Nikita Sachdev Lord

CEO of Luna Media Corp • Founder of @lunaprofficial

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

This is one of those situations where the symbolism matters far more than the amount of bitcoin sold.

[Luna PR @LunaPRofficial]

AI is changing the rules of visibility and @nikichain is breaking down exactly why it matters.

In her latest piece for @SmartBrief, she explores why the future of discoverability belongs to brands building real authority, not just bigger ad budgets.

As AI becomes the first layer of research, credibility is becoming the new currency of visibility. The companies shaping conversations tomorrow will be the ones consistently trusted and referenced today.

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

This type of attitude towards your community is so sad 😞

[Litecoin @litecoin]

Thank you for your service.

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

Pizza day 🧡

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

We just wanted a space for more curated, meaningful conversations. A place where people can bring their families, watch a game, enjoy a glass of champagne, and built relationships.

That vision became a reality with Crypto Polo Cup 💛

Thank you to everyone who supported us and joined us in Wellington, Florida. The amount of love, praise, and momentum we’ve received since has honestly been amazing to see!

Can’t wait to welcome you to our next crypto polo cup in Dubai in Dec 2026.

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@Fitzybrypto @LunaPRofficial

[boob @boobillions]

Good evening, boob enthusiasts!

We’re excited to officially welcome @LunaPRofficial as boob’s new PR partner.

Luna PR is one of the most established names in web3 communications, having worked with hundreds of projects across crypto, blockchain, and emerging tech since 2017. From here on out, they’ll be helping us amplify boob’s mission, share our donation efforts with a wider audience, and make sure the world hears about the impact our community is creating.

@nikichain, founder and CEO of Luna PR, will personally interview any future major donors to spotlight their contributions and help share the stories behind their generosity.

This is a huge step forward for $boob, and we’re looking forward to showing more people what we’re all about.

[Lorenzo Valente @LorenzoARK]

Just got back from @consensus2026 Miami. Some unfiltered thoughts on the vibes:

The industry has clearly grown up. The degens are gone, the allocators are wearing suits, and your @Uniswap booth has been replaced by a JP Morgan activation with 50 year old boomers. Cautiously optimistic with a distinctly institutional aftertaste. This was not a bull market conference.

Key takeaways:

1) CLARITY Act has serious momentum. Everyone at the conference basically agrees it's getting done before summer. The urgency is real, people are done waiting. And the regulatory window feels genuinely unprecedented: CLARITY Act, GENIUS Act, a CFTC chair actively engaging with the industry, this combination has never existed simultaneously before. The institutional urgency you're seeing everywhere is directly correlated to this window feeling time-limited. Miss it and you're explaining to your board why you sat on your hands during the most favorable crypto regulatory environment in history.

2) Institutions are not dabbling anymore. They are ALL IN on tokenization and terrified of missing it. No one is debating whether blockchain rails are useful. The debate is now who gets the mandate. And quietly @coinbase , @krakenfx , @RobinhoodApp and @Bullish and others are being seen more as competitors than potential partners by a lot of these TradFi players.

3) TradFi M&A is going to keep ripping. @krakenfx just grabbed Reap for $600M. Visa, Mastercard, Swift etc they can't miss the train and they're willing to overpay for the ticket.

4) Crypto VC is consolidating fast. @a16z and @katie_haun just announced $2.2B and $1B funds respectively. Meanwhile the boutique VCs are either pivoting to AI or quietly closing shop. Same playbook is happenign as traditional VC, the big platforms eat everything and the small guys scramble. Seed and pre-seed is basically a ghost town right now. Late stage and pre-IPO is where the action is.

5) Investment themes were aggressively consensus (no pun intended): Stablecoins, tokenization, vertically integrated neo-banks, regulated or permissioned DeFi. Literally everyone is trying to be a tokenization platform. Issuance, management, settlement, curation, pick your lane, slap tokenization on it, try to raise money.

6) Building in crypto is genuinely hard now. Your competition isn't some scrappy new L1 or GMX, it's @tether , @Anchorage , and @Securitize. there are now many crypto businesses running 200M+ annual Rev with serious management teams and deep pockets. The barbarians are now the establishment. New entrants are going to have a very bad time.

7) Pure token-only plays have become extremely contrarian. Controversial take but I think the biggest returns will come from a handful of tokens that can credibly signal in a compliant way that the token remains the only value accruing asset going forward.

