How much does it actually cost to fly to 🇸🇬 for @TOKEN2049 ? Token2049 ticket - $500 Round trip flights - $900 Hotel for 3 nights - $2200 $3,600 total, not exactly a budget crypto trip but I’m sure it’ll be worth it 😄

Most Web3 founders spend the first year building the product and the second year discovering they need the regulatory infrastructure they did not build. The ones who think about licensing and jurisdiction before TGE are not being cautious. They are running faster. @ApexAccelerate luma.com/qqjflzgd

WHAT TOP ACCELERATORS ARE FUNDING IN 2025 Top accelerators just revealed what they're betting on in 2025. After analyzing a16z CSX, Alliance DAO, and Outlier Ventures latest cohorts, the pattern is clear👇 Chain Abstraction (making multichain invisible) AI Agents on-chain (autonomous DeFi) Account Abstraction (Web2 UX for Web3) Privacy tech (ZK, FHE post-Tornado) RWA infrastructure (tokenizing everything) Notice what's NOT on the list? - Another L1 - Generic DeFi forks - Memecoins The infrastructure matured. Now it's about USER EXPERIENCE. Smart founders are building bridges between complexity and simplicity. Want to build what investors are hunting for? Apex helps you navigate these exact trends.

1/ CONSUMER MODE Consumer Mode is the work you do before money moves: before a buy, an approval, a larger bag. It is research. It is not an audit. An audit is paid, signed, and owned by a firm that will answer for the report. We do not borrow that word.

1/ $SILV was sold as 1 token = 1 oz of silver. On 11 Sep the treasury 3-of-5 signed its own drain. 46,909 SILV dumped into a thin book. ~$3,000,000 face value. ~$238,000 out. Low print $0.339. Chart −74%. Not a pool hack. Hot keys. Mint: SiLVFMgD3eD2rgK628NbTBq9MnuJF5FW2CRaVyTB35L

FROM 0 TO 10,000 USERS: THE WEB3 GROWTH PLAYBOOK Most Web3 projects die at 100 users. The ones that hit 10,000? They all follow the same playbook. Here's the exact growth engine: 𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝟭: 𝟬-𝟭𝟬𝟬 (𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗗𝗢 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗗𝗢𝗡'𝗧 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘) 1. Personal DMs to every early user 2. Discord conversations at 2am 3. Testnet with your friends 4. Give away equity-level attention Timeline: 2-4 weeks Key metric: Response rate > growth rate 𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝟮: 𝟭𝟬𝟬-𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 𝗜𝗧𝗦𝗘𝗟𝗙) a. Power users become moderators b. First community-created content c. Weekly AMAs with founders d. Incentivized testnet (NOT AIRDROP) Timeline: 2-3 months Key metric: Daily active > total signups 𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝟯: 𝟭,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 (𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧) 1. Referral mechanics (native to product) 2. Strategic partnerships (distribution) 3. Content marketing (educational) 4. Mainnet launch with clear value prop Timeline: 4-6 months Key metric: Organic > paid growth Growth in Web3 is INVERTED. Web2: Acquire → Engage → Retain Web3: Engage → Retain → Acquire (through community) Your first 100 users should feel like CO-FOUNDERS. Your next 900 should feel like EARLY EMPLOYEES. Your next 9,000 should feel like STAKEHOLDERS. That's the difference between: - A community - A customer base At Apex, we've seen this pattern across 50+ projects. The ones that win? They treat growth like a religion. Every. Single. Day.

WHY EVERY WEB3 PROJECT NEEDS A TOKEN STRATEGY IN 2025 Your project doesn't need a token. It needs a TOKEN STRATEGY. After SAB 122 and regulatory clarity, the game changed: Tokens can now generate REAL revenue through fees. Utility > speculation. Compliance = competitive advantage. But most founders get this wrong: Launch token - hope for pump Copy/paste tokenomics from other projects Ignore legal frameworks The right approach: 1. Define VALUE ACCRUAL mechanism (how does token capture protocol value?) 2. Map UTILITY (governance? access? revenue share? network effects?) 3. Design DISTRIBUTION (fair launch vs VC vs community allocation) 4. Build LEGAL STRUCTURE (SAFTs, DAOs, compliance from day 1) 5. Plan LIQUIDITY strategy (DEX, CEX, market making) Without this? You're leaving millions on the table. We've seen what works (and what doesn't). Token strategy isn't optional anymore - it's your moat.

