Marky mark

Crypto lover | 5+ years in #Web3 #DeFi

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

#Web3 domains are heating up, especially with @ensdomains and @unstoppableweb paving the way!

But another player is making their way up the ranks, and they go by @decentra_web.

Let me explain why I'm so bullish on them, and why you should check them out if you haven't already.

[DevvE @DevveEcosystem]

Tokenizing Billions Means Nothing Without Completing Trillions 🤔

When assets go onchain, settlement becomes the real problem.

Because the market they’re entering still sits on infrastructure with multi-day exposure windows.

DevvE Network eliminates those windows entirely.

Real-time finality, regulator-grade audit trails, and liquidity that isn’t trapped in T+1 pipelines.

[DevvXBoy @I_am_Clau]

📣 I’m not gonna whisper it anymore.
I’m screaming it:

The only tech stack that matters in 2025-2026 is **DevvE + DevvX**.
Everything else is either too slow, too expensive, or straight-up theater.

Here’s why I’m 100% convinced (and why the timeline is starting to agree with me):

1. 8,000,000+ TPS on-chain with sub-second finality
Not a roadmap promise. Not a testnet. Live, public mainnet numbers.
Fees? 1/10,000,000th of Ethereum. Yes, seven zeros.
Your grandma can send money cheaper than sending a WhatsApp voice note. 👵

2. You code like it’s 2021 Ethereum… but it actually works
Solidity, Rust, Vyper → deploy in minutes via DevvX.
No fork, no bridge, no rewrite.
20 million existing Web2/Web3 devs can start building TODAY without learning a new VM. 😮

3. Real institutionals ad users, not just degens
Hundreds of thousands of daily active wallets doing gaming, payments, social tokens, carbon credits. This that world I Imagine soon 🌎

4. The only chain that banks are actually allowed to touch
MiCA-ready, ISO 20022 compliant, reversible transactions, patented theft/fraud protection.
Banque Delubac & Cie just went live. More Tier-1 banks in the pipeline quietly testing. 🏦
When was the last time you saw a regulated French bank pick Solana? Exactly.

5. Energy consumption = 1/3,000,000,000th of Bitcoin
Greener than your morning oat-milk latte and still more decentralized than 99% of the “green” L1s out there. 💲

6. The flywheel is already spinning at Mach 5
DevvX Launchpad dropping new @DevvExchange cooking non-custodial institutional liquidity

Everything else in this space right now is either:
- still charging $40 gas fees in 2025 (Ethereum)
- praying the chain doesn’t fall over again (Solana & friends)
- or promising “next year” for the 4th year in a row

DevvE + DevvX is shipping, scaling, onboarding institutions, and still costing pennies.

This is the infrastructure that brings the next billion users on-chain.
Not in 2030. Right now.

If you’re still sleeping on this in December 2025… I don’t know what to tell you.

The train has left the station, and it’s moving at eight million transactions per second. 🚂

All aboard or get left in the dust.

$DEVVE

2025 belongs to them. Full stop. 🚀

#DevvX #RWA #Defi #DevvExchange

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

In Defense of Exponentials

I used to tell founders, the reaction you are going to get to your launch is not hate, it’s indifference. By default, nobody cares about your new chain.

I have to stop telling them that now. Monad just launched this week, and I’ve never seen so much hate about a blockchain that just launched. I’ve been investing into crypto professionally for 7+ years now. Before 2023, almost every chain I’ve ever seen that launched was mostly met with enthusiasm or indifference.

But now, new chains are born into a chorus of hate. The amount of haters I’ve seen for projects like Monad, Tempo, MegaETH—before they even hit mainnet—is a genuinely new phenomenon.

I’ve been trying to diagnose: why is this happening now, and what does it mean about the psychology of this market?

The Cure is Worse than the Disease

Forewarning: this is going to be the vaguest blockchain valuation post you ever read. I don’t have any fancy metrics or charts to sell you on. Instead, I’ll be arguing against the zeitgeist of Crypto Twitter, which for the last couple of years, I’ve been constantly on the opposite side of.

