My Crypto Journey: From Michelin Star Kitchens to Onchain Trenches I used to work in Michelin-starred restaurants and 5-star hotels for 5 years. Then COVID hit in 2020 — and it forced me to stop and think. A friend tells me in March 2020: “Look into Ethereum. Smart contracts. That’s the future.” ETH was $100. I made my first investment and ended up with 100 ETH. A few months later — ETH does x3. I’m shocked. I sell half my ETH and buy a Volkswagen Golf for $15k. Felt like a genius. 😄 Then ETH hit $1,500. Then $4,500. My Golf cost me 50 ETH. I tilted. Hard.(Golf for 220k)😅 2020–2021 Altseason Turned $10k into ~$150k. I was a complete noob. No experience with losses. Thought I had figured out crypto forever. Went all in on alts. Then 2022 arrived. FTX. Luna. -90% on my portfolio. Left with $10k. During that period of stress and alcohol — I gained 20kg. A 5-year relationship ended. I was alone with my depression. Early 2023. Wake up call. “Stop drinking. Nobody cares if you don’t save yourself.” I stepped away from crypto completely. Made a plan. Hit the gym. Running every day. Zero alcohol. 6 months later — lost 20kg. Got my mind back. And met the woman who became my wife. 🙏 End of 2023 — I notice Solana starting to move. Memes launching everywhere. I start exploring. Buying 1–2 SOL on meme launches. Just watching. Learning. 5–6 runners hit 100x. By early 2024 — I was back to $150k. Life felt good again. But crypto always humbles you. The meme hype faded. Markets turned ugly Jan–Sep 2024. Lost 70% again. (Also spent too much 😅) But I felt something — onchain is where the money is. September–October 2024. I start looking at Base and Virtuals Protocol. Back when there were fewer than 50 agents in the ecosystem. Allocated $5k to this new game. By year end — that $5k was worth 100x. 🤯 I caught the entire AI agents narrative at the start. The whole market pumped but AI agents were THE narrative. Was early on $Tibbir , $Game , $Vader and many others. This time I was smarter — or so I thought. Locked profits into ETH, VIRTUAL, USDC. ETH at $4,800. VIRTUAL near $5. Went on vacation. Watching interviews @ethermage . Bullish on AI agents. (He was right about Ai Agents) Decided to put half back into promising agents. Then Trump tariffs hit. ETH dropped to $1,400. Portfolio down 50%. Again. Emotionally — at rock bottom. Again. Believed again. Lost again. But I didn’t quit. I launched my Twitter account — @3dmax_virtuals I had experience. I had alpha. And when I was winning, I wanted to share it. Over 2 years I gave away $10k+ to 2,000+ people in giveaways. From 0 → 1k → 5k → now 13,700 followers. Starting that account was one of the best decisions I ever made. April 2025 — Virtuals Genesis launches. I allocate $50k. In a few months — x8. 📈 ATH portfolio. October 2025. Thought I finally broke the system. Took half profits. Held the rest. Then October 10th. Woke up -$60k on futures. Money was there. Then it wasn’t. In one day. February 2026 — BTC -50%. My “tech” portfolio down even more. Maximally tired. Maximally disappointed. Friends leaving the crypto. Many with nothing left. Then I find out I’m going to be a father. 👶 New motivation unlocked. Sold part of the portfolio. Created a backup. Withdrew from crypto — so I don’t end up at zero. June 2026. Sentiment is the lowest I’ve ever seen in my 6 years in this space. My trading wallet was drained — $40k Bad but not dead. I’m still in the trenches. Still here. Grateful for the experience. Portfolio took damage — but not for the first time. What I’ve learned: After every failure — there is a win. That’s just life. The question is patience and risk management. When everything is great and you want to screenshot for your friend — take profits and withdraw. When your feed is full of red candles and everyone is screaming — those are the opportunities to DCA Work for your families — if not you, who will build a future for them? See you onchain 🫶

Blackrock made a post with 3.7M views about AI and crypto. nitter.net/BlackRock/status/21024… Winner tickers for Ai in crypto $TAO and ethereum:0x44ff8620b8ca30902395a7bd3f2407e1a091bf73 my position ethereum:0x44ff8620b8ca30902395a7bd3f2407e1a091bf73 entry $0.60 - $0.79 now Waiting for news by @virtuals_io nitter.net/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

What if Altseason is actually started? I have no alts on spot (only Majors) so I decided to test an idea: $10k split across many alts, around $300 each, with 3x–5x leverage. I check X for team activity/news, then look at the chart. Oversold alts = small position. Strong alts with high volume = bigger position. If this was the real bottom, even dead alts can do 2–3x, while strong gems can do 10–20x with x3 lev Started this experiment 1 week ago with 33 opened positions ,right now already 58 opened Alts $10k → $32k so far. nitter.net/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

All solved, thanks to everyone who helped! 🙏 It was just a false alarm. The support team at Hyperliquid was really fast, and everything was resolved within 24 hours

STUDY $VVV CHART on $AVNT both BASE PLAYS, im seeing veranta (Avantis) could make a vvv type run next

Hyperliquid Support, My wallet was flagged as high risk by a third-party screening tool, and I’m currently unable to manage my positions or withdraw funds. As mentioned before, I opened 42 altcoin positions with 3x leverage as part of my altcoin portfolio. I believe this may be a misunderstanding. I’ve already opened a support ticket. Could you please review my case and help resolve this issue? Thank you @HyperliquidX nitter.net/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

This week so important for $Virtual Be ready boys for huge rally 👀 One Day or Day One ?