running a Web3 project and don't know who to talk to? we opened up the Apex network. founders, investors, operators from 200+ portfolio companies. project breakdowns, event drops, real conversations. not a pitch group. not an announcement channel. t.me/apex_networking

Co-founder divorce follows the same timeline every time. Months 0-6: we're in this together. Months 7-12: why am I doing more than you? Months 13-18: the "we need to talk" conversation. Months 19+: lawyers or misery. Three things that prevent it: 4-year vest, 1-year cliff. No exceptions, not even for friends. One CEO with final say on paper, not just in theory. One honest conversation now about what happens if someone leaves. Seen 30+ projects destroyed by this. None of them thought it would happen to them.

WHY TOP FOUNDERS CHOOSE ACCELERATORS OVER ANGEL ROUNDS Top founders have a choice: Raise $250K from angels in 6 months Join an accelerator for $250K in 2 weeks They choose the accelerator every time. Why? Because the best accelerators aren't in the CAPITAL business. They're in the NETWORK DENSITY business. Here's the math that changes everything: 𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘𝗟 𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗: - 20 individual investors - 20 separate intros - 20 different update emails - 20 opinions on everything - Zero organized support 𝗔𝗖𝗖𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗢𝗥: - 50+ crypto VCs (warm intros) - 200+ mentor hours (concentrated) - Cohort of 10-15 founders (peer learning) - Battle-tested playbooks - Demo Day with curated investors The ROI difference? Angels give you money. Accelerators give you LEVERAGE. Real example: Founder joins a16z CSX Gets $500K 10 weeks later: raises $5M Series A Total dilution: 8% VS. Founder raises $500K from angels 6 months of coffee meetings Still needs to figure out GTM Total dilution: 15%+ The math is obvious. But here's what's NOT obvious: The best accelerators FILTER for quality. Getting in = signal to every VC. "Alliance DAO backed them" carries more weight than 20 random angel checks. At Apex, we're not just writing checks. We're compressing 2 years of mistakes into 10 weeks of learning. That's the real ROI.

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i have a thesis that buybacks don't actually work hyperliquid makes $800M annualized revenue pump fun makes $440M annualized revenue $HYPE trades at $65B FDV while $PUMP trades at $1.4B FDV both teams do regularly recurring buybacks with portions of their profits from the business but they trade at vastly different ratios to their revenues i believe the difference is not in how much actual revenue is generated by the business but instead its reflective of the trust premium ascribed to the team determined by their actions and decisions in the market, hyperliquid never overpromised anything, only focused on shipping product and emphatically rewarded their core users based on pre-determined metrics that contributed the most to the platform, the core users of hyperliquid have a very high trust rating with Jeff, & even if you believe the perps revenues are slightly more durable which maybe they are, i believe this trust premium on their execution and social alignment with the community is a major factor in why the token trades so well in contrast, pump fun made $1B in revenue, raised another $1B in their ICO, and promised an airdrop to users that was never delivered, even though they are one of the most successful and consistent businesses in crypto, they do not have social alignment with their core userbase and therefore do not have a comparable trust premium that hyperliquid has, recently it seems they've made concerted effort to improve comms and talk to community more, i believe that if they were ever to seriously focus attention on shifting this dynamic by actually doing the airdrop they've promised and responding to the concerns of their core user base, then the token would trade 10-15x higher, as it would also likely materially increase their volume, attention, and resulting revenues on their platform bitcoin makes $0 in revenue but has a ~$1.3T market cap, it has the greatest trust premium of any asset to ever exist, people know that there will only ever be 21M coins, and they know that the network will always continue to function no matter what to fulfill its necessary actions this is part of what ive been talking about when i say that there is intangible value that contributes to the valuation of a business in addition to the tangible value that is determined purely from revenues and other metrics trust, memetics, and attention are all very important and heavily underdiscussed in markets

Okto came in building chain abstraction. left the ALL FI cohort with 1M+ wallets across 16 chains and $9M raised at seed. we worked the tokenomics and the go-to-market. the 250K monthly actives are theirs. this is what a portfolio project looks like a year in.

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