High stakes lead to more attention, attract strong emotions and volatility to any situation. There has been NOTHING even CLOSE to the recent cryptography "FUD" in terms of raising the stakes. For those that don't know; Very recently, long standing assumptions about algorithmic limits have been overturned by tiny but real theoretical breakthroughs. These serve as strong reminders that mathematical limits we once treated as settled can be wrong. What happens if similarly unexpected breakthroughs hit the mathematical assumptions that crypto's security relies on? As such, there exists a reality and possibility where one day, (Justin Drake would like to think soon.) where crypto's cryptography is no longer safe as we know it. AKA, there is a race. In this reality, even an extremely minute belief being solved or proven wrong will result in massive price swings, and vice versa as well for security improvements. The highest stakes crypto has ever known. Instead of news based trading, there will be mathematical facts based trading. Before a victor is decided... A period of volume, I personally believe, will overshadow any that we known so far will begin leading to something we all are familiar with and should eventually be prepared for, even if we do not have funds in crypto that we are too scared about.

The trenches are FUCKED long term without attracting real builders. This is a good step towards that. Builders who actually possess the intellect to produce 9 or 10 figure MC coins ALSO possess the ability to use that intellect elsewhere WITHOUT having to tolerate low tier monkeying on chain. The bigger the ceilings. The more talent the space can attract.

If you want to make money in this market and stop being on the other end of 0xEthan, you need to position yourself as close to the source as you can. We aren’t having coin ceilings high enough yet for any real money to be made solo. AKA if you’re not able to get information to distinguish between which bundle is going to nuke to zero and which bundle will hold to zero, you’re at a disadvantage.

When I first started in crypto, I had notifications on for a 100+ accounts, was active 20 hours a day and made sure to not miss a single day. Even now, 85% of my thoughts are consumed by crypto related work even though I don't post them as much as I used to. Information is and always has been the edge, if you aren't doing as well as you believe you should be, this is 50% of the game.

Proxima is the beginning of the end. Memecoins started off with a ton of hate ever since PumpFun went mainstream in the space. Eventually things settled down into acceptance and product market fit. The same pattern is repeating with developer focused platforms like Proxima. Either this ends with legitimatization of devs (similar to how traders are considered now & have IRL competitions etc.) or complete annihilation of any trade able coins. No middle ground.

The best “venue” to trade, pay attention and participate is WHEREVER you have the most edge. Whether that’s SOL for you, Robinhood, TCGs, Polymarket or something else, don’t participate in something where you lack an edge and can’t reliably build one. Success in this space is: Edge + Focus.

Having respect, praise and support for someone when they’re on top of the world is AT BEST sheep behavior. No one is perfect and everyone deserves to be criticized if they make mistakes BUT there is a difference between criticism and pouncing at the first opportunity someone hits rock bottom to attack them for something most people have done in private, do in private or are friends with someone that does. (Regardless of how despicable that rock bottom maybe.) Can never help but wish the best for everyone personally.

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Being able to “sense” energy is one of the greatest prowess you can possess in this space. Applies to trading. Applies to communities. Applies to narratives. Combined with access to a grass roots community, allows you to be multiple steps ahead of people solely relying on data, statistics or logic. Many laugh at this terminology and science can’t really explain it YET it’s a mutually agreed upon concept globally. GM.

Crypto gave life and allowed non institutional people to explore and experience finance markets like NEVER before. Leading to many great innovations and opportunities. We’ve seen people go from literal zero to 10 figures at EVERY MAJOR STAGE: - ICO’s - NFTs - Memecoins It is very naive to assume this trend ends. Niches like RWAs, Prediction Markets and DeSci are still in the infancy stages and are yet to expand like their predecessors. If you’re not bullish, it’s a research problem. This is quite literally never ending, might as well become good at the markets.

Whether RobinHood chain will have stickiness or not has NOTHING to do with the chain itself, VERY similar to the rest of the L2s we’ve seen come and go. The common factor has always been SOL degens. They always have and always will rotate to where it’s profitable.

Capital will ALWAYS flow where attention is. Often times, when most realize the object of attention, the best ROI has already passed. Training yourself to identify second and third degree effects is one of the most valuable skills you can have. (What will happen as a result of X or Y happening?) Apart from the obvious right now, (Ansem’s coin) interesting things are happening on TikTok. Immaculate energy.

GM. Seems like a good day to carpet bomb your problems.

Exceptional by DEFINITION means NOT under normal circumstances. The best products, coins etc. have 9 out of 10 times have always: Been launched at the worst moments sentiment wise. Have early momentum and unrealistic targets. Have little to no competition due to the low sentiment. What do you do when there's only one race in a horse? This coin is a prime example.