Yax Sheth

CEO of ChainClave | Crypto Consultant | Blockchain Believer | Top 30 under 30 Award winner 🏆

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

Throwback to Crypto Expo Dubai!

I have met 100+ interesting Web3 people on that day, 20+ potential Web3 Projects!

I am consulting 3 Web3 start ups met in Crypto expo Dubai!

Super bullish for Web3 💪🏻

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

@dani_trupti Excited for this! 💪

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@0xSweep See you ✌️

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@ClaudeDevs @claudeai Finally!
No more weekly token usage planning

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@claudeai Much needed

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@aaakasei @SujalJethwani 🫡🫡🫡

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

Meet @SujalJethwani

> At 15, he was running shops for pocket money.
> Tried building a piracy website. Failed.

> Heard about Bitcoin. Searched YouTube.
> A motivational guru told him "Bitcoin is a scam."
> He listened. Missed the run.

> College. Covid. Put Rs.1,200 in Bitcoin.
> Then put Rs.3 lakh in shitcoins on the advice of random influencers.
> Lost it all.
> Lost Rs.12 lakh more on NFTs. $500 was just the gas fee per transaction.
> But by then he was already earning.

> Built an Instagram page called "Looser to Leader."
> 5 lakh followers.
> Then built "Viral Theories." 1 million followers.
> Then 10+ more brands. Built. Sold. Bought. Repeated.
> Total followers grown across his pages: 4.4 million.

> His promise to himself: not one rupee from his parents till 18.
> He kept it. A year early.

> But there was a rule at home. Phone on the table by 10 PM.
> So he crawled into his dad's room at 2 AM, took the phone, came back, posted to US audiences till 4 AM.
> It worked. Until one night, dad walked in.
> Lifted the blanket. Lifted the pillow. Pulled out the Samsung.
Smashed it.
> The next morning, Sujal started using his mother's phone.

> Then July 2021. First crypto content video.
> Out of 7,500 applicants, he got into the Top 50 of the Nas Daily x Metakovan creators fellowship.
> Direct mentorship from a Bitcoin billionaire and the man with 60 million followers.

> Then FTX crashed. Luna crashed. India introduced 30% TDS.
> Friends quit the industry. Family questioned him.

> He went to Rishikesh. 7 days of silence. Swami Ramayan ashram.
Came back stable.
> Years ago he sat at home on New Year's, watching Mumbiker Nikhil vlog from Dubai, tears in his eyes, telling his father "papa mujhe bhi Dubai jaana hai."
> Last month, Binance flew him to Dubai.

> To hand him an award.
> He is a 1 Billion Summit speaker now.

> His Instagram is uninstalled from his phone. So is YouTube. So is X.
> He posts. Then deletes the apps. Same day.

Where does he see himself in one year?
"One of the most known personalities in Web3. Globally."

Full conversation on YaxVaani.
Link in first comment.
#yaxvaani #crypto #web3 #podcast

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

@alisheraz0ev @SujalJethwani You will love it

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▶️ Watch Full Podcast: https://t.co/bYOX86bbwQ

[Sujal Jethwani @SujalJethwani]

I lost ₹3L listening to FAKE crypto gurus

I sat with @Yax22 & finally opened up about everything

In this podcast:
- My first investment
- The 2017 Bitcoin miss I still regret
- My dad broke my phone
- The silent retreat that saved me
- Why I’ll never shill tokens
- Playbook to spot fake influencers
- How non-tech ppl can earn in crypto

From a small-town boy to a 400K+ family, this is the full story 🤍

Here’s the link 👇

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

@SujalJethwani It was pleasure talking to you man!
You will inspire many for sure!

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

Coinbase just cut 14% of staff. But the layoff isn't the story.

The story is what Brian Armstrong is replacing them with.

In 2022, Coinbase cut 18%. In 2023, another 20%. Both were defensive moves. Crypto winter, FTX fallout, survival mode.

Today's cut is different. The company is well-capitalized. Revenue is diversified. They didn't need to do this.

