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• Listen to the new Feelings Check-in pod where we talk about taking feedback too personally. Or listen to a more emotionally-balanced interview with Friends with Benefits mayor Alex Zhang.

• The agenda for Permissionless is out. See where Boy Friends™ Steph Alinsug, Blake Finucane, Ladidai, LDF, Paff, Trevor McFedries, Tara Fung and others are showing up. Use code CULTURE20 for a ticket discount and see ya there.

• Zaddy holders who are Formula 1 fans, you have an opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.

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Writer: Deana

Friend.tech. You guys will gamble on anything. Friend.tech launched on Thursday, and it’s already racked up over 6,400 ETH ($11M) in trading volume. The concept is simple, you buy and sell shares of your friends, bringing social capital onchain. Neat! Right now Cobie is going for 1.08ETH, David Hoffman for 0.225ETH and Deana for .004ETH (woohoo), just to give you a sense of where things stand. Despite hitting the holy trinity of vices - greed, vanity and social signaling - idk that this one is going mainstream due to its buggy onboarding, missing parts, and a trauma memory from BitClout. Though some people disagree! Love Chase Chapman’s call for more web3 native experimentation in this style regardless. Friend.tech is dead, long live Friend.tech.

DeSci. Women's longevity research gets approximately 1% of funding, which is less than pet longevity research. AthenaDAO is a research collective focused on changing this, bringing the promise of decentralized science to women’s health by funding early-stage research that has go-to-market potential, and stewarding it through to commercialization. They raised $120K for funding their first piece of research around ovarian aging, and will be doing a token launch in a few weeks. Keep an eye on AthenaDAO, and hit up their 101 sesh if you’re into this.

No gatekeeping. This is a new section highlighting what The Boys are buying or doing. We don’t earn a commission on these recs (...unless?), so you can trust they are straight from the heart.

Our first recommendation comes from the inimitable Gaby.eth, who says, “my hair has never felt lighter or more bouncy.” Go off Gaby. Email us your rec for a possible feature next week.

• ❤️ We love to see it pt 1. Keliz is doing collaborator match-marking. No charge, no catch, all love.

• 🥐 We love to see it pt 2. Sally and Lanaz launch Rooftop.

• 💻 We love to see it pt 3. Natasha on NewForum.

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