight it’s better and and if you stake for a longer period you’re showing more commitment to our ecosystem in the long term. So you accumulate the points faster and it’s very, very simple and what it allows us to do is that via that we create a very, very fair ranking and you can see your ranking right there.
And and that is the basis for being part of our, I mean our basically our our Skull and Bones group that that grants you early access to all these launches that we’re that we’re working on. So every single launch is going to have a different methodology. Some of them are going to be where basically the higher you are ranked the basically the more allocation you may get. It may there may be cut offs where you you can, if you’re higher ranked you can get into pre seed or if you’re middle ranked you get into seed. There’s other scenarios where every single person who participates will be able to get into a into a round that the public can’t.
So even if you just meet the very, very minimum requirement of 1000 weight staked and you just did this a day ago, suddenly you’re part of our family and part of our team. And in addition to that, we’re going to, we’re going to have some fun randomized events because we don’t want it to be just purely to the point where these people get ahead and then it’s just the same people over and over and over winning everything. So make no mistake if you are top ranked you will automatically get top allocation and preference to everything as well as reward drops. But we’re we will do some fun things where there’s random some randomization also where like in the lower the medium tiers there might be you have a higher chance if you have more points but you’re not out of the game if you’re behind someone. So we’re going to mix up all of these and basically have a system where you can participate in our deal flow.
And so for a lot of folks who thought of Hourglass, what they remember is the TV show, like we produced this TV show called The Next Crypto Jam. Brian Evans was one of the judges. George Cryptos arrest Leia Halpern. And that was a fun little project, but it was just a fun little project and we were doing so much more. We were incubating projects the whole time like Alpha District, a web three-game inverse where you had so, so many more things going on.
And I think what we really found out was that people like yeah that was cool you did a TV show. But what people really, really wanted was access to our deal flow and that’s what we did this we wanted to create a vehicle where anybody with with part of our that’s part of the hourglass community is, is the insider with us on all these on on all of these projects that we’re working on. So what I want to do now is talk a little bit about the very, very basics and then we’re going to get into the really fun stuff where we meet the team and we talk about the actual road map of incubated projects and then bring on some guests. Some great folks that we know here like Shiney D, Koko are here, love to have them have them chat and chime in and talk a little bit about what they’re doing. So just wanted for for the folks that are new, we did not launch the hourglass token, it was launched by an anonymous developer.
100% of the tokens are circulating and that’s very important because there’s zero dilution risk. Coach K knows the the importance of 100% are all out there. We talk about this together all the time and there’s there’s no tax, a good portion of the quiddies locked for 100 years by the original developer. So there’s no rug risk, at least not for for 99 years. And the number one holder of Hourglass, which anyone can see on ether scan is Neft.
Brands dot ETH, which is the company of Hourglass Collective chairman Jeff Mahoney. And so Jeff is a remarkable individual who’s our chairman. He is a billionaire who owns over 30 companies and I’ve said this many times, I’ll say it again, he’s one of the most successful people outside of the crypto world to come into it and want to be part of it. And he’s doing that through Hourglass Collective, which is a real big honor. Just one of his companies, Save Daily is a giant in fintech that has over 7000 institutional clients, generates hundreds of millions in net profits annually.
Another one of his companies, Nevada Vodka. He purchased this 4 1/2 years ago. It was only in two countries then. Now it’s in 22. It’s done 100X in valuation based on the latest funding round.
They recently sponsored the Formula 1A TARI team, so it’s really, really fun. I was just in Vegas not that long ago. We have access to every Formula One race with VIP access to the paddock, exclusive viewing suites and more. It’s a great place to to network. And so I work with Jeff every day.
I work in his Southern California NFT office and myself, Brian and nowadays more and more coach as well. We’re kind of his eyes and ears in crypto. We do a ton of investments together. We’re involved with dozens of of Web 3 investments together and another thing that we’ve teased that now I’m going to give a little bit more info on is that myself, Brian and Jeff are all part of AVC firm called Apex Block and APEC. We’re partnered with one of the largest asset management firms in Singapore.
We’re targeting 500,000,000 / 3 funds right now. Fund one is halfway done in in LP investor commitments, which is 50 mil and some of that’s going to bleed into fund two. And once they’re filled, we’ll be making announcements on that. And so that’s something that is not directly tied to Hourglass, but but a lot of the same people who are in our VC firm are also in our ship hourglass leadership. And what happens is that sometimes we talk about to web three companies in many ways we’d look at them as we can advise them, we look at it, they could be partnered with our launch station.
We may be able to make an investment in their equity from our VC fund etcetera, etcetera, etcetera and it all what it all does is it all it all just makes our our proposition stronger in terms of what we bring as a value adds to to all these projects that are some of the the very best. And so without further ado, I want to talk about some of the the team members now that are really, really instrumental in everything we’re doing. One of them is Coach K and he is an absolute legend. If if you saw his recent tweets, I think he’s up like 4 / 4 million in just the last couple weeks alone. This guy is is just an incredible educator alpha group leader and he’s working on almost all of our incubated projects on the Tokonomic side.
