It's because people mistakenly get caught up in the idea that money was the end game where it's actually just a very important side quest, IMO 🙃 This is what I suggest (it has changed the lives of many of my poker and crypto friends who had been stuck in this same rut) - Try - 1) Scuba diving Get into the underwater world. Explore. Level up your Diving skills while travelling with the end goal of this side quest being anywhere from the toughest current dives in galapagos or komodo to learning technical diving, etc. There's a vast world out there and money certainly helps 2) Free diving. Same as above but more an extreme sport than recreational 3) Kite surfing - the community is a lot of fun too. I've chilled with 60,70,80 year old shredders whose smile while kiting, after decades of doing this - still resembles that of a dog when it's running on the beach 😁 4) Rock climbing - outdoor. The communities around the world are some of the best and most humble, grounded, fun, adrenaline junkies you will ever find. You will also find yourself in some of the most stunning places and viewpoints planet earth has to offer 🤩 Also, it happens to be a shortcut for anyone who gets bored of the gym 😂 5) Nat Geo expeditions. They're expensive cause your also helping fund research and you get to travel to some incredible spots on this planet with them and learn vastly more about the animal kingdom first hand. I know so many people who would love to do this but cannot afford to 🤷‍♂️ 6) Learn some Spanish and backpack the trail from Oaxaca, mexico to Ushuaia, Argentina It's known as the magic trail. I've met people who've done this for 6-12 months and some who have taken 6-12 years 🤯 7) Just have fun bro 🫵😹

Part 1.5 Felt bad leaving you guys with nothing tonight So here is the undeniable proof that Kalshi is faking their PERP volume FYI in case the data was to vanish over night, I have downloaded it and it's encrypted on 3 diff clouds jus in case u know Anyhow, here is an example On ETH the exact same $5500 trade size keeps appearing over and over again By over and over again, I mean it literally made up 48%–58% of ALL ETH PERP volume on 4 separate days Also rumor, by rumor I mean person who told me wants to stay anonymous so I can't share proof, is that Kalshi has volume deals so MMs are forced to fuck around and do things like this Literally incentivized to cheat What I don't understand is why they are so bad at it kek pro tip: if you guys want to fake volume one day, don't use the same lot size to do it over and over again sincerely, beni

Today’s the day we get to witness a live execution on the White House lawn 🫵😹

Anyone saying he isn't the 🐐 - by a LONG fucking margin should slap themselves on the face a few times to rearrange their brain into something resembling common sense 🥱

JUSTIN the HIGHLIGHT fucking Gaethje 🤯🧘‍♂️🍻❤️

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is this real??

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Pouring one out for the homie who got psyopped by the Solana Jews to hold his precious zec tokens in the ledger and he can never sell now 🥀

You’re looking at Wintermute’s wallets and reporting them as mine. Why would I be using 5 exchanges simultaneously? Why would I be using Gate? Please use your brain.

@travisbickle0x @0xMikado @0xKipit @fantasy_top_ What made the jackpot win illegitimate? Also, why did the runway for core get reduced by one week?

I can't believe that @fantasy_top_ shut down. The project was live for two years, raised $5M from VCs, and still ended by extracting $15M from users. The core game was abandoned over a year ago. Every pivot after that (prediction markets, mindshare tracking, social graph betting) was just the team chasing new ideas instead of building on what Fantasy already had. And now the shutdown rolls out with the same pattern we've seen a hundred times: → VCs reportedly refunded to dodge legal risk → Retail left stuck with worthless cards they paid for The community took the loss while seed investors had all their money refunded. All scammers need to be held accountable asap.

Only thing that was learned was that if builders soft rug for 2.5 years and max extract from their community but return money to investors the whole space praises them Not the message we should be championing

april 2025: we nerf rewards by 40% to increase runway from 2 years to 3 years 1 year later: we ran out of money, bye guys

It should be a crime to farm players by promising a token that never comes Essentially the team siphoned $15M from users

Sad but expected. Have a lot to say on this: - I was added as a Hero early on, reinvested all hero payouts into more cards, my deck was never that big but roundtripped multiple ETH and ended up in the red even with hero payouts - One of my first and only angel investments, not great - Still one of the most fun and engaging onchain games I have ever played, at some point it was the only thing keeping me onchain through the bear - Ruined by poor management and simply lack of will from the team to keep working on the game, they farmed their users in the end and everyone saw it coming, but we still played for the love of the game. It had an awesome community and I seriously think this idea still has a lot of potential for our niche corner of the internet, hope someone just gets the assets off them and takes the torch.

"86% of players ending PnL positive or neutral"

Me and a few other players handed the game to them on a Silver platter. It's nearly succeeded at 10% completion which is still where it's at The founders had and have 0 idea of gaming, game theory, +ev or anything tbh which is why they gave up, pocketed $15mil and ran Someone will definitely crack it - they have 1 year Or I will build it myself

Very unfortunate they decided to scam a few millions rather than build out what was to be a billion dollar product (handed to them on a silver plate by some of us players) Yes the game, leagues and everything to do with fantasy top was created and designed utilising MTT poker Game Theory to optimize in such a way that the core product that we created for them was a FIRST of its kind Sybil free, bot free insanely fun behemoth of a game And they just threw it all away "building" shitcoin launchpads and prediction markets and garbage after absolute garbage They did absolutely nothing but systematically ruin what we had given them over the course of 2 years They also stole $15m, scammed their users with bots on arenas and purposely misled several 'advisors' on prizepools and timelines which indicated later that they gave up on their own product sometime in May 2025 and just did whatever they could to complete the RUG without facing any legal obligations (as probably advised by their lawyers) in June 2026 🤔 Its a well known fact that if the 3 french donkeys (founders) had just got into a Coma in December 2024 - we would be at all time highs and $1 fan by now 😂 Anyway, most fun I've had in crypto or online itself in a long long time with the most amazing community EVER Whoever manages to tap this idea - the core product of the game which is still now at 10% completion - basically takes the whole of CT and has it's crypto gaming hyperliquid 0-1 moment GG Fantardios, we had a BLAST for a long time 👊🍻 "Hey human. Don't be sad. We were lucky to experience such beauty" 👇

