TJ

Founder Limitless Value Capital

[Rhino @lBattleRhino]

One more rape event before October seems quite appropriate

[Rhino @lBattleRhino]

Legitimately, don’t give a fuck anymore. Everyone knows exactly what is going on except the sheep being raped.

If you think someone is sharing coins to “help their community”

Have a good time

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@ectsyxo Did you just dox yourself???

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@bull_zig @DONMZKO This shit will be at zero soon

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@bull_zig

[JRNY Crypto @JRNYcrypto]

"aRe NfTs LoWkEy MaKiNg a CoMeBaCk"

NO... and neither is Crypto. When I say this, I mean in the broader niche sense, not specific projects. The hype of anything being a NFT or a token is long gone. Only the projects that are truly passionate about their work and the space will make a comeback.

There will be waves of niche specific categories in both Crypto and NFTs that will be hyped and have crazy runs, but the time of WAGMI is forever ded.

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@CryptoZachLA You have absolutely no idea what they are doing behind the scenes are you?

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@bull_zig No I wouldn't

[TJ @thetradernomad]

This is insanely bullish for @base. Cobie > Jesse

[jesse.base.eth @jessepollak]

lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months.

first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a two pronged bet to bring base to the world: (1) builders would unlock the next wave of crypto adoption; (2) adoption would be driven by new onchain-native social experiences - creators, content, messaging. imo we made the right bet on builders, but obviously the wrong bet on social. builders did drive the next wave of crypto adoption - prediction markets, perpetuals, stablecoins - but social was not at the center of it. in fact, the entire social side of the market that many of us had been building towards - farcaster, zora, miniapps, and yes, creator coins - disintegrated completely. I was wrong - whether it was timing wrong (is $ansem a creator coin?) or fully wrong, only time will tell, but regardless, i was definitively wrong.

the collateral damage was pretty bad! and this year has been an exercise in eating shit. we realized how our focus on social had meant that base had fallen behind in key areas that were now increasingly critical - we had perps (shoutout avantis!) and prediction markets (shoutout limitless!), but both were well behind scaled competitors. and we had a lot of room to improve in unlocking base as a platform for tokenization and payments that really worked for enterprises. people lost confidence, and CT spectators reminded me weekly of all of my mistakes as often as they could. it felt bad man, still feels bad.

but if there’s one thing i’ve learned from the last decade of building in this space, it’s that when things feel the worst, the best thing to do is just put your head down and build. so that’s what i’m doing. I refocused my time and attention back to the chain away from the app, started writing code again, shipped a bunch of stuff (azul, beryl, b20, privacy, ledgers) and questioned a bunch of my assumptions: does crypto need social to grow? does base need an app? can base be bigger than coinbase?

I thought for a long time that social was the only thing that could drive the sort of viral growth to get crypto to a billion people. unsurprisingly, I now believe that’s wrong. It’s clear that better money is more than enough - we are seeing this live with stablecoins, predictions, perpetuals, tokenization and i only expect it to accelerate. I am now focused on bringing a billion people onchain just by making global finance actually work.

on the app, my focus is on building base into the blockchain for global finance. to that end, i’ve handed the base app back to the coinbase mothership, where my now good friend @cobie will be taking it from here to make it the best damn app for onchain you’ve ever seen, including expanding beyond the base ecosystem in ways that tbh i won’t love as the leader of base.

it’s incredibly hard to grow a decentralized network inside of a big public corporation. and i feel like much of the discourse on CT over the last week is downstream of this. the following things can be true: (1) base (and i) love memes and (2) brian probably won’t ever bullpost memes on the tl (this activity is illegal once you’re over 40 years of age). it’s weird and we’re working through it as we continue to decentralize base, which has been our commitment from the beginning.

we’re going to build base into the blockchain for global finance and do everything we can to be the place that the world’s money settles over the next century. we will surely have formidable competitors (welcome robinhood and stripe!) and people may abandon our cause, but we welcome the competition and believe it’s our duty to win the respect and commitment of those who rally to our banner. 

in 2026, this concretely means three things: winning trading, payments, and agents.

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[TJ @thetradernomad]

@thedefivillain @Cbb0fe Exactly this, always hedge yourself. I’m either happy my team won or I make money 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@SteveCleanBrook @solana @solflare ❤️

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@SteveCleanBrook Did I just out Solana you

[TJ @thetradernomad]

It you want to have a good laugh, check the comments on this post

[LAB @LABtrade_]

LAB Community – an update on today’s market activity

While today’s market activity is disappointing, our product roadmap and long-term focus remain unchanged.

We’re seeing significant selling pressure from large market participants. Several independent trading firms also hold substantial LAB positions that are not affiliated with our team.

We’re working closely with our liquidity partners and continue to monitor market conditions.

We’ll continue to share updates when there’s more to report.

[TJ @thetradernomad]

Here we go again

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

U.S. MILITARY: FORCES HAVE BEGUN LAUNCHING A SERIES OF POWERFUL STRIKES AGAINST IRAN

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Fable 5 reading all the code Opus 4.8 wrote for me in the last two weeks

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@SteveCleanBrook @hyperstrike @solflare Yeah show back or fake

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@Zeke_Gripto Ansem coin going up doesn't mean institutions are buying btc?

[TJ @thetradernomad]

@0x_Samir Are you retarded