He really understands that really well and and as well as just a marketing strategist and I I just want Coach could you kind of he’s also another fun thing about coach is that he has met Jeff multiple times our billionaire person. We actually hung out in Singapore together so he knows that this this is not AI didn’t make up a a fake billionaire story. Jeff is a real person with an incredibly successful story, so.
Coach K:
Absolutely. Yeah. I miss actually Brian from before Hal, another guy that works with you guys as well. I met him in Singapore a couple years ago, introduced me to Brian, told me like, oh, he works with Jet and Jeff. And he was like, yeah, like let’s come to this dinner and, you know, and meet everybody.
So, you know, randomly, like I was invited like the day before and I was like, alright, I’ll come to this dinner. Had no idea who Jeff was actually at all. When we’re at the dinner, it’s very high value add people there met Jet there, savage a relationship with Jet and Jeff found out like Jeff was like working on some really cool stuff like outside of crypto with like autistic kids with his wife and like he’s a really good hearted person. I mean then the second day we met, I was with the Snoop son so we do some stuff together as well. And I was like yeah come on the boat, like come on the yacht, like meet meet like you know Snoop sign and his partner and like what they’re working on and like you know there’s going to be a lot of high value add people.
And there was like there’s multiple billionaires on that boat as well. And basically, we, before we even go on the boat, we just start talking. And I I don’t know if you remember this jet, but I was literally like, I feel like when I was talking to Jeff, I don’t even know if I knew I would be as a billionaire at that point either. But I was like, man, I feel like when I talk to you, you’re talk. I’m talking to an older version of myself ’cause like it was.
I remember that, yeah. It was like, his mindset was so similar. And I was like, I hope that you don’t take this offensively, but like, I really feel like I’m talking to an older version of myself. Just the way you think about stuff is very similar to how I view my life and how I think about things. And it was just like really inspiring to see, like, wow, this guy’s done so much.
Maybe I’m shooting too low and I should shoot a little bit higher because there’s probably more that I can do if I have a similar mindset to this guy. So I really, really like Jeff and I really like, got along with Jet. We had great conversations and Brian as well, of course. And then they’d start telling me about weight. And I looked into it and I was like, is this like ATV show?
Like I’d love to be on TV at some point, maybe if there’s a thing. And they were like, oh, no, it didn’t really go perfectly. But like, you know, they got a lot done, a lot of, a lot of like things established on that side. But then they were telling me about weight. And then, you know, we continue the conversation after everyone went back to the US and I went back to Thailand.
And then we just kind of opened up the floor for like what Weight is doing and how we, I could help them and what we’re looking to do. And then we had this idea of like, hey, let’s do an incubator slash not over the launchpad, but a way for people to get in with projects almost directly. And then also from us advising and helping the projects grow, giving some of that back to the community. And so we have this idea of, like, you know, most launchpads, you get a ticket, you sometimes get one, you sometimes don’t, and you can invest. And that’s pretty much all you get.
This was like, how about all these projects that were helping? Why don’t we actually, like, take some of that allocation that we get and not be greedy about it? Because we don’t, basically. Here’s another Another interesting factor about the team is every single person on the team, every single advisor, is basically a millionaire. I think everyone is a millionaire.
I might be wrong, but I’m pretty sure everyone is either close to or already a millionaire and up. So you have like this whole group of people that are super successful from crypto to web to web too and have done business for a long time. You’re taking all this information, all these people’s knowledge and putting into one place and we were like, yo, let’s give something back to the community. So you know if we get a percentage of the supply, let’s literally AirDrop. So the community members at stake tokens, right.
And you know, obviously if you have like 50 bucks, you might get like, you know, a dollar or two because it’s not like not like an inevitable amount of tokens. But if you had like a couple grand, you’re getting all these projects, you’re getting a little bit of access to them, but you’re also getting the ability to to also invest. So it’s kind of like a, you know, a typical launchpad, but it’s not really a launchpad because we’re not raising money, we’re just connecting directly to projects for whitelist. But then on top of that, you’re also getting airdrops for just being a part of the community and most of the other projects in crypto. There’s a few that I’ve worked with that are launchpads specifically that have millionaires involved, but I’ve never been involved with a project that had a billionaire chairman.
I mean, like everyone looks up to Elon Musk and like he doesn’t really do anything in the space with just shill A token and people create tokens off of it. We have like an actual person on the ground helping literally drive this forward and taking our advice from all of our experience and then using his network and he’s also built a project well let Jet tell about, tell you guys about for four years and just like super innovative and very smart people around him. So yeah, I’m really excited to join. Like I that’s why I was really bullish. And like, you know, I haven’t been this bullish about a project probably since authority came out last cycle and we all saw that do like made multiple people millionaires.
And the reason is, is because all the tokens are out, there’s no tax. You have this like perfect ecosystem set up where you don’t have to worry about anyone dumping on you. Like all the new launch pads you’re going to have vesting. It’s going to hurt you by by holding the token now you have the actual floor already built. You have new people come in.