In 2024, I felt like what I was arguing against was financial nihilism. Financial nihilism is the belief that none of these assets matter, it’s all memes at the end of the day, and everything we’ve built is inherently worthless.

Thankfully, that’s no longer the vibe. We have broken out of that spell.

But the zeitgeist now is what I’d call financial cynicism: OK, maybe some of this stuff has value, maybe it’s not all memes, but it’s grossly overvalued and it’s only a matter of time before Wall Street finds that out. Not that all chains are worthless. But these things are all maybe worth 1/5th-1/10th of what they’re currently trading at (have you seen these PE ratios?), and so you’d better pray like hell Wall Street doesn’t call us on our bluff, because once they do it’s all getting wiped out.

You’ve got many bullish analysts now trying to conjure up optimistic L1 valuation models, inflating PE ratios, gross margins, DCFs, trying to fight against this mood.

Late last year, Solana very proudly embraced REV as a metric that could finally justify their valuation. They proudly announced: we—and only we—are no longer bluffing to Wall Street!

And, of course, almost immediately after REV was embraced, it fell off a cliff (though $SOL, tellingly, did better than REV did).
Not that there’s anything wrong with REV. REV is a very clever metric. But the point of this post is not metric selection.

Then came the launch of Hyperliquid. A DEX that had real revenue and buybacks and PE multiples. And the chorus said—look, look I told you! Finally, for the first time ever, a token that has some real profits and a proper PE multiple. (Nevermind BNB, we don’t talk about that.) Hyperliquid will eat everything because obviously Ethereum and Solana don’t make any real money, we can stop pretending to value them now.

Hyperliquid, Pump, Sky, these buyback-heavy tokens are all great. But the market always had the ability to invest into exchanges. You could always buy Coinbase, or BNB, or whatever. We own $HYPE, and I agree that it’s a fantastic product.

But that’s not why people were investing in ETH and SOL. The fact that L1s don't have exchange-like profit margins is not why people were buying them—if they wanted that, they could’ve bought Coinbase stock.

So if I’m not critiquing blockchain financial metrics, maybe you think this post is going to be chiding the sinfulness of the token-industrial complex.

Obviously, everyone has lost money on tokens in the last year, VCs included. Alts are down bad this year. And so the other half of the zeitgeist on CT is arguing about who's to blame. Who’s become greedy? Are the VCs greedy? Is Wintermute greedy? Is Binance greedy? Are the farmers greedy? Are the founders greedy?

The answer, of course, is the same as it’s ever been.

Everyone is greedy. Everyone. The VCs, Wintermute, the farmers, Binance, the KOLs, they're all greedy, and you are greedy too. But it doesn't matter. Because no functioning market has ever required anyone to act against their self-interest. If we're right about crypto, we can all be greedy and the investments will still work out. Trying to analyze a market that has gone down by figuring out “who’s greedy” is going to be about as fruitful as commissioning witch trials. I guarantee you, nobody just started being greedy in 2025.

So this, too, is not what I’m going to be writing about.

Many people want me to write a post about why $MON should be valued at X or $MEGA at Y. I’m not interested in writing this post, or advocating that you buy anything in particular. In fact, you probably shouldn’t buy any of them if you don’t already believe in them.

Will any new challenger chain win? Who knows. But if it has a material chance of winning, it's going to be priced on that basis. If Ethereum is worth $300B or Solana is worth $80B, a project that has a 1-5% chance of becoming the next Ethereum or Solana will be priced according to those probabilities.

Somehow CT is scandalized by this, but it’s no different than Biotech. A drug that has less than a 10% chance of curing Alzheimer's is priced by the market as worth billions of dollars, even if 90% chance it won’t pass stage 3 trials and will go to 0. That's how the math works—and turns out, markets are pretty good at doing math. Binary outcomes are priced on probabilities, not on run rates or moral turpitude. It’s the “shut up and calculate” school of valuation.

I really don’t think that’s an interesting question to write about. “5% chance to win? No way, that’s clearly a 10% chance!” Markets, not articles, are the best way to assess that for any individual token.

So here’s what I am going to write about: CT doesn't seem to believe anymore that chains are valuable.

