CryptoNik

Hey everyone, I took a few days off because I was thinking if I should stay in this space or not. I joined crypto in 2021 at the peak of the bull. That was the first time I lost money, and it was on $ADA. I bought at $2 and rode it all the way to 3$ and down to $1 and sold at a loss. I always knew investing is risky, but I had never invested before, so this was my first real lesson. @IOHK_Charles is an extremely smart person, but it’s not only that — the way he talks and explains things really makes you believe. I trusted that once Cardano gets smart contracts it would go parabolic. Oh boy… little did I know about smart contracts and crypto back then. It turned out that smart contracts on @Cardano @Cardano_CF are written in a special language, Plutus, and it’s extremely hard to develop with. Then I started exploring crypto in general, but learning crypto feels like falling off a cliff with no bottom, because every day thousands of projects pop up. Because I was “in love” with Cardano, I stumbled upon a startup project called Paribus and its native token $PBX. The first time I bought PBX was around $0.016 and I held around 700k tokens. The token was just released and the vision was great — to become a next-gen borrowing & lending protocol on Cardano. There is so much to say about Paribus, but the bottom line is: I believed and joined that community. I became an official ambassador and represented them on my X channel. The core team — Deniz (CEO), Wilson (COO), and Simon (CTO) — are great guys, smart and friendly. They decided that with their initial funds (around $1M), they couldn’t continue building on Cardano because dev costs were too high. So they made the decision to build on Ethereum, where devs were much cheaper, and later move to Cardano once the virtual machine was ready via @Milkomeda_com . We all know how Milkomeda ended :( They created Paribus V1 (MVP) on Ethereum L2 — @arbitrum — because gas fees on Ethereum in 2021/22/23 were enormous. That was the first step, then governance, then expanding the protocol further. Arbitrum NEVER supported Paribus. Sad but true, even though it was FIRST B&L protocol on Arbitrum to support LPs as collateral.. The thing is, they coded, they released, and they kept fighting — but the narrative was wrong. People were chasing meme coins and easy money. In and out. No one cared about projects with real value. $TRUMP went from $85 to $1. $HAWK rugged. $MELANIA rugged. Even President Javier rugged with his coin $LIBRA. The space became a complete shitshow — and the Paribus team continued building. $MELD disappeared even though they started the same time as Paribus. Ardana ( $ARDANA ) raised around $10M on Cardano and disappeared as well. Teams ran out of funds and quit. Paribus survived. Yes, I believed in Paribus — and only because they delivered: 6 audits, NFTs as collateral, LPs as collateral, live on 3 chains, many partnerships, and more. But it wasn’t recognized because the narrative shifted to memes and easy money. Some people started blaming me for their decision to invest in PBX. I want to say this clearly: I never told anyone to invest based on what I say. I always said invest only what you are prepared to lose. Startup investing is extremely risky. Yes, we all lost on PBX — that’s the truth. If I could go back in time, I would only invest in $BTC and nothing else. Everything else is gambling. The only real “investment” in crypto is Bitcoin. There are many great projects with amazing visions, but whether they succeed or not — only time will tell. After 6 years of supporting Paribus and building a community around it, I’m asking myself: what now? I lost money. I gained around 1.5k followers and I’m thankful. I built a studio. But should I continue… or just quit this space completely? I don't know.. Need to process all and see where my head is. I will advise everyone - DO NOT invest based on crypto influencers or what they say. 99% of them are scammers. Protect your capital. Stay safe. All I know is that I’m sorry we never saw PBX go where it deserved — among the top 100 cryptocurrencies. According to the team, Paribus will be here in this crypto space indefinitely as a project. They will continue running the code on all 3 chains, but the volume and future of $PBX is up to the community. Once again, thank you for supporting me over the years, and I’m sorry if you ever made any investment based on my posts — I truly am. I always said that I’m not a financial advisor and that you should do your own research. 🤝

@HyperliquidX just flipped @Cardano_CF. $HYPE is now sitting at #10 with a $9.54B market cap, while $ADA is at #11 with $9.44B. And while that flip is already huge, $HYPE is also up 21% in the last 7 days. That’s not just price action. That’s momentum, attention, and capital rotating hard. $HYPE is becoming impossible to ignore. 👀 @CoinMarketCap

@lishui2329271 Nop, I honestly don't know about IF?

@BuildWithNik lf？

I’m about to make a video about a bridge solution that not many people are talking about. It’s super safe, insanely fast, and incredibly reliable. Can you guess which one it is? Hint: it’s green.

@KamH888 @Gate @kucoincom Well, that’s odd :) I run into that issue every single time. Not sure why, but it’s definitely strange.

@BuildWithNik @Gate @kucoincom I usually send from Coinbase to Kucoin and then to Metamask.

@Gate is way ahead of @kucoincom in one key area: withdrawal freedom after deposit. I transferred assets from Kraken to Gate, received them, and within seconds I was able to send them straight out to MetaMask. No unnecessary lock, no waiting. On KuCoin, it’s different. After I transfer assets there, I can use them on the platform, but I can’t withdraw them immediately. That delay is a big disadvantage. For me, that alone puts Gate ahead — and once you add the broader feature set, the gap gets even bigger.

