🐸 WILLUMINATI

Everyone wants another PEPE style runner, but nobody understands why PEPE happened. Back then, there was barely anything to trade onchain. Liquidity was concentrated, people had patience, and they actually HELD. And let's not pretend PEPE was some 100% organic miracle. There were claims of around 30% bundled supply. The difference was that a floor was built and people had bigger targets. Today, everyone wants to sell to the very next guy who buys after them. Our role models are guys who flip, flip, flip. Show me someone who held something from nothing to hundreds of millions. Maybe Unipcs? Even he gets called an insider whenever he wins. We've completely fucked up our psychology. Nobody wants to build a floor. Nobody wants to hold. Everybody wants to extract. And guess who's actually getting rich? The platforms and protocols collecting fees on every transaction. I dump on you. You dump on someone else. We all lose money while the platforms print. We don't have a liquidity problem alone. We have a conviction problem. Until we fix that, forget the next PEPE. We're just recycling the same money until there's nothing left to recycle.

🚨LAWSUIT CLAIMS PUMPFUN INTERNAL CHATS SHOW IT WAS BUILT TO MAXIMIZE ADDICTIVE TRADING! In an ongoing class-action lawsuit against Pump.fun and related parties, plaintiffs allege that roughly 5,000 internal team messages reveal the platform was deliberately designed to maximize addictive engagement and fee revenue. According to the complaint, leadership discussed slot-machine style mechanics and acknowledged the product was built around users continuing to trade even when most lose money. The claims come from whistleblower materials cited in the amended complaint.

if ur trying to run $100 up to 7 figs i think your best and only option is actually the trenches explains why they are forever popular with a younger crowd

Mitch warns that trenching 12 hours a day is just another 9 to 5 job in disguise. "At the end of the day, trenching means you eventually have to sell on someone else, which often ends up being your own friends or followers." "You end up catching heat just for securing a 15X win. To escape that toxic loop and the 12 hour daily screen addiction, he stepped back from the trenching degeneracy." "Making the switch to perps in late 2024 not only saved his mental health but became his most profitable hustle."

pumpfun’s biggest threat isn’t another launchpad. it’s a competitor that understands culture, retention and how to build a market people actually want to stay in. the original post highlights how tone deaf their strategy has become. nobody outside CT knows Kimchi, and nobody wakes up wanting to trade internet trends. but the problem goes deeper than marketing. pumpfun has built a market where supply expands alongside demand. every bullish wave brings new capital, but also thousands of new launches competing for that same liquidity. instead of sustained rallies in established communities, attention and capital get fragmented across an expanding supply of coins. their revenue incentives reinforce this cycle. pre-bond trading carries higher protocol fees than many established post-bond pools, rewarding turnover over longevity. traditional brokerages prioritize established companies and market leaders. pumpfun has the model backwards, making new launches the center of discovery. as discussed in our retention research (thread linked in comments), nobody is sticking around when their first trade goes negative in 2 seconds. the WIF moment (thread linked in comments) showed how culture creates communities, organic distribution and reasons to stay beyond the next trade. instead, pumpfun keeps chasing CCM, ICM, Mayhem Mode and Pokémon packs. different narratives, same concern.. recognizing attention without understanding what makes these markets sustainable. meanwhile, deeper liquidity through pump pairs and stronger communities could reinforce its existing revenue engine. the opportunity resembles Google’s Gemini strategy. OpenAI and Anthropic spend heavily expanding AI adoption while Google leverages existing distribution to compete for those users. a competitor could let pumpfun fund retail onboarding, then win those users with better infrastructure, social graphs and communities built for longevity. pumpfun profits from the constant creation of new supply, while its users need sustained demand. eventually, someone will recognize that misalignment and build around it.

if you've ever lost money in a bull market it's highly likely because you have constantly chopped and changed your positions rather than having a significant amount of your portfolio in conviction trades (spot) and letting them run altho the latter is actually incredibly easy on paper, psychologically, it's a lot harder coz in a bull mkt u see stuff going up 100x every other day and unless it's ur position u feel fomo and the urge to top blast etc etc the answer is to just make sure you have split your capital into i) the big spot bag u don't touch ii) the degen bag which lets you enjoy your vices u then want to rotate your profits from the degen bag into the spot bag thus capturing and compounding your gains through the cycle until you find the right time to sell all sounds easy on paper but people (including myself) fk it up all the time

Crypto is literally just one big casino at this point The downfall of this industry is sad to see