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Introduction and Big Announcement

The episode opens with Thomas welcoming Oh Me from Kyzzen, who announces their upcoming NFT collection called “Kai-aka” (Japanese for “the world”). The collection features anime art supported by AI and will be a fully utility-focused project, giving holders premium exclusive access to Kyzzen’s data aggregation and analytics tools.

Kyzzen’s Three-Year Journey and Evolution

Oh Me explains that what users see today on Kyzzen represents three years of “blood, sweat, and tears” with constant learning and community feedback. He initially thought he knew the right way to onboard people to crypto, but slowly realized his assumptions were wrong. The platform started primarily focused on the NFT space, and when they finished that build last year, Oh Me took significant time to reassess their direction.

The Fundamental Realization

After deep reflection, Oh Me arrived at two critical conclusions:

Everyone wants to come into crypto to make money
People are motivated to learn and explore if it presents a money-making opportunity

This led to a major pivot: they stripped everything from the website that didn’t directly correlate to making money and transformed from a standard data aggregation platform into an opportunity aggregation platform. Now 80% of links on Kyzzen connect directly to different ways of making money on Solana—tokens, NFTs, DeFi, DePin, airdrops, bounties, and more.

The NFT Meta and Solana’s Evolution

Thomas and Oh Me discuss how Kyzzen started focusing on NFTs because that’s what Solana was in its early days. A couple of years ago, there wasn’t much DeFi or many tokens—everyone wanted NFTs and detailed information about every aspect of projects and rarities. As Solana shifted and grew with different metas, having all those different sections became necessary. Oh Me notes that his biggest problem now is how congested the navigation bar has become due to all the opportunities blossoming on Solana.

The Steep Learning Curve

Oh Me joined Solana at the start of February 2021 when things were simple—you could spend a couple of days and get a rough feel for the ecosystem. Today, the learning curve is steeper than ever with so much to explore. Kyzzen’s job is to hold users’ hands through the process, not just with explorers but also through Kyzzen Academy courses.

Onboarding Philosophy and Discovery

Thomas raises an important challenge: new users always come toward the end of the current meta. People arrive at the top of the meme coin cycle, buy the top, and experience losses. Oh Me calls this “tuition” that almost everyone pays. He emphasizes that Kyzzen isn’t trying to give users generational wealth or point out 1000x tokens—plenty of platforms claim to do that.

Financial Freedom vs. Generational Wealth

Oh Me reveals Kyzzen’s new vision and mission (just released on their About Us page): “To empower users with the knowledge and opportunities to achieve financial freedom on Solana and beyond.” The keywords are “financial freedom”—a very different concept from “generational wealth.”

Kyzzen isn’t here to show speculative opportunities where you risk hard-earned savings. Instead, they focus on sustainable opportunities that work in both bull and bear markets: DeFi yield, DePin opportunities, and other ways to earn that don’t require extreme risk. Their primary target audience includes people from Asia and Latin America, where these “smaller” opportunities can be extremely meaningful—like during the play-to-earn era when people stopped driving Uber because they made more playing games.

The Stablecoin Use Case

The conversation shifts to real-world assets and stablecoins. Oh Me explains that stablecoins aren’t just pegged currency with no upside—many new stablecoins incentivize liquidity provision with their own tokens, airdrops, and questing opportunities. Thomas notes that stablecoin yield is roughly 100x better than traditional savings accounts (later correcting this as an exaggeration, but still significantly larger). This represents a clear path to financial freedom, especially for people in countries with unstable currencies.

The Six Ways to Make Money in Crypto

Oh Me shares a breakthrough framework he developed while waiting for a flight in Dubai. He spent three hours writing down every way he could think of to make money in crypto—over 100 different methods. Then he realized all of them could be categorized into just 6-7 fundamental ways:

Pre-TGE (Token Generation Event) – Whitelists, pre-sales, beta testing
TGE Trading – Trading around the token launch
Post-TGE Trading – Perpetuals and ongoing trading
Lending – Providing loans
Liquidity Provision – Supplying liquidity to pools
Staking – Locking tokens for rewards
Airdrops – Receiving token distributions

Universal Application

This framework applies to every sector—gaming, meme coins, NFTs, DeFi. Most projects ultimately aim to launch their own cryptocurrency, so the ways to make money follow these same patterns regardless of sector. Oh Me argues this perspective makes life much easier because you stop limiting yourself by sector. The DeFi maxi who ignores meme coins is denying themselves opportunities since the earning mechanisms are fundamentally the same.

