officially COO at @pumpcade
spent the last year watching pumpcade gain momentum while building @Pumpfun's fund, hackathon + ICM strategy
two things about me: I like working at billion dollar companies and I really don't like missing out on 100x's.
a decade scaling at @Pumpfun, @jump_ and @SkyMavisHQ / @AxieInfinity taught me.. a lot
pumpcade's trajectory became very clear very fast. it represented the Pump Fun ICM thesis fully realized: a legitimate enterprise, a record-breaking capital raise, and token holders participating in the upside from day zero via ACE
in this industry it's important to never settle for anything but extraordinary. we're all here because we're hungry for opportunity
and NEVER settle for prediction markets that rip you off
anyways,
pumpcade
Pumpcade is the true ICM story
I could have raised in a week if I listened to every VC and killed the token
Instead, I built solo without paying myself a dime for 6 months until I found the right group of VCs that saw the vision and understood that the token was non-negotiable
Today on MCG: @PopPunkOnChain | @pumpcade | solana:Eg2ymQ2aQqjMcibnmTt8erC6Tvk9PVpJZCxvVPJz2agu
Pop Punk came back on MCG to give updates on Pumpcade, the prediction market for instant-resolution markets as short as 60 seconds, focused only on markets that resolve through verifiable data
Built on @solana
Highlights include:
00:14 - Raised another $5M since the last MCG appearance
00:37 - First project to do the ACE round, which has since become a trend
03:06 - PopPunk's background
04:21 - Solo-built the product for 6 months without paying himself, then won the Pump Fun Hackathon
05:32 - The ACE round mechanic
06:33 - "We wanted CT degens to sit on the same cap table as top-tier S-tier investors"
09:30 - Final ACE numbers (6-7% of total supply converted for equity, locked for 1 year. Combined with 10% investor allocation = 16% of supply locked for 12 months)
19:23 - The product thesis
20:48 - Polymarket criticism
22:55 - GTM strategy
30:51 - "The only place to build our consumer application right now is on Solana"
38:25 - Parimutuel mechanic explained
39:34 - White-label resolution engine
41:28 - Biggest announcement yet is on the way 🚨
"You'd never sign a paper contract they wouldn't let you read. A closed smart contract is exactly that. A blank sheet of paper that says sign here anyway."
- @HardhatChad of @ORE
Rule Number 1. Always open source.
The Lost Tapes 01: Deep Cuts From the Mine.
This is the cycle of yield and scarcity.
Sit with it for a second. Will AI agents mine something digital and scarce? Of course they will. It costs the owner almost nothing to run, and it works around the clock.
An agent can't mine gold, copper, or silver. Those need a body in the dirt. It can't mine bitcoin either, because bitcoin is an ASIC arms race now, all specialized machines. No lane for software there.
But a digital scarce asset on @solana? That's pure transactions. The agent runs at machine speed on a network that clears thousands of transactions per second, deploying, claiming, restaking, never sleeping. That's a game built for machines, not for a human at a keyboard.
That's the gap. It's wide open right now, and it's damn sure worth tens of billions once you figure out what fills it.
Study @ORE 📖. In the end, it'll be so obvious.
Prediction markets are an incredibly nascent space right now, yet everyone and their mother are building a copy cat or an aggregator.
@pumpcade is a ground up entirely new imagination of what you can do with outcome speculation.
This is why everyone we give alpha to says this.
We are pushing hard to get sports markets live in the @pumpcade open beta.
Good news on that front. As of tomorrow, we will have access to ultra realtime sports data.
We'll aim to start with World Cup and MLB markets, and expand as interest grows.
Sportcade.
Open ecosystems attract unstoppable builders.
That’s why momentum matters.
Appreciate @wisemenmentors highlighting the energy around Solana and the creator economy. @PopPunkOnChain#pumpcade”
One of the sharpest builders in crypto could go anywhere. @PopPunkOnChain chose Solana. That should tell you something.
He said connecting with the Ethereum Foundation felt almost impossible. Closed off. A circle you couldn't break into.
@solana was the complete opposite. The people pushing the chain forward get a real shot to be seen.
So we asked @vibhu why the @SolanaFndn stays this open. Listen to his answer.
Full interview in the comments.
One of the sharpest builders in crypto could go anywhere. @PopPunkOnChain chose Solana. That should tell you something.
He said connecting with the Ethereum Foundation felt almost impossible. Closed off. A circle you couldn't break into.
@solana was the complete opposite. The people pushing the chain forward get a real shot to be seen.
So we asked @vibhu why the @SolanaFndn stays this open. Listen to his answer.
Full interview in the comments.
solana:Eg2ymQ2aQqjMcibnmTt8erC6Tvk9PVpJZCxvVPJz2agu is down hard. some context for anyone freaking out.
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remember this is still beta, not an official launch. some people were fudding in the tg yesterday because of bugs and they didn't fully agree with the current ui.
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pop himself published two open updates explaining exactly what the team is working on. testing core performance with bots. redesigning the home page from user behavior. shipping rapid iterations.
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that's not a team that's checked out. that's a team that's locked in.
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beta is supposed to be rough. the price chart and the project's actual progress are two different things right now.
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i know which one i'm watching.
Pumpcade enters open beta this coming Friday.
The team has spent the last 2 months reimagining every aspect of Pumpcade from the ground up.
There are some special surprises coming during open beta too.
THE WISE ONES: Developer Spotlight Series
Exclusive 1-on-1s with the people shaping the future.
No crowds. No fluff. Just raw alpha.
Hosted by @Wisemenmentors
EPISODE 9 DROPPING MONDAY:
@vibhu | @SolanaFndn | solana:So11111111111111111111111111111111111111112
The Solana Foundation. From the Inside.
Vibhu Norby is the Chief of Product at the @solana Foundation. He leads marketing. He ships first party Solana infrastructure. Five years on chain. He calls Solana his digital home.
What we covered:
• The mid-flight tweet that went viral on the way to Breakpoint.
• The two weeks in March when the team had to recalibrate.
• The doctrine behind every Foundation move and the "no kings" thinking.
• Where Solana actually stands against @HyperliquidX in trading and perps.
• The Korean Won stablecoin that just launched.
• The macro lens on scarcity, the AI race, and forex on chain.
• Whether a real store of value can exist on Solana.
• The case for Solana as one of the most valuable things on the planet.
He didn't hedge in this interview
"Solana should be one of the most valuable things on the planet. And if we can't make that happen, we have absolutely failed."
That's the position the Foundation operates from. Heads down. They know what needs to happen.
Why now:
This conversation is a follow up to Built to Outlast, our Solana documentary. We made the case for Solana from the outside. This takes you inside. With the people deciding every day how they win.
The biggest names. The best stories. Unfiltered.
Drop a 🔥 if you're ready.
@vibhu@solana@SolanaFndn@rajgokal@toly@calilyliu @JesseLPollak @therealchaseeb