@KamH888 @Gate @kucoincom Have you ever tried sending assets from a software wallet to KuCoin, then moving those same assets right away to another software wallet, hardware wallet, or even another CEX? Every time I do it with recently deposited assets, I get hit with a lock period.

@BuildWithNik @Gate @kucoincom I don't get any delay on Kucoin, I can transfer out immediately.

🚨 Aave Oracle Glitch Triggers $26M in Wrongful Liquidations A pricing oracle error on Aave caused ~$26M in wstETH positions across 34 accounts to be wrongly liquidated after the system reported an incorrect exchange rate. • ~10,938 wstETH affected • Liquidators captured ~499 ETH in bonuses • Affected users are expected to be fully compensated Meanwhile the market reaction is interesting 👀 📉 AAVE: -2% 📈 COMP (Compound): +10% Just coincidence… or capital rotating between DeFi lending protocols?

When $DOG was only on @Gate, it reached almost a $1B market cap. Then other CEXs came to collect their piece of the cake… Now $DOG sits around $80M. Just sayin’.

@patrick57455120 I can still respond to their posts—can’t you? 🤔

@BuildWithNik Yea I know it my own choice but that doesn’t mean a team can say everything is fine and 2 weeks later they shut it down. We remain the project alive but we are dead. Lumia shut down their telegram and discord last weekend and you can’t answer under x posts anymore. Big red flags

Do you think it’s possible for BTC to drop to $37–38K, or is that extremely unlikely at this point? 🤔📉

They are draining Lumia? Do you have any on-chain proof of that? I’d genuinely like to see it. If you’re right, I’ll gladly share that information as well. But when the entire market is going down, Lumia — like any other token — will go down with the market. And we also know how market makers operate. They sell into the market and push the price down. We saw the same thing with PBX and with many other tokens. Thanks for your kind words, brother. But like I said in my video, this is on us as well. If someone had put $20k into Bitcoin at $16k and simply held it until $125k, that’s about a 7.8x return — roughly $150k. But most of us weren’t looking for 7x. We were chasing 100x. So in the end, there’s no one else to blame but ourselves, brother.

@BuildWithNik I have a different approach. I like you and you know that. But when team says in January 2026 is going to rock and 2 a 3weeks later they pull the plug you are a retard. Now in the mean time they are draining lumia and it will have the same outcome as Paribus.

Deniz didn’t fool anyone. Mate, he’s an extremely intelligent, smart, and kind person. He’s the one who actually created the code, that runs both the Paribus platform and the Lumia blockchain. The main reason we didn’t see strong price action is because the market was driven by hype around unnecessary tokens (mostly memes) and influencers who ended up scamming their own communities. There were also some bad marketing decisions along the way. But Deniz, Simon, and Wilos didn’t fool anyone. The reality is simple: the project just failed. That’s all. Yes, things could have been done very differently. But the team made decisions based on what they believed would lead to the best possible outcome, and in the end, that strategy turned out to be wrong. Like I said in my video, it’s also on us. We chose to blindly invest in a startup project, putting in $10k or $20k hoping it would go 100x so we could be set for life. That responsibility isn’t theirs — it’s ours.

@BuildWithNik Well said brother. But in the end deniz fooled us all and that’s the true case. They will drain lumia too.

@Thecrow1983Cr We are in a bear market brother, one thing I believe in is that we are going lower. Btc, according to my opinion which is not a financial advice 🤣 will go to 50s .. I don’t know when but I think we will see 55-58k btc in coming weeks ..

@BuildWithNik Is there still hope for Cardano blockchain? Which projects are currently trending upwards? Did you see this post? Best regards x.com/LucidCiC/statu…

@Thecrow1983Cr Aren’t they already? Sad to see where PBX is at this moment but as I said in this vid. it’s our own decisions mate. 🤝

@BuildWithNik Hi Nic, will my coins become worthless?

@CrashingUpwardz @saylordocs @IOHK_Charles 🤣🤣

@BuildWithNik @saylordocs @IOHK_Charles Looks like $PBX…

Like, if you know who this person is.

@adam111s It’s not a scam mate, you have to DYOR on what scam is. Stay tuned for a video coming out today/tomorrow and you’ll understand. I’ve been “out” and now I’m “in” again 😅

@BuildWithNik I would say coordinated scam by the scammers . All communication cut by the team, no progress. People bashing in telegram and binance square.

@adam111s Better to say “fail project” 😅

@BuildWithNik scam token

$ARB is so .. so … SO undervalued… All in ARBITRUM🫶 ARBITRUM EVERYWHERE 👀

@loshmi Losmi - Miloš?🤔

also forgot to add an insider traded that Axiom would be exposed and made over $400K any detectives out there wanting to expose this further and see where the money went? maybe it's actually Broox that traded this knowing he was done for? kind of curious lol