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@ufukdogancrypt @Ichigo19882 @armaniferrante @tristan @1000XGEMNFT 👀

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We Were Never His Community. We Were His Fundraise. | Full Long Story Let's start with something most people get wrong. @armaniferrante didn't build Mad Lads alone. @tristan co-founded Coral with him, co-founded Backpack with him, and was the person who spent over a year curating the community before the mint even happened. The allowlist process, the culture, the "WAO — We Are One" identity — that was Tristan's work. Him and @monkdoesnt. They made Mad Lads a name that commanded genuine respect across the entire Solana ecosystem. There's something worth noting. FTX collapsed in November 2022. The Mad Lads mint happened in April 2023, months later, as Solana was still trying to find its footing. Looking back, that mint wasn't just a community launch. It was a lifeline. A way to rebuild and fund the exchange Armani actually wanted to build all along. We were the funding round. We just didn't know it at the time. After Tristan and Monkey left, everything that came after is Armani's legacy alone. The community started hollowing out slowly. The Mad Lads Twitter went quiet. Discord went cold. New Backpack employees had zero respect for Lads holders, some distanced themselves publicly, some talked openly about not caring. But Armani kept saying the right things. Community matters. Loyalty matters. So we stayed. Then the Backpack Exchange announcement dropped and we lost our minds, in the best way. We bought more Lads immediately. At that point Mad Lads was genuinely bigger than Backpack as a brand. The name carried more weight, more trust, more recognition. We thought: this is it. We are the face of something that could become the next Binance. Our patience is about to pay off. Then came the Seasons. Trading points, volume based rewards, the promise of a $BP airdrop. Mad Lads holders are not traders, we never were. We are believers, holders, community people. But we didn't want to be left behind. So we tried. We generated volume. Lost real money. And told ourselves: it's fine, TGE is coming, he won't forget us. Season 2. Season 3. Still no utility for Lads. Still no mention of Lads. The only thing we ever received was a fee reduction on the exchange, a benefit built for traders, given to a community of people who aren't traders. By that point, I don't think they thought about us much at all. The signals were everywhere. Mad Lads Twitter stopped posting. Armani became active on Backpack Discord and went silent on Lads Discord. His language shifted from "our community" to "Mad Lads are not our product." When KOLs posted hit pieces on Backpack, who was in the replies defending him every single time? Lads holders. Always. Someone slid into my DMs, an ex-Backpack employee. Said simply: "Lads will not get an airdrop." I dismissed it. We all did. We thought Armani was filtering out farmers. The real ones would be taken care of. He values loyalty, right? We chose to believe that. When people close to the team started posting about "all the airdrops Lads already received," we read between the lines. The message underneath was obvious: you already ate, stop asking. But we held on. When Armani posted "NFTs might be dead but Lads are just getting started" we took it as confirmation. He still sees us. He didn't. Then the snapshot. The tokenomics. The number that made the whole community go silent. One percent. Not for bots. Not for farmers. For the people who had been there from the beginning. Who defended him publicly. Who absorbed trading losses to generate volume for his exchange. One percent for the backbone. The response when the community asked why? Simple. Cold. You already ate. Then came yesterday, one day after the TGE. As community managers have now confirmed, newly traded Mad Lads will no longer receive VIP status on Backpack. If you held before, you are grandfathered in. But anyone buying today gets nothing. No utility. No benefit. No connection to the exchange we spent years supporting. He waited until after the airdrop to quietly close the door. No announcement. No explanation. Just policy. That is not an oversight. That is housekeeping. The community served its purpose, the token launched, and the last remaining thread was cut the very next day. Here is what I believe now. Armani got lucky. He got lucky that Tristan was brilliant at building community culture from the ground up. He inherited loyalty that most founders spend years trying to manufacture. And instead of stewarding it, he extracted it. Quietly, gradually, until there was nothing left to take. Mad Lads was never the goal. Backpack was always the goal. Mad Lads was the vehicle that got him there. Once it served its purpose, it got parked. And the tragic part? It didn't even work. The TGE underperformed. The trader community is fractured. Chinese holders are rising up over witch-hunt accusations. He distanced himself from the community that loved him unconditionally and couldn't hold the one he replaced us with. Mad Lads gave Armani everything. Capital, credibility, cover, and community. We were there when nobody else was. We made Backpack look legitimate before Backpack had earned that on its own. WAO. We Are One. We meant it. He never did.

@mattvanswol You need a ID to fly...can someone please explain why ICE would need to be there since in order to fly you hace to be a citizen with an ID ??

So basically: a) ICE deploys somewhere b) TSA lines plummet c) Traffic vanishes d) ERs clear out e) Construction sites are ghost towns f) Class sizes shrink ...and we're still supposed to believe there are only 11 million illegal aliens in the country?!

Markets mobile app is now in beta. We're opening up limited slots to a focused group of traders. The first users will get a free trade, on us. Comment "Markets" if you have $1m+ volume on Hyperliquid.

@LukeGromen @Daath1369 @matthew_pines Yes it was a sarcastic post Hence why he put "....." (to set the tone of awkwardness)

@Daath1369 @matthew_pines Ahhh…gotcha

mission accomplished…

I thought we had a 5 day ceasefire....

Yesterday, I posted the same controversial post on X and Threads ….the results may shock you

@RealCryptoFace @MMCrypto Brother who's to say trump ever tells the truth

@MMCrypto Whos to say Iran is telling the truth?

