I think the truly smart part of #PAID isn’t that it can mint tokens, but that it turns “getting paid” directly into a user-acquisition entry point.
Its logic is actually very simple.
Anyone can send tokens to an X user—no need for the recipient to register, claim, or even know anything about it. The money is credited to their account right away.
This step is crucial.
Because if there’s suddenly an unexplained sum of money in your account, it’s hard to completely ignore it.
Chances are you’ll check where the money came from, and then discover someone sent you tokens.
Next, you might mention it on X.
And with that one sentence, the token’s spread is already underway.
If people discuss it, there’s attention; if there’s attention, there may be more transactions; and as transactions increase, the fees you receive also rise.
The more money there is, the more you’re likely to pay attention to it.
That creates a self-propelling viral loop.
And throughout the whole process, you don’t need to publicly say, “These are my tokens.”
This is very different from Bags.
Bags is more like getting you to proactively go claim it—but once you do claim, others can easily interpret it as you admitting your involvement in minting/sending tokens.
That psychological barrier is actually quite high.
PAID, on the other hand, goes around this step: first it makes you receive the money, then makes you curious, and then lets you participate in the discussion yourself.
Ansem and Nikita are classic examples—originally they didn’t take part proactively, but in the end they naturally got pulled into the discussion.
So in my view, the most worth paying attention to in this whole model is,
not first trying to persuade you to mint tokens—but first sending the money to you. $paid#paid
Its logic is actually very simple.
Anyone can send tokens to an X user—no need for the recipient to register, claim, or even know anything about it. The money is credited to their account right away.
This step is crucial.
Because if there’s suddenly an unexplained sum of money in your account, it’s hard to completely ignore it.
Chances are you’ll check where the money came from, and then discover someone sent you tokens.
Next, you might mention it on X.
And with that one sentence, the token’s spread is already underway.
If people discuss it, there’s attention; if there’s attention, there may be more transactions; and as transactions increase, the fees you receive also rise.
The more money there is, the more you’re likely to pay attention to it.
That creates a self-propelling viral loop.
And throughout the whole process, you don’t need to publicly say, “These are my tokens.”
This is very different from Bags.
Bags is more like getting you to proactively go claim it—but once you do claim, others can easily interpret it as you admitting your involvement in minting/sending tokens.
That psychological barrier is actually quite high.
PAID, on the other hand, goes around this step: first it makes you receive the money, then makes you curious, and then lets you participate in the discussion yourself.
Ansem and Nikita are classic examples—originally they didn’t take part proactively, but in the end they naturally got pulled into the discussion.
So in my view, the most worth paying attention to in this whole model is,
not first trying to persuade you to mint tokens—but first sending the money to you. $paid#paid