Thomas connects this to Anatoly Yakovenko’s perspective that “it all comes down to tokens.” Oh Me offers a different take: it all comes down to wanting to make money—users don’t care which tokens they get, they just want to get paid.

The Project-User Mismatch

Oh Me finds it shocking that two parties exist in crypto: retail users looking to make money and projects wanting to reward users for participation. Yet somehow these parties struggle to meet. Over the past 3-4 years, Kyzzen has featured 140+ Solana projects, and many contact Oh Me about contests or incentives that aren’t getting traction. Some offers are incredibly generous—paper trading competitions with no risk and real rewards—but lack visibility. Kyzzen’s role is to matchmake projects that want to incentivize users with users seeking those incentives.

Early Protocol Usage and Airdrops

Thomas emphasizes that using protocols early is the best way to understand the industry and potentially receive rewards. If you’re launching a protocol, you’ll likely incentivize usage through rewards. He shares that being an early user of Solana protocols and continuing to use them led to really good airdrops—not necessarily farming, just genuine usage.

Oh Me’s advice: crypto works weirdly. Random protocols you casually try can reward you significantly, while heavily hyped projects can disappoint. He shares participating in a hyped airdrop where he invested 100 SOL and received less than the gas fee to claim. Meanwhile, Jito gave people who staked 2 JitoSOL around $8,000 or more—life-changing money for many.

Research and Portfolio Strategy

Oh Me’s best advice:

Do as much research as possible—research pays off
Stay aware of opportunities
Spread out your portfolio—don’t concentrate only on super-hyped projects
Super-hyped projects are usually oversubscribed anyway
Stay safe first—it doesn’t matter how much money you make if you get drained
Handle your security properly

Risk Management in Early Protocols

Thomas notes that early protocol usage comes with risk. When you provide liquidity to new protocols with small TVL, that’s a honeypot where people try to exploit vulnerabilities. Crypto is adversarial—if someone can exploit a protocol, they will.

Oh Me identifies the real enemies: Your number one and number two enemies are your own greed and your own carelessness—not scammers. Scammers can’t get your money if you’re not greedy and not careless. When people get scammed, they should learn: “Was I too greedy? Was I careless? What can I do better next time?”

Personal Behavioral Indicators

Oh Me shares his background in the investment industry doing stock trading. Early on, he developed a behavioral indicator: if he starts losing sleep at night, he’s too greedy. If he’s checking his portfolio constantly while working at night, he needs to sell some positions. You should only invest amounts you can let go of completely—in crypto, you could lose everything tomorrow.

Thomas adds his personal “greed index”:

Taking screenshots of your portfolio = sell 10-20% immediately
Explaining protocols or coins to his wife excitedly = time to sell (he caught the local top of BONK this way)

Oh Me confirms this is a meme—when influencers share profits on Twitter, they’re likely about to lose it because they can’t bring themselves to sell while in “greedy mode.”

Know Thyself

From Kyzzen Academy’s first 40 courses (written by Oh Me), the first tip for evaluating projects is: Know thyself. You must thoroughly understand your behaviors, thinking patterns, strengths, and weaknesses. Know what you have fundamental understanding of and what you don’t. This makes life much easier in crypto.

Oh Me only joins communities where either:

He’s learning a lot, or
He feels he’s contributing a lot

Personal development is the most important thing for long-term success. Near-term wins don’t matter—what matters is learning to trade long-term.

Current Market Cycle Position

Thomas expresses cautious bullish sentiment, feeling we’re getting ready to go up more—not quite at the top yet but with significant upside potential. He keeps a small “gambling amount” and has a plan: when it exceeds a certain threshold, sell it for Bitcoin or stable assets.

Oh Me’s advice: Make your wife your accountability partner. Tell her the plan and update her regularly. She’ll be better at disciplining you than you are yourself. Having friends in the space is important not just for alpha but for mental health—people who relate to you in good times and bad times. Use them as a sounding board: don’t ask “should I buy or sell?” but rather “I’m thinking of buying/selling for these reasons.”

