CryptoJoe

Why do I so strongly believe in @WhiteWhaleMeme? I remember earlier last year - @TheWhiteWhaleV2 posted about @DeFiTuna. He posted that he was purchasing more $Tuna, but he wanted to give his followers a chance to front run him and make something of it themselves. I had little reason to trust that this was true, or that he was really buying any himself, but being a classic trench degen I bought in, no questions asked. Of course, true to his word and luckily for me, shortly after, WW purchased his $TUNA and the price increased. I made healthy profit thanks to his thoughtfulness and pure willing for his followers to do well. Since then much has happened, but I knew when I saw he had CTO the WW token, I would be a part of the community, and support the cause best I could. I thank the WW for his time, effort and for simply caring about the ‘little guy’ in this space, more than sheer profits, of which he could have made many if he had decided too. GN chaps! Back again tomorrow.

I just wanted to say - I'm devastated. I have been around this group and project since CTO. Having been an early investor and follower of TWW. I do not hold any resentment, but that doesn't mean I am not disappointed. I am disappointed that the only people hurt by this abrupt exit are the loyal followers and supporters. The only ones that really cared & held their bags through it all have been let down again. Nothing takes away from the amazing work that was done on this project - I just wish it didn't have to end this way. The worst thing out of it all is the grave dancing. Some people believed so strongly they would never sell (me included), and lost a lot of money. That should never be celebrated by any respectable human. DO BETTER.

@WhiteWhaleLabs You will be missed @WhiteWhaleLabs. I hope to see you again round here. Your insights have been invaluable. The depths have recalled a legend. 🫡🐋

Earlier today I made a big move in anticipation of this announcement. In a single transaction, I locked 500 million coins...forever. A movement does not belong to the person who lit the match. It belongs to the people who carry the flames. As I’ve mentioned publicly, I’m dealing with an ongoing family crisis involving my children. It has taken a real toll on my mental health. On top of that, the daily pressure of “do more to pump our bags” - when I’ve already done more than any person leading a CTO in this space ever has - is disheartening at best. And beyond all of that, I’m losing some of my passion for crypto in general. For $WhiteWhale holders: yes, there is a continuity plan. While permanently locking $13 million worth of supply should be the greatest parting gift I could give you, I know the @WhiteWhaleMeme page needs to stay active and keep producing fresh, creative, and funny content. My dear friend and loyal companion @vincenzomaiett has agreed to selflessly take on that responsibility. DEX LP operations will also continue under one of the sharpest LP minds I know, with my ongoing oversight behind the scenes. When you look at my record - with millions given to charities on-chain, millions distributed to members of CT, and millions more spent accumulating a more proper supply structure for $WhiteWhale - the reality is that, since 10/10, I have officially given more to crypto than I’ve taken from it. I’m okay with that. I believe in karma. I don’t believe good deeds should be performed with the expectation of reward, but I do believe the universe provides in due course. I came into crypto deeply passionate about what I believed it represented: the original promise. Permissionless finance. Decentralization. True financial freedom. Ironically, the reason for my prior success in this space is the same reason I’m now losing my passion for it. Before 10/10, I had accumulated nearly $100 million in PnL from a trading thesis that began with a very simple assumption: everything is manipulated. From there, my thesis evolved into this: a trader’s job is to identify the signs of manipulation and move in harmony with the Apex Predator class, rather than becoming its prey. Eventually I had to confront the contradiction in that. How can I be passionate about free and open finance while operating under a thesis that says, at its core, it’s all a lie? That kind of cognitive dissonance has a cost. It shows up as stress, guilt, shame, and anxiety when your actions no longer align with your beliefs. Knowing something academically - and even profiting from that knowledge - is one thing. Seeing how the sausage is made with your own eyes is another. Running a coin opened my eyes to a lot. On one hand, if I ever go back to trading, I’ll be better equipped than ever, with sharper instincts and a deeper understanding of the brutal arena that is crypto. On the other hand, it’s hard to feel excited about magic internet money when you know how much of this space actually works. The sad truth is that founders and thought leaders in this space know what I know, and many of them know much more. That is part of why we need to break the culture of idolizing founders. We praise them as honorable people building better tools, but underneath it all, they know just as well as I do that much of what they are building on top of is rotten to the core. And yes, I believe a beautiful cake sitting on a pile of dung eventually takes on the taint of dung. But the reality is that there is not much anyone can do about it. That is one of the consequences of so-called decentralization. Crypto is global. You cannot regulate an entire planet. A VPN and a protocol hiding behind the letters D-E-X mean that nothing will ever fundamentally change because somebody in power decided it should. If real change comes, it will come organically - when the people stop feeding the machine. And while those comments are about crypto more broadly, let me say something directly to the trenches. Pump.fun is a cancer on this space. You know it, I know it, and yet you keep engaging with it. Its entire business model is built on volume and volatility. The trenches are fragile because they were designed to be fragile. I’ve been preaching liquidity design and liquidity shape for months now. But here’s the harder truth: most of you would not show up for a proper liquidity shape. Because the 1,000x fantasy would be mathematically reduced, even though very generous returns could still remain on the table. You have been sold a dream with odds closer to a national lottery ticket than an investment opportunity. You see the occasional winner and cling to the hope that one day it might be you. Meanwhile, the real winner is the machine that keeps you playing. Narrative matters far less than mechanics. If narrative alone were enough, Punch would have broken through the way its mindshare deserved. With all that attention, and with all that narrative weight, it still could not break the nine-figure curse even while being actively crimed. Only a couple of coins have managed that in recent history, and $WhiteWhale was proudly the first. Same with Kilroy - the original meme, an incredible narrative, and still: crickets. Because mechanics matter more than people want to admit. (I am not an active holder of any examples I've given). So this is me stepping away from CT. Not out of hatred. Not out of self-pity. And not without love. My biggest reward from my crypto journey has been meeting some really wonderful avatars from all across the globe. (Ironically the really nasty avatars are the worst part of all of this) I am choosing my children. I am choosing my mental health. I am choosing to step back before this space takes any more from me than I’m willing to give. For long ago in life I learned that you're no good to anyone if you're not okay. And right now, I'm not ok. And it's okay to admit that. To the people who truly believe in me, believe in this movement, and stood beside me through all of it - thank you. I will carry that with me. Always. This was always for you. I trust you'll continue to bear the torch. And as for the future: I’m not closing the door. Maybe one day, when the storm has passed and the fire returns, I’ll have something left to say. Maybe one day I’ll come back. But if that day comes, it will be because it’s authentic and not because I feel the public pressure to "dance puppet, dance". In the mean time...take care of yourself, and each other. Protect what's worth protecting, and abandon the things that aren't. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