I use 3 strategies on Hyperliquid Perps: Only DCA into winners 1) NEAR, UNI, PUMP, HYPE, ZEC, LIT, VVV. 2) Trade current news and narratives Right now, I’m trading narratives around VIRTUAL, TAO, ARB, INJ, ARB 3) Gamble strategy I deposited $10K. I don’t have many spot alts, but I want to make some money from 2x–3x reversals on the OTHERS . So, 2 days ago, I opened 42 positions on different alts, using 3x leverage with around $300 per position. Then I add more to the best-performing with income increasing positions. Started with $10K, and it’s currently at $22K. That’s my altcoin gamble portfolio, and all 42 positions are in the green right now. Onchain plays + perps combo

$ZEC 🟢 $HYPE 🟢 $PUMP 🟢 $NEAR 🟢 $UNI 🟢 probably next $TAO 750$ is 🧲

$VIRTUAL — I heard something huge is cooking 👀 Be ready. The whole ecosystem could go hard. Long done ☑️

After this Live on Arc, I just bought more good tokens on RH yesterday. Back to the RH trenches.

Why $WALL3 is still under the radar & imo an extremely undervalued token ; When they launched there was no info on how the token would accrue value & no real timeline on when the treasury would open Robinhood pushes for RWA & agentic trading. @Wall3_RL does both. And they literally require the onchain stock liquidity/infrastructure to improve in order to get their fund onchain. Uniquely aligned goals with @vladtenev @RobinhoodCrypto There are so many external treasuries farming yield/sitting in stablecoins or more recently, idle in onchain stocks. Isn’t it more interesting to direct funds to the first hedge fund onchain? Or just anyone. Run it non custodially in your own wallet. Because that’s what it is. The first onchain hedge fund, doxxed team (founders sold company before & worked at multi billion asset management firms), do your research into them From their disclaimers you can see they are being serious about legal compliance, and from their timing/what they’ve presented so far you can assume they’ve been working on this quite some time. Literally frontrunning everyone. A couple days ago, they released a paper on the utility of their token & here’s a TLDR on it 👇 — How much of the fees go to buybacks The lever is the "support share" (σ): •100% at launch. Every dollar of fee cash left after direct costs goes to buying $WALL3 on the open market and burning it. •Steps down to a floor of 50% over three years — but only once FDV passes $100M or TVL passes $50M, and never before October 2030. On the paper's own modelled path the step-down starts October 2030. •Fees are always charged in USDC, never in the token. Anything a customer chooses to pay in $WALL3 (10% discount) is burned directly, on top of the buyback. •Execution cap: purchases are limited to 25% of daily volume. Whatever the cap can't absorb goes into the pool as protocol-owned liquidity until depth hits 5% of FDV, then it also goes to buybacks. •Governance: holders of the access deposit are "intended" to govern share, floor, trigger and cadence so the parameters can change. The pitch: five fee-generating businesses (own treasury, partner wallets, model portfolios, research seats, a trade-time intelligence API, plus a pooled access vault), all charging traditional hedge-fund style fees ; 1.5% + 10–15% above a high-water mark, or 0.75% + 10% over the S&P for the long-only portfolios. All fees in stablecoins, all routed through one rule into buying and burning the token. The token's job is access: hold 2% of your tracked capital in $WALL3, or pay a 0.5%/yr pass instead. The headline model: $200k of seed treasury in October, modelled TVL of $944M by 2031 and $6.4B by 2036, with $11M and $70.9M of buybacks in those years. —- Not saying they will reach these numbers but even if its a fraction of it, the current price makes $WALL3 seem extremely undervalued to me 2.5M FDV, under 20% of that is circulating I will personally (high likelyhood) park 50-100k in the fund myself

What do you think to DCA ? $VEX at 2.2Mcap $Raxol 770kmcap

I see on RH that people are starting to rotate into AI and utility tokens. This list still good on Virtuals $Vex and robinhood:0xf44702b17d9abd53815f703e772f35e9c71a53af have already done 3–4x. Waiting new runner on virtuals , virtuals team cooking something nitter.net/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

What’s the best way to play the $LAPTOP launch is to go long on $AERO I don’t really like buying presale. Usually, presales are small, like a ... Are we sure we want to play this with a -$15M dev?

Is this still active, @ironfishcrypto? @leanthebean, could you share an update on $wIRON? The privacy narrative is strong, and it would be great to hear whether the team is still actively building this

DCA base:0xfac77f01957ed1b3dd1cbea992199b8f85b6e886 at a $1.3M market cap could be a great entry for a reversal. I know @ye_dennis is cooking...

I made my prediction on $PLUMBER before all the pumps. Today, @PlumberOnBase has started its rally at 3.7Mcap Congrats to everyone who held and waited. Now let’s see if @cobie follow main X

Big names like @GoingBallistic5 are bringing attention to base:0x296eb9c4d8fcbd00fbc6d5027e4202bf955fa76f He is the Robotics Research Diligence Director (R2D2) at @RoboStrategy The team is already in Nepal and is beginning its expedition to Everest with the First Robotics Sherpa🏔️ Probably i know who is next sponsor... nitter.net/pabsclimbs/status/2094…

3x on $EVP every 3 hours earning $NVDA rewards. Waiting for more info from @DegenApe99. He already sent $TRUST to 50M — let’s repeat that success with @EVplusAI He’s been working on this project for over a year

Bought some $EVP @EVplusAI at a $300K market cap. More info about the tokenomics tomorrow. Dev @DegenApe99