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wrapped 2025 🚀 • joined @xodotmarket • earned my first dollars. • shipped real things. • built my dream setup. • made quiet progress where it mattered. • learned to invest (slowly). • started trading. Grateful. Focused. Building

This week is gonna be special 🔥

To every Web3 builder grinding right now This is for you. You're learning Solidity at midnight while your friends are watching Netflix. You're submitting hackathon projects that don't place anywhere. You're applying to grants that take weeks to respond. Sometimes they don't respond at all. You're building in public with 200 followers while others with half your skill seem to be getting all the opportunities. And some days you genuinely wonder is this even worth it? I want to tell you something nobody says out loud in this industry: The people you admire in Web3 right now the ones with the protocol job, the grants, the ecosystem roles... Most of them had 12–18 months where nothing was happening. No replies. No opportunities. No traction. They just kept showing up anyway. Here's what I've learned watching builders succeed and fail in this space: The ones who made it didn't have better skills than the ones who didn't. They just refused to disappear during the quiet months. Web3 is still early. Embarrassingly early. The infrastructure being built right now will be used by billions of people who haven't heard of blockchain yet. The developer who grinds through 2026 when the market is uncertain. That developer becomes the senior engineer, the protocol lead, the ecosystem architect that every team is desperate to hire in 2028. But only if they don't quit now. So if you're in the quiet months right now. Keep building. Keep shipping. Keep showing up. The compounding hasn't shown up yet. But it will. And when it does it will feel like it happened overnight. It never happens overnight. It happens because of exactly what you're doing right now. Don't stop. ♻️ Repost this for a builder who needs to hear it today.

WORLD CHAMPIONS! 🇮🇳🏆 Team India delivers when it matters the most. #T20WorldCup

@HrushiBytes you're smart

i did not book profit 🤡 | i lost my funds 🤡 | i generated capital loss 🤓🤑

@saakshitwt @watermelonshHQ @vanshdevx congratulations🎉

here's my career update 🚀 i'll be joining @watermelonshHQ, helping the team with growth. what you can expect more on my feed: - more content around building better ui/ux & experimenting - a lot more energy and consistency big thanks to @vanshdevx for the opportunity!

@blockchainbalak i would love too have a mac-mini as well 😁

@whatever_ankit aurr kya bhejna tha?

giving away my keychron k2 i don’t type now, i only wispr

@ninja_writer21 legit 🤝

Me and my HP Pavilion against the world. :)

@HrushiBytes we believe in Cz

@whatever_ankit binance is impossible.

zach broke the pattern for the first time in history. like he genuinely never announces it before ripping anyone off. so him saying something early indicates this is gonna be something big and devasting. my guesses: - tron - polymarket - memecoin launchpad whatever its gonna be, for sure its gonna be cinema.

@0xEvgeniy @xodotmarket polymarket maybe !

onchain trivia is live. who’s in zachxbt’s investigation? market’s up on @xodotmarket , link in the first comment.

locked in !

@panditdhamdhere accepted !

It's 99.9 % officially the end of jr devs in web 3. Fact and it needs acceptance.

@_kothariji @steipete if you say soo 🤜🤛

@whatever_ankit @steipete trust me, even this is cool 🚀

The craziest thing I saw today. 😮 @steipete you goat 🙇🐐

@panditdhamdhere @github yeah its down !😅

okey @github down!

it was a crazzzy day 💀

When I joined my first company, I remember feeling excited and scared at the same time. First few weeks were fine. New place, new people, everything felt fresh. Then slowly, reality hit. Meetings started going over my head. People spoke confidently about things I had barely heard of. I would sit there thinking, how do they know all this and I don’t? I didn’t ask many questions. I was scared of sounding stupid. So I did what most of us do. I nodded in meetings and tried to figure things out later on my own. There were days I went back home feeling heavy. Not because work was hard, but because I kept doubting myself. I genuinely felt like I didn’t belong there. Like I had somehow slipped through the cracks and one day someone would notice. But something changed with time. I kept showing up. I kept learning quietly. I started understanding things, one by one. That fear didn’t disappear in a day. It slowly faded as confidence started coming from real work, not from pretending. The same meetings that scared me once started making sense. I wasn’t the smartest in the room, but I wasn’t lost anymore. Looking back, that phase taught me a lot. Feeling like an imposter doesn’t mean you’re weak. It usually means you’re new and growing. Confidence comes later. Much later. If you’re in that initial phase right now, feeling lost and questioning yourself, just know this: almost everyone starts there. Stay. Learn. Let time do its job.