Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠)

• Law student
• Crypto enthusiast
• Fitness junkie

TG:

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@hispanicnomad Not the same category, I guess you can't play padel alone and you can run whenever you want

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@CryptoYusaku 🧠

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@CryptoGideon_ 🧠

[Kun @0x_Kun]

The downside of being a scammer/immoral is not about them being caught or if they got away with it

Its that "Karma is just you repeating your patterns, virtues and flaws until you finally get what you dserve"

If your mindset is a scammer it shows up in the relationship with your partner, it shows up in betrayal in business in lowsy relationships etc

The people who believe scammers get away with it because they made money worship money only as the goal

They dont see the karmic loss of time which you cannot avoid and I dont mean this in some fairytale sense

You cant escape being who you are

In order to "get away with it" you would need to have deep repentance and then make up for it in the world which also means you didnt make the money anyway and just made extra work

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

🏦 Undercollateralized DeFi lending

@zkPass will allow users lower collateral borrowing

Combines users on & off-chain reputation (repayments, farming, liquidity + traditional credit score) without exposing each salary slip or every loan line

👉Contract allows 30/40% collateral

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

$ZKP will be utility token for @zkPass that fuels all proof generation, just like gas on ETH, but for identity

Some other interesting use cases:
👨 Proof of humanity
🤖 Anti-Sybil scoring
⚡️ Wallet reputation

Works as engine that powers dec identity, verification + reputation

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

Dex wants proof that users are not from a banned country, but does it really need their address, photo, parents name & everything else?

With zkkyc it will be possible to give them a yes/no answer backed by a legal identity check, while the user keeps documents private

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

$ZKP is the name of @zkPass token, will be launched in early December

One of the most interesting usecases in my opinion is with zkkyc:
Instead of uploading passports, IDs, selfies - you create a zero-knowledge proof

Example 👇

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

$ZKP Tokenomics

https://t.co/BizRMaY7Qv

[zkPass @zkPass]

https://t.co/hGL6yhLya9

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

Ever wanted to verify someone is telling the truth?🤔

@zkPass makes possible to verify the truth behind the visible data online

It means you can prove the truth without ever revealing what it is🔎

Example: Proving assets without showing wallet address

$ZKP TGE: December 2025

[𝓒𝓻𝔂𝓹𝓽𝓸𝓨𝓾𝓼𝓪𝓴𝓾 (🧠,🧠) @CryptoYusaku]

Clanker and Virtual my favorites now, think both will go way higher.

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@InviteToMystery I enjoyed playing this game, had a lot of fun on game nights... Team was special, hanged out with us while playing.

All the best from "mr.mak" :)

P. S. thanks for hoodie, I will wear it with pride and memories!

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@MetaverseRanger Another banger that was on Fjord

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@inkfinance $QUILL listing on Monday

🏗️ Financial infra for protocols, DAOs, and RWA Originators
💸 High profile investors
🪙 $1.2M raised on DAO Maker
🏦 Tier 1 Exchange Listing confirmed
🚀 Low MC at launch
⌛️ Listing December 2nd
https://t.co/D7Oh7zMLeh

[KuCoin @kucoincom]

💥World Premiere💥

📢 New Listing

@inkfinance $QUILL Gets Listed on #KuCoin!

💎Pair: QUILL/USDT
💎Deposit: now open (network: AVAXC-ERC20)
💎Trading: 10:00 on December 2, 2024 (UTC)

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@InviteToMystery Looks like a l(a)unch? 😋

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@CryptoYusaku Farcaster in my mind leads to only one person...

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@bobtherebuilt Amazing story, looking forward to what's gonna happen next!

[Bob the reBuilt @bobtherebuilt]

There and Back Again: A Bobbit's Tale

I have often thought about writing out my story in crypto, but never felt like taking the time and energy to do so. I figure now is as good a time as any. People in my close circles know this already, but let's do story time for everyone.

Chapter 1: Bob the Believer

I did my PhD in chemical engineering, focusing on solar. After that, I went to a national lab to work on solid state batteries. Research is my life, and I love it. I love being in the lab, I love reading papers and thinking about what could be. I had no financial savvy. In grad school you make peanuts, so finally having enough income to save led down the path of researching investing.

