a year ago at colosseum breakout i placed 5th on the indexer alone. no product. no users. just rust on a yellowstone node.
today conyr ships. chrome extension on https://t.co/bOdvj5VXaP and https://t.co/jDrZEFwjNh
submission for @colosseum frontier 👇
@CanteringClark Idk who said it but I remember a long time ago a tweet that said something like “you act too quickly when you are trying to grow capital, and you act too slowly when you are trying to protect capital” and it rly changed my life tbh
🤯 Setting up my #macmini with @openclaw during low liq in the trenches.
Downloaded #cursor and installed #ClaudeCode so I could start building the skeleton.
Using a hierarchy of agents, I’m slowing training it on my goals. Took article advice and built a Mission Control dashboard first.
Here's my gloves-off take on the trenches after spending over 40 days trying to solve some big problems:
The very mechanics people love are the same ones that hurt them the most.
Ultra-cheap supply. The ability to accumulate massive early allocation. The fantasy of “if I can just get enough tokens early, I win 1000X.”
That fantasy is intoxicating. It’s also weaponized against the very people who cling to it.
Most modern launchpads don’t sell innovation - they sell access to early cheap supply. And cheap supply isn’t neutral. It concentrates power fast. It makes it trivial for a small number of wallets to acquire meaningful control if you're an insider or early enough.
Once that happens, the project stops being a community experiment and becomes a math equation for whoever got there first.
Extraction isn’t a bug. It’s the feature.
And here’s the paradox we’re trapped in:
The trenches say they want an end to max extraction.
But they still demand the mechanisms that make max extraction inevitable.
You can’t have both.
You cannot make it easy to acquire a large percentage of supply at negligible cost and simultaneously expect resilience, fairness, or long-term growth. Those goals are structurally incompatible. One guarantees the other never exists.
This mostly comes down to an education gap. People don't realize the thing they are reaching for is the very thing that keeps hurting them.
People aren’t wrong for wanting upside. They’re wrong about where sustainable upside actually comes from. The average person hits 1,000X so rarely the odds are better to just go play your national lottery.
Shady KOLs pumping their own bags have sold this dream as a reality. And somewhere along the way we stopped appreciating the life-changing value that consistent realistic multiples can do for ones finances. Even a measly 2X - where else but in crypto can you go double your money in a short period of time? Why is 10X now considered not worth chasing?
This supply concentration problem is exactly why I've spent millions re-capturing supply from the open market. Because I wasn't early. I wasn't an insider. I didn't even launch this thing.
We're here tactically battling pure forces of evil every single day to build something different.
We didn’t spend time, capital, and effort recapturing supply control because it was easy or because I thought it would be a popular narrative. We did it because leaving supply widely and cheaply capturable guarantees the same outcome every single time.
Someone will consolidate it. Someone will weaponize it. And everyone else will call it “unfair” after the fact.
Real asymmetry doesn’t come from owning a mountain of cheap tokens.
It comes from owning time, conviction, and structure in a system that cannot be trivially controlled.
It’s an attempt to build something that doesn’t immediately collapse under the weight of its own incentives - even if that means challenging the very fantasies this space has been trained to worship.
If we actually want different outcomes, we have to stop clinging to the mechanisms that created the old ones.
I'm just not sure if the people are ready to face this undeniable fact.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
@StalkHQ COPE. In DLMM, the one-sided LP absorbs USDC from swaps, inflating the position beyond initial seed + fees... team withdrawing at peak ($3.18M) crashes price 80%, extracting holder-added value. Actual delusional take to not call this a rug.
I think an "AI Dev" (not #crypto native), would go mega viral in this space for explaining all these #memecoin LARPS in 30 seconds to all us apes.
Just help FUD all these vaporwares and uncover good tek with one glance of the #github