The Value of Financial Advisors (or Not)

Oh Me reveals he doesn’t rely on traditional financial advisors despite coming from investment banking. The people he values are those who have been burned many times and have intrinsic knowledge of how projects act—telltale signs you can’t get from balance sheets and reports. Financial advisors entering crypto thinking they’re great stock-pickers “know nothing.” Oh Me only relies on his experience. He’s quite cynical but emphasizes: it’s not about stereotypical financial advisor friends, it’s about people with real crypto battle scars.

Thomas agrees—stock picking wasn’t the difficult part in investment banking; portfolio management and risk management are what create sustainable growth.

NFT Launch Strategy and Timing

Thomas notes that launching an NFT during the token/meme coin meta seems contrarian. Oh Me explains this is a nuanced decision with multiple factors:

Selfish Reasons

Oh Me’s personal desire to experience founding an NFT project. He joined the Solarians community (second-ever Solana NFT, first on-chain generative collection) in April/May 2021. He loved the community—there was no fighting because Solarians was alone for three months. Everyone genuinely wanted to experience and explore together, sharing lunch photos and playing Discord games. Many are still his best friends in Web3.

When the Solarians team finished their roadmap and said they were done, Oh Me proposed continuing. He led one of the first community takeovers (CTO) on Solana, hand-picking four community members for his team. They built out the project for two more years. That team also built Digital Eyes, the first open NFT marketplace on Solana (launched August 2021, before Magic Eden). Oh Me took over Digital Eyes at the start of 2022.

Lessons from Running Projects

Oh Me restructured the Digital Eyes team to focus on onboarding and education rather than trading (which had 20 marketplaces solving it). He created Kyzzen while working on Solarians for 2-3 years, taking on the Singapore Ambassador role for Monkey Kingdom. He observed founders’ mistakes and experiments firsthand.

He feels there’s untapped potential in NFTs that he wants to explore. It’s partially selfish—he wants to test ideas he’s always thought about but never had his own project for. He wants to push the space forward, fully aware he’ll make mistakes.

Practical Reasons

Kyzzen has finished base builds for exploration, discovery, and onboarding, plus aggregating basic opportunities. They’re now working on advanced analytics and alpha—portfolio analysis, alpha sourcing, notifications, and optimizations. Some tools are too advanced, complex, and intensive to offer at scale for free. They can’t serve 100,000 profiles with high-performance products, but can handle maybe 3,000-5,000 in real-time.

Rather than uncertain subscription models ($25/month for up to 10,000 accounts), limiting to a controllable NFT holder size ensures they can deliver the highest-level experience. It’s not about cost—it’s about delivery quality.

Community Building

NFTs help build community among users who support Kyzzen most. Even though it’s not the best time to launch an NFT, it makes sense for them.

NFT Community vs. Token Community

Oh Me explains a key difference: if he launched only a token, it would attract people who just want to trade the token. NFT communities are fundamentally different—they’re more fun. This stems from NFTs’ non-fungibility offering an additional identification layer. When you see another Monkey holder, you get excited about their traits. Even though you’re all monkeys, each has unique identity. This creates more fun trading dynamics with rarity concepts. Oh Me prefers having an NFT community over a purely token community—it’s more fun.

Token Launch Economics

Thomas raises the challenge of good protocols launching tokens wrong—the token drops 90% while the business thrives. There’s misalignment because you can’t directly tie business value to tokens (that’s a security). You need buybacks or burning mechanisms. Maybe the solution is allowing companies to give out actual securities.

Oh Me notes this happens more often than people realize, usually because teams rush planning (not necessarily launch, but getting deliverables). Once you announce something on Twitter, people hold you to it. Many protocols fall into this situation. He’s very cautious about regulations as a Singaporean—he plays it safe, is “by the book” by nature. Regulations exist for good reason: to protect users. They may limit gambling ability, but your gambling ability isn’t in anyone else’s interest.

Oh Me appreciates protocols that play safe because it shows the team is knowledgeable with long-term mindset. He’s not supportive of any protocol with a “fuck it” attitude—those founders don’t stay long.