Let’s be honest. I got lied out of my Oil Trade from the President. Still no one to blame but me! At least I was hoping for peace!

@Geiger_Capital Paid partnership?

~5,000 Marines ~3,000 Paratroopers Polymarket is selling dollars for 42 cents

@ruslan55x @Lighter_xyz @HyperliquidX Umm definitely not. I would say there was very overblown anticipation from Lighter and Lighter bros were overly confident that LIT was going to to do everything better than Hyperliquid. There was actually decent mindshare and convincing going on last year

Important signal for @Lighter_xyz is the hate coming from @HyperliquidX community These guys don’t miss a single negative event: whether it’s an attack, a technical issue or the $LIT price. To me, this clearly shows they see Lighter as a direct competitor Because with other perps, they even promote ref links themselves or just shill for $. So the more they talk, the more it feels like there’s some fear - that something is growing nearby which could challenge their leader I don’t have any background in psychology, but that’s just how it feels to me

@MarketCanary Brother you were quiet for the past two weeks...now we one little pump because of Trump Taco tweet and your back to trying to spin it as if its a Trump win ? HAHAHA Trumps polling is at an all time low. There's no way to spin it positively for him. Iran holds the cards.

Panicans (media + doomers) keep using the term TACO - Trump Always Chickens Out - in reality, US achieved their goals, total annihilation of military abilities of Iran, and now, diplomacy. TDS will get you killed in these markets - just like Tariff Freakout last April. Earnings at All Time Highs, setting up rally into the Summer.

@ThinkingUSD What happens when you cut the head of a Hydra ? Don't worry Bros we gonna be ight

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@KobeissiLetter Trump does not have the cards here Its all up to Iran now

You can't make this up: Exactly 23 days into the Iran War, and our "Conflict Playbook" is literally tracking down to the day. President Trump has just announced peace talks between the US and Iran are ongoing, with Step #9 of our playbook imminent. While many called for World War 3, we called for a 2-4 week conflict, and we are right in the middle of that timeline. The S&P 500 just swung $3 TRILLION in market cap, oil prices are below $89/barrel, gold is up +$300/oz in hours, and bonds are rebounding. As we have seen endlessly over the last 12 months, objective investors are winning the most in this market. While there will be much more volatility, it appears that Step #9 and #10 of our playbook are imminent. Keep following our playbook.

@SmartMoneyCrpto #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">globalfirepower.com/countries-list… Yeahhh UK is definitely far superior that Dubai in military defense

Dubai 🇦🇪 0% income tax Multi-layered air defence (THAAD, Patriot, Barak-8, Pantsir) ~90–96% missile interception rate in real-world attacks UK 🇬🇧 Up to 40–45% income tax No comparable nationwide missile shield (limited air defence, not designed for ballistic threats) Make it make sense? I was quite Naive in moving to Dubai, I didn’t consider regional conflicts, then I found out they had one of the most advanced defence systems in the world. Even if the UK wanted to get involved with the war, it literally cannot defend against Iranian missile attacks. Dubais advanced missile system costs around $20B In this new world of long range missiles UK need to upgrade their defensive capabilities. Especially when they are taking almost half of their residents money.

Post Correction, Another Leg Higher You would not expect to see such a muted reaction to cryptos with markets bleeding out: almost -3.5% on Russ, nearly -2% on SPX and NDX. There is a reason for it... Cryptos are beta, they top first, that happened in October. Markets went on to multiple new ATH's. The markets are grappling with the negative oil catalyst caused by war; are pulling back. If the crypto bottom holds and key market support holds, beta will lead the way higher into May/June. A Cardinal point in the market is Spring Equinox, where we could see directional change - with open war upon us, catalysts can change, black swans can occur, things can go from bad to worse. However, as we sit, this is a very bullish set up into the Summer post correction. The spike in oil will quickly collapse when combat ends - it is not a question of if, but when. SPX profits at an All Time High, cryptos already corrected with a warm winter, average stock under the hood of SPX and NDX has already hit correction territory - and most importantly, the cycles are very bullish to finish the year green (80+% statistical probability). I will cover the 2026 set up in Monday's video. Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

@FinanceLancelot @jam_croissant @MarketCanary

Reminder: The Dow Jones to Gold Ratio has only fallen below this level 4 times in history. 2026, 2008, 1973 and 1929

When flag football got announced as an Olympic sport I said dont count on America to dominate. We have a monopoly on tackle football bc we’re the fattest nation on the planet but flag football won’t have the big boys battling in the trenches. Then folks responded to me with “yeah but what about QB play. We’ll still dominate there”. The QB play in this clip is all the QB play you need in flag football- a little 3yd dump off to someone who’s shifty and fast enough to make opponents miss in space A country like Jamaica with a bunch of 10.02 guys who couldn’t make the Olympic track team cut would be a problem in this sport.

@NewtypeTrades You’re not built to win if this is your excuse

Miami is quietly eating NYC and SF alive and nobody wants to admit it. Goldman execs, Citadel, Blackstone money, Andreessen types, crypto giants…all moving to Miami while New York drowns in taxes and San Francisco collapses into crime and ignominious dysfunction. No state income tax. Global gateway. Year-round talent magnet. Real estate still cheaper (for now). And leaders who ACTUALLY want business here. Meanwhile the “old capitals” are regulating themselves into irrelevance and wondering why capital and talent is fleeing. The future of finance and tech isn’t in Manhattan or Silicon Valley anymore. It’s in on the beach.