Scared money don’t make money

people are looking at these L2 shutdowns in a wrong way it’s not like these teams ran out of money or couldn’t find users Blast had billions in tvl at its peak Abstract onboarded 400k+ users and had 144 apps the problem is that users, tvl and transactions don’t make the chain profitable you can have millions of wallets using your ecosystem while apps monetize the activity and the chain itself gets nothing then you’re left paying for infrastructure, development, security and everything else required to keep the network alive if the apps can leave tomorrow and take the users, liquidity and activity with them, what does the l2 own?

crypto is not an easy industry one guy wakes up in singapore and finds out he got drained for $4m+ while sleeping please stop treating your event phone like your regular phone if it has your wallets, socials, telegrams and everything else on it, you’re carrying your life around in your pocket use one phone for your normal life and content and keep the money somewhere else don’t scan random QR codes, don’t connect your wallet to shit just because someone sends you a link and don’t assume everyone you meet at an event has good intentions it only takes one bad connection to ruin your whole trip

another one down, rip abstract

what do you think can btc break its 2025 Q4 highs this year?

pump fun vs hyperliquid $2.84m vs $2.45m in 24h revenue so are these two competing on revenue now?

this is insane Zach infiltrated a Chinese money laundering syndicate allegedly responsible for laundering $1b+ across multiple exploits linked to Lazarus - he posed as a client - built a relationship with one of the operators - tracked their activity onchain even funded transactions with $350k of his own money to gather more intel the investigation helped identify $12m+ in stolen Bybit funds, with 442k usdt later frozen by Tether this is beyond onchain analysis huge respect to Zach for doing the work nobody else wants to do 🙏

while everyone is distracted in Singapore feels like the perfect time to pump the market

i think we finally found a use case for all those kast points converting them into Singapore van for kols not a bad use case tbh

SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI if Elon still has motion, $SI might fly after this

while everyone is flying to singapore this week 🇸🇬 what’s the plan if you’re staying home? what are we cooking this week?

i wanna go back to 13 and launch a coin on pump then - rug it in front of thousands of viewers - get cooked by timeline - disappear for a few months - come back with a perps trading arc - get a $10k/month crib - post up beside a supercar thanking pumpfun bro got a supercar out of memecoins i got trust issues and unrealized losses

imagine a dead chain announcing it's shutdown - launched an L2 - promised native yield - attracted $2.2b in deposits - introduced points and Gold - launched its token - rewarded users for participating - watched tvl collapse - lost users and projects - went silent - announced shutdown nobody is surprised cos they had already been dead for users

🚨Blast has announced it's shutting down another reminder that building in web3 is brutal

while ct is busy with irl events, here is what i'd focus on: 👇 -> fix your content: improve your profile, build a posting schedule and prepare content and fix mistakes -> look for work: founders and brands still need their socials managed while they're away, offer to help keep things running -> pitch yourself: some teams need interns, researchers or content creators to keep pushing updates on time, reach out before they start looking -> follow up: go through old conversations, unchecked dms and opportunities you never followed through on -> find gaps: look at what projects aren't doing well right now and think about how you could help -> ship something: build a case study, bring your work or put together something that proves what you can do you don't need to be at every event to benefit from the week the opportunity is being the person who is available, focusing and getting things done use what you have make it count.

wen you buy the dip but the dip keeps dipping

he'll work for our bags btw

HOOD Summit is over and announcements are done but $HOOD is down 7% what went wrong?

i had a very good reason for being awake all night it was an $assholecoin

the whole reason $PAID worked was that the product did the marketing by itself wrote about this last week > money landed in someone's X account > they take it, complained, or ignored it all three outcomes put $PAID infront of their audience that loop is now broken X Money payments are paused, recipients have to go to a website and claim SOL now which means the person receiving it now needs a wallet, needs to know what a quote asset is and needs to care enough to go through the process the distribution mechanism wasn't the fees it was that someone could receive the money without having to interact with crypto $PAID down 50% since

this has made me stop and think we spend so much of our lives working for money more work, more opportunities, big bags, another goal, another number that we tell ourselves will be enough and during all this we start treating our time, health and relationships like they’re unlimited then something like this happens and you remember how uncertain life is money is imp ofc but what’s the point of spending all your time trying to make more if you never get to enjoy the life you were trying to afford? life is way too short to let money become the reason you forget to live take care of yourself spend time with the people you love the bag can wait