Regulatory Environment and Market Volatility

This cycle has been more volatile and surprising than expected due to political upheavals. Oh Me thinks it’s been good for degens because volatility creates trading opportunities (though he’s not a degen himself). This cycle requires paying much more attention to news—not just crypto news but executive orders, lawsuits, ETF approvals, and geopolitical events. Last cycle was simple: China bans crypto = sell, Elon tweets about crypto = buy.

Thomas notes that from the US perspective, the regulatory environment has been incredibly bullish. All lawsuits against major crypto companies have been dropped (some legitimately, some not), ETFs fully approved, companies loading Bitcoin and ETH into treasuries, now moving to Solana. He feels Solana was particularly held back by regulation—named a security in the Coinbase lawsuit. Many Solana businesses couldn’t get bank accounts or function as normal businesses. Now those regulations are being lifted, allowing more money to access the ecosystem and businesses to move onshore instead of offshore. Thomas expects this to escalate things significantly over the next 1-2 years, independent of macro factors.

Oh Me refrains from commenting on US politics as a non-US resident, but acknowledges the US takes a leadership position—the SEC and Federal Reserve significantly influence crypto cycles. People entering crypto must know it’s not just about tokens going up or down; macro factors have never been more significant.

International Regulatory Developments

Thomas asks about Asian regulations. Oh Me refrains from commenting on Singapore specifically but notes Vietnam is opening up—huge because they’re a massive dev resource, especially for Solana. Superteam Vietnam and McDAOs Vietnam are huge; many Solana devs are based there. Japan’s Solana scene is also building up, though he’s uncertain about their regulations.

Unfortunately, politics and regulations seem to shift with the cycle—now that we’re in a bullish cycle, governments are more incentivized to pay attention and find ways to help their countries benefit while keeping citizens safe.

Responsibility and Market Maturity

Oh Me emphasizes: The onus is not in the government’s hands—it’s in ours. The way every one of us acts, especially founders and prominent figures, directly impacts how governments react. The less scams we support, the less reckless gambling we do, and the more we show the space has matured over time, the easier things get. You can’t want to be fully degen then cry to regulators about being scammed.

Twitter Spaces: Educational Initiative

Kyzzen runs Twitter Spaces twice weekly (Tuesdays and Thursdays) with 140+ Solana projects featured across 34 sessions this year. There are six or seven rotating topics:

Sector topics: DeFi, DePin, AI, NFTs
General topics: Builders, State of Solana (current affairs), Community (vibing)

They try to find the best subject matter experts for each topic. The spaces are popular because every project in crypto is starving for visibility—there’s so much noise. Kyzzen tries to pick projects with unique insights to educate on specific topics.

Volunteer Hosts

When co-host Sunny had to step back, many people volunteered to help including Thomas, SMS Easy, Simple, Andre, and Treats from Capybara. Oh Me found it heartwarming that so many volunteered for this educational initiative because it has positive impact on the community.

Thomas notes these spaces are valuable—hearing technical AI and DeFi conversations where even Oh Me admits he has no value to add and just learns. Oh Me always attends even when not speaking much because he wants to learn from the experts he personally invited.

Favorite Crypto Content

Oh Me built a tool aggregating top Twitter Spaces in Solana and broader crypto. His two favorite spaces (with shoutouts):

Crypto Eight – Weekly Twitter Space on Wednesdays at 3-4pm UTC with stellar panelist casts on-topic discussions
OL’s Team Daily Bone Podcast – Oh Me’s daily gym listening, featuring Easy, Clemente, and Peel with very good market commentary and opportunity discussions

Thomas used to listen to Daily Bone 2-3 years ago when there wasn’t much Solana content—they had spaces at 5am and midday. He loved it but stopped because: (1) timing was tough, and (2) they’d discuss real-time info that would change by their later space, requiring corrections. This inspired him to start his researched podcast where nothing needs retracting.

Oh Me respects Thomas going alone—with spaces, he gets help from volunteer hosts, but Thomas sources speakers and pushes educational content solo. In education, we’re not competitors—everyone wins together. They both support anyone wanting to do podcasts, blogs, or courses.

