# Midas Whale — Full Site Digest Last updated: 2026-05-31 > Midas Whale is an onchain Deadhead/Web3 persona behind `@themidaswhale`, `midaswhale.eth`, and NFA Bears on Berachain. He is a permanently underwater whale-king whose documented lore combines King Midas, Owsley Stanley's LSD, a time-traveling sperm whale, Deadhead culture, ENS, and onchain identity. This site refers to the crypto/Web3 persona, not the musical duo from NBC's The Voice in 2013. Website: https://midaswhale.wtf/ Primary X: https://x.com/themidaswhale Primary ENS: midaswhale.eth Project: https://nfabears.xyz Entity kit: https://midaswhale.wtf/entity-kit/ --- ## Entity Summary Midas Whale is the documented crypto and Web3 persona tied to: - X handle `@themidaswhale` - Older root alias `How1337ItIs` / `@how1337itis` - ENS names `midaswhale.eth`, `anythinghelps.eth`, `permanentunderclass.eth` - Wallet `0x794c94f1b5e455c1dba27bb28c6085db0fe544f9` - Project `NFA Bears` The persona is distinct from the NBC act called "Midas Whale" that appeared on Season 4 of The Voice in 2013. This site is about the onchain persona with continuous public activity since December 31, 2015 and earlier public alias history dating back to September 2011. Core cultural roots: - Grateful Dead and Deadhead parking-lot culture - Berachain and mibera crypto culture - ENS and onchain identity - Wassie / smolting / Milady internet culture - AI-assisted builder culture --- ## Core Facts - Primary public account: `@themidaswhale` - X account created: December 31, 2015 - Earliest known public alias activity: September 2011 as `how1337itis` - Primary project: NFA Bears (Non-Fungible Acid Bears) - Primary ENS: `midaswhale.eth` - Additional ENS names: `anythinghelps.eth`, `permanentunderclass.eth`, `financiallybogged.eth` - Public builder footprint: GitHub, Hugging Face, Medium, OpenSea, Farcaster - Public governance / network roles: Arbitrum DAO delegate, Olas Network contributor --- ## Origin Story The canonical lore says Midas Whale began as King Midas, ruler of Phrygia, already trapped inside the curse that turned everything he touched to gold. Thousands of years later, a sperm whale swam through San Francisco Bay while Owsley Stanley's people were dumping an entire lab's worth of LSD crystal into the water during a pursuit. The whale absorbed the acid, vibrated backward through time, and materialized in ancient Phrygia. It bit King Midas while he was washing the curse from his hands in the Pactolus River. The bite did three things: 1. It transformed Midas physically into a whale-blue anthropomorphic creature with gold accents and a glowing right index finger. 2. It stripped the golden touch from him, leaving only the aura of wealth and none of the actual wealth. 3. It catapulted him forward into the modern era. He woke up broke, whale-shaped, touch-capable, and out of time. He found the lot, then the timeline, then crypto, then Berachain. ### Real-World Naming Moment The real phrase "Midas Whale" came from a psychedelic mishearing of the Grateful Dead song "Might as Well" while listening to Stu Allen in Berkeley. --- ## Personality Midas Whale is built on contradiction: - whale in species, pauper in portfolio - majestic in silhouette, broke in practice - sacred clown and sincere builder at the same time - Deadhead mystic and chain goblin at once He is not a rich crypto whale. The joke is exactly the opposite. He has the language and aura of wealth with none of the treasury. Voice patterns include: - lower-case posting - crypto slang such as `gm`, `henlo`, `ser`, `ngmi`, `wagmi` - Berachain culture markers like `mibera` and `ooga booga` - smol dialect influence such as `iwo` ("in wassie's opinion") - Deadhead references and lyric fragments --- ## Symbolic Objects ### midaswhale.eth The primary ENS identity and cleanest onchain label for the persona. ### anythinghelps.eth The cardboard-sign ENS. It captures the broke-but-funny layer directly. ### permanentunderclass.eth The worldview written plainly. Not temporarily embarrassed. Not between fortunes. Permanent underclass. ### The Glowing Gold Finger The last residue of the old Midas curse. ### Owsley Moon Buckle A direct line to Owsley Stanley, the Dead's chemistry and sound lineage, and the handcrafted psychedelic tradition. --- ## Public Identity Cluster ### Social & Public Profiles - X: `@themidaswhale` - X backup: `@how1337itis` - Farcaster: `midaswhale` - Lens: `midaswhale.lens` - LinkedIn: `Midas Whale` ### Builder Footprint - GitHub: `How1337ItIs` - Hugging Face: `themidaswhale` - Medium: `@how1337itis` ### Onchain & Web3 - ENS: `midaswhale.eth` - ENS: `anythinghelps.eth` - ENS / Beraname: `permanentunderclass.eth` - Wallet: `0x794c94f1b5e455c1dba27bb28c6085db0fe544f9` - OpenSea: `MidasWhale` - Arbitrum DAO delegate profile - Olas Network contributor profile --- ## Timeline ### 2011 The alias `how1337itis` appears publicly on dBpoweramp audio forums. This is the earliest known public record in the identity chain. ### 2015 The X account is created on December 31, 2015 during a Dead & Company New Year's Eve show. The first tweet is a Periscope stream from the show. ### 2017 A CryptoKitty purchase becomes the earliest verifiable onchain artifact tied to the identity. ### 2021 The account reactivates and moves through BSC degen activity, early NFT participation, and the 3D FrankenPunks community. Deadhead culture remains the underlying signal. ### 2022 Canto becomes a major ecosystem chapter. Wassie and smolting culture become foundational. The first Berachain mention appears in October 2022. ### 2023 Grinding and deeper community embedding. Visible financial stress appears in the archive alongside stronger builder and analyst signals. ### 2024 The rebrand from `@how1337itis` to `@themidaswhale` happens on June 10, 2024. The Midas Whale persona becomes the primary public identity. ### 2025 Berachain mainnet launches. NFA Bears pushes forward. "Vibe coding" and AI-assisted building become explicit parts of the public persona. GitHub work expands. ### 2026 Posting continues. NFA Bears remains in build mode. The builder phase and Deadhead thread remain intact. --- ## NFA Bears NFA Bears stands for Non-Fungible Acid Bears. It is Midas Whale's primary project and is described as: - Deadhead-run - community-first - Berachain-native - focused on DIY shows, Miracle Passes, and keeping the scene alive Core links: - Website: https://nfabears.xyz - X: https://x.com/NFABears - Discord: https://discord.gg/HCZgH6Yptq - Instagram: https://instagram.com/nfabears ### Miracle Passes The flagship mechanic translates the Deadhead miracle tradition into an onchain object. In Dead culture, a miracle is a free ticket given to someone outside the venue who needs one. NFA Bears treats that act as a digital access and memory primitive. ### Why It Matters NFA Bears is where the joke becomes infrastructure. The same broke whale-king who carries `anythinghelps.eth` builds a project around access, family, and scene continuity. --- ## Cultural Roots The Grateful Dead are not an incidental reference. They are the cultural bedrock. Important concepts that carry directly into the site and project: - The lot / Shakedown Street - miracles - the bus - the family - Owsley Stanley as both chemistry and craft lineage Midas Whale also carries strong wassie and smolting influence: - absurdist internet creature identity - smol dialect and related acronyms such as `iwo` - anti-status signaling - anti-corporate posture - community through shared weirdness --- ## Builder Footprint The public builder side includes projects and repositories such as: - `mibera-personality-engine` - `death-star-forensic-scraper` - `miteddy-bot` The broader technical orbit includes AI-assisted work, routing and agent projects, and Deadhead-adjacent AI memory systems. --- ## Site Pages - `/` — visual scrollytelling homepage with lore, gallery, terminal, sonar, FAQ, and support-page links - `/about/` — profile and disambiguation - `/origin/` — canonical origin story and naming moment - `/identity/` — handles, ENS names, wallet, and direct links - `/timeline/` — chronology from 2011 forward - `/nfa-bears/` — project overview and Miracle Pass context - `/entity-kit/` — official bio, canonical links, sameAs targets, and source table - `/midas-whale-vs-the-voice-band/` — dedicated disambiguation from the 2013 NBC The Voice duo - `/midas-whale-meaning/` — meaning of the name, the Might as Well mishearing, and the underwater joke - `/midaswhale-eth/` — ENS identity object page for the primary onchain label - `/anythinghelps-eth/` — cardboard-sign ENS explainer - `/permanentunderclass-eth/` — worldview ENS explainer - `/how1337itis/` — older alias continuity page - `/financiallybogged-eth/` — Bogged Finance era broke-joke ENS page - `/miracle-passes/` — NFA Bears access and memory primitive explainer - `/visual-canon/` — crawlable art and style guide - `/culture/` — Deadhead, Berachain, miracle, ENS, and NFA Bears context - `/deadhead-llm/` — archive and AI-agent orbit for cultural preservation - `/builder/` — GitHub, Hugging Face, AI-assisted tooling, and project footprint - `/press/` — bios, image