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The Last Manual Transmission A 75% drop. By the numbers alone, it looks like a disaster. But this chart is also a declaration that an era is ending. In 2022, when Adobe offered $20 billion to acquire Figma, everyone called it insane. Regulators blocked the deal. Figma went public on its own, and now the market won't even give it one-sixth of that valuation. But look at the timing differently, and the story changes. Figma's founders and early investors may be remembered as the people who tried to find the exit at the very peak of "the era when humans moved pixels by hand." Regulators stepped in to prevent monopoly, but in doing so, they saved Adobe from buying the last ticket to the steam locomotive age at the highest possible price. Figma was undeniably a revolution. It was the first to truly realize the concept of "designing together," transforming the era of passing files back and forth into one of real-time collaboration. But that revolution had a premise: humans still did the drawing. Figma was the most elegantly engineered manual transmission sports car ever built. The feel of shifting gears, the timing of the clutch, the thrill of your heartbeat syncing with the engine. Then suddenly, a car with no steering wheel and no pedals appeared. A car where you just say where you want to go. Debating the timing of a manual gear shift is no longer a skill—it's a hobby. What's more chilling is Adobe. An empire of creative tools built over 40 years. Knowing how to use Photoshop, Premiere, and After Effects became a profession in itself, a barrier to entry. In truth, Adobe's moat was never its features—it was complexity itself. Understanding layers, using masks, memorizing shortcuts. That arduous learning curve was the job security. Now that wall is crumbling. "Change the background to a beach." "Remove that person from the video." The process evaporates; only the output remains. Forty years of fortress walls, collapsing like sandcastles before a single prompt. This chart isn't about Figma's failure. It's an obituary for an era. Adobe tried to buy that era but couldn't, and the bigger problem is that Adobe itself is fading along with it. They call it the democratization of creativity. A beautiful phrase. But for some, democratization means the fall of a dynasty, and in a world where anyone can be king, the crown weighs less than a feather. The hours memorizing shortcuts, the nights practicing the pen tool, the dawns wrestling with timelines. All those years of honing craft are losing their light before a simple phrase: "Just say it." This chart is asking all of us: Is the skill you've spent your life perfecting just another manual transmission headed for the museum?

This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it.

다섯번째 @Verse_Eight 게임, UP ONLY 해당 게임은 @CROSS_gamechain 에 온보딩 된 @PixelHeroesMMO 의 IP를 활용해 제작하였습니다. (해당 게임은 @PixelHeroesMMO 에 대한 팬심으로 제작된 비공식 팬게임입니다) 이번 게임의 제작 목표는 두가지였습니다. 1. Crossramp 기능을 활용해, Verse8 에서 온체인 토큰을 발행해보자. 2. Web2 게임인 트릭컬의 사례처럼, PHA의 대표님( @WizardOf5Z )을 마케팅에 활용해보자. - 꽤나 무거워 보이는 PHA 대표님 대표님의 캐릭터가 꽤나 무거워 보여서, 가볍게 구름 위로 슝슝 올라가는 게임을 만들면 어떨까 생각해봤습니다. 무한의 탑 게임처럼 가볍게 플레이하시면 점수가 쌓이고, 개인 최고 점수는 리더보드에 등록할 수 있습니다. 뿐만 아니라, 매 판 획득한 점수는 리워드로 합산 되며, 해당 리워드는 토큰으로 교환이 가능합니다. (테스트 해보니 현재 스왑 기능은 준비중인 것 같습니다.) - Crossramp 를 활용한 토큰 발행 토큰 발행은 Verse8 에 있는 Crossramp 초보자 가이드를 보고 따라했는데요! 너무 자세히 잘 돼있고, 크롬 번역을 쓰면 한국어로 볼수도 있어서 어렵지 않게 테스트넷, 메인넷 발행까지 마칠 수 있었습니다. - 발행된 토큰 확인 x.crosstoken.io/en/gametoken… 발행된 토큰은 위 주소에서 확인 할 수 있었으며, 제가 발행한 토큰 외에도 다양한 게임에서 발행된 토큰도 보였습니다. 각 토큰마다 가격이 다른 것을 보니, 매수가 발생한 토큰도 있었던 것 같습니다. - 대한민국 디지털 자산의 현재 하지만 국내 법률상, 개발자가 토큰에 직접 관여하면 많은 부분에 어려움이 있을 것 같아 매수/매도나 그 어떠한 권리도 추가하지 않았습니다. (애초에 제 경우는 PHA 의 IP를 사용해서 그래서도 안 됩니다.) 이 부분이 많이 개선돼서 더 재밌고 창의적인 게임들이 많이 만들어질 수 있으면 좋겠네요. 직접 만들어보니 특히 인디 게임씬에서 크라우드 펀딩이나 팬덤의 초기 서포트에도 좋을 것 같고, 개발자나 개발 팀 입장에서도 OG 유저를 체크하기 너무 좋을 것 같습니다. - 마무리하며 요즘 실제로 바이브 코딩을 통해 안드로이드, 아이폰 앱을 만들고 있기도 해서 너무 재밌게 Verse8 을 활용하고 있습니다. 직접 사용하면 할수록, IP 와 UGC 툴 or 플랫폼의 결합은 필연적이라고 느껴지는데요. 하지만 역시 저작권을 빼놓고 생각할 순 없는 것 같습니다. 최근 @Disney 와 @OpenAI 은 바로 이 부분에 대해 방안을 찾아가는 과정일 것 같은데요. @Verse_Eight 은 이러한 시장에서 어떤 돌파 방법을 활용할지 기대가 됩니다.

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The M&M jar is being carried around the @SolanaConf venue today. Several people have already submitted their predictions for the number of M&Ms in the jar. If you see the Trepa team around, feel free to approach them and submit your prediction.

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