Jan 2021: Someone very successful, whom I respect a lot, mentioned being heavy into BTC and suggested I look into it. It had always just been "that fake internet Chuck-E-Cheese tokens" to me before, but his opinion held weight so I started digging. I fell down the rabbit hole of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, and became enamored by what could be. I spent hundreds of hours reading whitepapers, trying to understand the tech. I started scoping out projects, valuing them like I would companies, looking at potential revenue, value prop, etc.

It's a lonely world out there trying to research by yourself. You watch youtube videos, read articles, scour twitter, but you really have no idea who has good info or bad.

Having "done my homework," and selecting my "investments," I actually liquidated my Roth IRA and pushed all my savings into crypto. About $80k. I simply saw the R/R. If it doesn't work out, well it doesn't change the trajectory of our lives, just sets us back in savings. But if it does, then we could pay off student loans, get a down payment on a house, help out some family, etc. My targets were not huge.

So I take the plunge! And somehow, in the course of 2 months in an "up only" market, I am getting rekt left and right. Rugs, honeypots, scam contracts, teams slow ghosting, following grift call channels. I am watching everyone else get hilariously rich while I flounder. When I join the channels for projects, I would ask important questions and press the teams, but only get yelled at by other holders and then banned by the team for "fud." I would stay up to 5 am waiting for some launch that was supposed to happen, just to get time-rugged and they launch after I give up and go to sleep, so I find out I missed a 6 figure pay out. I try to find people to help me figure out what the hell to do. I join various telegram groups, but it is mostly just noise and other clueless people in search of help.

Shout out to some of the first people I connected with in the old Spectre and DegenFactory groups
@bitcoin_brown
@LordDurden
@Crypt0TT
@_Big_Perm
@LeHighoor
@cryptoyolo8870
@MetaverseRanger
(and many others I am missing)

Where we all got to enjoy IDO season and being sheep to the slaughter. I didn't know every coin I could buy was already up 10-50x for VCs and I was only ever going to be exit liquidity. I didn't know everything was a lie. Smoke and mirrors. Vapor. Grift. I was completely and utterly unprepared for the emotional volatility, regret, embarrassment, shame. I bought tops and sold bottoms. I refused to sell bottoms and watched coins bleed to zero.

I lay away at night, having some how turned $80k life savings into less than $10k, in the span of 2 months, in a market that looked "up only." I felt so stupid. So angry at myself. When I first got into crypto, I hated meme coins. I couldn't believe people would buy such retarded pointless things. But I finally said to myself, "Screw it, even if it is all stupid, at least I have a CHANCE to be early where they aren't 17 rounds of KOL, launchpad, private, seed, pre-seed, VC, pre-pre-seed, friends-and-family raises to dump on me."

Funnily enough it was @Bagofbread2 that actually posted the HOKK and KISHU coins right at launch. I threw my last dollars into them in rage and desperation, expecting to wake up rugged, deserving to lose it all, and then at least this whole rotten experience would be over. To my surprise, the charts are sending. $10k became $100k in a day. I dm bag and to thank him and tell him I'm gonna sell. He says, "No. Don't. Diamond hand this. These are gonna run, I can feel it." I watch $100k turn into $200k, into $500k, into $1 million, into $4 million. I don't know wtf is going on, this is peak dog season right before Elon goes on SNL to shill DOGE. I had not mentally prepared for this even being a possibility.

Of course, I had no understanding of the market. I didn't know what price impact really meant, what the real liquidity was, how to exit without hitlering the chart (couldn't bring myself to do it then, and never have been able to since, no matter how many times I tell myself I should sometimes). Entire market crashes and everything plunges in May. I manage to get out of all the memes with about $800k. Still beyond my highest targets, but I'm spun around from the whiplash of it all. Where do I go from here?

The veil had been lifted, and I started to see this market for what it is. A game. A high stakes, high adrenaline, cutthroat game. And if you move fast, you can play at the big tables. There are just two rules:
#1: be early
#2 don't be late

You can't trust anything. Every team is probably scamming. Every influencer is probably trying to lure you in as exit liquidity. Every tweet is a psyop.