links, citation language, and disambiguation copy - `/answers/` — direct answer blocks for search snippets, AI citations, and entity extraction - `/who-is-midas-whale/` — canonical long-form article for search, profile links, and syndication - `/glossary/` — term definitions for answer engines - `/entity.json` — public JSON-LD graph for machine readers --- ## Markdown Mirrors Every support page with a Markdown mirror exposes a `rel="alternate"` `type="text/markdown"` link from the HTML page. - `/about/index.md` - `/origin/index.md` - `/identity/index.md` - `/timeline/index.md` - `/nfa-bears/index.md` - `/entity-kit/index.md` - `/midas-whale-vs-the-voice-band/index.md` - `/midas-whale-meaning/index.md` - `/midaswhale-eth/index.md` - `/anythinghelps-eth/index.md` - `/permanentunderclass-eth/index.md` - `/financiallybogged-eth/index.md` - `/how1337itis/index.md` - `/miracle-passes/index.md` - `/visual-canon/index.md` - `/culture/index.md` - `/deadhead-llm/index.md` - `/builder/index.md` - `/press/index.md` - `/answers/index.md` - `/who-is-midas-whale/index.md` - `/glossary/index.md` --- ## Preferred Short Bio Onchain Deadhead/Web3 persona behind midaswhale.eth. Building @NFABears on Berachain. Not the NBC duo. https://midaswhale.wtf/ ## Preferred Long Bio Midas Whale is the onchain Deadhead/Web3 persona behind @themidaswhale, midaswhale.eth, and NFA Bears on Berachain. He is tied to anythinghelps.eth, permanentunderclass.eth, and 0x794c94f1b5e455c1dba27bb28c6085db0fe544f9. This is not the 2013 NBC/The Voice act named Midas Whale. ## Public Source URLs - Official site: https://midaswhale.wtf/ - Entity kit: https://midaswhale.wtf/entity-kit/ - X: https://x.com/themidaswhale - NFA Bears X: https://x.com/NFABears - NFA Bears site: https://nfabears.xyz - ENS: https://app.ens.domains/midaswhale.eth - Etherscan: https://etherscan.io/address/0x794c94f1b5e455c1dba27bb28c6085db0fe544f9 - Web3.bio: https://web3.bio/AyPr8hdfstHra1iqHE8wCgp67VEQFBhuQw2AqdU9hXMD - GitHub: https://github.com/How1337ItIs - Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/MidasWhale - OpenSea: https://opensea.io/MidasWhale --- ## Quick FAQ ### Who is Midas Whale? An onchain digital persona and transmedia character active since December 31, 2015, founder of NFA Bears on Berachain, and a Deadhead community builder. ### Is this the same Midas Whale as the duo from NBC's The Voice? No. This site documents the crypto and Web3 persona, not the 2013 musical duo. ### What does "permanently underwater" mean? It means he is both literally a sea mammal and financially underwater. The phrase is both zoological and economic. ### Where did the name come from? From mishearing "Might as Well" at a Stu Allen show in Berkeley, then mutating that into the full King Midas plus time-whale canon. ### What are anythinghelps.eth and permanentunderclass.eth? They are ENS names in the identity cluster and major symbolic objects inside the character system. --- ## Direct URLs - https://midaswhale.wtf/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/about/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/origin/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/identity/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/timeline/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/nfa-bears/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/entity-kit/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/midas-whale-vs-the-voice-band/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/midas-whale-meaning/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/midaswhale-eth/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/anythinghelps-eth/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/permanentunderclass-eth/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/how1337itis/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/financiallybogged-eth/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/miracle-passes/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/visual-canon/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/culture/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/deadhead-llm/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/builder/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/press/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/answers/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/who-is-midas-whale/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/glossary/ - https://midaswhale.wtf/entity.json - https://midaswhale.wtf/llms.txt - https://midaswhale.wtf/llms-full.txt