They're doing it anyway.

Read the memo carefully and you'll see the actual blueprint.

Org flattened to 5 layers max below the CEO. Senior leaders now carry 15+ direct reports while shipping as individual contributors. No more pure managers. Every leader is now what Armstrong calls a "player coach."

Then the part nobody is talking about.

Coinbase is rolling out "AI native pods." Some will be one person teams. A single human handling engineering, design, and product, backed by a fleet of AI agents.

This is not a layoff. It's an operating model rewrite.

For context, Armstrong said in September that 40% of daily code at Coinbase is already AI generated. The target was 50% by October. Roughly 700 humans were still in those workflows. Now they're not.

Here's what crypto founders should actually take from this.

The biggest US crypto company just told the market that you no longer need 5,000 people to run an exchange. You need a few hundred operators who know how to manage agents.

If that math works at Coinbase scale, it works everywhere downstream. Wallets, prop firms, market makers, KOL agencies, research desks. Most teams in our industry are still hiring like it's 2021.

I've been running my own ops on a multi agent stack for months now. It's not theoretical. It's already cheaper, faster, and more accurate than my old hire-more-people instinct.

Coinbase just made the same call publicly.

The next 18 months in crypto won't be won by who raises the most. It will be won by who figures out the smallest team that can ship the most.

Are you building for an AI native org, or are you still hiring like the cycle before this one?

#Web3 #Crypto #AI #Coinbase #FutureOfWork

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

The S&P 500 just recovered from war losses in 11 days.

That's the fastest recovery in market history. Faster than COVID (103 days). Faster than the 2008 crash (1,021 days). Faster than the dot com bust (1,166 days).

11 days. After the U.S. went to war with Iran.

Now sitting at 7,209 with its strongest month since November 2020.

Let that sink in for a second.

Markets used to take years to digest geopolitical shocks. Now they take less than two weeks. The cycle has compressed because liquidity, AI capex, and Big Tech earnings are absorbing fear faster than fear can spread.

Here's the part most people in crypto are missing.

If equities can shrug off an actual war this fast, the old macro fear equals crypto winter playbook is dead. BTC didn't crash to 40K. Risk assets didn't unwind for 6 months. The recovery happened before most traders could even reposition.

The new macro reality: shocks are sharper, recoveries are faster, and the people who freeze during the dip miss the entire move.

Speed of conviction is the new edge.

What's your read, is this a healthy market or the most expensive complacency we've ever seen?

#Crypto #Web3 #Markets #DubaiCrypto #Trading

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

YaxVaani just crossed 1.8M views.

I won't pretend this was the plan.

I started this podcast while building Z#**, consulting for 20+ Web3 clients, and running operations across three time zones. Most people told me to drop it. "You can't build a prop firm and a media property at the same time."

A year in, here's what I've actually learned:

Content isn't a side project for a founder. It's the cheapest distribution moat you'll ever build. Every investor meeting, every KOL intro, every hiring conversation warmer now because people have already spent hours with me on their commute.

Consistency beats genius. I'm not the best interviewer on YouTube. Not even close. But I showed up every week while better creators took breaks.

The boring work compounds. No episode went viral. Not one. 1.8M views is the result of ~25 episodes each doing their quiet job.

If you're a founder sitting on a podcast idea but telling yourself you're "too busy", that's the same lie I told myself for two years before I started.

What's the one piece of content you've been putting off?

#yaxvaani #yax #crypto #web3 #podcast

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@k4komaaaal @nishoutofwater Absolutely 🫡

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Meet @nishoutofwater

> Born in Cyprus.
> Raised between Cyprus, Greece, Miami, and Texas.

> Trained as a dentist.
> Did a full-time Masters in Surgery while working four jobs at the same time.
> One day off a week. Spent catching up on work.

> Then in 2022, sitting on a flight, one thought changed everything.
> "Maybe I'm the problem."
> She dropped 18 kilos in 3 months.
> Switched from milk coffee to black espresso in 30 days.
> Started weight training like her life depended on it.