Chapter 2: Bob the Builder

My ultimate drive is to create value in this world, to use my time and energy to do things that improve other people's lives. Extracting value feels like the antithesis of who I am. So being a "trader" always seemed like a repulsive idea. But it's worth knowing two important things about me.

First, I have a very high risk appetite. In the lab, I always gravitated towards the new chemistries, the unproven materials. Most useful science is really in the nickel-and-dime category of taking things that work, and making them work BETTER so that they can actually be cost effective and thus implemented in society. But my passion was always pursuing the shiny new ideas that others weren't working on, even if they had a low chance of working out. So that makes me a prime target to be lured into crypto, both in terms of dangling shiny new ideas in front of me, and in wanting to take the risk on investment.

Second, I crave teamwork, comradery, fellowship. I want to encourage people, be liked, be friends, work towards a common goal. Social settings are where I thrive and do my best work. When I first started at a national lab, it was heaven. A giant group of people, some of the best scientists in the world, constant opportunities to get help and to be helpful, collaborate, troubleshoot together. I woke up every day with a smile knowing that even if 99% of my science experiments would fail, I had people to love and encourage.

However, the response to Covid changed all that. We went remote for months. Then only allowed on site one or two days a week. No one could be in the same room as anyone else. Masks on all day even when alone. Progress slowed to a crawl. There was no one to love and encourage every day, just slow work in isolation. Can't get help, can't help others. This slowly drained me. I was stuck, and it felt like all my energy was wasted on dead-end projects I couldn't move forward in those conditions.

It seemed more and more like the most promising pay off for my time and focus lay in crypto. And I had tasted the adrenaline of getting an inside scoop on something. If crypto was just a big pvp game, I needed to find my squad.

I don't even remember how I first found the OnlyFarms and Lightsaber group, but they became my first crypto family. Smart, aggressive, analytical, and fast. Love these dudes forever.
@nf_talk
@duke_rick1
@bitdeep_
@im_brother_dave
@DAOhound_
@0xShual
@SmallCapScience
@cptn3mox
@0xPickACard
@pwnlord69
@s_i_lvertooth
@JeezySt
(and some others)

Summer 2021 was all about the yield farms and defi ponzis. There was an actual edge to be found in simply doing math, mapping out emissions. Trying every protocol first, after our resident dev could quickscope the contracts for safety. It is hard to express how exhilarating this time was. To feel useful to a team of people, contribute meaningfully to a group, celebrate each other's wins, console and comfort each other in losses, and always have something new to look into every day. I remember getting banned for fud from the OHM and STRONG servers on 12 different alts as I kept pushing back on their designs and going "This all seems really retarded. But everyone is so convinced this is big brain complexity. Am I retarded? Too stupid to understand?" But no, we saw it for what it was. So we rotated all the chains, front ran all the ponzis, narrowly escaped "game over" several times.

The closest call was that Titan / Iron ponzi on polygon. I had not experienced an algo-stable before, and was chasing yield so hard that I literally full ported into IRON/TITAN liquidity pool. I was still working full time at the lab, and just so happened to be checking chart during a lunch break when the cascade happened. If I had checked it even 10 minutes later, I would have lost every dollar of my port, gg no re. Another time woke up to a $600k rug from an autocompounder that did a sneaky upgrade to its previously audited (and safu) contracts, merely 3 hours after I finally deposited.

But the problem is that there was emotional deterioration. At first, my motivation was clear: take on some risk and try to better my finances to provide for my family. I had now surpassed my highest goals, back to nearly $4 million at the end of summer. It consumed my every waking thought. What was I grinding for? I had no plans for this money. I had no material desires. I could drive the same beater car and wear the same basic clothes as always. In retrospect, I realize there was deep hurt from feeling disappointed and rejected at work. I loved my team, my coworkers, my boss. But in summer 2021, they rolled out the "get the covid vaccine or you are fired" and I said, "We are at a premier scientific institute, can we have a conversation about the data, about the different risk profiles?" Of course the answer was no, there is no room for any discussion. No one fought. So I left, and (it felt like) no one cared that I left.

