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The $KIMCHI story is a perfect example of how the trenches really work
The original token gets vamped; a new launch sends 75% of supply to a wallet linked to Kimchi, another sends 90%, and suddenly CT is celebrating ~$32M in unrealized PnL like it's some legendary trading performance
Meanwhile, the people who made him famous are buying the hype with actual money
That's the part nobody wants to talk about: your favorite trader gets the allocation, you get the risk
This is exactly the reason Drafts are being built around competing on market reads, not becoming exit liquidity for someone else's Lambo
Explaining the $KIMCHI situation
For those who missed it (same here) Kimchi published his first vlog yesterday
There was already a $KIMCHI token before any of this happened.
The original token, known as Aura Final Boss, was launched on July 27
70% of its supply had been sent to a wallet believed to belong to Kimchi.
It had already reached a $6.2M market cap in August and started gaining momentum again recovering from $450K to $5M before the vlog.
Kimchi uploaded his video at 23:00 UTC.
In just 15 minutes, the original $KIMCHI went from a wick of $7.9M to 880K.
The wallet holding 70% of the original supply didn’t sell, the token got vamped
Almost immediately after the vlog was published, another $KIMCHI appeared on Pumpfun.
This token linked directly to Kimchi’s X profile and sent 75% of its supply to a wallet presented as his new public wallet.
Less than an hour and a half after the vlog, it reached $44.6M Mcap
So again, the original token that existed for almost three months was destroyed,
But of course, we couldn’t stop here.
Supermanonchain (Ansem token dev) decided to launch ANOTHER $KIMCHI
And instead of sending 75% of the supply to the wallet associated with Kimchi, he sent 90%.
Literally the same general playbook we saw with $ANSEM
That token reached $4.8M before falling back to $2.4M
All because Kimchi uploaded a vlog.
@brian_armstrong True, it's almost instant
but acting on a market opinion still usually means buying an asset, managing a position and taking on the risks of holding it
What if testing your market read was as simple as jumping into a 90-second PvP Battle?
The funniest part of PvP is that your rival has no idea whether your Captain was a 200 IQ market read or a panic click with 2 seconds left
If it works, you're a genius either way
Imagine locking 5 tokens and watching every single one finish green
Sounds like a 100% W until your rival's Draft finishes even stronger
That's what makes PvP brutal
Being right about the direction isn't always enough when someone across the Arena read the same market better
@bigchog if free pack ripping is so satisfying, why would anyone go back to paying for it?
casinos have free-play modes too. the point is to make you feel like the next win is inevitable, until you deposit real money
free gameplay isn't always a gift. sometimes it's the funnel
Weekly Draft Board is back with RWAs
STREAK: tokens that spent most of the week steadily moving higher
SPIKE: the names that printed the biggest 7D moves, pullbacks included
Two ways this sector rewarded a Draft last week: staying with strength or catching the explosion
Which side came out stronger ↓
5/ That’s one idea behind Drafts we don’t talk about enough
You get 60 sec to make the Draft
The Battle runs for 90 sec. Then it ends
You see the result, learn from it, and decide if you want another one
Crypto can stay open forever. But on Arena, it's only your decision
What the most dangerous feature in crypto?
The NYSE gives traders 6.5 hours. Crypto gives you 24/7, tons of new tokens, limitless perps and a market for almost anything that happens in the world
We spent years calling unlimited access a feature. At some point it became a problem
4/ More markets aren’t inherently bad
But there’s a difference between giving people access and designing every product around keeping them exposed
Traditional sports understood something markets mostly forgot: a game needs an ending