We’ve had literally some of the biggest kowals that aren’t jeeps all come into the to our ecosystem. Thank you to Buddy and Psychonaut for that and literally like just making things happen. It’s out like most people talk in our space and I’ve worked in this so long that I get super annoyed by that because everyone says they’re going to do something and they don’t do it. We have a team of people that execute and fucking and not only execute but connect you to anyone. There’s not a person in this space that we can’t get access to and I think that’s something that no one else really has.
May be paid, but they’re friends of ours anyways. So it’s OK. But not most of the launchpads don’t have the type of accessibility and the and the chances and the people around them to make things actually happen. And so that’s why I’m super bullish because I think like there’s no other great place for retail people to be than a place where they know that even if they don’t get a whitelist ticket, they’re still going to get something, right? And that’s just really bullish for me.
And it’s also something when you’re staking A token and you know that people just hold the token, but no one actually is getting more tokens for free every month because they already made their money. Now it’s just like a fair game. It’s like a fair launch style, right? It’s like it’s like being in Shiba because all the tokens are out and now you can actually see the chart grow with actual utility and a utility. There’s no better utility than you can make more money by holding this token.
And you don’t know if we get into the next meme coin, potentially, if we go into one and that that will do a million X like Shiba did, we don’t know. But all I know is I know the founder of Shiba. I know the projects that they work on. And so I have that ecosystem. I have other ecosystems as well.
So does Buddy, so does Jeff, So does Jeff. All of us have so much to offer. And so our goal together is to help you guys realize that that are listening and then that you share this to other people so that they can actually benefit from, you know, being able to get access to things that they normally can’t. And right now it might seem easy but I guarantee you in four months from now when halving happens, it will be next to impossible to get access to deal flow unless you’re really connected. And so if you’re with the people that actually can make it happen, you’re in a position where you’re 99% better off than most people that are gonna come into this space in the next you know six months to the next year.
So I’ll leave it at that really like the team really like everyone we’re working with. We have really good vibes like always kind of like everyone’s on the same page and I don’t I don’t see that very often in Krypton. I’ve been here 10 years. So I’ll leave it there. I’ll let, I’ll let maybe Buddy introduce himself and stuff, but yeah, it’s really exciting to be here.
Jett (Host)
Yeah awesome and yeah I want to just before I introduce I’m going to introduce Buddy in a second I just want to say that man Coach you’ve been amazing your energy so positive and I think everyone on our team has has that energy the you know that can do attitude and I’ll I’ll give you guys all a little bit of a just a just a tidbit because sometimes these little these little sneak peeks into our our real lives are are almost more telling than than than what we tell you. Before we did the spaces me, coach Jared and Braha we basically did a a vid conference and I mean just talking about our deal flow is unbelievable. We’re talking about like 9–10 projects we’re involved with how we’re going to be getting hourglass involved with with with you know the leadership. We’re talking about all the biggest KO LS in crypto what they’re already what how we’re connecting them into hourglass how how they’re getting involved and I I think that I mean it it’s really amazing that that in such a short amount of time we’ve we’ve put together so many people from these different backgrounds and we we have so much so much to offer. And I think that one thing here is that we we identified something that something that never ever gets old in crypto is the desire to get in a great project early.
And we all have these these stories. I think most of us who are you know multi millionaires in crypto everybody has one of these stories. Coach K I got into Bitcoin when it was only like 125 bucks. Brian was really early in ETH I was really early and really, really early and and Matic you know these are these are these things never get old And the great thing with with hourglass and our launch station is now you have the eyes and ears of experts like me. Coach K, the other folks like Brian, Josh Mayer looking out for what is the next next big thing.
And you’re not just getting one chance, you’re getting chance, chance, chance, chance of getting in very, very early. If you’re part of our ecosystem and collected the hour class Power Points and have your weight staked from hourglass. So it’s not one play, it’s not one play of hourglass this. It’s that it’s it’s the past it’s it’s to to have that access and to have that dream over and over with some of the best people in crypto as your your eyes and ears. So now what I want to do is I want to talk introduce Jared and Braha.
They’ve done an incredible job of spreading the word to to some of the biggest Kols in crypto. These guys have the best Rolodex I’ve I’ve I’ve ever seen And now we’re collaborating on not just one or two or three projects, we’re collaborating on 10 plus projects and again and again and again. Jared, can you just talk about your background and what you do and what it’s been like being part of the part of the team here?
Jared ( goaliedude.eth)
Yeah, no, sure. Absolutely pleasure to pleasure to speak and I mean only you guys. I, I want to preface first a bit of an echo of what you were just saying offering like retail and different communities access to deal flow and getting in early, getting that kind of alpha and that access point like that that’s that’s crazy attractive. And I know like we’re just saying like you know everybody loves getting in early. Those kind of stories you guys got into Bitcoin Matic, things like that last cycle I got into a lot of these launch pads early like Cedified and paid and my goodness were they ever like those were pretty, pretty good investments throughout the bull run.