Streaming and Creator Monetization

Thomas asks about new streaming services like Pump.fun streaming and Bonk partnering with Kick—the creator capital markets where creators supposedly monetize streams with tokens.

Oh Me admits upfront: he’s a boomer and doesn’t do much streaming, so he’s not well-versed in market intricacies. He understands the attention economy but isn’t hyped about it. Crypto unfortunately is predominantly based on attention. While there are worthy experiments and innovations, he has very little faith the space can conduct itself responsibly in streaming. Last cycle saw people locking themselves in cages and even suicides on stream.

Skepticism About Streaming Investments

Oh Me struggles to understand investing based on streams. He won’t say “no” because he has no right to tell anyone how to spend money, but questions the investment thesis. He’s not a fan of “tokenize everything”—this whole cycle has been about tokenizing everything, but not everything is worth tokenizing. He jokingly asks if he can tokenize his fart.

There could be opportunity if you can sustainably pick winners from streaming and identify the meta, but he lacks that skill. He acknowledges some friends may have this skill—it’s research in a sense. Research isn’t just reading whitepapers and economic studies; “do your own research” means taking time to understand something and deciding if it’s worth investing.

The Personal Fit Question

While Oh Me isn’t a fan of the tokenize-everything or streaming meta, he acknowledges there could be alpha and competitive advantage for those who develop the skill. But returning to “know thyself”: there are many opportunities out there, so you don’t have to force yourself to understand everything. Focus time on opportunities you understand better.

Thomas admits this is somewhat personal—he feels there’s something interesting in monetizing audiences. Top podcasts take ads for protocols with no listener alignment just for money. From an investment perspective, if you’re looking at streams, you need to develop an edge in identifying opportunities and have fast fingers to enter positions for maximum return. There’s lots of room for error when you’re late or make wrong decisions, though Oh Me understands the excitement—it’s more interesting than charts on TradingView.

Encouraging Experimentation

Oh Me encourages experimentation despite disagreeing. Last cycle’s experiments made users much more savvy. This cycle is different because many are from the 2021 cycle, and 2017 cycle people learned even more. The industry’s users and investors are becoming more intelligent and savvy—not just about meta changes but about themselves. Oh Me encourages experimentation; this particular topic just isn’t for him.

The Value of Good Content and Research

Thomas notes he’d pay for good content with good alpha. He also thinks people have it easier now for research—good sites exist like Kyzzen, and AI helps (though it has crypto limitations). You can ask ChatGPT how wallets work or best ways to protect seed phrases—basics that previously had huge barriers are now quickly accessible.

Thomas shares his 2016 Bitcoin experience—his security was terrible and he’s surprised he didn’t lose anything. Now there are hardware wallets, Solana phones (functioning as hardware wallets), and multisig everywhere. More products, more information, and more people who’ve been through cycles talking about the right approaches.

Kyzzen’s Research Approach

Oh Me clarifies Kyzzen doesn’t do research in the traditional sense—they don’t research the best tokens or opportunities for users. Their approach is two-pronged:

Data Identification and Presentation

First, they identify all relevant data that’s significant in opportunity decision-making. When looking at DeFi, what information matters most? They present it in the most accessible, visually understandable manner, trusting users understand what they’re looking at.

Education

Second, if you don’t know what to look at, education comes in through courses giving basic layouts (like how DeFi yield works, what to look at) and Twitter Spaces with subject matter experts answering questions and providing deeper insights into developments.

No Claims of Best Research

Kyzzen doesn’t presume to be the best researchers because no one is. On Wall Street, if fund managers are honest, their analysts are wrong 50% of the time. There’s no research catering to your personal strategy, portfolio, and style. What Kyzzen can do is give strong fundamental understanding of how opportunities and products work and present the best data in the fastest, most reliable manner.

NFT Holder Utility: Customization

Without revealing too much, Oh Me wants to build an experience where NFT holders can customize what tailors to them in terms of opportunities. Different people have different approaches.

He gives an NFT lending example: Early days offered 180% APY at 70% loan-to-value for seven days—insane numbers. Within his team, approaches varied: Oh Me (the boomer) only took 75% APY seven-day loans for safety, while teammates would chase 240% APY 14-day loans on blue chips like Mad Lads, accepting more risk.

