I stand by the fact that the trenches need a balance between viral runners & cult coins
The amount of attention that punch will bring is a net positive in my opinion
How often do we reference the glory days of pump? quite often
which tokens do they typically reference? the ones that took social media by storm (moodeng, pnut, chillguy)
Yin and yang
Cult coins will always have higher ceilings and a longer shelf life, but you need something to grab the attention of crypto casuals
I’ve said it many times before, that was exactly how i was onboarded to the trenches, i’m sure many others can say the same.
I don’t see the point of fudding the viral runners when they can coexist with crypto native/cult memes. If anything, the liquidity might flow to them afterwards.
Say what you want about people getting smoked on viral runners, the reality is every single coin has winners & losers
X just revamped their API to finally be useful
So I made a skill that searches X, modeled exactly like the native Claude Code research agent
I've been asking like "find best clawdbot skills last 24hrs" or "what are people saying about [ticker] today?"
https://t.co/RHtYxF7pZH
i’m in a small group chat with a few guys who are absolutely printing. one friend made $30,000 this month trading memecoins, another is up over $120,000.
they aren’t smarter than each other
they just played the game very differently
friend #1 trades pure volume
he flips 200+ coins a day
in and out constantly
he’s disciplined, consistent, and overall profitable
friend #2 trades WAY less
but he understands narratives extremely well (always investigates the X of a coin before aping)
he knows when something has real legs
he bought penguin at 2m
copper inu at 3m
clawdbot at 500K
he sizes into plays with size usually 3K which is how much he pays for one month of rent, and the most he’s willing to risk. He holds onto his positions instead of selling after 30 seconds. He trims on the way up, he’s built up the ultimate mindset when it comes to enduring huge drawdowns in price.
same market
same opportunities
completely different outcomes
the difference between them isn’t intelligence or effort it’s focus and patience.
most people try to trade everything
which quietly increases the odds of mistakes, bad entries, and fatigue
the biggest money usually comes from
finding a few strong winners, getting a good entry and letting time and structure do the work
stick to fewer bets
size correctly
take profits as they go higher
lesson in that.
In 2025, Hyperliquid became one of the leading venues for spot crypto trading through Unit.
Some highlights for this past year:
+ $56B total spot volume
+ $3.16B peak 24h volume
+ $1.48B peak TVL
+ 11 spot markets deployed
+ Day 1 launches: Pump, Plasma, Monad
I am not sure "farming" INK is the way to go, but I do think not enough attention is being paid to it (could be twitter algo though).
Idk if we need one more DeFi L2, but there are way worse chains to be spending your time on in 2026 out there.
Happy national tax loss harvest day to those who celebrate! Some of my favorite (or least?) harvests of the year:
A Cryptopunk I got for $120,000
A Hypurr NFT I got for $70,000
A bunch of Pudgy Penguins
Pump I got for .04c
All crypto angel investments
Pondering why I'm suddenly seeing a lot more Extended shills and not Paradex ones.
Putting aside the fact that perp dex meta might be cooked, I'd expect it to be the other way around.
Is the ex-Revolut narrative that good, or is the Extended's KOL program just better?