Running it up in crypto became an end to itself. A game to play with my friends where I could be valuable, a form of validation. I ran it up to a peak breaking into 8 figures, a soulless farmer of ponzi, nodes, and ohm forks. Every protocol and project I truly believed in went to zero (or close enough), and every dollar I made was from vapor.

At this point, you should pause and go read this eloquent and poignant article from @nosleepjon. It accurately describes the dynamic.

https://t.co/AvYcfEUCUo

Chapter 3: Bob the Broke

The thing is that in order to run that kind of game in the bull market, it requires you to induce in yourself a particular type of mental illness that is optimized for that environment. And that mental illness that blesses you with the ability to make millions, is the same one that will take you down.

I knew the plan. Market had topped. I stabled everything I had left (upper mid 7 figs) in December and then started to try to figure out taxes and what we do next in life.

. . . except . . .

Except the dopamine demon and adrenaline angel were both still perched on my shoulders. I knew I shouldn't re-enter the market. But there were still opportunities, still things popping off. And even if it was just a little bit, being exposed felt so goooooood. So I dipped a toe here. Splashed a foot there. And before I knew it, I was back to being majorly in. A few wins got me juiced. It is hard to describe the thrill of scalping the 1 second chart during the Wonderland TIME liquidation cascade with 7 figure clips. I've never done cocaine or meth, but it is hard to imagine they could compare.

But I'm no genius, just lucky. So I quickly started giving back those gains. Don't misunderstand my previous run as me being smart. I was in the right place at the right time with the right people, and had a particular skillset that fit into a group in the right meta. I'm an awful trader. It became a running joke that people would send me a project to hear my take. If I wrote back a scathing essay of fud about how stupid it is, then they would go "great, Bob fudded it, max ape" and usually be right about it sending. I midcurve this space.

So with the harmonic convergence celestial alignment of conditions that allowed for ponzis to run rampant now gone, I started taking big losses in early 2022. After getting my face pushed in the mud and my stomach kicked a few too many times, I tapped out. I said, "Ok, enough is enough, I'm actually out for good. Pure stables now."

. . . except . . .

Except I said "why not earn some yield while we figure out taxes?" So I parked it all in Anchor UST. I had hired one of the best crypto tax firms, and they said my case was in their top 3 most complicated they had ever seen: 30,000 txn across 17 blockchains, with the weirdest interactions with every convoluted defi protocol in existence. It would take the full tax extension time to get through it. So let's just earn some interest, right? I knew the yield couldn't last, and it would diminish, but surely UST wouldn't collapse, seeing as it survived the 2021 crash alright.

You know how that story goes. I lost almost everything. Down 85% by the time I could liquidate. That would still be a decent chunk of change.

. . . except . . .

Except that the clock had already struck midnight. The gains were made in 2021. The taxes owed. The losses in 2022 can't be applied backwards, only forwards. Even if it was all paper gains that never went anywhere, Uncle Sam wants his cut. That money doesn't exist? "Tough luck. Figure it out."

So there I sat, reeling from the loss. The crushing weight of now having a multi-million dollar debt and no good path out. There was no job that would give me a shovel big enough to dig out of this hole. The shame and embarrassment and isolation was the worst of it. I felt embarrassed by how quickly I had made the money that wasn't "earned" and by how quickly I had lost it. It felt like I couldn't talk to anyone about it. The ability to take the plans my wife and I had dreamt of and turn them into reality was right there, and I fumbled it all.

There were people in the Alphapolis group who became good friends and confidants, brothers and encouragers. @MetaverseRanger and @IndianaAltzz chief among them. Absolute rock stars, always had my back, always looked out for me, always helped me move forward.

The pressing "need" to make it back made things worse. In that summer of 2022 there were phenomenal opportunities in the market. I went aggro. And almost made it back to the debt goal. But rather than taking what the market gave, I tried to squeeze because of my arbitrary goal. The thing is, the market doesn't care about what you need. It just is. So twice I went max degen, and twice my fingers nearly brushed the finish line. But then FTX rugged the market in fall 2022 and I was now at the lowest port value I had been since starting my journey back in 2021.