I don’t think this is because they don’t believe new chains can win market share. We just saw Solana dominate market share after emerging from the ashes less than 2 years ago. It’s not easy, but of course it’s possible.

It’s more that people have come to believe that even if a new chain wins, there’s no prize worth winning. If $ETH is just a meme, if it’ll never generate real revenue, then even if you win, you won’t be worth $300B. The contest is not worth winning, because these valuations are all bunk and it’ll all come crashing down before you go to claim your prize.

Being optimistic about chain valuations has become passé. Not that nobody is optimistic—obviously there must be optimists out there. For every seller there’s a buyer, and as much as CT cool kids love to drag L1s, people are comfortable buying SOL at $140, ETH at $3000.

But there’s a perception now that all the smartest people are over buying smart contract chains. Smart people know the jig is up. If not now, then soon. The only people buying here are suckers—Uber drivers, Tom Lee, and KOLs who say stuff like “trillions.” And maybe the US Treasury. But not the smart money.

This is bullshit. I don’t believe it, and you shouldn’t either.

So I felt like I had to write a smart person’s manifesto on why general purpose chains are valuable. This post is not about Monad or MegaETH. It’s really in defense of ETH and SOL. Because if you believe ETH and SOL are valuable, the rest is straight downstream.

Defending ETH and SOL valuations is generally not my job as a VC, but fuck it, if nobody else is willing to do it, then I’ll write it.

Feeling the Exponential

My partner Bo experienced the Chinese Internet boom first-hand as a VC. I’ve heard how “crypto is like the Internet” so many times now that it doesn’t even register for me anymore. But when I hear his stories, it always reminds me how costly it is to be wrong about these things.

A story he often tells is about when all the early e-commerce VCs (it was a small group back then) got together for coffee in the early 2000s. They debated: how big is the market for e-commerce going to be?

Is it going to be mostly electronics (maybe only techies will use PCs)? Could it ever work for women (perhaps they’re too tactile)? What about food (maybe impossible to manage perishables)? These were deeply important questions for early VCs to decide what to invest in and what prices to pay.

The answer, of course, was that literally every single one of them was devastatingly wrong. E-commerce would sell everything, and the target audience was the whole fucking world. But nobody at the time actually believed it. And even if they did, it would be too absurd to say out loud.

You just had to wait long enough for the exponential to show you. Even among the believers, very few thought e-commerce would become as big as it became. And those few who did, almost all of them became billionaires from just not selling. Every other VC—as Bo tells me, since he was one of them—sold too early.

It has become passé in crypto to believe in the exponential.

I believe in the crypto exponential. Because I’ve lived it.

When I started in crypto, nobody used this stuff. It was tiny and broken and awful. TVL on-chain was in the millions. We invested into the first generation of DeFi, MakerDAO, Compound, 1inch, back when they were science projects. I remember playing around on EtherDelta back when DEXes traded single digit millions a day, and that was considered to be a huge success. It was complete dogshit. Now we routinely trade in the tens of billions on-chain every day. I remember believing it was crazy that Tether hit a billion dollars in issuance and was being written up in the NYT as a ponzi scheme on the brink of shutdown. Now stablecoins are over $300B and regulated by the Federal Reserve.

I believe in the exponential because I’ve lived it. I’ve seen it over and over again.

But you might respond—well, stablecoin growth might be exponential, maybe DeFi volumes are exponential, but they don’t accrue to ETH or SOL. The value doesn’t get captured by the chains.

To which I answer: you still don’t believe in the exponential.

Because the exponential’s answer is always the same: it doesn’t matter. This stuff is going to be so much bigger than it is today. And when it’s absolutely enormous, you’ll make it up on scale.

Study this chart.
This is Amazon’s P&L from 1995 to 2019. That’s 24 years. Red is revenue, gray is profit. You see that little blip on the end where the gray line goes up? That’s when, 22 years in, Amazon started actually making a profit.

Amazon was 22 years old when this little gray line of net income first peeled off of 0. Every single year before then, there were op eds and critics and short sellers claiming that Amazon was a ponzi scheme that would never make any money.