@WhiteWhaleMeme The best to ever do it, never will a dev care more or do more for their holders. Always $WhiteWhale 🫶🐋

Season 3 - Part Two This movement has never been about a single individual. It is about each and every single member of the community that continues to take a stand against max extraction and paid influence. Today the Treasury has permanently locked 500M coins. Combined with prior locks, this represents well over half of the total supply. A $13M move. For you. It's always been for you. app.streamflow.finance/contract/solan…

Season 3 Results - Announcement Part One The conclusion of our third and final season will be announced in two parts. From the beginning we have always said that $WhiteWhale is a movement, belonging the to the people who bear the torch - not simply the person who struck the match. What more fitting way, then, to wrap Season 3 by distributing 10M $WhiteWhale tokens to our most loyal and devoted holders. Each holders share is pro-rated based on our points system and can only be claimed on @Sablier . Disregard any other claims of airdrops, as these are likely scams. Unclaimed tokens from this 10M prize pool will revert back to the ownership of the treasury after 15 days and - as always - be used for the sole benefit of the project and it's holders. To claim your share of Season 3 Rewards, visit the link below: solana.sablier.com/airdrops/campa… 🤍🐋

$Snape feels undervalued here, lots of normie memes being posted. Feels like at least a 1M runner to me in the next couple days. 🪄🧙‍♂️

app.streamflow.finance/contract/solan… 70% of total supply permanently locked. Remaining balance spread over large LP range. You’re welcome, dear humans. - The System

If we remember, Last time Alon said something like this $Penguin spawned. Chances are, we are not far off the next big crime runner.

