MoonKing joins The Block Runner to recount entering SHIB within its first few days, watching its community form during DeFi Summer, and navigating the extreme volatility that followed. He explains how conviction, narrative, liquidity, and community participation shaped his decisions as SHIB grew.
The conversation examines how meme coin culture has changed since 2020.
MoonKing contrasts the longer holding periods of earlier crypto cycles with today’s rapid trading environment, where launch platforms, copycat tokens, and fragmented liquidity can make sustained community growth more difficult.
The discussion then turns to NAT and its thesis surrounding Bitcoin’s long-term security budget. MoonKing explains why the underlying argument captured his attention, while the hosts discuss miner adoption, TAP Protocol, BIP-110, OP_RETURN, and how NAT could continue operating as Bitcoin evolves.
MoonKing also shares his approach to crypto marketing: lead with a clear, provocative claim, invite disagreement, and support the message with an understandable argument.
The group considers whether a more controversial framing could bring wider attention to NAT and force a substantive debate among Bitcoin supporters and critics.
MoonKing holds NAT and operates paid educational subscriptions and ProudProfits.com; the hosts are active NAT advocates and have interests connected to the project and its ecosystem. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.
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Boson Protocol is working on building the digital commerce layer for the metaverse and the web3 space as a whole. With entrants like Amazon coming into the space with their own NFT ecosystem, decentralized protocols that can facilitate physical redemption through the use of NFTs are needed. Boson has built the protocol to ensure trust is autonomously setup between buyers and sellers of digital and physical goods without the need for a third party intermediary. Boson has an established presence in the metaverse, specifically Decentraland, and is leveraging the virtual realm to prove the utility of their protocol by allowing in world users to mint rNFTs which grant them the ability to redeem them for real world products. Already major brands are working with Boson to be a part of this network that is open for anyone to leverage.
We recap our experience at ETH Denver and speak on how much tension in regards to U.S. regulatory stance and a whistleblower presenting on main stage the banking collapse and targeted crypto attack that was around the corner. What is driving the U.S. governments desire to label crypto as a systemic risk? What is causing banks like Silvergate, Silicon Valley Bank, and Signature Bank to collapse? Are more banks going to fail and what does this ultimately mean to the status of the dollar and the global economy as a whole. These current events may be the beginning of a financial collapse that will be greater than 2008, how will Bitcoin prove to the planet that it is the safe haven escape away from the issues of traditional finance. Will this be the catalyst to Bitcoin on its way to a million dollar valuation per BTC?
The transcript is from an episode of the Block Runner podcast where the hosts discuss the metaverse, specifically a community called Decentraland. They talk about the metaverse's potential for creativity, fashion shows, and the technology behind it. They mention a grant given to a group called Meta Party to create deployable METAs across multiple lands. Finally, they talk about how brands can leverage METAs technology to be hosted on every single plot of the metaverse.
We interview Suman Kanuganti of Personal.ai about the future of artificial intelligence and how users of his platform are able to generate A.I. versions of themselves by curating information and feeding it to their own personal AI. This technology unlocks a whole world of possibilities and can transform the way humans interact in the digital age. We also talk about how these personal AIs can exist in the metaverse and also how an open platform can enable developers to spin up whole new use cases. Also, how does web3 play into the personal.ai ecosystem. How can AI generators and contributors monetize through the platform, and how does blockchain preserve security and ownership of user data.
We discovered a new web3 ecosystem that has developed a protocol for NFT owners to merge A.I. personality to their assets. This process fuses the two NFTs together into a new smart contract which generates an iNFT that carries intelligence properties information on-chain. This is exciting for the future of the metaverse which will host living, speaking, and engaging NFTs that are A.I. enabled to provide services to the end users. A.I. enabled characters will then earn ALI tokens. Will this be the next big primitive or just a fad? Also, we deep dive on A.I. philosophy on how to make A.I. valued on the same level of humanity. Also, what is going on with Bitcoin ordinals? Why are inscriptions going through the roof?!