The same data can be interpreted completely differently by different people. Kyzzen spent all year aggregating data; now for NFT holders, they want to create a customizable experience where you decide your interests and create dashboards and tools that make you more efficient—hopefully surfacing opportunities catering to you specifically.

The Alpha Myth

Oh Me states clearly: Any startup telling you they’ll give you alpha for 100x returns is lying—or they control the market or are inside trading. For Kyzzen, staying safe comes first. If users feel they can contribute or learn a lot in the community, stay there. Personal development is most important for the long term.

Community Value and the Ducks Chat

Thomas mentions he likes being in chats where he’s the dumbest person. The chat he returns to repeatedly is the Ducks chat—specifically the Nobles chat requiring 20+ Ducks. When conversation gets going and something’s happening, really smart people say important things. He gets more knowledge from that chat than anywhere else—the community side is incredibly important, which sounds like what Oh Me is building.

Oh Me fully agrees and only joins communities fitting two criteria:

Where he’s learning a lot
Where he feels he’s contributing a lot

In the onboarding field, there are communities of newcomers where if he can contribute meaningfully, he’ll stay. But personal development is most important—all these near-term wins don’t matter. What matters is understanding how to thrive long-term. We are all early, even now with Trump as president. We don’t have to rush. When we rush, we make the most mistakes.

Four Key Takeaways

Oh Me offers one key takeaway from the conversation: Don’t rush, don’t be greedy, and don’t be careless. If you can do that, and if you’re lucky enough to find reliable friends in the space, those four things mean you’re pretty much set.

Long-Term Mentality

Thomas emphasizes: Play long-term games with long-term people. This is so hard in crypto because there’s constant news—every day is life-changing, seeing someone post about making a million on a meme coin makes you want to chase. But long-term, none of that matters. Long-term is: protect your assets, stick with quality assets, think long-term. Take small gambles—we’re in crypto, so have fun. Thomas keeps a burner wallet with fun SOL and will throw a SOL at something fun, but not making life-changing decisions on incredibly speculative plays. Sticking with long-term mentality in crypto has incredible upside, so even just sticking around is half the battle.

Oh Me agrees, noting most people don’t share this mentality, but it’s human instinct. One conference speaker said something that rang true: “You make all your money in the bear and count your money in the bull cycle.” If you’re not positioned during the bear market, you’re just chasing gains in the bull, risking everything to make something. Long-term is better. Bitcoin at $120K might not drop back to $50K, but from cycle history, it’s a possibility. If you’re patient and manage risk proportionately, maintain some liquidity, you’ll almost definitely find better buying prices. Obviously Bitcoin could go to $150K tomorrow, but different strokes for different folks.

Sector Rotation Strategy

Thomas notes that when Oh Me mentioned different site sections (DeFi, DePin, meme coins, NFTs), his mind instantly went to checking sections that aren’t hot right now. Meme coins are probably saturated—maybe skip heavy research there. But what are hot DeFi protocols? If DeFi comes back because people suddenly care about fundamentals, brushing up on DeFi and seeing what you lack exposure to could have big potential. Big opportunity exists in what’s not hot right now.

Oh Me agrees and emphasizes having multiple educational resources. Kyzzen is a small team with limits. He shares reading an interesting article (possibly by Milk Road) about a potentially smarter play: instead of buying Solana with ETF approvals and digital asset treasuries launching, buy protocols benefiting from this—the banking sector. ETFs and treasuries must stake or lend somewhere, so protocols like Kamino or Jupiter benefiting from higher TVL could be plays. For Oh Me, this wasn’t obvious—he hadn’t considered it. It’s always good to spread educational resources and updates widely; there are lots of interesting perspectives and thoughts.

Echo Chambers and Twitter Algorithm Problems

Thomas notes he gets too caught up in particular ideas, starts liking certain things, then creates his own echo chamber. You need to get outside it because it’s too easy to get caught up. He asks about Oh Me’s Twitter algorithm—his is bad these days, seeing no tweets he wants, barely any crypto content, just insane stuff. He doesn’t get alpha off Twitter anymore unless in Oh Me’s spaces.

