Avalore Dump Week 38
"Megalore" Edition
Gmega! Welcome to the first edition of Megalore!
Kidding (sort of). Honestly I was going into this week expecting this to be the last edition of Avalore. I had a whole thing prepped about AVAX book club and how this would be a reading journal from now on.
Then I made a shitpost about an NFT collection on MegaETH, and everyone on AVAX either joined in or ridiculed me for “leaving.” So now we have something to talk about! Hooray!
All we needed to do was check out another chain. Let’s discuss.
Leaving???
First let’s discuss this idea of “leaving” one chain for another. There’s a stigma about this and it’s ridiculous.
You should never be a chain maxi. We’re in crypto to have fun and to make money. If you limit yourself to one chain, what happens when the fun and money dries up there?
Over the last few years we’ve been pretty spoiled. AVAX has had its ups and downs, but in the end it was usually a place with opportunities and a vibrant community. Sure there are plenty of things happening on other chains as well, but we really haven’t needed to leave the chain to find opportunities.
This is no longer the case! And that’s not an opinion, it’s not “theatrics” as Nahas would say, this is just a fact. You may have seen my article last week observing the timelines of different projects, but let me just show you what the AVAX account has tweeted since then:
Wow!!! The reality is, if you are reading this article, you are not AVAX’s target audience anymore. I don’t know how much clearer they can make this.
The winner of Build Games, a competition designed to bring more builders to the chain, was literally a project you can’t even use. Do they need to slap you in the face with this?? AVAX is not for us anymore. I’m sorry, but it’s just true.
Imagine you’re a big Nike stan. You only wear Nike shoes, when they get worn out you replace them with more Nikes.
Then one day, Nike announces it will stop production of all its current shoes and only make shoes for dogs. Would you try to squeeze your feet into shoes designed for a German Shephard? Probably not! Probably you’d start trying other brands!
Maybe if Nike decides this new direction is not profitable, it will start making shoes for humans again and we can go back to them. But for now, let’s test out some other brands!
I received a bunch of these DMs the other day. People are having fun trying new things. And you don’t need to buy anything! Don’t just top blast the NFT, all you need to do is start following and replying to people on Twitter!
I remember a while back I saw AvaxJ tweeting about some coins on Base. I kinda just scrolled past it, thinking “oh that’s Base, that’s not for me.” All you need to do is stop doing that! That’s progress!
There’s a list of MegaETH people to follow here—just follow those people and see what happens. Let’s try on some new shoes!
Why MegaETH?
The above tweet sums up my feels about this. If we’re trying to branch out from AVAX while it becomes a corpo-chain, we might as well pick somewhere that is at least trying to target the average CT person. Right now, that means MegaETH.
Their marketing is all geared towards crypto-natives, their launch campaign is for actual usage of real consumer products, and the team seems to have a community-first mindset.
Tac, VQ, and I have a groupchat with members of the Mega team and have been blown away by how receptive they are to feedback and how openly they communicate.
I’m not saying the chain will do well—I have no idea really. There are definitely things I don’t like about it.
The name is dumb and it’s an L2 which I usually avoid. The token is not used for gas, the ecosystem is still incredibly young, and there are not many polished apps. Ferdy is probably the best app on the chain right now (no bias).
We might be back here in 3 months going “LOL remember the MegaETH arc??”
So don’t be a chain maxi again! Maybe it works out for us maybe it doesn’t, but the important thing is that we break the seal. It’s time to start trying other chains, so let’s start with one that’s prioritizing people like us.
If it flops then we try on other shoes until Nike starts making shoes for humans again. And by that time maybe we will have some other brands that we like in the rotation as well.
Ok that’s all I’ve got for this week! This is the first time I’ve actually enjoyed writing one of these articles in a long time.
I’ve been sad for a bit as it became clear that AVAX was steering away from the things that we like. This week I finally realized that it doesn’t matter! The community (the problem) that we all know and love will still be around even as we try out other chains.
I see the same faces on the timeline tweeting about people moving to MegaETH, making memes, supporting each other—it’s all still the same. Justin makes fun of us whether we stay on AVAX or we leave.
Even after we all take the red triangles out of our twitter names, we’re still the same community.
Tweet of the Week
