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[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

Ever heard of OTC in crypto and just nodded like you knew what it meant?

Let’s fix that.

Here’s a simple, clear, and powerful breakdown of:

👉 What is OTC in crypto

👉 Why it matters

👉 How the big players use it to win

🧵👇

[Ares🌱 @AresSprout]

People from Nigeria, India, and other developing countries earn less money doing online services than those in America & Europe.

It has nothing to do with physical location, but the mental framework they’ve adopted from growing up in poverty.

$100 is a 2-month salary in Nigeria.

In America, it’s a nice dinner for two at a restaurant.

Because of this, they get programmed to think $100 is a lot of money.

Because to them, it is.

They set their limitations based on how money works in their country, not in the world.

So when they go to work online, they make an amazing website for a couple hundred.

I have a friend in EU who charges 10k+ for websites. He’s 17. Always fully booked & makes a couple mil a year.

The path to making more money online isn’t more clients or more work.

It’s breaking the limiting beliefs you grew up with.

Rewiring your brain so YOU believe you’re worth more.

Spend time connecting with people who make more than you to understand what’s really possible.

It's much more achievable than you think🫣

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

God bless you Sir

Anticipating it

As it's gonna be for free, I'm obligated to consume it more than the way I'll do it I buy it

[Sir Mapy @sirmapy]

Good morning Believers,
We are working on a token listing course with our top listing managers.

It is very comprehensive and will cover major token listing platforms including

1. Coinmarketcap
2. Coingecko
3. Livecoinwatch
4. Dexscreener
5. Geckoterminal
6. Coinpaprika/Coinranking
7. Firescreener (As a bonus, given its relevance within our ecosystem)

The course will cover how developers can start a new listing as well as update an exisiting listing across each platforms.

The course will cost me $5,000 but we will be giving it out for free to all waitlist developers to strengthen the reach and credibility of their project.

We will also be sponsoring for free a project on our waitlist for the making of the tutorial on coinmarketcap token listing so another $5,000.

Total cost to SMC: $10,000

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@selfbankMYID Your money has gone

Go and sleep 😁 😭 😂

[Hyperdrome @hyperdromeX]

Crypto spent years building better financial infrastructure.

The next challenge is making that infrastructure usable.

Imagine joining Hyperliquid for the first time.

Instead of learning gauges, APRs, emissions, and voting mechanics...

You simply ask:

"What's the best strategy for my portfolio?"

That's the direction we believe DeFi is heading.

Not replacing users.

Empowering them.

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@hyperdromeX AI shouldn't make decisions for users...

it should surface the right context so users can make better ones.

That's an important distinction.
Bullish

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@hyperdromeX Congratulations to the winners 👏 🎉

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

Love the direction.

Curious how much of the intelligence layer will be real-time versus cached analytics?

The faster the signals, the more useful it becomes for LPs and active traders.

[Hyperdrome @hyperdromeX]

https://t.co/H2lSD9vTXj

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@hyperdromeX The interesting part isn't the AI, it's the context layer. Most DEXs optimize execution, but execution without context still leads to poor decisions. If Hyperdrome can surface liquidity, wallet flows, routing, and launch intelligence in one place, that's a meaningful UX upgrade.

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@Thanistarr Was expecting something more better

[Apostle Michael Orokpo @Apostleorokpo]

The Balance of Forgiveness Vs The Danger of Living in Sin - Apostle Michael Orokpo, PhD.

(Full Message Title: Transformational Gospel. Part 2)

For the full sermon, download The Encounter Jesus App on Google Play Store or IOS

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@AresSprout Brooo...

You're saying my mind

[SleekTru @sleektru]

One day you will say a final goodbye to being broke.

[Haseeb ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

LPs sometimes ask me who I think the best VC investors in crypto are.

I think about this a lot.

Ever since I started as a crypto VC, I have wanted to be the best. I’m deeply driven by competition, and investing is as pure of a competition as it gets. Only one person can win the deal, only one person can pick the winner of the cycle.

But when you honestly look at it and do the accounting, there are three people who have proven themselves the GOATs of crypto VC investing.

This is going to seem like glazing (it is) and probably not interesting to anyone who's not a crypto VC. But I am. So this is for all of us who make this our life’s work.

Here are my all-time top 3.

#3. @danrobinson (@paradigm)

There’s a legendary story about how Mike Speiser, Managing Partner at Sutter Hill Ventures, incubated Snowflake, which went on to become a $75B company. A VC adding that much value to a portfolio company is basically unheard of.

Dan Robinson is the Mike Speiser of crypto.

Again and again, Dan has been at the ground floor of generational companies in crypto. He was there from the very beginning of Uniswap, literally a co-author and foundational contributor to Uniswap V3, which became the backbone of on-chain spot trading. He was a critical contributor at the beginning of Flashbots, which birthed modern MEV auctions. And he was an early research contributor to Plasma, the predecessor of modern rollups, which led to him leading the seed round of Optimism.

Dan is a genuine polymath. He breaks the mold of a traditional VC. He started as a securities lawyer, then became a self-taught protocol architect and mathematician, and is now a self-taught investor. Perhaps the greatest investment that @matthuang ever made was hiring Dan. When we lose deals to Paradigm, so often it’s because people say: yeah you guys are great, but sorry, I have to work with Dan.

The scariest investors are people who can do more than just invest. Dan saw where it was all going, and he rolled up his sleeves and helped make it happen, multiple times. That’s what makes him one of the greatest to ever do it, and earns him his spot on the crypto Mt. Rushmore.

#2. @cdixon (@a16zcrypto)

Chris Dixon is the OG’s OG. He saw it before anyone. Before Chris, crypto VC was minor leagues.