Ethereum just turned 10 years old. This is what the first 10 years of Amazon stock looked like:
10 years of chop. All along the way, Amazon was beset with doubters and non-believers. Is e-commerce a VC-subsidized charity? They’re selling underpriced cheap low-quality knick-knacks to bargain hunters, who cares? How are they ever going to make actual money, like Walmart or GE?

If you were arguing about Amazon’s P/E ratio, you were in the wrong regime. That’s the regime of linear growth. But e-commerce was not a linear trend, and so every single person for 22 years arguing about P/E ratios was devastatingly wrong. No matter what you paid, no matter when you bought, you were not bullish enough.

Because that’s what exponentials do. When it comes to truly exponential technologies, no matter how big you think it’s going to get, it just keeps getting even bigger.

This is the thing that Silicon Valley has always understood better than Wall Street. Silicon Valley was raised on exponentials, while Wall Street was raised on linearity. And over the last few years, crypto’s center of gravity has migrated from Silicon Valley to Wall Street. You can feel it.

Granted, crypto growth doesn’t look as smooth as e-commerce’s growth. It’s burstier, it goes in fits and starts. This is because crypto, being about money, is deeply tied to macro forces, and it also has more violent regulatory push and pull than e-commerce. Crypto strikes at the heart of the state—money—and so it’s more unnerving to governments than e-commerce ever was.

But the exponential is no less inevitable. It's a crude argument. But if crypto is exponential, then the crude argument is correct.
Zoom out.

Financial assets want to be free. They want to be open. They want to be interconnected. Crypto turns financial assets into file formats, makes it as easy to send a dollar or a stock as to send a PDF. Crypto makes it possible for everything to talk to everything. It makes it all 24/7, global, interconnected, and open.

That will win. Open always wins.

If there’s no other lesson I've learned from the Internet, it’s that. Incumbents will fight against it, governments will huff and puff, but eventually they will give up against the adoption, the generativeness, the sheer efficiency that this technology enables. It’s what the Internet did to every other industry. Blockchains are how that same trend will gobble up all of finance and money.

Yes—with enough time—all of it.

An old saying goes: people overestimate what can happen in two years, but they underestimate what can happen in ten.

If you believe in the exponential, if you zoom out enough, then it’s all still cheap. And it should humble you that every day, the holders outlast the sellers and naysayers. Big capital has a longer time horizon than CT swing traders might lead you to believe. Big capital has been trained through history not to fade big technologies. You know, the big gushy story that originally got you to buy $ETH or $SOL? Big capital believes that story and hasn't stopped.

So what exactly am I arguing?

I am arguing that applying P/E ratios to smart contract chains (the “revenue meta,” as it’s now called), is giving up on the exponential. It means you have consigned this industry to the regime of linear growth. It means you believe 30 million DAUs on-chain and <1% of M2 is it. Crypto is just one of the things in the world. A sideshow. It did not win. It was not inevitable.

More than anything, I’m arguing to be a believer. Not just a believer, but a long-term believer.

I’m arguing that this exponential will be bigger than anything else you’ve been a part of in your life. That this is your e-commerce. That you will look back when you’re old and tell your kids—I was there when it all happened. Not everyone believed it was possible, that whole societies could change, that all of money and finance would be transformed by programs running on decentralized computers that we collectively owned.

But it actually happened. It changed the world.

And you were a part of it.

Disclosure: These are my own views. Dragonfly is an investor in $MON, $MEGA, $ETH, $SOL, $HYPE, $SKY among many other tokens. Dragonfly believes in the exponential. This is not investment advice, but is advice of another kind.

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley Yessir all the time

[🕊🇺🇬🇰🇪 @DoveInTheValley]

Master of None out now!!! The most beautiful song ever. Literally. Enjoy it!!!! Happy Holidays!!!!!!

https://t.co/bDYZ4XaRO2

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley DUDE thank you, you have blessed my ears for the rest of the year. This style is so dope with your voice main keep on kicking ass I can’t wait till you make it big!