And honestly like as as the bull run’s already heating up, you can look at the CFI price, you can look at Paid’s price, there’s lots of examples like that. Getting in early to these different incubation platforms can be a massive way of of expanding your portfolio and the way we’re primed right now with how many projects because I’ve obviously I know what’s coming. There’s a lot of opportunity is all I’ll say. I think we’ll get into that a little bit later into the space, but it’s quite exciting. But yeah, it seems like I’m on board.
Coach, he’s a good friend. It’s been a pleasure working with him the last six months or so. He, he first called this that was kind of my first like recognition point and I saw the candle just go straight up. It’s like, oh what is this? I got to be involved.
So we reached out to Jet. We had a meeting with him. I was blown away. Like the amount of effort and things that have going on in the back end and the kind of deals and deal flow they have, it’s it just made. It was no brainer.
It made a lot of sense to get on board. So it’s been an absolute pleasure jet working with you Coach and the rest of the team here. A bit about myself, I’ve been in crypto since 2017, learned early a lot of lessons. Not your keys, not your crypto, things like that right. But I made some good connections from the onset.
Yeah, really connected with Hank wide. He’s a good friend from HLW Group. I’m actually a biz dev for them now and we came in for Diamond Swap. It’s one of the partner projects actually for Hourglass. And I’ve been kind of in since the beginning, since the inception kind of helping and watching them grow that out.
And now the different projects and different avenues that that team has gone, which has also been a pleasure to be a part of. And then throughout the bear market you built through the bear. So I actually met up with my partner Psychonaut who you’ll hear from next and we really tried to expand our our KOL networks and just make relationships because the in my opinion the greatest currency we have is our relationships, especially as we’re coming into a bull run in the next cycle. If you have those relationships you get all the alpha, you get all those connection points and that’s how you really expand your portfolio and make that money. Very similar to Launchpad.
So you know the two of us, we just try to try to make these best relationships and connections that we could and it bore a lot of fruit. And then from there we start getting into advisement and then now we’re advising for my goodness like 1315 projects we’re incubating multiple others. So I can now we’ll kind of talk a bit more about this as well, but we have a venture Capital Group as well and we also specialize in capital raises, all different kinds of marketing, whatever project we need. So you know, it’s it’s a great fit, it’s a lot of cohesion between what Hourglass is doing and it’s honestly, I’m thrilled to be a part of this as an early mover myself because I see a lot of upside, I see a lot of potential and I’m excited for the future Jet.
Coach K:
Awesome man Braha AKA Psychonaut.
Crypto Psychonaut (@psycryptonaut)
Hey guys, great to be on the space. Firstly, thank you Jet for having this, giving us this opportunity. It has been an absolute pleasure working with you so far. So yeah, before I go about, yeah, so yeah, my name is Rajanandan. I’ve been in crypto since about 20/16/17 when Bitcoin was about the $800 mark.
We talked about the early projects that we got into. So I got into Solana when it was at 7 and $0.75 and I was so happy when I sold it for four and a half dollars. I don’t think I’m ever getting over that. But yeah, that’s that’s one of it. So yeah, I got into crypto about 2016.
I launched, we launched VC3M Capital, who’s also on the call the team Niche, Mikey and myself. And in the last run, we raised funds for about 75 different projects including ones like Gunzilla Network Engine Starter, Nakamoto games, and about 70 others. During the peak of the run we were pretty much raising about $1,000,000 a week. And yeah, we went a bit dormant during the bear market and Godzilla was pretty much our last private sale. But since then we’ve gotten back active into crypto in the last six months and you built through the bear, right?
So that’s what we focused on doing. But given that we’re not developers as such, that’s where we started focusing on building our network. I was very, very lucky and I think it’s been one of the best experiences so far. That’s when I got to meet Buddy. We clicked almost instantly and a buddy or goalie goalie who just spoke, we clicked almost instantly and we set off on this journey to build probably one of the best networks in crypto.
And at this point I would, I can very confidently say that we are connected to about 90% of the top influencers, most of the top VCs. We are working with about 60 of them at the moment. And yeah, we pretty much can provide anything that a project needs from developers to influencers, launch pads, market makers, whatever it takes. So I don’t think we’re fully there yet. So we we’ll still continue to build and yeah that’s that’s a bit about me.
I will have to say a bit about Hourglass and in in comparison to launch pads for example. Now one of the reasons I believe so strongly in Hourglass is that a, they have a phenomenal, phenomenal team behind it. Jet has been amazing. Jeff, Jeff, I’ve not met him in person myself. I would love to.
He sounds like an amazing individual himself, but hourglass as the project itself. So just like goalie dude who spoke about launchpads, I was into launchpads from polka starter paid from the day one. Now one of the things that I struggled in the last bull run was even through these launchpads, it’s not easy getting an allocation. You have to fight with about 100,000 other people and the the allocations go in seconds. I’ve missed so many amazing private pre sales or public sales simply because I couldn’t get in or you have to pay some 300, four, $100 in gas just to be able to get in.
