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Day 2 of ripping Pokemon cards for a Gengar so I can front run @0xFrisk I need a referee here, @Collector_Crypt , does this count? Have I officially successfully front run him? 👀

I’m heavily doubling down on Variational. Earned 86 points in the last 2 weeks, with 50 points coming from this week alone. I highly recommend reading the two recent articles from @variational_io. For a long time, people viewed Variational as just another cheap Hyperliquid copy. That narrative is about to change. I’m very confident that by the end of the year, Variational’s RWA markets will compete closely with TradeXYZ. Variational is one of the very few platforms with a real shot at offering tight spreads across 1,000+ RWA markets simultaneously. Because Variational is not an exchange, it’s a broker. Just look at TradFi. The most successful trading platforms are brokers. They route orders through exchanges like Nasdaq instead of trying to bootstrap liquidity from scratch on every single market. That approach is simply far more efficient. You don’t need to burn massive amounts on market maker incentives, and with the right partnerships, you can scale to thousands of markets extremely quickly. The vision of trading 1,000+ RWA markets, 24/7/365, with liquidity as deep as TradFi, is so massive that most people still don’t fully believe it yet. That’s exactly why OTC points are still so cheap. The most asymmetric opportunities are usually the ones nobody is paying attention to. RWAs on Variational are not only a major turning point for $VAR, but potentially for the entire crypto industry. And the only way to position yourself for this right now is by earning points to secure a meaningful $VAR allocation at TGE. I wouldn’t be surprised to see $VAR launch at a multi-billion dollar FDV. Many people missed Hyperliquid and Lighter. You probably don’t want to make the same mistake again with Variational. If you haven't signed up on Variational yet, use code OMNIBASESOL and secure a lifetime 12% points boost: omni.variational.io/?ref=OMNIBASES…

weekly points update on @variational_io +71 points | $400k volume | $207k open interest solid week – pushed a bit more volume and let OI do its thing. funding farm running clean, nothing fancy just staying consistent and positioned this is the week things started getting real – competition #2 wrapped, 20k extra points distributed to participants proportional to volume – competition #3 incoming and it's RWA-themed – v0.15.1 mainnet release with TP/SL slippage limits and performance improvements – v3 UI still being refined on testnet before mainnet push – $211B total volume, $675M dual-sided OI, 7.1k avg daily active users but the biggest news this week: 100+ liquid RWA markets in 90 days phase 1 (WTI crude, gold, silver) – launching this month phase 2 (CFDs, hundreds of equities, FX, commodities: alibaba, Nvidia, coinbase, intel, microStrategy, wheat, natural gas and more) – june Endgame: one account, thousands of perp/CFD markets, every asset class, TradFi-grade execution, zero fees this isn't an HL clone. it's a different category entirely – an on-chain broker routing the deepest liquidity to traders rather than trying to bootstrap it from scratch and a funding raise + RWA takeover this summer is looking very possible the people who get this early are going to look very smart still farming, still positioned... combining var with 01 @01Exchange is literally a money printer how many points did you get this week? omni.variational.io 12% points boost ref: OMNIGIVENO

I earned 25.3 points this week on Variational. Most people still don't understand what these points are worth — and they're pricing them completely wrong. We've seen this exact pattern play out twice already. With Hyperliquid, early points were dismissed below $10 while a structural shift in onchain derivatives was already underway. Then came the inevitable repricing as TGE approached. Same story with Lighter — they quietly slashed execution costs for retail, whales started routing volume there to save on fees, and the market eventually caught up. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Now Variational is doing something neither of them did — bringing 24/7/365 tradable RWA markets fully onchain with tight spreads across thousands of different markets, going live soon. The difference is structural. Variational operates as a broker, not an exchange. Exchanges like Hyperliquid have to bootstrap liquidity from scratch — expensive, slow, and capital-intensive. Brokers plug directly into existing liquidity across venues and route to the best quote. The result: tight spreads across 1,000+ RWA markets simultaneously, with no need to incentivize market makers or seed orderbook depth. That's a fundamentally different business model — and one that I believe the market hasn't priced in yet. Once people see the volume and revenue RWA trading generates on Variational, the repricing will be obvious in hindsight. I'm highly confident $VAR launches above a $1B FDV at TGE. The only way to get exposure before then is through points — earned by trading on the platform. Use code OMNIBASESOL to sign up and receive 12 bonus points for every 100 points you earn: omni.variational.io/?ref=OMNIBASES…

