The Sidekick&Trends event should have attracted a lot of people, and there are also a bunch of people in the community asking me, 'What are Trends?'? Can we charge? Is it another patchwork tray? ”Today, let me talk to you all. I think this may be an opportunity to change the gameplay of the cryptocurrency industry. @Sidekick_Labs @trendsdotfun Part 1: Why Trends? ——Where is its' first principles' genius? After all these years of cryptocurrency trading, have you ever thought about a question: where is the next hundred fold or thousand fold opportunity? Is it the next Dogecoin? Or the next piece of crap? I think maybe none of them. The real opportunity should lie in paradigm shift. What is paradigm shift? It is the fundamental transformation from "information internet" to "value internet". And the founder of Trends, Mable Jiang (former leader of FTX Ventures and an absolute top investor in the industry), has distilled her thoughts on Crypto in recent years into three "first principles", which are also the soul of Trends: Every real Web3 explosion is due to a significant reduction in the resistance to value flow. Think about the ICO in 2017, did it become extremely easy to issue coins and raise funds? Think about DeFi Summer in 2020, did trading and lending become barrier free? Even in 2023 http://Pump.fun Make sending meme coins as simple as sending a tweet. So, the next innovation must be to increase the efficiency of value flow by another 100 times! Tokens are containers of information. And social media (X/Twitter, TikTok) is the busiest and hottest information market in the world. Imagine if every tweet and post you post were a token in itself? The information flow and value flow are completely integrated! Your likes, shares, and comments are no longer just gestures, but voting and pricing for the value of this information! The cost is low enough now! Doing these operations on the chain before would cost you a lot of gas fees. Now Solana's on chain costs are almost zero, the technology is ready, and the era has arrived! So, what are Trends? It is a 'Chain Strategy Layer' constructed based on these powerful concepts. It was originally built on X (Twitter) and will expand to all open platforms in the future. To put it simply, Trends turns your tweets into a tradable 'asset'. A divine prediction, a top secret Alpha, a meme plot, as long as it has value and consensus, can be "tokenized" on Trends, forming its own price curve. KOLs who continuously produce high-value content will accumulate an unforgeable reputation on their accounts, which is much higher than buying followers and reviews now. AI can now reduce the production cost of content to zero, with water armies and robots flying everywhere. But the real gold and silver on the chain cannot be counterfeited! On Trends, the flow of capital is the signal of the strongest consensus and highest value. This is the real large-scale application! Make every social behavior of yours inherently financial. You give a like, which may be equivalent to investing one dollar. You may earn a fortune by reposting a divine post. Expressing opinions is investment, without any additional steps. This is the new asset class that Trends is defining. Brothers, we are standing at the dawn of a new era. Part 2: How to play specifically? ——TPS Season 1&Sidekick Golden Week! Having talked so much above, it may still be a bit vague. Let's take a look at how to play this specifically - TrendsPoints (TPS) Season 1 event! What is TPS? Simply put, it is the core point voucher of the Trends ecosystem, representing your early participation and contribution. You can understand it as a future 'airdrop expectation' or a proof of core equity for the ecosystem. Engaging in TPS now is like being the top Alpha of the Mao Zedong Party! This first season of the event was divided into several stages, with some collaborating with KaitoAI and others with Backpack. But today, my focus is on what is currently underway and what I value the most - the stage of collaboration with Sidekick Labs! What is Sidekick? ”Sidekick Labs is also a very impressive infrastructure and incubator in the Solana ecosystem, with strong capabilities. Their collaboration with Trends can be considered a strong alliance! Sidekick Collaboration Week Core Gameplay (August 11-22 UTC) -Go to the Trends official website: https://Trends.fun -Connect your wallet to your X (Twitter) account. -Start mining! Original post: Post your own awesome views and Alpha information on Twitter, then copy and paste them onto Trends to tokenize them. Once it becomes popular, you can not only receive a 20% profit share from token trading, but also contribute to your TPS points. Curator's note: If you don't produce content yourself, it's okay! You can also have eyes that discover gold. Moving valuable popular tweets from others to Trends can also earn you a 5% profit share and accumulate TPS! Keyword interaction (key!): During the week of collaborating with Sidekick (August 11-22), your content and discussions are likely to revolve around specific keywords (such as Sidekick, SKRT, or other collaboration topics). Pay close attention to official announcements, put on the correct topic tags, and your posts have a high probability of receiving additional TPS bonuses! Exclusive interpretation: Why did I say that the collaboration with Sidekick was a golden opportunity? Because this is the mid to late stage of the event, the rules are clearer, but the number of participants is still far from saturation! Early players may have accumulated advantages in KaitoAI and Backpack stages, but now that you enter, your goals are clearer and it's easier to seize the dividends! This is called 'card slot'! Part 3: Ultimate advice from Lao Jiucai - why do you have to participate? Money in the cryptocurrency industry does not rely on 996 market monitoring, but on the gap between cognition and information. Firstly, this is a feast for the Mao Zedong Party. The TPS of Trends is endorsed by top teams and capital, and the potential airdrop value of this level of point activity is self-evident. Every action you participate in now is paving the way for future airdrops. Looking at the early participants of ARB and STRK, which one didn't make a lot of money? Secondly, this is the first opportunity to experience the future of social finance. Even if you're not just for grooming, you should come and experience firsthand what "content tokenization" and "value socialization" are. This is one of the most likely storylines for the next bull market, and if you play it out in advance, you will get the tickets for the next wave. Thirdly, the earlier one participates, the greater the advantage. The weight of early users is always the highest for any project. At present, Trends is still in the testing stage, and the rules are favorable to you, with almost negligible gas costs. When it really becomes popular, if you want to dig again, the cost may be ten or a hundred times higher than it is now. Everyone can play and experience it themselves. Playing may not necessarily have it, but not playing will definitely not have it! Sidekick Trends johnfdong