But that’s something Hourglass is doing differently where it’s as good as ACD 5 or paid or any of the Launchpad. But you don’t really have to fight for this allocation. As long as you’re holding and staking your Hourglass tokens or wait tokens, you’re pretty much getting your allocations air dropped into you. So that’s pretty. So not only are you benefiting from the price rise in Hourglass itself out, just to give you a context, Hourglass is sitting at about 30 million market caps.
CD5IS sitting at about two fifty 300 million market cap. So Hourglass itself has a long appreciation ahead of it, but it’s not just that. You’re also getting a lot of income from just getting all these allocations for every all the projects that Hourglass is working with. So to me, it’s a no brainer being a part of it. And I’m going to be supporting and holding my Hourglass tokens all through the bull run.
So yeah, that’s a bit about me. Thank you very much.
Jett (Host)
Amazing, man. So no, I just want to stop.
Coach K:
I don’t stop there. Just say something quick. Jet is that, you know, I always tell people this, and I’ve been saying it ever since I did my conference, that your network is your net worth. It doesn’t matter how you have. It’s who you know, what you know, not what you know.
Everyone can learn what you know, but it’s more who you know that matters. And I mean, you’ve heard from both my homies, Goalie and Psychonaut, that they, and obviously Jet as well, that that is the most important thing. So if you want to get more involved in crypto, you should be focusing on your network and it’s as easy as just making friends with people. So I’ll, I’ll stop you there. I just really think that’s something that’s awesome that people keep mentioning already.
Jett (Host)
That that’s 100% true, man. And and I’m finding more and more as as I’m talking to projects what what’s amazing is that in just that first couple minutes then we connect we usually find about 1020 important folks that we all no the same folks And so it is, it is sometimes a very, very tight knit group and it’s and it’s hard to identify it’s time hard to kind of crack this this this Illuminati and to be part of it and but that’s one of the things we’re trying to make it easier through Hourglass is that we’re we’re kind of negotiating deals for the whole hourglass collective on on you guys but behalf. So when I go into a new partnership and I talk about the fact that we have in the incubator, we have a billionaire that can invest with us. We we, we have you know a guy like Coach K who’s one of the best Tokenomics people in there. I also mentioned we have this community called Hourglass and we’re we’re making deals and we’re making deals for the whole community and and saying OK well what can you do for for allocation for us, for for our community And you’re a lot of people you may not believe this but the success rate has been so incredibly high getting more and more and more meetings like this and more than 90% are saying yes we want, we want to do this we want to partner with Hourglass.
And I think it’s a testament to the really the people and the networks and the fact that they know that if we’re getting positive recommendations from from all these folks we must we must be the right people and so yeah amazing amazing team. So now let’s do this. Let’s jump into a little bit about the actual pipeline of of incubated projects where. So first what I want to do is I want to explain that there’s different type types of access and benefits to being part of the Hourglass ecosystem. The the primary benefit is that if you depending on how much you staked, how your Hourglass Power Points are, you will get access to early getting in early on our incubated projects and there’s more and more weird there’s more than 10.
The secondary benefit is that we’re also going to be doing air drops and later it will turn into a claim mechanism for for tokens for our incubated projects as well. So some of it will just be given for free. And then the other benefit is that we have these other light touch partnerships as well where it it where we didn’t incubate the project, we’re partnered with them and in in that case there may be just a drop and but it’s just it’s just more benefits for you for being part of it. So those are the three different types right now we’re going to focus, we’re not going to talk about the light touch partnerships because we have so many of those that that it’ll take another two hours to talk about those. We’re going to be talking mostly about our incubated projects because for these there’s a larger amount of allocation of the total tokens that will be that will be available to the hourglass community.
So one of them that is I think they’re on here is Turbo Battle Arena where we’re really excited about this. It’s a mobile blockchain gaming is hot right now. They have a mobile battle arena and that one is going to be the tge is going to be in Q1 of. Of of this year. So you’re going to be hearing a lot more from Turbo Battle Arena.
I see here Steven is there for for Cosmos. Cosmos has just gotten rebranded. So for you guys who don’t know, Cosmos is kind of like a Web 3 version of Wattpad on steroids. Wattpad is a app that connects publishers with readers and that couple years ago was acquired for $600 million And Cosmos, which is soon going to have a new brand is was originally going to use weight as their token. We changed the strategy.
They’re going to have their own token that that that comes out through the hourglass launch station and they have 15 IP partners ready in the industry including Neo, Tokyo Alpha District, several others. They’re doing an incredible job. I really like what they’re doing, just teasing some other projects. In our launch station we have a multi chain aggregator, wallet and decks. Hey Coach, do you want to talk about that one?
Because that one, actually Coach is advising very closely.
Coach K:
Absolutely, man. Yeah. I kind of gave them a little bit of the alpha idea for what they’re building now. And basically you know we all have Dex’s and I’m not going to name the project just yet. I’m going to give you guys a little bit of Alpha 1st and then we’ll maybe let we’ll mention it later.