> Walked away from dental school.
> Freed up 40 hours a week.
> Then crypto found her.
> She became Director at @LunaPRofficial .

> Today she's the CMO of @RyderWallet , a hardware wallet built to onboard your mom and dad to crypto.
> She advises Tracer, a climate tech company.
> She advises a stealth-mode exchange.
> She co-hosts her own podcast, NFA.

> She spends 2 months every year on one street in Phuket.
> Nine gyms. One kilometre. Muay Thai camps. Three-star hotels.
> No luxury. Just discipline.
> She just got engaged. 3 weeks ago.

> And in our conversation on YaxVaani, she said one line that stuck with me long after the shoot ended:
"If you don't live life with yourself as the main character, whose story are you the main character in?"

Full conversation now live on YaxVaani.
Link in the first comment. 👇

#yaxvaani #Ryder #Nisheta #Web3Wallet

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

@nishoutofwater The pleasure was mine, Nisheta 🙌 Your perspective on self-custody as "basic hygiene" is going to stick with a lot of people. Excited to see what you and the Rider team ship next.

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

🎧 Watch the full episode here → https://t.co/WWH9a0qGO8

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Figma dropped 7% the day Anthropic launched Claude Design. Down 85% from its post-IPO peak.

Six months ago this was the cleanest tech IPO in years. $60B valuation. 95% of the Fortune 500 as customers. 13 million monthly active users. Then one product launch from a foundation model lab took out a fifth of what's left.

This isn't a Figma problem.

It's the SaaSpocalypse playing out one vertical at a time. February wiped roughly a trillion in software market cap. Atlassian posted its first ever decline in seat counts. Adobe's PE compressed from 26x to 16x. The pattern is the same every time Anthropic ships. Cybersecurity tool drops, related stocks drop. Legal tools drop, LegalZoom drops 20% in a session. Cowork ships, the entire IGV ETF craters 30%.

Now design.

The old assumption was that AI would stay generalist while specialists owned their workflows. That assumption is dead. One interface now covers code, design, research, financial analysis, customer support. Each release forces another category to ask if their moat actually exists.

Here's the part most people are missing.

The companies dying aren't dying because the software stopped working. They're dying because the unit of value shifted from "access to a tool" to "completion of a task." Per-seat pricing assumes you need 100 humans logging in. Agentic AI says you need 5 humans and 95 agents. That math kills SaaS independent of how good the product is.

For builders in crypto and Web3, the lesson is sharper than people realize.

Most of our infrastructure copies the SaaS playbook. Subscription dashboards, per-user analytics tools, KOL platforms, on-chain data products. Same model, same exposure. If you're building anything where the buyer pays per login, you have maybe 18 months before the same conversation comes for you.

The survivors are the ones that become essential inside AI workflows, not adjacent to them. Either you're the data the agents query, the rails the agents settle on, or the trust layer the agents need to operate. Everything else gets absorbed.

What I'm doing about it, We're building so the AI co-pilot is the product, not a feature bolted on top. Traders interact with intelligence, not interfaces. If you're building a Web3 product right now and your roadmap still treats AI as "we'll add it later", you're already late.

Which SaaS category do you think gets hit next?

#Web3 #SaaSpocalypse #AI #CryptoFounders #BuildingInPublic

[Yax Sheth @Yax22]

North Korea stole $2.02B in crypto last year. 12 protocols hit since Drift.

Smart contract exploits are DOWN. Social engineering is UP.

Your audit isn't your security. The team member who trusts the wrong DM is.

When did you last run a real social engineering drill?

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North Korea just walked away with $296M from Drift Protocol.

They didn't break the code. They broke the people.

A thread on the most important crypto security story of 2026 🧵

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Tether froze a USDT bridge in 29 minutes.

Circle let $230M flow through their stablecoin for hours. Class action just filed.

Same week, Tether walks in as hero, takes over Solana's biggest perp DEX, chips away at USDC's home turf.

That wasn't charity. That was strategy.