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trenches, narratives, distribution sometimes trading them, sometimes building them

Joined March 2020
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we spent years trying to get wall street in. now they're here and we're surprised they hit sell on both tabs
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the edge right now is how fast u can delete ur own plan 5 year plans are dead and 1 year plans are barely breathing. the arena changes every quarter but speed has a trap nobody talks about a lot of teams now run everything through ai. the code and the strategy both come out of a prompt, and when u ask why they picked that path, nobody in the room can answer ai hands u the average answer fast. in a market moving this quick, the average answer is already stale a team that prompts well and thinks badly will pivot fast in the wrong direction so when u hire, test for one thing: can they disagree with the model and explain why plan short. hire ppl who argue with the output
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2024 had too many winners 2026 has too many launches big difference
JUST IN: MEMECOINS THAT SURPASSED $1B MARKET CAP BY YEAR 2023 $PEPE, $BONK 2024 $WIF, $BRETT, $POPCAT, $GOAT, $PNUT, $MEW, $MOG, $BOME, $FARTCOIN, $NEIRO, $PENGU, $AI6Z 2025 $TRUMP, $MELANIA, $LIBRA 2026 N/A
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gm. monday mode
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sunday steak. charts can wait
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ct been on the fire so long ppl started calling it a tan
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gm make or break
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ice deletes one tweet and $hype gives back almost 10% from the top the press release is still on their site. their ceo walked through the deal on the earnings call 48 hours ago we were pricing a nyse partnership, today we're pricing a missing tweet
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26 min after this ice reposted it themselves. same deal, 'subject to regulatory approvals' spelled out looks like anyone who sold the deletion sold a wording change nitter.cf/ICE_Markets/status/211…
ICE and Trade[XYZ] plan to bring Hyperliquid-based perps to the U.S. Subject to regulatory approvals, ICE will operate U.S. regulated versions of Trade[XYZ]’s markets, leveraging their expertise as the leading deployer of real-world-asset perps on Hyperliquid. The new venue will operate separately to ICE’s institutional futures franchise and offer a trading experience designed for retail participation. Once live, U.S. traders will be able to trade 24/7 across a range of assets spanning the macro complex including: *Crypto *Equities *Indices *Commodities *Forex Read more: spr.ly/6010BHq9X8 Users will access the platform through U.S.-regulated FCMs performing KYC/AML screening, including ICE's joint venture with OKX. ICE and Trade[XYZ] will seek approvals to launch a new market built on Hyperliquid to operate KYC-compliant perp markets, including regulatory approvals to support leveraged trading.
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you can now put usdc straight into a walmart checking account 10 years of building offramps and the winner is next to the milk
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gm weights are SAFU
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binance got robbed for billions tonight and everyone's asking if crypto is still safe your bank gets hacked too. you just find out months later in an email offering free credit monitoring at least here you get to watch
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what i'm watching on binance, in order: 1. withdrawals still open 2. a statement inside the first hour 3. proof of reserves on the cold wallets bybit lost $1.5b last year and survived because users didn't run. what's your first check?
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update: cz says user funds are safe and it looks like a hack. tether froze ~$971m, circle ~$823m.
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gm every macro legend that joins ct is a free distribution event for whoever they back, which founder do you want them to find next
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gm health is wealth
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being right is overrated if nobody is looking where you’re looking markets pay coordination before they pay intelligence
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trenches don’t really have a liquidity problem, it’s a coordination problem one narrative hits then it gets cloned across sol, bnb, rh and 10 different tickers same buyers same attention split across 10 charts instead of one coin compounding into culture, they all pvp each other to death hard to build a billion dollar cult when every narrative gets fragmented before it gets the chance to become one the next unlock is probably a product that makes attention converge faster than copycats can split it
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crypto spent years trying to onboard users into ecosystems turns out the casino onboarded them faster now the interesting part is what gets built around the habit
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gm rise n shine
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