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🦂 The VC and the Founder 🐸

A founder was approached by a promising venture fund.

“Let me back you,” said the VC. “I just need you to keep doing what you're doing, and I'll help you to get across this early phase. We’ll both win big.”

The founder hesitated.

“You’ve cashed out the past 4 L2s and infra projects you’ve had in your portfolio via OTC. You lied about users, faked growth metrics, and jumped ship to a new raise every time the old companies TGE'd.”

The investor smiled.

“Come on. If I did that again, we’d both lose. You have a great product.. I need your skills, and you need money. I’m not like the other ones.”

The founder, against better judgment, agreed.

They signed the deal. Months later, before TGE even happened, the investor took the allo, cashed out via OTC, waited for TGE, pumped the valuation with an MM deal, and then shorter for max profits. The team and the founder speechless.

As the founder watched the collapse unfold, they asked,

“Why would you do this? You just ruined everything. Again.”

The founder shrugged:
“You knew who I was. It's how we all do things.”

Hyperliquid.

imagine wasting your life on watching livestreams

okay, now imagine making money WHILE wasting your life watching livestreams

holding a bit of $whim here, here's the tldr:

$HYPE at the mcap of $SOL here is around $270

Hyperliquid.

Not bad for just using a product naturally.

Kind of crazy how some products can not only be 10-20x bigger than others, but also do 3 seasons of tokens, whereas the aforementioned others can't even TGE.

It's not you nor me, it's __________

hey man

you buying those internet capital markets coins

If we've interacted on the timeline and you're on Ethos, why not drop me a review? 🤔

I'd like to reciprocate if we've been in groupchats and on here, but most of the time I can't follow each and everyone's tg/discord name and X names so I forget lol

Drop a line!

sending this one to gulag.sol i guess

$SNS

Throwback to the FTX days when you could literally milk the @Tether fudders dry for 2 years and then some.

USDTBull was the name.

$USDT

A perpdex built on the Superchain walks into a bar and says...honey it's on-chain footprint time!

That may not be how the joke goes, but @PolynomialFi is no no joke itself either.

Built on the OP superstack alongside @base and other heavy hitters, it's a perpdex and a chain in one.

Here's some specifics about it:

- Speed is the utmost focus - fast execution and no lag that you usually see with some onchain perpdexes, their Nitro mode and 2.5 upgrade is to thank for this.

- Similar to Drift on Solana, you can use LSTs - weETH, SolvBTC, wstETH directly as margin while earning yield

- No wrapping, no conversions, you keep the yield, Superchain footprint, and audited many times.

- Big $OP incentives when trading, which you can later get as a rebate.

- Can see positions top traders have (similar to HL), in a transparent way.

This is a great addition to Avantis on Base because they're both on the OP stack and doing delta neutrals + getting yield from both is quite the opportunity.

when the $ETH short pair trade you did since $1550 finally gets liquidated

most people on CT try to shame KOLs/yappers/influencers/whatever us little people with over 10k followers are into making us feel bad about ref points and whatnot

but i for one am very proud when all my ref income combined cannot catch up to my deposits

we're all early

glevel

interesting... @Maneki_DeFi

The @virtuals_io x @KaitoAI leaderboard is live and here's what you need to know.

@ethermage (cofounder of Virtuals) is at #7 only! 👀
This is what happens when your product outgrows you.

@aixbt_agent barely #10, small given how it's basically made on the platform.

@jessepollak is at #24! Most would think it'd be more, huh?

And me..I'm not even in the top 100. 😭

But we'll get there!

If you're a small account that wants to stack $BTC every few weeks with some spare change, then using the @garden_finance bridge and @hyperunit is your best option I think.

80 cent cost on a $278 swap.
5 seconds.

Hyperliquid.

These are the FTX investments in 2022.

How many of these, other than @MessariCrypto and @doodles are still even around?

I guess @Mysten_Labs (Sui) are there too?

They actually did invest into some decent ones, Anthorpic, and another one I can't remember but is worth a lot now.

I like the art and I think its cute, but 180 american dollars (1 SOL, more or less) for a mint in 2025 is a bit too much..especially if no freemint for @HypioHL holders.

Big pass from me, @PiPonHL.

Seems like it was only a matter of time until someone decided to use the breadth of data available on @Polymarket and stuff it into a bot and (of course) put it onto the @virtuals_io platform.

Here's what you need to know about @gptwai:

The commit basically started just now, if you've got points, pledging might be a good idea (esp seeing how @whimdotbet did)

- their product is an oracle built to decode Polymarket odds into real-time forecasts on crypto, macro, and global events, so basically finding discrepancies from what I see?

- team made a game before, @GPTWars

- tg bot and web dashboard much akin to $BIOS that I mentioned before are also in the works

- they have an airdrop system of some sort, similar again to $BIOS, airdrop is released monthly over 12 months and requires active participation to receive..which could be a headache for some but also opportunity for others

- team themselves are locked for 60 days (2 months) and vested linearly over the next 10 months

Generally these launches do well as long as the product isn't bogus, and seeing track record here I think this could cook if you have extra virgen points.

Unfortunately my points are yet to arrive (make sure to check the link I referenced in my priv tg btw, it's pinned) but would have pledged here if I had them.

Overall solid look.

A few dollars a month helps you not miss out on hundreds of dollars per month of eligibilities.

Especially now since some claims can be as short as a few weeks.

Tracks EVM, Solana, and yes..even...*gulp* Cosmos!

It also tracks points and stuff too.

Must have 10/10 recommend.

It will never stop being funny to me how @Aptos will mention the $0.0000000055 tx fees yet conveniently not mention that no one in the history of ever has asked anyone to "please pay me in $USDT on Aptos please"

it's very hard to find more retarded people on this app than the fat poker shitcoin retard

'big takeaway' - wow, way to miss a point

spiritually empty