$20k gets MVP up and revenue flowing.
$50k into highly targeted marketing and growth. no google ads; physically mailed invitations with their name on it in gold foil ink, and in-person meetings with people who can double our MRR with one stroke of their pen.
$20k into implementing features/mods by customer feedback request.
$10k in strategic reserve to create another $100k if everything before all goes to hell.
@hashjenni they don't blackmail or buy you after. you don't even get into power unless you're part of the club to begin with. elections are all run on hacked counting machines with paper mail-in ballots waiting in the wings as backup.
Where Has All Of The Liquidity Gone?
Everyone keeps asking why crypto feels dead.
I don’t think crypto is dead.
I think crypto is being diluted by the same entities who once called it home.
For years, crypto was one of the only places on earth where you could find 24/7 markets, insane leverage, endless volatility, and a permissionless casino where anyone with enough courage or stupidity could sit down at a table.
That was the product.
Not decentralization, vibes, whitepapers, or "the future of finance"
The product was opportunity.
But now crypto no longer has a monopoly on that feeling.
Prediction markets are exploding because they offer traders something crypto used to offer better than anyone else: the ability to bet on almost anything, instantly.
Politics.
Sports.
Weather.
Economic data.
Elections.
Pop culture.
Geopolitics.
Whatever the internet is arguing about that day.
That liquidity used to rotate into coins.
Now some of it rotates into “Will this happen by Friday?”
And once someone gets addicted to trading probability itself, a random mid-cap crypto chart starts to look a lot less special. Why ape another recycled L1 narrative when you can trade the actual event everyone is talking about?
Then you have the TradFi invasion of crypto-style perps.
This is the part I think people are still underestimating.
Until recently, no person could wake up at 2AM and use 50x leverage to long or short the S&P 500.
Now that world is here.
The same mechanics that made crypto perps so addictive are being applied to the largest, most liquid, most culturally relevant markets on earth.
Stocks. Indices. Commodities.
Maybe eventually everything.
That changes the game.
Right this very second on Hyperliquid alone there's over 2.6 Billion in Open Interest on all things Tradfi.
That is liquidity that could have been chasing BTC, SOL, ETH, privacy coins, AI coins, or whatever other narrative CT wanted to pretend was inevitable this week.
Instead, it is sitting in a leveraged TradFi market using crypto rails.
And it probably is not going away.
That is the unfortunate reality.
Some of this is not cyclical.
Some of this is permanent.
Prediction markets are not a fad.
Tokenized equities are not a fad.
24/7 TradFi perps are not a fad.
The ability to trade everything, everywhere, all the time is not a fad.
It is the natural evolution of markets.
Crypto gave the world the architecture.
Now the world is plugging other assets into it.
That means crypto assets are competing for attention against a much larger universe than they were before.
The total crypto market cap is no longer just competing with itself.
It is competing with the stock market.
And the stock market is enormous.
Once you let people trade pieces of a $ 60T+ U.S. equity market through crypto-style infrastructure, you have massively expanded the surface area for speculation.
That sounds bullish for rails.
It is not bullish for most tokens.
There is a difference.
A perp DEX doing billions in S&P 500 volume may be great for the exchange.
It does not mean your favorite altcoin will attract the liquidity it used to.
This is the liquidity problem.
Crypto used to be the casino.
Now crypto is becoming the casino building, and no longer the game itself.
And the games on that casino floor are multiplying.
So no, crypto is not dead.
But the old model is dying.
The days where liquidity had nowhere else to go except BTC, ETH, SOL, and whatever narrative CT was farming are fading.
The pie is getting bigger, but the number of slices is growing even faster.
That means weaker tokens bleed harder.
It is liquidity dilution.
The casino expanded.
The question is whether your token is still one of the main tables or just another dusty slot machine sitting in the corner.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
@ShahRathin it has me flummoxed that people like that can even stay in business and keep their wealth, let alone make more. I'd love to be a fly on the wall just to see what they actually do, not just what they say they do.
that's funny.
raising is like courting a high school girl. she doesn't want to appear like a slut so she says "I'm only into long term global domination" but really deep down, she wants that sweet 100x exit so she can brag about it to her friends.
our plan is actual global domination. no exit, ever. just generational wealth creation and exponentially greater dividends. got investors ghosting faster than that same high school girl telling football players she's waiting for marriage. 😂
Open source is also a double edged sword. It works under the assumption some benevolent actor out there in the world will catch, report, or fix an exploit before a bad actor can, thus hardening the code more than a private internal team could.
But it falls apart when open source devs are all working on their own code, no one is looking out for each other, professional auditors are more expensive than the development itself, and now we have malevolent AI running 24/7 like ultra intelligent worms that will eventually break and drain anything it can become aware of and study.
To be open source and fully transparent in the age of AI is like sleeping naked in a park in the UK and expecting nothing bad will ever happen because it never has before.
Not to shill, but this is why we're built on Secret Network. Encrypted smart contracts and optional selective transparency is the only way forward for web3. Always has been.
@A3DPB I found that book during my college years and it disrupted my rooted perception of reality ever since. Everything had an asterisk next to it from that moment on. It set the stage for everything happening now 20 years later.
this isn't just any bear market. this is an ice age to wipe the slate. what emerges next will be completely unrecognizable to us early adopters.
RegFi
DeSci
DePIN
DiD
and somewhere trawling through page 8 on CMC, behind the endless sea of stablecoins and tokenized funds, will be a few privacy tools and infrastructure the entire world should be built on, but only 20 people routinely use.
The reason flat-earthers are the way they are isn't because they're stupid. It's because nothing we've been told is true. Flat earth isn't true either, but neither is anything else about our history of geography.
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everyone acknowledges privacy is important, but privacy lacks what boomerfi and sellout-defi have: familiar wallet support, exchange support, stablecoins, yield, debit cards, etc...
Secret Network ought to be the size of Ethereum in a world of people who act in their own self-interest instead of being lazy and short-sighted.
@bluewmist life moves in waves. nothing lasts forever, including whatever is making you miserable. just endure... although, what's going on in the world is unprecedented levels of gaslighting and daily scandals that each would normally make the anniversary cover of Time magazine.