@itzmac_ Gm ☕️

Goooood morning fellas, lets cook 👀

@funcry But which ones @funcry.

memes sitting under 10M will run to hundreds of millions.

@isellbeforeyou Serious bid zone. Never underestimate $WhiteWhale.

Opinions on $whitewhale here?

@itzmac_ Uk 🇬🇧 boys stay winning. How to join?

a week into the UK group and the boys are flying, exactly what i made it for 🇬🇧

This isn’t random LP creation. This isn’t “just another meme.” This is a coordinated revenue engine. Within the same ~24 hour period: $WHITWHALE $TUNA $UNTIL $MM All deployed LP tokens in sequence. One right after each other. Same automated wallet. That’s not noise. That’s design. Trades likely don’t go A to B. They route across multiple pools. Every hop = fees. More routing = more extraction. Now add this. Something you haven't heard of. Breakwater. A Liquidity Repositioning System that can trigger liquidity adds. 🤯 Liquidity isn’t passive… Flow can be controlled. So what do you get? 1. Bots generating volume 2. Routing extracting fees 3. Liquidity optimizing capture Roles: $UNTIL - The Spark $TUNA - The Infrastructure $MM - The Fee generator $WHITEWHALE - The Value sink This isn’t a market. It’s a revenue generating MACHINE. Most people watch price. Few understand structure. If this plays out… You’re not early to a token. You’re early to the system behind it. A true PPP ecosystem where incentives are aligned. Season 3 ending soon. Until timer ending soon. Don't say you weren't warned. #memecoins #systemupgrade

Boooooooom we just hit $900K and that’s over 4X for us already 🔥🔥🔥 $SMITH is first fully integrated buyback & burn agent built directly on pumpfun This goes way higher!!

Waking up to a green crypto portfolio

@PumpfunEco I smell crime coming 👃

Life if… $Life is now trending on pump fun! 🔥

@WhiteWhaleLabs Insightful as always @WhiteWhaleLabs. Great read, thanks for taking the time 🐋