Chapter 4: Bob the reBuilt

Zoom out. We will all be dead soon. Every dollar made will be gone. Every piece of knowledge unlearned. Every accomplishment eventually forgotten. The only thing that will matter is the legacy who you loved and impacted. My situation isn't that bad. Worst case I declare bankruptcy. Ok. No one is throwing me in prison, or breaking my kneecaps. There is no fear that we won't have food or shelter or safety. I have a wonderful wife who loves me, and two beautiful healthy daughters. I am blessed beyond measure no matter how this turns out financially.

So I get back to the grind. Research. Share. Try new things. Connect with new people, try to provide value to others from lessons learned. One friend I made was @0xJaqenhghar from a mutual failed investment, and he's been a stalwart friend while I've watched him go from nothing to dominating the meme meta.

Overall, 2023 was a bitter slog. Every big win was offset by an equally big or sometimes bigger loss. I had no edge. If I had just bought BTC and logged off instead of trying to go into alts and trade I would have outperformed massively. But I will not be discouraged. Just continue to help where I can, and steer people off the path of destruction. I've seen a thousand protocols rise, explode, fail, and die, and seen the many iterations that try to weave past those fail points. A mutual friend connected me with the team at @Mozaic_Fi just to have some friendly conversation, and it bloomed into a fantastic relationship with people I truly respect, and I was allowed to help them navigate some tricky waters, giving me an inside view of the dangers and difficulties.

I was fortunate to be brought into @TheeGHouse (too many names to drop), who at that time were absolutely killing the market, front running every narrative rotation. There I had the pleasure and honor to get to know @Rancune_eth who is one of the most wholesome and straightforward people in this space. He gave us all OLAS in the LBP low. We went in heavy. This was going to be it, the make it play for me.

. . . except . . .

Except in the fall of 2023, right before the big OLAS run up, we discovered that the COO at the family business was doing a little naughty fraudy, stealing tons of money, signing dumpster fire logistics contracts, and setting everything up to run off the rails. I had to liquidate 75% of my port to plug the hole and pull back from the market to focus on trying to get things stable. I was brought to a port value even lower than when FTX crashed the prior year.

This year I came back more determined than ever to grind, and more hopeful. My niche became body-checking teams and tearing apart their docs when seed deals came across. My schedule filled up taking calls almost every day with teams, trying to sus out who had both the character and the competence to fulfill their vision. I met a lot of interesting teams and learned about some fascinating projects. I also met a lot of greedy goblins and idiots. This space is a den of vipers, overrun by psychopaths because psychopathic behavior is rewarded. So we try to sort the good teams and back them.

Ultimately, to be honest, I regret 90% of the seed deals I did. Too many failed promises or greedy teams. As I took calls with teams I would often give them detailed advice on how they needed to change tokenomics or structure their token value accrual mechanism. I never really sought out "being an advisor" in this space, but at some point I realized that's pretty much what I was doing. And I eventually realized I was giving more time, energy, and value to these teams for absolutely free than a lot of other "advisors" who were getting paid massive amounts. But I am not a strong negotiator. I want to add value, not extract it.

Because you see, Bob the Believer never went away. My super power is that no matter how many times I have been scammed, lied to, or rugged, I will never stop believing there are some good actors out there. And I will find them. And I will help them build something worth investing in. All it takes is one.

If you are a builder and have the emotional fortitude to withstand me tearing your protocol apart, reach out. I'll give you genuine feedback.

Am I still a deeply-endebted negative-networth midcurving fud monster? Of course.

Am I crushing this market? Not at all.

Do I have gud frens by my side? You betcha.

Am I hopeful about making it across the finish line before the timer runs out and the IRS guns me down? More than ever.

Even if I don't, one way or another this chapter will end, and I will take the lessons learned to build something out in the world that has a lasting impact.

[Phillipoussis (🧠, 🧠) @flip_mar]

@ItsAverageJO How do you explain selling pressure, price now is below the price when you first tweeted

[Average JO @ItsAverageJO]

With GPT5 release coming soon, i'm expecting to see some parabolic moves in the Agent AI sub-cat.

To my suprise i've found a newly launched VC-backed project building an Autonomous AI Agent Network for the world trading at just 800K mc.

One ticker to rule them all - $AGENT