Oh Me thinks all the questing and engagement farming somehow made it too easy for bots to dominate the noise. The toughest thing in crypto now is finding clean signals. This is why crypto is powerful—on-chain data is incorruptible and factual. Kyzzen pulls purely from on-chain data and protocol APIs to cut through noise. With aggregation, they provide context: seeing attention on a specific protocol isn’t useful unless compared with competitors. Are they all going up simultaneously? That’s one of Kyzzen’s biggest value-adds through aggregation—showing all best USDC yields, not just the loudest platform, based on objective metrics like best utilization, over-collateralization, and consistent APY.

The NFT Collection: Final Details

Launch Timeline

The whitelist and launch details will come soon. Oh Me can’t say much more, but promises the whitelist will be very fair—anyone who deserves a whitelist will likely get one. They know who they want in their community:

Anyone supporting their vision to improve onboarding, discoverability, and education for Solana
Anyone supporting the NFT space
Anyone meaningfully contributing to Solana

If you firmly fall within one of these three categories, odds are very high you’ll get whitelisted.

Not a Hype Project

They’re not a project going for extremely limited supply to pump floor prices to 20 SOL. To be clear: they’re building many tools requiring controlled group size. People with NFTs will hopefully really enjoy the utility experience. If you’re a Solana maxi, always looking for opportunities, or enjoy data-driven decisions, this will probably be the most useful NFT for you. They’re looking at data, analytics, and opportunities from a unique perspective—something no other platform does (if they were, there’d be no value-add).

Fair and Responsible Launch

The launch will be very fair. They know how to execute but want to give the wider ecosystem breathing room to understand what they’re achieving: what art looks like, what utility provides, who the team is, what they’re doing—before hyping. It would be irresponsible to announce “we’re minting in one week” and create FOMO. Their intention is: understand what Kyzzen is doing, support them, their partners, and Solana, and if you do, they want you.

Four Years Bootstrapped

Oh Me emphasizes: they’ve been bootstrapped for almost four years now. This isn’t so much about raising money as finding a community of users who will support them and can benefit from what they’re building. If users don’t benefit, they’re more disappointed in themselves than anything. They’ve spent enormous effort and will be very careful and fair.

The Art: Hand-Drawn Meets AI

Oh Me is excited to discuss the art’s unique concept. About nine months ago, he saw many projects launching purely AI-generated NFTs. It saddened him because he really enjoys NFTs for supporting creators—artists who always struggled in the real world finding galleries, paying ridiculous fees, doing their own marketing. NFTs offered secondary royalties on-chain, fair launch platforms, marketplaces with visibility.

AI as Tool vs. Competitor

Then AI came in, and AI does art pretty well. Oh Me has always been a big fellow of artists and debated with them: Why haven’t you explored AI as a tool instead of a competitor? He went to ComicCon specifically looking at anime/manga art (he’s a big fan), speaking to almost 25 different artists at an Asian comic con. About 15 artists told him to fuck off when they heard he worked on NFTs. The remaining ten were angry about AI. There’s obvious hostility between machine output and human creators.

Oh Me wanted to understand if AI could provide value-add. Coming from the NFT space, he understands how art is generated—different traits drawn and layered on top of each other. He identified two obvious restrictions:

Limited Variation – Because traits layer on top of each other, there’s limited diversity. A tall skinny character’s t-shirt won’t fit a short fat base character—they obviously wouldn’t fit, restricting collection diversity.
Detailing Issues – Things like shadows: Afro hair creates different shadows than a bald head.

The Hybrid Approach

This is where AI really helps. Kyzzen commissioned artists to draw all traits in the collection—base collections with different facial shapes and body sizes. They trained AI models purely on those hand-drawn traits plus some finished works. They created a collection completely believable as drawn by the same artist in his style, except it’s incredibly diverse—5,000-7,000 different characters of all shapes and sizes.

The World of Kyzzen

“Kai-aka” is an “isekai” genre (the other world/another world) in anime—could be virtual reality or fantasy world series. The World of Kyzzen features digital avatars in that world. They wanted a collection so diverse that there’s literally something for everyone—whatever race, size, face shape, or clothing style. Oh Me spent weeks going through fashion shopping websites and homeless blogs picking the most relatable accessories and clothing items so anyone in the world can look at Kai-aka and find something representing them—”that’s fucking me, right?”

