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In a space where everything is competing for attention, a clear point of view is one of the rarest things you can have.

The ones that survived had a consistent point of view. You knew what they stood for, who they were building for. Whether it was a thread explaining the tech, a reply in someone else's mentions, or a quiet product update, it all felt athentic and backed by a strong product.

The companies still around from the last cycle weren't just loud. Plenty of projects were loud. Big KOL budgets, airdrop campaigns, trending CT posts. Most of them are gone.

A lot of crypto content is optimized for CT and nowhere else. It works, but CT is a pretty small room. The same people retweeting each other creates the illusion of reach when it's really just circulation. The projects that actually cross over will be the ones that learn to tell their story outside of it.

The modern marketing playbook is simple: Stop optimizing for cheap clicks. Start optimizing for empathy. Host curated IRL dinners. The biggest impact you can make for your brand right now is actively creating these spaces for people.

Face-to-face interaction creates a "Proof of Human" layer. It establishes the baseline of empathy and deep brand trust that automated funnels and retargeting campaigns simply cannot replicate.

Hottest trend prediction: private IRL events. AI can scale content, but it can't scale empathy. Trying to build brand loyalty purely through a screen is a losing game. The most valuable marketing skill moving forward is now: Real-world connection. 🧵

If your marketing team spends more time on meme templates than on analyzing on-chain retention rates, you’re not running a group chat, not a protocol.

AI pioneer and Turing Award winner @ylecun just secured $1 billion for his new startup, @amilabs. Instead of focusing on text-based chatbots, AMI is building "world models" trained on real-world sensor and camera data to power the next generation of physical AI and robotics. Do you think physical AI will be the next major breakthrough?

The "Hype first, build later" era is over. Projects are actually launching working products that solve real problems before they even whisper the word "token" or drop a roadmap. Build the tech, then build the hype.

Will this @claudeai integration outdo Apollo? Here is a quick look at @vibeprospecting, a new tool that claims to generate verified lead lists from 800M+ professionals using just natural language. No complex CRM needed. Have you heard of this one yet?

Stop reading your documents and start watching them. @Google just updated @NotebookLM with Cinematic Video Overviews, using Gemini 3 and Veo 3 to act as your personal creative director. It takes your uploads and generates a fully animated video to help you absorb the info. Have you tried this yet?

The future of community building is a barbell strategy. Use AI to infinitely scale your digital infrastructure and content, but use IRL to scale your intimacy and trust. As the internet becomes completely automated, a physical handshake becomes your ultimate premium asset.

It’s not AI vs. IRL. The smartest funds (like a16z) are backing both OpenAI and Partiful not to competing, but to hedge both of them. As the internet becomes endlessly automated, authentic, in-person experiences become the ultimate premium commodity.

And the talent war for community builders is heating up. Just look at what billion-dollar companies are paying to get people in a room together: @AnthropicAI: Events Lead ($320k) @VaynerMedia: Head of Experiential ($250k) @Substack: Events Lead ($190k)

Everyone is looking at the AI boom, but missing the massive counter-trend: IRL is about to explode. Over $750M was quietly deployed into "anti-AI" bets in just the last 90 days. Big money is pivoting to human connection. Here’s the breakdown 👇