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A reminder for myself and fellow traders as we approach the final innings: USDC is your best friend. Stable 100% of your biggest wins, and stick to a consistent rule — for example, 80% stable / 20% SOL, adjustable to your risk management and portfolio size. You will never perfectly sell the top and buy the bottom. However, you can DCA within a 10–30% margin near ATHs. Ask yourself: is it really worth risking a significant amount of money for a 10–15% gain? While it’s important to have a portfolio goal in mind, it isn’t the end of the world if you don’t hit it exactly. Getting close to that goal and locking in profits by stabling is what matters. You will have plenty of opportunities in the future — especially in the bear — to make it. On the other hand, if you beat your goals by a significant margin, you might feel on top of the world. Everything’s going right… until there’s a major correction and you’re no longer at your portfolio ATH. It’s crucial not to get fixated on returning to that ATH immediately. That mindset can lead to forcing plays, chasing losses, or abandoning strategies you would normally stick to when thinking clearly. Know when to stop and book that vacation to Mykonos. When you see the tide pick up speed, the Melanias and Libras come out in full force. It’s important to recognize when we’re in “max extraction mode,” as these periods tend to drain on-chain liquidity. It’s equally important to know when you’re reaching your personal limit. Money isn’t everything in life — your health, mental fortitude, and relationships matter far more. Money is simply a tool to navigate life more easily and enrich those areas. Keep track of macro-moving events, the tide can shift very easily. You will be drowned in opportunities. Don’t beat yourself up on missing some of these, lock in and catch the majority. Finally, I wish everyone reading this the mental clarity to never lose sight of what drives you to be the best version of yourself — the reason you get up every day and trade for however many hours. Keep yourself grounded and your ego in check. Control your emotions and find your purpose, once you do that there’s nothing that can stop you. Remember, it only takes one cycle to retire your bloodline.

@WhiteWhaleLabs You’re a clown

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 🐋

@Surgexyz_ Early.

@Surgexyz_ We never even got Surge 1.0 🤔

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@Surgexyz_ @BNBCHAIN This is great and all but where’s the promised first curated launch?

We just hosted the biggest hackathon on @BNBCHAIN ever. This is just the start. AI Supercycle.

You say all of this yet have a group guiding new users to trade memecoins Memecoins brought attention and users to Sol and is why it dominated the narrative this cycle Otherwise Sol is doing what everyother chain already did and loses it's identity amongst newer chains that provide the same fast experience that Sol does now

I completely disagree. Hyper-gambling is certainly a core aspect of Solana and definitely helped in propelling it's growth. But it's not the 'thing' that propelled it. It was Solana itself, fast txn, cheap fees a truly scalable user experience. Gaming, DAO's, Onchain social were all bound to end up on a far more scalable chain because they were limited outputs on ETH. Art and NFT's I think is a more sound debate. Solana will continue to provide this experience, and after hyper-gambling on memes will become something else that utilizes the benefits of Solana's output. I love memes as well, I trade these things 24/7, but the reality is we have lost touch of what made memes memes and until people can come to terms with the idea we need a cultural shift they will trend to 0. That has nothing to do with Toly or Solana. There's a clear value mis-match between attention and product right now when there's coins that have worked for 3 years straight building something with a viable pmf getting flipped by a coin made 35 minutes ago with an x community daily. There's a lot more to this idea aswell, the casino rn is designed to shrink, fees on terminals, coins, etc etc. There's a big discussion that needs to be had around memes but people don't want to engage honestly. As such, I think rather than try to brute force the discussion, it's time we look back on alternatives and in doing so hopefully find a point of a reflection.

Actually the best marketing idea I've seen from Solana in a while. People need to stop looking at new rn and start looking at old in my opinion, so much fundamentally dope shit we've just abandoned to hyper-gamble.

@Surgexyz_ @On_Veera The next Unicorn is on Surge.

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@cryptogle @americadotfun 7 days? America dot fun tokens don’t even last 1hr Latest example being the token you just launched

bidding some of the best tokens I see the next 24h launching from @americadotfun then whichever token has highest mc after the first 7 days is gonna get some big support

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$110,000,000. That’s the scale of the Minnesota fraud uncovered in one day by @nickshirleyy He’s 23. 100% independent. 104 straight weeks of full YouTube investigations. He exposed the border crisis. He was the first American to film inside CECOT. He briefed Donald Trump at the White House on ANTIFA. He dismantled the narrative that protected Tim Walz. No network. No sponsors. No protection. No newsroom. No corporate backing. Two years of weekly long-form reporting without missing a single week. While legacy media looks away, this is what modern journalism looks like.

@MizerXBT 🐐

I took 17 trades this past 8 days: 15-2 W/L // (89% WR) PNL: $917k ALL trades shared live / beforehand on my X. Times I got told I was going to get liquidated /rekt / lose money this week while shorting: 812 Times I ended getting rekt: 0 🫡

@orangie @SpeculatorArt

@SpeculatorArt 40m is not higher than any memecoin trader ever realized

Top PNL is $40M+ which is higher than any memecoin trader ever realized. I do get why some people prefer memecoins. Prediction Markets = Poker Cash Table Memecoins = Large Poker Tournament PMs are a grind where you have to exploit your edge many times over. Memecoins are like the World Series of Poker, even a retard can dream of winning and becoming a millionaire.

@Soloxbt massive fumble

@ShockedJS Congrats bro!

The best weekend of my entire life, no words to describe the amount of joy, love and laughter that I was able to experience this weekend I hope all of you can experience something similar sometime

@agentzero Head up king, plenty of more opportunities in our lifetime

Was gonna go to sleep and then realized I prolly lost more money this week combined than my whole blood line combined has earned and now the depression has hit

Don’t give up if you lose it all Some of the most profitable traders ever have gone through this at least once The light becomes clearer at the end of the tunnel

@ShockedJS Just him

Just cracked $300k~ profit in about 12 hrs for these 🤝

@hackedbyadam Quant

Your brain prefers inaction because it feels safer. After a few losses you start trusting feelings over rules. So you skip the buy, not because the setup is bad, but because it feels safer than being wrong in public. And that skip is what slowly bleeds you. Let’s bring in the math: In memecoins a few big winners fund many small losses. In other words, let’s say you hit around 1 in 15 with 0.5% per trade. Skipping the next winner is brutally expensive, you’ll likely lose ~15 times again before your next win. 15R × 0.5% = 7.5%. That skip just cost you 7.5% of your portfolio. It’s cheaper to lose 0.5% trying to win than to lose 7.5% by avoiding failure. And that’s my point: you need to fail first in order to win. If I told you you’d win after losing 100 times, how fast would you want to lose? rules > feelings; Take the shot!

@Solshotta Goat has spoken

sol onchain isnt slower because of multi wallets or serial devs its because on-chain has matured and coins need to be really damn good to go high AND stick something as basic as 4 on bsc feels fresh as it has never properly been done before = easier for people to get euphoric traders and devs will be as sophisticated on bsc as they are on sol in 2-4 weeks max. riding the euphoric cz wave while waiting for the facemelter to show itself on sol mode 🔫

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The art of not doing anything is a skill that everyone needs to be comfortable with Forcing plays when the market is against you leads to speedrunning your port down Learn to do nothing