So can I give you a little bit of background into what they’re doing. So there are multi chain aggregating decks, right? We have other ones that are doing that too. But what makes them stand out, what makes them stand out is very simple. And number one, I said the, the reason why most of us use the centralized exchange is because just simplifies a lot of what we’re doing, right?
So when I’m using a centralized exchange, I can send any coin from any network that that’s being traded on and then put on Binance, for example, and then take it off on BSc or ETH or Arberstrom or whatever, whatever platform they’re already on. And so I can actually swap stuff without having to pay fees, right. And and that’s great, but some people can’t use Binance. So that’s the problem for them, right. And so I was telling them like you know, why don’t we make the decks but also have a multi chain wallet where I could send assets on any chain.
And in my wallet it just shows as Selena and let’s say Selena’s example and you know Selena’s also on a couple other chains. So you know if you normally have an RPC wallet like Metamask, you have to keep switching RPCS and you forget about which what wallet. And the more and more you get into crypto, the more and more wallets you have, the more more stuff you have to try to keep track of it. It’s becomes very difficult of the situation, especially as new chains come on. So what I was saying is why don’t we make a multi chain wallet where I could just send myself to land on any chain and when I want to sell it or I want to move it somewhere, I could just send it off on any other chain because it’s a multi chain aggregator.
So what that means is that I don’t have to worry about what chain it is, I don’t have to worry about our PCs. I literally know that the actual wallet connected to the decks will literally just send it to whatever chain I want to whatever wallet I want on whatever. And just like on Binance, when you just choose which which chain you want to send on, it will let you send it on that chain and simplify the process. Because you know CZ was talking about this two years ago, but what was the biggest problem in crypto? And he said well it’s because the potential be all end all solution that And so you got a DEX, an aggregator which gets you better pricing and all this stuff built into one app.
And we also working with another DEX as well, which is basically going to destroy DEX tools because they customize everything. Like imagine DEX tools where you can customize what you see, you can customize what you like, what you what you do as a as a chartist, you can customize like what percentages are going up or down, all that. So these types of things that we’re looking for innovations at weight, we’ve all been in the space. We all know what stuff is a Xerox copy of, you know, something on another chain. And it’s like, yeah, it might do well, like maybe we can make a little bit of money, but like we want to find solutions in crypto.
Like my goal completely is everyone asks you, how do I know what a good project is. It’s one that solves a problem that I deal with every single day, number one, or makes things cheaper or faster for me. So like, if we have something like that, then that’s the stuff that Waite will focus on. That’s the stuff that me personally, I’ll also focus on. But because we’re all incubating and partners together, we’re all going to focus on these projects and we’re going to do them together.
And I think that’s what’s lacking sometimes in crypto is we’re not always working together to reach a goal. Everyone’s kind of trying to personally do what they want to do to get to their goals. With Wait, it’s like we’re all working together so we all can win. And I mean, everyone who knows me, that’s been around me knows that, like, I don’t make people millionaires because I do it for them. I do it so that I help them change it so that they can become a millionaire without me.
And I think that there’s a very similar mindset amongst all the people here. But also, I don’t want to leave Koko by himself because we didn’t introduce him. He’s here. So maybe Koko, you can come up right now just while we’re while before we go on to other stuff and just introduce yourself and maybe talk about a little bit about what you’re working on and and you know a little bit of your background.
Jett (Host)
Yeah, that’d be awesome. Koko would love for you to chime in. Koko’s a legend in the space, so happy to to to be to know him. And hey, would love for him to hear his thoughts.
KOKO (@bayc364)
Yeah, so I think I’m like, not hearing somebody, like Twitter’s messing up on our ex is messing up on us, ’cause I heard like a a pause. And then you asked me about something. What? What? What is this referencing to?
Like it’s like, you know how it goes like some people sometimes, like I literally. Yeah, yeah, whole question.
Jett (Host)
Yeah, yeah. Well, we just wanted ’cause I know that you got your spaces in like 15 minutes. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to go back to our incubated project road map, but we wanted you to just to to say hi and to talk about what you’re doing and what you know about us know and and yeah.
Yeah no I’m I’m really happy to be here. You know obviously up here with a bunch of legends guys that I hide hold really high in the space coach obviously great person OG we got Psychonaut goalie dude obviously me and you just met recently but I I think we’ve hit it off pretty good. So been been around the space for a long time worked for a lot of different companies that kind of shaped crypto how it is today. And then now I’m a builder and also a a DJ by night. But yeah, just you know like so we we actually build a lot of different things.
And you know one of the ventures that I have coming up with, well everybody here has has been really helpful with it is a decentralized leverage platform. And I also have a trading bot that I just released. So yeah, man, I’m just, I’m just a really a big fan of what you guys are doing. Obviously I I got myself a nice bag of weight and you don’t have to you know take it from me, just take a look at the chart right. The chart’s looking pretty nice.