8) A lot of teams are in a genuinely weird spot on the token/equity dynamics. Decent products, decent teams, but a complete stakeholder clusterf*** that nobody can untangle. Many of these will simply not survive.

9) The agentic finance and agentic commerce crowd was loud. The actual substance was not. A lot of big claims, very little to show for it. Feels very early and mostly vibes. Color me skeptical for now.

10) @Bullish acquiring Equinity for $4.2B was the boldest move of the conference. @ThomasFarley and @BonannoDavid now have a full-stack RWA proposition: issuance, transfer agency, tokenization, exchange and settlement under one roof. Massive move. Very positive for the industry regardless of whether you think the price or the move were right.

11) @BitMNR and @fundstrat are apparently tired of winning and has decided to let your grandma keep her ETH... for now. The pace of accumulation is slowing. Tom, we await your next allocation with bated breath.

12) DeFi apps are moving up the stack and getting smarter about it. They don't want to be the commodity infrastructure layer getting squeezed by exchanges that own distribution. Some genuinely interesting announcements, @buffalu__ at @jito_sol launching JTX being the highlight.

13) Nobody at the conference was talking about retail coming back. The entire conversation was institutional. That's either a sign of maturity or a sign that the industry has quietly given up on mainstream consumer adoption for now and is betting the next cycle gets pulled by institutional flows rather than retail FOMO. Probably both.

14) The L1 debate is officially dead. Nobody and I mean nobody was arguing SOL vs ETH or pitching their shiny new L1. The crowd that used to religiously defend their chain of choice has either grown up, cashed out, or both. Institutions don't care about your consensus mechanism. They care about settlement finality, compliance rails and liquidity. The L1 wars were fun while they lasted. RIP.

15) DATs are a mess. Had some genuinely productive conversations with a few of them but let's be honest most are an absolute clusterf*** operationally and very few are running anything resembling a legitimate business. The structure is a disaster at the stakeholder level and the governance makes your average startup cap table look clean. That said, the permanent capital vehicle concept is still genuinely compelling and I think a handful of these will turn out to be absolute home runs. The model isn't broken, most of the teams just are.

Bottom line: Consensus 2026 felt like the moment crypto stopped being a movement and started being an industry. Whether that's exciting or depressing probably depends on when you got in.

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

Hello Vegas!

Catch me live at The Bitcoin Conference 🎤

Wednesday 29th | 11:00 AM | Satoshi Stage

Talking Bitcoin, culture, media, and everything in between with @AnalysFalchuk 💛

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@ARafayGadit @careem Insane!!

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

If I had just one night in Paris, it would look exactly like this.

It started at the Ritz - champagne in the lounge, everyone dressed to impress, police-escorted cars swept us through the city to Versailles.

We entered the palace, entirely privatized for us. Each room came alive - a quartet here, an opera singer there, recreating the 18th century.

And then we reached the ballroom…WOW! Vast ceilings, gilded walls, 10m tall paintings, once filled with decision-makers who shaped the course of nations…but today, filled by us - founders, investors, and builders defining the next wave of technology… it felt poetic.

Honoured to have been part of it 🙏

@ParisBlockWeek, you raise the bar every year! Shoutout to @amarmic and the team behind Europe’s most successful digital asset event.

[Katerina @katerinaviko]

from a private escort Paris–Versailles to bespoke art mediation within the palace, followed by an exceptional dining experience and fireworks among the crème de la crème of the blockchain and fintech world.

@ParisBlockWeek set the tone.

a few moments from a VIP opening night at Versailles.

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@NFTMami @LunaPRofficial Heyyy!! Thank you so much for the kind words. You made my day ❤️ hope to see you around

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

9 years in crypto @LunaPRofficial - thank you to everyone who was and is part of that journey 💛

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@sirshibaninja @cryptopolocup Come by!

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

I’m pleased to announce that the 4th edition of Crypto Polo Cup will take place in Palm Beach, Florida on May 9th, same week as Consensus 2026 Miami.

I’m grateful to see all the incredible support from our ambassadors, players, and partners, as we bring @cryptopolocup to the US.

We’re equally excited to return to Dubai in Q4 this year, so hopefully we’ll see you at one (or both) of our polo events!

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@mrkcomment @cryptopolocup Thank you 🤩

[Nikita Sachdev Lord @nikichain]

@ZIGChain So exciting!

[ZIGChain @ZIGChain]

Decision-makers, institutions, builders, and capital in the same room.

One day dedicated to the conversations shaping the next phase of onchain finance.

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