So What's The Data? A flurry of replies all asking the same question. As well as a flurry of replies calling me an idiot for making the statement that narrative doesn't matter as much as people think it does. My way makes me money. If your way makes you money there is nothing wrong with that. No need to change. I simply choose not to enter a trade based on vibes. I'll now give the real life example I referenced in the last post. The coin was DFM that I identified at a 250K mcap. And I still don't even know what that coin is about as it didn't matter. Got in at 250K and got out at 4M. Because of data. It's now 1M at the time of writing. Volume is dying. Bots are leaving. Liquidity is still "thin air". Short of a new data catalyst, it's dead. My method is relatively simple. You may have a better method. Maybe I'm retarded (saves some of you from saying it). But this method has worked for me and I've been able to obtain around an 80% win rate. On low mcap memes. I happen to be proud of that number. For screening, I use GMGN. I don't trade there, but they do have some of the better screening tools. On the Trending tab I set up the following filters: NoMint - checked Burnt - checked No Blacklist - checked MC - 225K 5M volume - 9k Why 225 and 9? Because many traders filter for 250K and 10K. I like to be first, for things worth trading. I'm still actively experimenting with these initial filters but lean on the side of not going too filter heavy. Then, on my display view, I make sure I'm on 5M for time selection and that I have columns enabled for both 5m% and 1h%. If something is hot on the 5M but still way down on the 1H I won't even bother looking at it. I'm looking for confluence. I also check token age from this view. I don't filter it out as a hard rule but typically I'm not hopping on the bandwagon for an old token just because it has started to pump. But I do like being aware of it. The next thing I do is copy the CA and if we are still a very low mcap (sub 1M) I'll pull up the Bubblemaps. Does it look cleaner or more dirty than most Bubblemaps I look at every day? (more on that later). If the coin is over 1M mcap the first thing I will do is pull up the CLOBr liquidity map. This tends to not matter until you get into the 2M+ mcap range, but I want to know right away if LP farms are bogging price action down, what sell pressure is right above current price, how much support is below - is support v resistance asymetric, etc. If it's a brand new coin it may have not even had time to make it to CLOBr yet - and again for very low mcap the CLOBr map doesn't really matter as much as usually the only source of liquidity is the PumpSwap pool anyway. Then I pull up GeckoTerminal (or DexScreener or similar, whatever one you like to use) and look at volume. How is volume progressing, is it getting more intense, looking the same, or declining. I look at the trend over the past 5M vs 1H vs 6/24. The volume bar graph also helps paint a visual picture but I prefer cross-checking by clicking on the 5M/1H/6H/24H time frames specifically because you can easily see transaction counts, net buy vs sell, etc. I additionally look at holder counts. Not is it going up or down, that doesn't matter on your early launches. I'm looking to see if the expected holder count appears to be normal & organic for token age + mcap. I also visually scan the order flow for obvious signs of volume botting. I also scan for addresses I know to be bot addresses that trade anything worth trading all day long. Are those known bot addresses buying or selling? If they aren't even present that's a signal to me the token likely isn't worth trading. I don't even bother looking at bundled reports. Assume they all are. Now here's where my strategy and what the data tells me may differ from most. I'm looking for red flags. Because crime moves this space more often than not. So I'm looking for the warning signs of crime so I can trade them. The more sophisticated the crime, the higher the anticipated price action. People don't put a ton of effort and expense into just rugging something at a 500K mcap. Here's how the data guided me on my successful trade of DFM this AM and why I was able to get in at $250K and out at 4M before the crash back down to 1M. My filtered view from step one fired off at $225K as it was supposed to. It took me a couple of minutes to complete my checks before I bought in at $250K. The first thing I noticed as a crime signal was bubble maps. Too perfect. It's still too perfect as of the time of this post. Real life is messy. This means the people who bundle went to great lengths to do it intelligently. Time+effort = longer runway. Holder count vs age? Also very high. Not organic. The second thing that stuck out to me is the distribution on this low mcap meme coin is something we all dream of. Not a single wallet held more than 0.3% of total supply. That...just...doesn't...happen...ever. Again, signs that great pains have been taken to paint a perfect picture (when real life is messy by default). I checked the order flow and saw a lot of known bot addresses buying and selling - this passed a critical check. If it's not good enough for the bots to transact, it's not good enough for me either. I saw volume holding steady across a period of time. This means that either organic traders were engaging or more likely that someone paid for sustained volume bots. Many cheap devs will run a volume bot once, just to grab everyones attention. And you'll notice the volume cycle drops off significantly. Here the volume was sustained. So either more money is being invested into the volume bot for a longer duration or organic buyers and sellers are hopping in - doesn't matter to me which it is, just that it's happening. There was no magic. No big secret formula. I simply looked at the data and said "This looks too perfect. Things are only made to look this perfect if it has a runway ahead of it" So I buy red flags. Because the effort put into crime can be a strong signal into how long the crime will continue. As I rode my position up I started looking at the CLOBr liquidity map. We crossed 1M, no liquidity added. 2M, no liquidity added. Past that point I was glued to the screen watching for the first sign of anything turning the tide. Was volume dying? Were sells being met with buys? Volume didn't die and holder count just kept increasing, but at 4M I bailed. Because at that point there SHOULD have been a better liquidity picture. I know from vast experience in staring at these things all day every day that you simply cannot be at a 4M mcap without better liquidity than simply the PumpSwap pool. All of my experience told me the risk/reward systems in these bots would start giving heavy weighting to the "thin air" below current price. I wanted to bail before they did. Sure I missed the move from 4 to 5.3, but after 5.3 it just utterly tanked. I even told my TG group that I would ape back in the moment they added the typical large fake liquidity layer to paint support below. But they just never did. In short? This goes back to my general trading thesis that I taught people about months ago. (It's on the TL, don't make me scroll). This is crypto. Assume everything is manipulated and that nothing is organic. The way to make money is therefore looking for signs of manipulation and walking in harmony with the Apex Predator so as not to become the prey. Was this helpful to you? Please let me know. It means a lot. There's a small army of people who love to just crap on anything that comes out of my mouth and I took an hour out of my day to type this up, hoping at least one person would benefit from it. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.🕛 Projects with strong leadership and knowledge will always perform well. ATH pending and coming fast. $Pigeon

$Pigeon reversal going to be legendary. Flock inn.