I earned 25.3 points this week on Variational. Most people still don't understand what these points are worth — and they're pricing them completely wrong. We've seen this exact pattern play out twice already. With Hyperliquid, early points were dismissed below $10 while a structural shift in onchain derivatives was already underway. Then came the inevitable repricing as TGE approached. Same story with Lighter — they quietly slashed execution costs for retail, whales started routing volume there to save on fees, and the market eventually caught up. History doesn't always repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Now Variational is doing something neither of them did — bringing 24/7/365 tradable RWA markets fully onchain with tight spreads across thousands of different markets, going live soon. The difference is structural. Variational operates as a broker, not an exchange. Exchanges like Hyperliquid have to bootstrap liquidity from scratch — expensive, slow, and capital-intensive. Brokers plug directly into existing liquidity across venues and route to the best quote. The result: tight spreads across 1,000+ RWA markets simultaneously, with no need to incentivize market makers or seed orderbook depth. That's a fundamentally different business model — and one that I believe the market hasn't priced in yet. Once people see the volume and revenue RWA trading generates on Variational, the repricing will be obvious in hindsight. I'm highly confident $VAR launches above a $1B FDV at TGE. The only way to get exposure before then is through points — earned by trading on the platform. Use code OMNIBASESOL to sign up and receive 12 bonus points for every 100 points you earn: omni.variational.io/?ref=OMNIBASES…

The perpDEX sector has 6-7 protocols fighting over the same orderbook market and @variational_io is the 7th fighting on completely different ground. Hyperliquid leads the orderbook race with $176B in monthly volume. While Aster, Lighter are all competing on the same axis underneath it i.e faster execution, tighter spreads, more listings. Variational isn't in that race because it doesn't use an orderbook at all. Its model is called RFQ (Request for Quote). The protocol runs its own MM called the OLP, which quotes every trade and hedges it across Binance, Bybit and OKX in real time. There's no public orderbook and no need for 3rd party LPs. What this opens is 👇 ➥ 450+ markets Most perpDEXes can only list 50-150 perps because each market needs LPs willing to make two-sided quotes. Variational doesn't have that constraint, so it can list any asset that trades on a major CEX. ➥ Institutional flow Variational also runs a Pro desk for OTC block trades, where multiple market makers compete to fill large orders that an orderbook can't absorb without slippage. This is a customer base (like funds, prop desks, professional traders moving size) that Hyperliquid and Lighter don't target. They built this product because they ran the exact workflow at Genesis trading before going onchain. Here's where it stands today: ‣ $16B in 30-day volume ‣ $800M+ in OI ‣ ~$105M in settlement pool TVL ‣ May is averaging $543M/day, slightly above April's pace, which shows the pre-TGE volume floor is forming rather than continuing to decay Note Variational doesn't charge a protocol fee. Revenue flows through the OLP's bid-ask spread on every trade. ➢ At an estimated 1 bps spread on $15B monthly volume (1 bps = $1 of spread per $10K traded), that's roughly $18M in annualized gross revenue ➢ If protocol treasury takes 20% of that ($3.6M/year) and tokenomics route 30% of treasury revenue into $VAR buybacks (~$1.1M/year at current volume) It still looks small because it is. Here the trade isn't current revenue, it's the post-TGE scaling. If volume runs $20B/month at 1.5 bps (a realistic assumption if Pro desk institutional flow converts), gross revenue goes to $36M/year. 1. Treasury revenue will be ~$7.2M 2. Annual buybacks will be ~$2.2M 3. Buyback yield at $300M FDV would be ~0.7%. At $800M FDV: ~0.3% For context Lighter does $40B monthly at $33M annualized fees on a ~$2.7B TGE FDV. That's roughly 80x P/F. Variational at $800M FDV with $18M annualized spread revenue is ~44x P/F. Which makes it cheaper on entry, with more revenue vectors above. Rn Variational does $16B in monthly volume on $11.8M raised. Lighter does $40B on $89M. That's 3x more productive on a fraction of the funding. Still pre-TGE. The airdrop will be the entry point. The architecture and the revenue scaling are why the seat may keep compounding after the airdrop is paid. h/t to @DefiLlama @EntropyAdvisors for the data