Ai Arif

Web3 Builder 🔗 | Senior Blockchain Engineer @Avrance
Built: Dackoo (Exchange) • SquadX • ChainKit
Founder @Avaton & @NonAcademy
Sharing Web3 alpha

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This week I:

→ Shipped new features
→ Engaged with 100+ builders
→ Learned something new

Consistency > intensity.

See you next week. Keep building 🔗

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GM ☀️

Wednesday vibes but the blockchain never sleeps.

What's your weekend project?

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Biggest green flag in a Web3 project:

Founders who ship code, not just tweets.

Biggest red flag:

"Announcement about an announcement"

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2026 prediction:

The line between TradFi and DeFi will disappear.

Banks will use blockchain. DeFi will use compliance.

Builders who understand both worlds will capture the most value.

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GM frens ☕

Thursday mood: Almost weekend, but still shipping.

Builders don't take days off. We take strategic breaks.

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Your first smart contract will have bugs.

Your first dApp will look ugly.

Your first startup might fail.

But your second, third, fourth?

That's where the magic happens.

Keep shipping.

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I've trained 18,000+ blockchain developers.

The ones who succeed all have one thing in common:

They build in public.

Thread coming tomorrow on how to do it right 🧵

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GM builders ☀️

Monday = halfway through the week.

What have you shipped so far?

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Genuine question for Web3 devs:

What's the hardest part of building in crypto?

A) Technical complexity
B) Finding users
C) Regulatory uncertainty
D) Funding

Reply below 👇

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The Web3 projects winning right now:

→ RWA tokenization
→ AI agents onchain
→ Cross-chain infrastructure
→ Compliance-first DeFi

The speculation era is over.

Utility wins.

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GM ☕

Tuesday energy: Debug yesterday's problems. Ship today's features.

Let's get it.

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2019: First startup failed

2021: Started over from scratch

2025: Running 2 companies, trained 18K+ devs

Your timeline doesn't have to match anyone else's.

Keep building.

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3 skills that will 10x your value as a Web3 dev in 2026:

1. Smart contract security
2. Cross-chain development
3. AI + blockchain integration

The market is saturated with basic devs.

Specialists win.

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@VittoStack Web3 dev here. Can confirm.

What I learned building in 2021 is half obsolete. L2s changed everything. New standards every quarter.

The skill that doesn't reset: ability to learn fast and ship faster. That's the only moat now.

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@rajshamani Trained 18K+ devs. The ones who made it weren't the most talented.

They were the ones who shipped.

Day 1 vs Day 100 looks identical from the outside. But execution compounds quietly. Most quit before the compound kicks in.

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@thejustinwelsh Started Avaton wanting to build a "big company."

7 years later I realized the goal was never the company. It was freedom - to build what I want, with people I respect.

The business is the vehicle. The lifestyle is the destination.

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@elonmusk Distribution wins. X integration gave Grok what other AI companies spend billions trying to build.

Users don't download new apps. They use what's already in their hand.

Smart move embedding it into the platform.

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@WuBlockchain 42% drop in 24h is brutal.

Korean exchanges halting withdrawals usually signals something serious. Security incidents in crypto can tank trust overnight.

Watching how Flow Foundation handles this. Transparency will make or break the recovery.

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@AlexHormozi This week built some of my best products.

Everyone's out. Slack is quiet. No meetings. Just you and the code.

Pure focus mode. Using every hour this year 🔨

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@agazdecki Real talk. Been on both sides of this.

The "strategic" deal sounds sexy but the reality is months of calls that go nowhere.

Financial buyers want clean numbers and cashflow. Less ego, more execution.

Boring buyers build generational wealth.