And when I think of projects that are going to be bullish moving into the bull run, obviously you think of things that are going to be incubating projects where they’re going to be bringing more eyes, right? Like every, you got to think of it like every single project has a subset community, right? So if you’re the person that’s funneling those projects out and like giving people access to it, like it could be exponential, like like Goalie was saying, you know, last cycle I did extremely well on launch pads and I expect them to come back even harder. I think this bull run is going to be even more powerful than the last one. And when you position yourself in projects like this, when there’s big people backing it, people that have good reputations, people that know are like good people and you know here for the right reasons, I feel like you put yourself in a pretty strong position.
That’s why I, you know, I came on board and I’m going to support you guys and and do everything I can. And yeah, just happy to be along for the ride and I just tweeted about it and sent it into my. I have a community of about 1500 digens. We’re always looking for the best play next, right? So I tweeted it and I told everybody, you know, one of the projects that I’m really kind of looking forward to watching it unravel.
And yeah, just just happy to be here and along for the ride and you know, with a bunch of legends. So thanks for having me up.
Jared:
Just want to chime in real quick. Koko just kind of dropped something there about.
Something I can’t hear anyone else except for the main. Sorry. Yeah, it’s like muted for everyone else except for the main, the host.
Jared:
All good, yeah. Koko, he dropped a bit of a bomb there. He’s, he’s a builder in the space, right. And one of the things he has coming is a decentralized synthetic leverage platform. Definitely like, you know, I’m not going to give all the goods away right now, but keep your eyes open for that.
I’m expecting some very, very big things in the future. And then moreover, he Moreover, he mentioned a new bot that he’s released. You should go check out his channel Shit Coins are Fun. It’s a community that him and his his partners Pinky. He’s also in the space started recently and that bot is very exciting.
I’ve never seen anything like it on the market before.
Jett (Host)
Absolutely. For anyone here, if you don’t know Koko, he’s an absolute legend in the space. I’m really proud actually for one of these projects that goalie dude just just mentioned. We’re we’re both advisors on it and so maybe there’s might be something tying in with hourglass there too. Just maybe, who knows.
We’ll have to wait and see, right. So moving on, I, I, I saved I saved a juggernaut. Guys. There’s there’s something really, really big that we’ve been working on for for years and this is, this is a big part of Hourglass. And what it is, is that there is one project that, you know most of these projects.
Jeff is a financier. He’s our, he’s our chairman, he’s he’s invested in lots of these and an investor and a backer. But there’s one that he’s been intimately involved with that that is really his baby and it’s an incredible L1 play. We’re not going to say too much, but we are going to, it’s going to be intimately out. Jeff being our Chairman of Hourglass and also this being his baby project.
It’s been years and years in the making. There’s already enterprise, real world adoption on a scale that may not have been seen before. And so when we go into the token side and the team has already been formed for this and you know Coach K’s on there, Brian’s on there, a lot of other legends and it’s going to be very exciting and the way to get it in early will be through hourglass and and through our our launch station and that only that only makes sense. So I think coach you know a little bit about it but we’re not supposed to say too much so I don’t I don’t want to I don’t want to get to get too too deep in that. Other things that are that are going on is that we’re we’re we have a project that is partnered with Circle and they are a really, really well established play.
They do Fiat to crypto, crypto to Fiat, don’t want to say too much, they do a lot. They they have a really advanced yield system and they they asked us to be part of their whole, their whole token launch. We’re about 99% there. So don’t want to say too much but but that’s good. That’s in our road map as well.
And we are also we’ve teased that Brian and I are are are both advisors for a very strong project that is going to be one of the biggest ties between Hollywood and Web Three that’s ever been seen. Some of the biggest Hollywood executives are part of it and they’re coming into Web Three big. There’s going to be new revenue streams for Hollywood that have never been seen before in media and TV and it’s going to be enabled through this, through this project. And we’re going to have a a big hourglass launch station tie into that. So that is a little bit of what’s to come.
I don’t want to say too much because we want to, we want to keep you guys excited and wondering what’s what the specifics are and we’re going to do a lot more of these. I know that Brian is wanted want to be here, but he just couldn’t would would love to to get his thoughts and something that I want want you guys to keep in mind is that yeah we’re in December 30th, you’re going to be able to stake your tokens in there. The Dapp is out. We are not a Dapp technology play. We are a we are a deal flow and access play.
So the the Dapp itself it’s you know it’s solid, it does what it’s supposed to do and we’re going to be we have a really good firm behind us block safe after the Ledger Live exploit happened for others, the first thing we did is we made sure that we were not, we don’t have any issues so we went to get a security audit from third party went well. So we’re very, very confident in our tech, but the Dapp is also going to be a work in progress where you’re going to see it get better and better and better throughout the year. And so it’s not going to be like the ultimate finished product right off the bat. It will function and get you, get you in there, get your weight in there, you’ll be able to see your Power Points accrue and there’s a benefit for being in early. But what is really exciting is what’s going to be happening throughout 2024.