He was the first mainstream VC to throw his hat in the ring and publicly bet his career on crypto. He was the first to adapt the language of VC to crypto and network investing. He was the first to socialize these concepts with Silicon Valley and its universe of institutional LPs. So many concepts we bandy about every day in our IC, we stole directly from Chris. It’s not an exaggeration to say I am walking along the train tracks that Chris set down originally for himself.

There are two most important deals that I attribute to Chris Dixon. The first, of course, is Coinbase. Chris led the Series B of Coinbase in 2013, at a time when the industry was still fledgling and none of this was obvious. That deal is the apotheosis of the Dixon-ism—"what the smartest people are doing on the weekends is what everyone else will be doing in 10 years." He had the foresight to do that deal, and then doubled down to go all-in on the industry. It was so much harder to do what we are now doing at the time when Chris first did it.

Second deal was Uniswap. Almost everyone who saw the Uniswap Series A passed on the deal ($100M FDV—Uniswap was still tiny back then). At the time we were having heated debates about whether AMMs were capital-efficient enough, whether they’d face too much adverse selection, whether they were too easily forkable. Paradigm passed (despite leading the seed round), we passed as well, and from what I’ve heard, everyone else at the a16z IC didn’t want to do the deal.

But Chris? Chris supposedly said: “A smart contract that can buy and sell anything? That sounds so cool. Who knows what will happen—let’s just do it.” And he was right. It was cool. All sorts of non-obvious things would happen because of what permissionless AMMs enabled. I learned a big lesson after passing on that Series A.

I disagree with the a16z worldview in many ways. But everyone in this industry owes Chris enormous credit. He has single-handedly done more than any other VC to put the industry onto the cultural footing it now has, has fought tooth and nail with his career to legitimize crypto in DC, and has earned us cultural recognition as a positive frontier technology. So much of the language we use about crypto was imbibed directly from Chris.

Crypto VC would not be where it is today were it not for Chris Dixon championing it as early as he did. For that, we owe him deep gratitude.

And that leads to the #1 VC of all time...

#1. @KyleSamani (@multicoin)

Kyle, Kyle, Kyle.

I give Kyle a lot of shit. He rubs a lot of people—including me—the wrong way. All the time.

But investing is like a sport. At the end of the day, you either put up points on the board, or you don’t.

And Kyle has put up the most points of anyone. The sheer scale of PnL he made from his Solana seed round investment, the amount of work he did for that deal, someone will write a book about it someday, and I’ll be grimacing the whole time while I read it.

You see, the best investors are contrarians. And Kyle is a true contrarian. To be a contrarian doesn’t mean that you write a hot take that gets a bunch of people to say "wow that was smart." If everyone wants to retweet you, by definition you’re not a contrarian. You’ll know you’re a true contrarian when you piss people off. When people think you’re an idiot. When they think you’re lighting your money on fire.

Kyle is one of the only true contrarians in crypto. I disagree with him about almost everything. But his original investment and subsequent conviction on holding Solana through the depths of the valley of darkness after the collapse of FTX, make him, bar none, the best VC investor in crypto history.

We always say that venture is a power law business. Kyle and his legendary Solana investment is precisely what we all mean by that. Sometimes it genuinely only takes one deal.

And that’s what makes Kyle the best crypto VC of all time.

So that’s my top 3.

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LPs sometimes ask where I think I should go on this list.

As much as I think highly of myself—and boy do I think highly of myself—I don’t think I’m top 3. I’m top 10 for sure, and there’s an argument for top 5, but I’m not better than any of these three. I hope to be, someday, before I’m done. And if you break it out by seasons, there are seasons I’ve done better than each of them.

But in aggregate? These three are the best to ever do it.

It’s not helpful to Dragonfly for me to praise our competitors. But there’s a game bigger than the game. You see, this is a hard industry to be an investor in—most of the peers I’ve had along the way have not survived. Crypto is brutal.

As much as I compete with these guys every day, I have enormous respect for them. I've seen them evolve through almost a decade of ups and downs. We've all endured through the vicissitudes of crypto together to support our founders, to support this industry, and to help it stand shoulder-to-shoulder next to any other technology. As I was doing some end-of-year reflection, I thought it was worth acknowledging them in an industry that often doesn't give out much praise to VCs.

Each of these people have done a lot for me, whether they know it or not. I've learned so much from each of them. And I genuinely hope they are proud of what they’ve accomplished.

Dan Robinson saw it clearly.

Chris Dixon saw it first.

And Kyle Samani saw it through.

Hats off, gentlemen. Here’s to another vintage of competition. 🫡

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Coming this Friday, June 26th

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Focus beats intelligence.
Consistency beats intensity.
Action beats intention.

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Alex Hormozi says a trader made $100,000,000 and still couldn’t sleep at night

“If you’re so good at trading, why should I listen to you? Well, I have $100 million in verified earnings from trading. I said okay, then why are you selling courses instead of just making trades?”

“He says, I want to impact people. I said no you don’t, dude. Tell me the truth, I can only help you if you tell me the truth”

“Eventually he breaks, I couldn’t sleep. I lost weight. The stress, trading ruined my life. I couldn’t find anyone to date because I had to trade 24 hours a day. It ruined my health”

“My dad died at 50, and I saw myself going down the same path”

“That’s the truth. So your marketing should say, trading ruined my life and it’s also the only thing I’m good at. So if you want to make enough money to ruin your life, I can show you how I did it”

[jack neel @jackneel]

She Said Yes

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@jackneel So sweet:(((

[Photizo 🔥 @Photizonow]

@Web3temple Reposting for more reach

[Temple @Web3temple]

Building in Web3 and looking for funding?
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I'm currently sourcing projects for the Cardano Accelerator, which is actively funding teams in verified real-world data use cases.

We're specifically looking for builders working on:
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