@givealotguy Institutions don’t care about decentralization narratives, they care about risk frameworks.
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CryptoMania
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CryptoMania
@CryptoManiaFr_
building mental models for the onchain economy | protocols, revenue, users, teams | no hype
New York 가입일 Temmuz 2022
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About 60% of tokenized real-world assets on-chain live on Ethereum right now.
The interesting bet isn't which asset gets tokenized first. It's which protocol becomes the compliance layer that institutions actually trust.
That race is wide open.
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Innovation doesn’t win by complexity, it wins by adoption.
The market rewards usefulness, not elegance.
LaCryptoSimple@LaCryptoSimple
The hardest thing in web3 research is separating "this is technically impressive" from "this will actually be used." Lots of technically impressive things go nowhere, a few ugly but useful things win everything. I try to ask both questions every time.
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@rajovenor Wallet age + activity depth is becoming a legit scoring system now.
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Yes, but today speed is not really the main topic anymore, the focus is on users, developers, and the community.
Because we now have fairly mature tech products, except maybe on the security side
Rajovenor@rajovenor
Solana is targeting a finality speed of 100 to 150 milliseconds with its Alpenglow upgrade. For context, it was around 12 seconds before. That is not an incremental improvement, that is a different product. Apps built on this will feel nothing like what we had in 2023.
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There are two types of crypto investors right now:
- Type A: tracking price charts, watching CT sentiment, chasing pumps
- Type B: tracking GitHub commits, reading audit reports, watching builder activity
-> Type B finds the good stuff 6 months before Type A.
Be Type B 🙏
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@MiddleManWeb3 we have so many benefits from Web3 but we don’t have any project with a user-first roadmap and Web3 as a secondary layer
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Most "Web3 social" projects launch, spike, and die because they try to replace X instead of doing something X genuinely cannot do
The projects worth watching are the ones building social primitives where on-chain identity and ownership actually change what is possible!
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@WizardingCrypto Personally, I don’t even look at Discord activity anymore, that was really a 2022 move.
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3 things every early stage web3 project gets wrong:
- raising too much money too early (kills scrappiness)
- building for investors, not users
- mistaking discord activity for product validation
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@MyPharaohCrypto That’s really the proper way to create value through an airdrop.
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The airdrop game in 2026 is not like 2022.
Projects are running AI-powered sybil detection now, they are looking at your behavioral patterns, your wallet history.
One wallet with genuine activity beats fifty wallets with scripted interactions every time.
Farm like a human.
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Yes, in reality it’s a very complex topic.
We’re in a field where there’s still so much to build, and where what gets created can generate massive value for the future.
LaCryptoSimple@LaCryptoSimple
The AI × web3 narrative is mostly noise. But the signal underneath is real: verifiable compute (proving AI inference happened correctly) is an actually hard and actually important problem.
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@ObviousInvest Timing is everything
Users and the market already have everything they need. You just have to show up at the right moment and respond to that demand.
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unpopular opinion:
solana won the last consumer layer not because of tech but because the dev experience got good enough at the right time timing > technology, almost always
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@LaCryptoSimple Yes 🚀 it’s always during bear phases that the biggest “bull winners” emerge and end up delivering the strongest performance later on.
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The projects that survive bear markets aren't the ones with the best marketing.
They're the ones where the devs kept shipping when nobody was watching. Always check github activity before you check token price.
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@NextMoveCrypto Right now, the ecosystem around @coinbase is extremely active!
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The best onboarding UX in web3 rn isn't from a wallet, it's from Coinbase Smart Wallet.
Passkey login, no seed phrase, gas abstraction. It's not decentralized but it shows exactly what the bar needs to be for the next billion users!
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User first, always. That’s the foundation in Web2, and it should be the foundation in Web3 as well 🙏
CryptoZeus@cryptozeusoffi
For me, the protocols i trust most have one thing in common: their docs are written for users, not for VCs. Small signal, but it never lies.
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A solid alpha for anyone hunting for promising early-stage protocols.
The product is already quite complete. You can claim a free ticket with just a Gmail account for Saturday’s draw and try to win the jackpot.
EpinikiaGame@EpinikiaGame
The very first Megalé draw just opened. Saturday, April 18 - 20:00 UTC. Your free ticket is waiting! Every player gets a free ticket, just claim it. No wallet, no card, no crypto... nothing! 🎟️ epinikiagame.com #Epinikia #Megalé
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@HinterTrader @HyperliquidX focus on the product and what the market and users wants! perfect combo
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It's crazy when you think about it, @HyperliquidX did more volume than most CEXs last month.
No VC, no airdrop farm, no incentive program. Just a product people actually want to use. GG
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@cryptozeusoffi and not only during the bear, the degen era will be less and less efficient
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Today, protocols generating real fee revenue during a bear market are the only ones worth paying attention to rn.
Everything else is just waiting for the next cycle to look alive.
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@cryptozeusoffi The UX gap isn't a crypto problem, it's a responsibility problem.
People don't want to be their own bank. They just want it to work like everything else does.
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Today, the #1 reason web3 hasn't mass adopted yet isn't regulation. It's that asking someone to manage their own private keys is still asking a lot... normies will forever and always hate that!
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@richweb3guy Exactly. The seed round was always just a trust mechanism. Blockchain makes trust programmable. Why pitch 10 partners when 10,000 believers can validate you in real time?
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Take this further: blockchain makes the barbell irrelevant entirely.
Why wait for a seed round when a protocol with real traction can raise from 10,000 people globally in 48 hours! No intermediary, no dilution negotiation, no partner meeting.
Simon Dedic@sjdedic
AI won't just disrupt startups, but it will also disrupt the investors behind them. When founders can ship world class products with a fraction of the capital in much more compressed time windows, seed rounds and Series A slowly lose their purpose. What's left are going to be two extremes: Tiny, hands-on pre-seed funds that act like extended team members. And massive mega funds that can buy you what AI can't: distribution. But everything in between, those mid-sized funds just passively writing checks, are getting squeezed out. The barbell is coming, and 9 out of 10 VCs aren't on either end of it.
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3 things i look at before anything else when evaluating a protocol:
1) is there fee revenue w/o token incentives?
2) do users come back after the airdrop?
3) is the team still building 18 months in?
Most don't pass all 3.
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The "tokenize everything" wave is coming but the unsexy truth is that most assets don't need a token.
They need better settlement rails, those are different products.
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