All these projects, one at a time, boom, boom, boom, boom and all the projects that are tied to your participation in the Dapp. What now? What you can be you have accessed when you you wouldn’t be able to before. So any last words guys?
KOKO:
Yeah, I was going.
Jared:
To say like it’s going to be a domino effect. So you know basically that’s December 30th is that’s the kickoff and then it’s just going to be like you said boom, boom, boom. Well, 2024 is just going to be incubation launch explosive, launch explosive. And then moreover while we have all these other like you mentioned earlier light touch partnerships, lots of things that we’re already advising on, You’re going to get access to those deal flow as well, which is very unique niche that isn’t present on any other launchpad. This is the only place you’ll get insider deal flow, which is very, very exciting.
So you get, you get those, those AirDrop allocations, you also get access to all our incubated projects in tandem and it’s just going to be bombardment the entire next year and into the rest of the cycle. So yeah, I’m expecting a lot of exciting things to come. Happy to be here.
Jett (Host)
I’ll give guys another tidbit is that right before we we jumped on the spaces and I was talking with Goalie (Jared) dude. There were actually two projects that we had light touch partnerships that I didn’t realize that we have the ability to make into full-fledged partnerships where where there’s access from the launch station to get in on a on a on an early round that that that you couldn’t before. But then so in like the 5 minutes before we came on and started the spaces we just added a couple couple more epic projects in into the into the pipeline. So that’s just the kind of stuff that happens around here. It’s fun.
Hey, I want to, I just realized. Shiny Demon, are you You here?
Shiney D (@shineyd1111)
Yo.
Jett (Host)
Bro, you’re you’re fighting. I just wanted to look shiny. Dee, he’s just been a guy who supported us from the beginning. He knows the old hourglass model where like people didn’t know what the what we were doing. We just knew they were doing a TV show.
Everything else was very secretive. It must be trippy to see to see how it’s evolved for you, right?
Shiney D:
Well, dude, it’s trippy. But the thing with you is like every time I had hourglass weight on my spaces, whether it was 2 weeks or a month, it was like 10 new different things. Like I’ve said before, I’ve never seen a project that’s just so hot. Creating so many new dynamic partnerships, constantly growing, constantly evolving. It blows my mind, dude.
Jett (Host)
Man, I love your energy, dude. And for those of you who don’t know Shiny Dee, follow him because he’s going to be fighting in Georges Influencer Fight Club. And dude, you look pretty freaking ripped. I’ve been seeing your photos, man. I’m really worried for your opponent, man.
Dude.
Shiney D:
I was really worried for my opponent as well, but I think he’s sandbagging me dude, because a couple of my friends just trained with him in Vegas and apparently he’s an absolute beast bro. So now I’m a little worried for myself. So I’m getting punched all the time.
Jett:
Dude, are you trying to? Are you trying to are you trying to manage expectations? Dude, you’re not. You’re not allowed to manage expectations in in fighting, man. You’re supposed to.
You got to be 100% confident all the time, man.
Shiney D:
Dude, I would like to be, but I’m going to be honest. I’m kind of scared, bro. I’m kind of scared.
Jett:
Oh man, I think you’re going to do just fine.
Coach K:
I don’t believe you. I’ve seen you on mushrooms. No way. You’re going to be scared.
Shiney D:
I was terrified, Coach.
I was like, I’m being swallowed into the abyss that is the ocean. And Coach was just, like, galactically staring at the sky. And I’m like, it’s OK. I’m with a crypto Buddha. Everything will be fine.
No, thanks, man. Thanks for having me up here though. I I appreciate it. You guys said your network is your net worth. So I’m just waiting for My Portfolio to update because I’m in the realm of Titans right now.
Knees weak, palms are sweaty. But we done it, baby. We done it. Jets, not financial advice. Going to make us all rich.
Break out the red panties. We done it.
Jett:
Yeah and guys I just wanted to say also that Hourglass Collective is a story and resilience. I think a lot of people just thought they were just a TV show and it’s like oh the TV show’s over guys come on man we we have a we have a billionaire as our chairman who we we have some of the best people in all of crypto and web three we’re we’re we’re going to be a lot more than a TV show and I think that people are starting to realize that now and I I couldn’t be more excited for for the future. We got the Bitcoin having coming around April and things couldn’t be better. I mean this this is there’s nothing more exciting and exciting than to be in the space right now and we couldn’t be more confident than in our road map and what’s ahead in our in our daily deal flow. It’s just getting bigger and bigger in a snowball effect.
Thanks guys. We’re gonna wrap it that’s it’s been an hour. We’re gonna do a lot more of these. I apologize for everyone who couldn’t. I know it’s hard to coordinate all these times.
We’re all around the world. Hourglass Collective is a global, global deal, so just to coordinate where the four of us were even able to do it with our time zones was hard. I know a lot of folks in Europe are going to miss this, but but that’s what the replay is for. And shout out to all those listening on the replay as well, if you’re not already part of our community. I mean, join us out Hourglass at Hourglass_Wait on Twitter.
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