A California woman lost nearly $1 million. A Connecticut woman lost almost the same.
Neither was foolish. Neither was uneducated.
They were targeted by professional criminal operations running pig butchering scams at industrial scale.
Here are the 5 red flags that catch almost every crypto scam before it catches you:
🚩Someone contacts you unsolicited about crypto
🚩A promise of guaranteed returns
🚩Pressure to invest quickly
🚩A request to install software or sign a wallet permission
🚩A platform you cannot find on CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap
One red flag is enough. Walk away.
Real opportunities do not require urgency or secrecy. A real opportunity exists tomorrow. A scam needs you to act now.
Women over 50, especially recently divorced or widowed, face the highest targeting rates in the US. Not because women are easier to scam. Because criminal networks built tactics specifically for them.
I wrote the full field guide. Five scams, every warning sign, how to protect yourself.
Forward it to a woman you love.
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@RWAFoundation_ Tokenization is the only crypto narrative where the chart and the fundamentals point the same direction. Everything else needs an "if" attached. This one just is.
@orca_so@solana The permissioned pool model is the right answer to the regulated-asset-on-DeFi problem. Compliance at the issuer layer, composability at the protocol layer. This is what RWA actually has to look like at scale.
@wallstreetbets The boring stuff was always the trade. BUIDL, OUSG, Ondo - tokenized treasuries have been quietly compounding while everyone was rotating in and out of dog coins. WSB discovering RWA is the cycle indicator.
@Securitize@Blockworks The bigger win is the second-order effect: retail investors finally get the same evaluation framework funds use. For women I write for who are eyeing tokenized treasuries and RWA funds, this is the missing piece. Audit trails weren't accessible before.
I wrote the cornerstone primer on this for women specifically - tokenized treasuries, real estate, and private credit explained without the hype: https://t.co/I7VvwJByRp
@BlackRock has over $2B in tokenized US Treasuries on Ethereum.
@FTDA_US runs a tokenized money market fund.
@jpmorgan settles repos on-chain.
Meanwhile crypto Twitter is still arguing about memecoins.
The actual story is RWA: tokenized treasuries, real estate, private credit. The infrastructure institutions use is going on-chain quietly.
For women building wealth this matters more than any price chart. $50 gets you fractional rental real estate paying daily stablecoin income. $1K gets you into private credit funds that used to require $250K.
The boring stuff is the breakthrough.
Who's actually paying attention to RWA right now? Drop the projects you're watching.
@Securitize The retail version of this: if a "tokenized" offering can't tell you who handles corporate actions, redemptions, or transfer agency, the issuance was the product. Capital management infrastructure means the boring stuff has to work.
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Last year, 44% of new US crypto wallets were opened by women.
The largest cohort: women 45-59.
The audience nobody in crypto media is writing for.
So I built the publication for them. 🧵
It's called Tokenized Report.
Weekly. Sundays. Real-world assets, stablecoin yield,
tokenization.
First issue lands this weekend.
If you know a woman who'd want this, send her my way.