People are often surprised when I say that I’ve been in @DWFLabs for almost 5 years, but it’s not hard to understand after I explain our company culture and management’s vision and strategy to survive crypto cycles and all the shifts the world is facing.
Our motto “Work hard and be nice” is the foundation of our performance evaluation. Motivated people want to be in a company with winning mentality, in which everyone works hard, inspiring each other. This retains good people, no wonder our avg employee tenure is around 2 years, with many people with more than 3 or 4 years in the company.
Equally important, you have the security that management takes the right and hard decisions when needed. Surviving crypto/ finance isn’t easy, and markets shifts happen often. Your current strategy most likely won’t be applicable entirely in the near future, so you have to constantly keep adapting, and now with AI things are changing much faster.
It’s sad to see all these layoffs and companies shutting down due to lack of revenue/ PMF. But I believe it is important to share that while the market is consolidating/ changing, many companies including us won’t leave this space, and we are always looking for new talent that fits our mantra (without doing the mistakes of over hiring and then firing when market conditions aren’t ideal).
We have been working on many cool stuff internally and hopefully we can present them in a clear way to everyone soon!
I’m happy that I “bet” on DWF Labs the same way they did on me when onboarding an university student as intern. Onward and upward.
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🎙️ The Sujal Show Ep. 14: @ag_dwf – The Man Behind 1,000 Crypto Deals Just Told Us Everything
@DWFLabs founder Andrei Grachev reveals what retail never sees, token listing secrets, his $1,000 crypto playbook, how market makers really make money, and his personal holdings.
We Discussed on @TheSujalShow:👇
- Why he sold most of his mined ETH at $5
- Why retail is the product, not the player
- What DWF is quietly building
- Where to put $1,000 today (his exact playbook)
- Privacy coins like $ZEC: sustainable or hype?
- 3 crypto categories that die in 5 years
- Why 1B+ cap coins won’t 10x
- Why CeDeFi (centralized DeFi) is the next big narrative
- The coin loan model nobody explains clearly
- How exchanges & market makers decide your opening price
- Why most "smart money" wallets on Hyperliquid are only showing half the picture
- How to spot fake volume on any exchange
- Why AI trading agents are "not good”
- 3 altcoins he'd put his own money
- His BTC price prediction for this cycle
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:26 How Andrei got inside crypto's inner circle
03:47 Is crypto really the most manipulated market?
06:43 What market makers actually do
11:12 How market makers make (and lose) money
12:50 The smart money playbook nobody talks about
16:14 His exact $1,000 crypto strategy today
17:54 The FBI fake token sting explained
19:03 Market making vs. market manipulation
21:00 How to spot a fake pump in real time
24:25 What happens before your coin hits the exchange
29:23 The truth about stop loss hunting
35:05 Where DWF is quietly moving money right now
39:04 The $25M Trump token deal & Justin Sun drama
40:11 Rapid fire
He mined ETH at $5. Bootstrapped DWF Labs. Now he’s telling you how the game really works.
Watch now 👇
After months of work, we are happy to introduce our new product - institutional U.S. dollar stablecoin in partnership with Anchorage Digital Bank.
This is just a small part of the global tokenization and RWA focused developments that we are working on. There are tens of billions of tokenized RWA, that have no utility, no volumes, no flows, and our mission is to make them all useful and liquid onchain, in order to support decentralized financial system, transparency and efficiency.
We keep building, many more updates are coming
Stay tuned, cheers!