Cryptoklotz reveals he initially faded Robinhood Chain when it launched. "If you're like me and you've been traumatized by the trenches over the past year, as an observer and a lot of people firsthand, you see this bridge to Robinhood Chain pop up and you think, I'm not falling for that. It's this PVP dark forest where the most shrewd operators get there first, set up their traps, say hey, the water's fine, get in here, everybody's getting rich, then dump on the people who bridged in late. Everybody rotates back to Solana." "I saw Robinhood Chain and I said nah. I even made a bunch of trash-talking posts. But I was wrong, and I should have gotten there a couple weeks earlier. I missed some insane, I don't want to say runners because I don't like buying runners; I like buying durable stuff." "Even if you don't want to participate in a new narrative, put 10 bucks over there and just feel it out. You won't lose much if you're wrong, but if it does start to look good, at least you're there and ready to jump on things with more size."

Crypto Klotz on how bear market PTSD can cost traders: "I think that if you stuck it out through the bear market, you pretty much just showed up to get kicked in the balls every day for a year, and you stop forgetting or you don't really remember that good things can happen." "And then I made a tweet about this yesterday where if you look at a past bull market, even if you participated in it, you look at some zoomed-out monthly chart on CoinGecko or TradingView on a weekly or monthly timeframe. And you're just like, 'Man, stuff just went straight up. That felt so good. I can't wait for this bull market.'" "All the stuff that ended up doing really, really well went through these gut-wrenching 50, 60, 70 percent pullbacks like twice a week for a month or two, making you question everything."

Tulip King explains why $ZEC outperforming $XMR is a signal worth respecting, even if you disagree with the market "It's less that the market is always right. It's true that the market is the only thing that pays, but it's more so that it's signal. I think Zcash versus Monero is a great example of this. I bull posted Zcash a lot because I love it, and I always get the Monero maxis in my replies. It's this back and forth debate. I always feel kind of like a dick when I reply, well, look at the price." "Why does Zcash outperform Monero? If you look at my Twitter I was actually an XMR bull before Zcash, but Zcash performed in price. That woke me up to re-rate my assumptions and build conviction. Okay, that must mean the differences between Zcash and Monero, which I thought were bearish for Zcash, are actually bullish. So why?" "Maybe they've done all this research and think, there's just this thing the market isn't pricing, I'm going to average in more. I hope if that's the case, they get paid for it. I truly do. But humble yourself before the market a little bit. Take that signal seriously."

Tulip King on Ansem being his favorite trader and oversizing on FriendTech: "I think the durability, to do that and be in the social scene for so long, like being the main character in crypto is usually a death sentence. If you can be the main character and a hell of a trader, he's weathered this. I mean, he's one of the people who lives up to the hype." "A coin that you were right about but still lost money on?" - Krutzky "Oh my god, FriendTech. I guess I was technically wrong because it went to zero, but I was so early. There was so much size on that thing. It hurt so bad because it was one of those times where my conviction was insane. That one keeps me up at night."

fomo co-founder Se says the whole thesis has always been simple: build a great product and people will come. "For us it's always been, the people will come if you build a great product. People were like, I have all my money on Solana and I don't want to bridge and wait, I can just use fomo. I can use fomo to trade between Base, BNB, Solana, back and forth, and actually build a social profile while I do this." "A lot of the guys from early days, it was very easy to get to 10,000, 20,000 followers, because all you needed was a $10,000 trade. Now you make a $10,000 trade and you're ranked 6,325. It's really hard to gain visibility." "Everything happens on chain. We go through all the most liquid pools on chain, and we work with a number of providers. We work with Privy on the embedded wallets, we use Relay for cross-chain bridging and solving. A lot of it is how do you get to market fast, how do you start working with providers, build customized things, and get to a place where you can iterate quickly with these systems."

fomo co-founder Se reveals the app hit 2.5 million users with 700,000 daily returns "We are at 2.5 million total users. We have about 700,000 come back daily." "Almost 25% of your base comes back daily?" "I'd say about 25% of users come back on a daily basis. And on any given month, about 75% of users come back. So you can't really compare this to a trading app's retention. You can almost look at it more like Snapchat or another social media platform." "Of those 700,000, we probably have about 150,000 daily active traders. That number is really cool, because when I was at dYdX we had 2,000 daily active traders, we were a $20 billion company, and it was mostly institutional volume. So to be able to touch 150,000 different people every day and be the sole trading experience for them is actually incredible."

fomo co-founder Se explains why you can't force users into a product they don't want. "I think the way we've fundamentally thought about this is, you can't force users to do something they don't want to do, and you can't solve a problem that doesn't need to be solved. A lot of people thought, okay, users should be doing this thing, so I'm going to go build this SocialFi app that I think people should be using. But if people don't want to do it, they're not going to do it." "For us, we found the on-chain market to be a wedge, where there's real demand and no great way to supply the opportunity or a vehicle that lets people do these things, particularly in memes. So let's go do that thing. We always think doing is better than not doing." "This is one way we started to break in, find product-market fit, and build the foundational social graph. But I do want fomo to be a place that has the ability to onboard everybody in the world. Everybody has an opinion on something. How do you get to a place where everybody feels like this is the app for them, where they can express their own opinion and connect with other people who feel the same way?"

Insentos reveals his favorite trade ever: "So I missed Trump, and it was the next day after Trump or like two days later. I don't remember the exact date, but I just had $500k in my hot wallet, and I'm in a very tilted mood. I'm like, the next good coin I'm blasting, I don't care if I lose this whole 500k. I was just tilted." "And with Melania Trump's token drop, I just bought off the tweet and fully ported my entire hot wallet, and within about 33 minutes, I was up $4 million instantly." "Like, it makes it a little bit hard to celebrate because, damn, maybe I shouldn't have bought more. You kind of criticize yourself."

Maurits and Insentos predict this bull run will be way crazier than the last cycle. "I feel like this cycle has the potential to be way crazier than the last cycle just because now we have so many more players in the arena and so many more people trading with so much more money on-chain." "I think the only thing that scares me is that everyone seems to have the same opinion where everyone is like, 'Oh, we're just going into a bull.' Every time when everyone agrees on something, it's almost always wrong." "It's the first time ever where retail can actually participate. Back in trading on BullX or Photon or on Telegram bots, to a complete normie, it's like a spaceship terminal. Like, 'How am I ever going to explain to a friend how to trade on BullX?'"

Insentos recalls how he lost it all on one single hand of blackjack. "So I made 50K. It's like 20K to 50K trading, and I kept winning on blackjack, and I got to 100K. And that was like my dream number when I started trading. I was like, I want 100K; if I get 100K, I'm set. That's what I want. And it was my birthday, April 2nd, and I was just sitting in my room. I'm like, all right, we're going all in on my birthday. All in 100K hand, and I lost the whole thing." "I was just numb. And then, like, I think for an entire month, I just didn't get out of bed. I was just depressed, like cooked." "I didn't tell any of my friends because I was super embarrassed; I just kept it to myself. No one knew I zeroed out. I was like, all right, we have to run this shit back up; I'm not telling anybody, so I didn't tell anyone. I didn't tell my parents; I didn't tell any of my friends; nobody knew."