If your identity is tied to one industry, your career has an expiry date.
@QingTheCreator_ explains why
Follow the links below to watch the full episode on X, YouTube and Spotify
This Tuesday, I'm releasing a 40-minute DROPS with @valdimitrv - Co-founder and COO at @RealFinOfficial.
Valentin spent years advising the Econ Committee at the European Parliament, moved into investment banking at VTB Capital, then ran a fund of funds deploying over 600 million euros of EU capital to small businesses across the continent - and then decided to build a blockchain.
We talk about:
- Why institutions need to come before retail - not the other way around
- How they convinced OKX to list them by showing up with signed contracts instead of a pitch deck
- Why they launched at a $40M FDV when their raise valued the company at $200M
- What a "business validator" is and why it changes who actually secures the network
- The sovereign fund with $60 billion AUM that's weeks away from signing
- Why they're planning to go public on an EU stock exchange alongside their token
- How $500M in tokenized assets in 12 months becomes a realistic target, not a marketing number
And much more...
DROPS out this Tuesday!
We got suspended. 🫠
X didn't like how loud we were getting about our edge.
But we're back now and we built something entirely different while we were gone from X. 💪
ZONE NEWS / ELITE PINGS
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who remembers @DSCVR1 from way back? 😅
i was scrolling through old screenshots and found this one from October 2022.
back then, a few of us had a WhatsApp group where we'd share our daily DSCVR posts, support each other, and just spend time exploring what decentralized social could become.
DSCVR was one of those early Web3 social experiments many of us used, and seeing that screenshot brought back memories of a very different phase of this industry.
good, simple old days... 😂
anyway, their airdrop eligibility is now live, and if you were active back then, it might be worth checking yours. Registration closes June 18.
link: https://t.co/KHg2QWQiz1
hopefully, being early pays off. 😇
I haven't seen the timeline be this bleak during my Web3 career.
So many people are capitulating.
Even Saylor broke his only principle not to sell any BTC.
I’m also seeing Bitcoin maxis start to worry about the quantum computing risk to crypto.
Let's be real here.
We're probably not getting another altseason or a new NFT summer.
That chapter is over.
We are, however, entering something called the "efficiency zone", where big companies like Coinbase, Sky, or Plasma start merging with classic TradFi.
Don't get me wrong.
I'm still buying BTC at these levels, tracking early-stage protocols, and advising emerging companies on strategies.
This is not a game-over.
It's a new chapter where crypto startups become TradFi startups, and TradFi startups use Web3's rails.
The industry has matured.
It's time we do the same and start adapting to these changes.
Onchain data is beautiful, we all know
We're working on teaching people the basics of Onchain analysis over at BlockSides
While researching, I came across @EuniceCharms, and something about it just feels different from the usual AI plays that you need to know
A smol 🧵