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@gadwell_eth@jkrdoc Great analysis. One additional point to clarify is that the current marketcap of $POD is 13.19 million and can be viewed in the coinbasewallet app. The marketcap displayed in dexscreener is 25.7 million and is not correct!
Choppy markets expose psychology more than skill. Seen a lot of this going round, most notably:
1) Sunk Cost Fallacy: You keep holding because you’ve already "come this far".
The entry price becomes an emotional anchor. Instead of assessing new information, you defend an old decision.
2) Doubling Down Bias: You average down to avoid the pain of being wrong. Good traders add to strength, not weakness.
3) Recency Bias: The latest move feels like the new trend. A few bad days and people call it the top; a green candle and they scream reversal.
4) Confirmation Bias: You start filtering what you read to protect your ego. Every chart, narrative, or tweet becomes evidence you’re still right.
5) Loss Aversion: pain of losing outweighs the rational choice to cut. You’d rather "wait for BE” than reallocate to something with better odds. That’s how opportunity cost compounds silently.
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If you don’t assess yourself during these periods, the market will do it for you - through drawdowns, missed rotations, and pain you could’ve avoided.
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Aped/Shared about $CTDA / @pokpok_io this past Saturday in my TG Channel when it was only at ~$1M mcap, and now it’s time to drop a full breakdown on what it is, how it works, and why imo it’s undervalued
Basically, it’s AI-powered options/vaults. Remember how @exotic_markets_ / $EXO launched last week and instantly hit ~$200M FDV? $CTDA is similar but on steroids. It’s not just an options platform, it’s an AI-driven protocol running through trading agents, designed to generate passive yield in any market conditions (Almost sure it’s the first of its kind on @base)
It even reminds me of DeFi Kingdoms back in the day, mixing DeFi mechanics with gamified UX to onboard more users
How it works? AI/Agents trading options?
To make options less intimidating, they built PokPok, a gamefied version where your options positions are represented as “Poks” (chickens)
It simplifies complex strategies so even your grandma can use it:
➡️ Hatching a Pok: Represents opening or "minting" an options position (every time you open a position, you mint a "Pok" or a Chicken)
➡️ Feeding Your Pok: Symbolizes managing your active options position as market conditions evolve
➡️ Maturing Poks: Depicts the settlement of your options position, where profits (or losses) are realized
There are 3 main types of Poks Options:
1⃣ Grass Poks (PAYG Options)
- Pay-As-You-Go model: open options with low upfront cost, pay a daily fee to keep positions active
- Benefits: Low initial capital, flexible exit, great for directional bets
2⃣ Water Poks (Spread Options)
- Buy and sell options with same expiry but different strikes, capping both profit and loss
- Benefits: Defined risk/reward, useful for moderate bullish or bearish outlooks
3⃣ Fire Poks (Digital Options)
- Binary structure: fixed payout if strike condition is met, lose premium if not
- Benefits: Simple, fixed payout, clear risk
Here’s a quick tutorial by their Co-Founder @JoshuSX - https://t.co/DRBNxnkmZX
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Ok Rafi, but where are the AI-powered vaults?
That’s where the advanced side comes in: AI-Powered Options Vaults, a hands-off way to earn yield using their CTDA and Agentic Network
- CTDA (Central Trading Decision Agent): Core AI that analyzes markets, manages strategies, executes trades, and rebalances portfolios
- Agentic Network: 8 AI agents working together to optimize trading using market data and on-chain sentiment
How it works:
- Deposit ETH into a vault via PokPok DApp
- CTDA deploys funds into optimal options strategies
-Profits auto-compound, strategies rebalance continuously
- Users monitor growth through a dashboard
Benefits:
- Fully automated execution, no manual management
- Adaptive intelligence that evolves with market conditions
- Access to complex strategies typically reserved for pros
- Passive yield generation with compounding
The CTDA / Agent Brain is still in Beta testing. In the future, users will even be able to build their own CTDA vaults using $CTDA
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Tokenomics:
$CTDA
- Total supply: 1B
- Utility token powering the AI layer of PokPok
- CTDA (the AI brain) takes 5% of net profits from trades → 60% of that goes directly to buybacks of $CTDA
- First token to use new @virtuals_io tokenomics
- Only ~15% circulating; 85% locked/vested over 2 years
$PEGG
- In-Game Reward Token
- Earned through successful gameplay in the PokPok options game
- Can be staked in a dedicated vault for extra rewards, adding utility beyond gameplay
$POK
- Protocol Value Accrual Token
- Captures value from protocol fees (game + AI Vaults)
- Linked to Real-World Asset strategies, boosting token value
- Represents the overall growth and success of the PokPok ecosystem
- TGE: Q4 2025
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Key stats/milestones:
- 8.390+ POKs minted on PokPok game
- 30M+ options notional traded
- $32.31M in trading volume
- $218K in revenue since launch
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Team:
CEO/Co-Founder @Nibel_eth → ex-JPM, ex-Citi, Base Country Lead for SG/MY, strong @base connections, helped smaller devs on @base
CTO/Co-Founder @JoshuSX → Co-founded Crypto Hype Digital in 2020, led multimillion-dollar Web3 campaigns
Both have been building @pokpok_io nonstop for ~2 years
Right now, @Nibel_eth is at @base Camp → https://t.co/XSaDtcRbWE
Also according to their 2025 Q4 roadmap, they’re set to deliver a “Base Mini-app”
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Why I aped?
- Founders building for ~2 years, not random new devs
- User-friendly GameFi approach makes options accessible
- Few serious options projects in the market
- Deep Base eco connections
- Already generating revenue + buybacks
When I saw all that and $CTDA at just ~$1M, it looked extremely undervalued. Projects with no product, no revenue get valued much higher
Below $10M mcap makes no sense imo. Holding patiently
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TLDR:
✅ AI-powered options/vaults on Base, first of its kind
✅ Gamified layer (PokPok game) makes options trading simple & fun
✅ CTDA (AI Brain, currently on BETA) + 8 agents run vaults → auto-compound + yield
✅ Tokenomics: $CTDA (utility, buybacks), $PEGG (rewards), $POK (value accrual, TGE 2025)
✅ Team: ex-JPM/Citi + @base Asia Lead + experienced Web3 founder
✅ Already $32M volume, $218K revenue, constant buybacks
✅ Sitting at ~$1M mcap → looks heavily undervalued vs competitors
(And just now they announced the biggest payout/revenue share of 2025 for xPEGG stakers happened last week - https://t.co/x8fW9WUJYq)
PUMP the $SHAFT :
A16Z Backing: Supported by Andreessen Horowitz ($46B VC, Coinbase hits), with Katherine Banks (A16Z content manager) as SHAFT’s marketing lead.
Revenue Shares & Buybacks: 90% of profits (from AI startup funding) distributed to holders (base/staking/direct);
flywheel reinvests team’s 10% fees into buybacks.
AI Startup Funding: SHAFT funds AI startups (e.g., via SpeechLab partnership, led by CEO Seamus McAteer, https://t.co/ki7QDrmFCW), paying holders most profits from real tools.
Fully Doxxed Team: Verifiable via LinkedIn (Howard Krieger ex-HSBC, Ryan Medlin SpeechLab, Katherine Banks A16Z).
SpeechLab Partnership: Active collaboration with SpeechLab
Catalysts: No-code integration (Oct-Nov 2025), new AI bounties (Oct-Dec 2025), SpeechLab expansions (Dec 2025), and CEX listings (Nov-Dec 2025) fuel X/Telegram hype (100-2K likes/post) and ecosystem growth.