99 lies and one truth or how @fantasy_top_ got butchered by incompetence and malice. I feel like it’s important to highlight what ACTUALY went wrong with Fantasy and set the record straight because the game deserves it. Seeing too many people grave dancing with 0 idea what the game was about but blindly following their favorite kolfag’s opinion. Before anything, let’s look at the provided statistics by the stealing French Crew. “One of the earliest large-scale SocialFi products” If Kaito was the epitome of Infofi then Fantasy has never been one. It was a betting card game where one of the parameters was social. This is an important fundamental difference as it absolutely doesn’t attract the same client base. · “Multiple new gameplay and attention market experiments pushed onchain” beside maybe arena, absolutely NONE of those had any chance of surviving and 99% players could have told you from day1 and nobody wanted that. · « Fully self-funded » while true, what they omit is it was funded through the dead bodies theory that blast gold created. Way more on that later. · “86% of players ending PnL positive or neutral” this one is tricky. We have a nice dashboard made by the Fantasy quant @fantasy_sheets_ . At first glance it’s closer to 2/3 of the ranking that ended up positive (or 0). Then you take out the random accounts that somehow spawned 1-5 competition away and that number plumets. We don't talk about the reverse leaderboard where whales are down 100th of ETH. The farming issue, the only truth in the post One of the key point to birth a game like Fantasy is that it needed a big warchest to start. This warchest increases trust toward the company (they have XXmonths/years of runaway) and gives the team time to elaborate on the next course of actions. This is what Blast Gold did to bootstrap the game: provide gambling degen ready to set money on fire in hopes of receiving more from Pacman. This was also a very big free marketing headstart as I myself found out about the game this way. Cost : 0, benefits : HUGE. People were spending without any critical thinking in the game and when the airdrop came, people got wrecked, sold at a huge loss and moved on from Blast. This is where the game started its new life, away from farmers and with a tight community of people passionate about the gameplay and what it could become. Until the meme Fan to 1$ started to surface again.. In a sense that’s the only truth in the team’s post. Attracting farmers is never a good thing and the team could have learnt their lesson after Blast. But greed has no limit as highlighted by the fact that Fantasy had not 1, not 2 but THREE FUCKING POINT SYSTSEM at some point. So you don’t want farmers but you put in place many systems to attract them? Now you can wonder, why are farmers overall bad for a game? They provide liquidity, most of the times inefficiencies so they should be a plus? The value of a card in a game should have only be linked to what yield it could generate, the highs and lows of a hero and its scarcity. But when you add in to play farmers, then the value of a card (or products in general) goes higher than its worth (for the sake of earning imaginary point which would counter balance the loss). And this is exactly what happened in Fantasy. People like @OttoSuwen tried to corner the game to be the biggest beneficiary of the airdrop (LMAO RIP bozzo). To do so, you just need to spend capital without thinking and reinvest whatever you earn in tournaments. This propels the value of cards to value that makes no sense for ROI people (gamers), no new player can enter the game (because it makes no sense ROI wise) and the game become a farmfest of points where only old players pvp themselves. You get no new users so no one can buy your future token anyway and everything dies (but mostly airdrop farmers who didnt learn the lesson from Blast). They had thousands of solutions (use FAN for something else than a token as it was planned in the beginning of vote phase) but devs preferred digging their own grave for 2 years in order to get out with the warchest The incompetency issue or why I’d never trust French dev again as a French myself. Ok farmers kinda killed the game (but the team made as many efforts as possible to encourage them to come somehow) but what else did? In my opinion, the team found a way to benefit hugely while staying on the very legal side of history : r4pe your users with the slowest death possible while reimbursing the only people who could pressure legal course of action against you (investors and angels). How? Well the product and community was alive for 2 years. For CT this is like a decade. In 5 years I’ve barely seen apps that stay alive as long as that. During 2 years, the team managed to either do NOTHING or manage to integrate things that actually devaluate the game & the trust people had in them. Letting inflation go out of control, taking out core features that people loved, launching temu version on monad, shitcoin launchpad while shilling 100K toppers and I probably forget more. Meanwhile all players were waiting for was bug fixing, marketing, onboarding and more ways to pvp ourselves. Nothing came until it was “too late” and “pmf can’t be found”. It’s not that it couldnt be found it’s that devs were either too malicious or retarded to actually find it. What it could have been To stay on a metaphor that my friend @0xTrapdoor used a lot during our fantasy journey was that if someone with an "Hyperliquid Ethos" (Ie not a stealer) had funded a game like Fantasy, we’d still have at least 2 years of runaway. A normal team could have taken 1/10 of the French’s rack and work twice as much and it would still be worth it. Their greed decided otherwise and this was the final blow to an amazing product. Don’t hate the game and the idea (which was insanly good on multiple level of gameplay despite also some flaws), hate greed and malicious people. Gamers never forget, never forgive and I hope we can keep out those people from further working on projects in this industry.

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