Rarity vs. Popularity

Rarity will play less of a part—there aren’t many rare items. But there will be more popular items by nature (polo t-shirts, headphones). More sought-after items exist not because of rarity but because people want them. This makes the collection more accessible.

Technical Innovation

Oh Me thinks they might be one of the first to have custom shadows for a hand-drawn collection—every character has a different shadow behind them, which is the main differentiation from other anime collections. Users can check out samples at world.kyzzen.io.

Utility Deep Dive: Portfolio Management Layers

Beyond art, Oh Me spent years in banking and investments, giving him fundamental understanding of portfolio management and investments. Looking at average users’ portfolio management workflows, he identified an input-output model:

Input: Alpha Delivery

How do they present alpha in a timely manner? Kyzzen has proven they can—they literally aggregate everything across every sector (tokens, NFTs, airdrops, DePin, DeFi). They have the data; it’s about getting that data to users through alpha alerts and portfolio tools.

Output: Portfolio Management Layers

Most people might not be conscious of different layers within portfolio management:

Tracking Portfolio – Seeing overview statistics
Portfolio Updates – Being notified of changes
Analyzing Portfolio – How it’s been trending, risk factors, audits
Risk Alerts – Being alerted on risks (token liquidity drops, lending pool liquidity decreases indicating potential bank runs)
Portfolio Optimization – Finding ways to stay safe, optimize returns, stay updated, and find new ways to take advantage

The Ultimate Utility Promise

Oh Me states: as a utility player, without doubt they will be the most useful NFT for your journey. They might not be the one where you make the most money from—that’s not the desire. They’re not trying to make mints 3x. But they’re trying to build community—if you believe their utility is useful, that’s what matters.

Eight Blurred Roadmap Items

Big alpha drop: On September 1st (last Friday before end of August), they tweeted eight different roadmap items that were blurred out. All eight will be revealed before the NFT launch. If you ask “wen mint?”, pay attention to that—once all eight are done and reviewed, that indicates timing.

Many of those eight will be for NFT holders but will be opened to the public first to try and battle-test before making them holder-exclusive. Try those tools, and if you think they’re useful, that’s when you should decide to mint. Oh Me is very convinced they will be because these are his own personal wants—tools he wants that no one else has, so he’s building them for himself and the wider community.

The Team: Four Years, Zero Attrition

One last note on the team: Oh Me shared his history, but reveals his team has been the exact same team since four years ago—zero attrition. They have a pretty decent, sufficiently-sized team, and they’re like family. When he recruited the team, most were new hires. They’ve really bonded and delivered. After four years in crypto, it’s hard to find a team that can say it’s been the same team for four years.

Oh Me loves them so much and is really proud of them. The pride and joy that they’re finally doing this after four years—two and a half of which were bear market, absolutely depressing, with team members surely considering leaving many times—but they stuck through it. Now they’re finding it’s launch time.

Oh Me would love to introduce these people to the community once they launch. If you’re looking for a safe project that can sustain itself long-term, they check many right boxes: team, art, utility, marketing power (140 projects featured), and sustainability. They’ve never raised a dollar in four years—think about that.

The Ask

If this sounds right, reach out—Oh Me’s DMs are open, the team’s DMs are open. They’d love to share more. Stop into one of the spaces Tuesday or Thursday.

Upcoming Content Tease

Oh Me got excited about one more thing he forgot: they’ve been experimenting with AI and training for about a year now. The content users are about to see across the next four weeks is going to be really interesting—short of streaming (a whole different ballgame). It’s going to be really fun.

Oh Me was playing around creating all kinds of crazy content—AI generated and hand-drawn. A big question he’s trying to solve: Can they avail those tools to NFT holders so they can have fun with the avatars as well? If you’re buying a digital representation of yourself and can have the tools he’s playing with—it’s mind-blowing, he’s having so much fun. The art you see isn’t necessarily limited to just what you see—you might be able to have some fun with that, though he can’t confirm yet. He’s probably teasing more than his team is comfortable with.