Joel

Make it happen.

[Joel @joelft]

@inter_link ✅ ID: 696980
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL #verify

[InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 @inter_link]

🔐 Update on the Upcoming Verification Process

We know many of you are looking forward to verification - and we’re stepping closer to that moment.

This process is designed to be structured, transparent, and fair, ensuring every qualified Human Node moves forward with clarity. Here’s how the flow will work:

Phase 1: Matching
You begin by tapping “Match Curator.”
An anonymous list will appear, and you can choose a curator to match with.
After selecting, you enter the matching state and wait to be successfully picked. Once picked, your application advances to the submission stage.

Phase 2: Submission
When it’s your turn, a strict 24-hour countdown will start.
You must complete and submit your documents within this time. Missing the deadline may move you to a later pool, delaying your progress.
There are 3 submission levels. After completing all required steps, you press Submit, and your status changes to In Review.

Phase 3: Verification Process
This is the last stage - your application will be reviewed carefully.
This process is more than a technical update - it’s a defining milestone before full verification rollout.

Prepare early. Understand each phase.
Be ready when your turn comes!

#InterLink #ITLG #ITL

[Joel @joelft]

@inter_link ✅ ID: 696980
#InterLink #ITLG #ITL #verify

[Grandline @grandline_world]

🔱 Chapter 1: 21 Relics of the Ocean 🔱

Explorers, the Atlantic Crossing Begins.

In the heart of the Pharos, 21 relics begin to surface. Each one carries a story, a symbol, and a challenge.

This journey was built with 21 DApps, inviting explorers to earn soul-bound relics that belong only to those who’ve shown true loyalty and meaningful contribution to the ecosystem.

🌊 21 Relics
🌊 21 Partner DApps
🌊 21 mystery quests
🌊 300 SBT/relic

The first batch begins with 8 partners and will be open for only 2 weeks. Quest 1 will drop tomorrow.

Are you ready to explore deeper?

Set Sail & Reach the New World 🌊

[Joel @joelft]

@idextratime Waduhh cikk🤣

[Joel @joelft]

@SlushWallet slushy

[Joel @joelft]

@DataHaven_xyz Very excited, LFG!

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Five freedoms in crypto:

1) Freedom to control your own money
2) Freedom to move your own money
3) Freedom to invest your own money
4) Freedom to preserve the value of your own money
5) Freedom to raise money

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

On @base we help farmers grow into builders.

[Joel @joelft]

@SRefsy09 @DataHaven_xyz Dope!

[Joel @joelft]

@SRefsy09 @DataHaven_xyz phenomenal

[Whale Insider @WhaleInsider]

JUST IN: Over 1,000 wallets on Hyperliquid wiped out in market crash, 6,300+ wallets with losses exceeding $1.23B, 205 wallets lost over $1M and 1,070+ lost over $100K.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

This is unusual:

~30 minutes before President Trump's tariff announcement yesterday, a "whale" took a multi-million dollar SHORT in Bitcoin.

1 hour later, crypto saw its largest ever liquidation and this position was liquidated for +$192 MILLION in profit.

Did someone know?

[Coffeezilla @coffeebreak_YT]

The HyperLiquid whale shorting BTC/ETH yesterday was placing shorts up till exactly 1 minute before Trump threatened tariffs against China.

The last short was placed at 20:49 GMT. Trump tweeted at 20:50 GMT.

What incredible "luck"

[Machi Big Brother @machibigbrother]

Was fun while it lasted.

[The White Whale @WhiteWhaleLabs]

A Post-Crash Pilot Debrief from The White Whale

$62M - gone in a flash. But as was repeatedly pounded into my head in pilot training: any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

As I’ve been processing yesterday’s events, I want to share a few thoughts from a place of honesty, vulnerability, and accountability - as I always have.

Let’s start with why I faced such a large liquidation, and then I’ll share some observations from the last 18 hours.

First and foremost: I got too fixated on the goal.
At one point this year, my unrealized PnL sat at 98 out of 100 million. Counting profits from other platforms, I had actually surpassed that goal - but because some of those platforms lacked HyperLiquid’s transparency, it became a mental game of “proof, or it didn’t happen.”

Heading into late September, my thesis was that because everyone expected a dip, it wouldn’t happen - and I wanted to be positioned in case I was right. I wasn’t. But I remained calm; I’ve survived every “black swan” this year and turned each into profit before.

That 100M milestone meant more than numbers to me. Years ago, I built a real-world company with that same amount as my exit target goal. But I walked away - choosing peace over profit. Running it had made me miserable; I was a prisoner to my own creation. So being able to finish that prior goal, this time on my own terms, became a form of redemption. A personal validation that I’d found a better way.

I’ve always been stubbornly resilient. Knocked down, yes - but never out.

That same determination that helped me survive life’s earlier chapters also made me impatient to start the next one. I wanted to move beyond daily trading and begin shaping the future of this space - helping build what comes next, not just benefiting from it.

Crypto is wild, beautiful, and broken in equal measure. My background has always been consumer-first: if you do right by people, your reward eventually comes. That principle belongs here, too - and I intend to bring it here.

But I rushed. I let excitement override discipline. And that’s on me.

While the timeline was full of “crime season” posts (ironically including my own), I’ve always believed this: you can’t claim the victories if you won’t own the failures.

Yesterday, when someone asked how I was handling it, I admitted I cried in my wife’s arms. Some mocked it with “no crying in the casino.” But I shared that moment intentionally - because sometimes, it’s okay to not be okay.

Vulnerability, especially among men, needs more voices.

And for the record - I’m still up for the year. I’ll recover, rebuild, and rise again.

A few quick observations from the wreckage:

L2 failures, once again.

During peak activity, Arbitrum and Base failed me - transactions hung while I tried to move stables. Solana, meanwhile, stayed rock solid. It wouldn’t have saved the position (nothing could outrun that $3200 ETH / $138 SOL wick), but once again Solana proved it performs when it matters most and earns more of my loyalty by the day.

Leverage isn’t the villain.

Some rushed to say, “See, that’s why leverage kills you.” I reject that. Leverage is just a tool - like a knife, a car, or money itself. Tools aren’t evil. The hand that wields them determines the outcome.

The humanity in the aftermath.

Amid the trolls celebrating others’ losses - a dark side of this space I’ll never understand - I also witnessed incredible compassion. People offering comfort, solidarity…even five individuals offering to send me money to help rebuild. I refused, of course - but the gesture hit me hard. It reminded me that for all the toxicity, there’s still goodness here.

Most days I’m the one offering support, not receiving it. Yesterday reversed that dynamic - and it meant more than I can express.

This wasn’t my proudest moment. But every chapter - even the painful ones - has purpose. If this experience reminds even one person to stay humble, to manage risk, to remain human through the chaos, then it wasn’t wasted.

Losses teach what profits never can: where strength truly lives. And mine was never in the number - it’s in the will to rebuild.

🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋

[Tomket Lovers Community @TomketLovers]

Covid crash: $1.2 Billion in liquidations

FTX crash: $1.6 Billion in liquidations

Today: $19.16 Billion in liquidations

This is Biggest liquidation event in history of crypto and almost 20x bigger than the Covid crash of March 2020.

[Joel @joelft]

Asa beuki mahal sia telkomtod kuota teh ai sinyal butut, cing baleg koplok

[Joel @joelft]

I pledge myself to Ritual! 🔥🔮🩸 @ritualfnd

[Joel @joelft]

@SRefsy09 @DataHaven_xyz Solid!

[Joel @joelft]

@SRefsy09 @DataHaven_xyz mantep kang moose