[Thiesku 🥷🏽 @thiesku]

This is such a beautiful development in many ways:

- Nasdaq is building something big
- It’s secret
- Competitors are afraid

Nasdaq put out a policy brief that basically classified ALL current tokenized securities offered in the market as insufficient, basically telling regulators their competition is not doing what they should do.

The next paradigm in RWA and the TradFi-crypto axis will be known soon.

[DevvE @DevveEcosystem]

The wait is over. New DevvE websites are now live! 🎉

This isn’t just a website refresh. It's a portal to the DevvE ecosystem, a foundation for the DevvE Network, and a onboarding funnel for the DevvExchange.

New pages dropping over the coming weeks. 👀

Check it out 👇

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley Just woke up and instantly put it on, got me dancing out the bed early AM

[🕊🇺🇬🇰🇪 @DoveInTheValley]

I never put out one song at a time. I feel strange fr. Full project out a little after this drop 🤞🏾

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@Gelo_Mendo @DannyJQuiroz @AlexHormozi I think this is his idea, and will continue to invest into the AI to proceed himself for after he passes away. Knowing how he talks about death and his views on it, I think an AI version of himself is a way he can still be remembered for the legacy he built. Just some thoughts 😂

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@bruno_nwogu Exactly my thoughts too, the AI will only get better as they train it with more data overtime. We get early access to it now before he most likely plans to sell this as a service to others in the future.

[🕊🇺🇬🇰🇪 @DoveInTheValley]

WOW. EXCITED FOR U &amp; JOURNEY &amp; IF U EVER DECIDE RO SHARE, I’LL LISTEN WITH A SMILE

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley Hold up I’m getting HYYPED you and mk.gee inspired me to learn guitar and get into music recently LFG

[🕊🇺🇬🇰🇪 @DoveInTheValley]

I woooooondeeeeeer

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley you are by far the best underground artist I’ve found in years. Keep blessing us with music 🙏

Was always wondering how you would sound with some mk.gee style instrumentals/guitar riffs 😂

[Marky mark @ForschnerMark]

@DoveInTheValley Let’s goooooo

[Chain Games 🎮 @RealChainGames]

🔥 Chain Games 2.0 Supernet has officially launched!

And it’s a game-changer for Web3 gaming.

We’ve rolled out full Validator and Delegator capabilities on our own high-performance, gas-optimized Supernet — purpose-built blockchain for skill-based gaming at scale.

🪙 The Supernet uses $CHAIN tokens as its native gas token — every transaction, match, and reward flows through $CHAIN, giving it real utility and constant demand.

🎮 Why does this matter?

Because now you can earn a share of every match entry fee across our ecosystem — from casual hits like 21 Wild to high-intensity games like Chain Reaction.

💰 Stake your $CHAIN, secure the network, and earn real rewards.

Whether you’re running a Validator Node or simply delegating to one, you’re helping power the future of decentralized gaming — and getting paid to do it.

⚙️ Supernet Benefits:

• Uses $CHAIN as native gas token ⛽️
• EIP-1559 token burns 🔥
• Near-instant finality ⏱️
• Ultra-low fees 💸
• Built for games, not just finance 🎯
• Rewards backed by actual gameplay 🧠🎮

ℹ️ In order to run a Validator Node or Delegate, you must have your $CHAIN tokens on Polygon.

🌉 Got $CHAIN on Ethereum? Bridge to Polygon here:

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🎮 Want to bridge your tokens to Supernet to play games?

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Web3 gaming isn't coming — it's here.

And now, you can own a piece of it. 🛠️🏆

[Kimia Nora @kimianora]

The man who found the cure to cancer:

Dr. Joe Dispenza.

After 39 years of research, 1000's of his students have healed from stage 4 cancer, broken spines and genetic diseases.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Here's how a scientific revolution is changing medicine forever (backed by scientific evidence): 🧵

[Chain Games 🎮 @RealChainGames]

You don’t just die in Chain Reaction — you drop tokens. 💀💸

You don’t just win — you steal the pot. 🎯🔥

Welcome to Kill to Earn, where every fight is a payday… or a disaster. ⚔️💰💥

Multiplayer is coming. ⏳🧠

Get rich or get rekt. 🚀💀

#KillToEarn