Truth is, we just like supporting builders who actually care.
There are devs out there who keep shipping when the price is bleeding and nobody's watching, and that part rarely gets seen.
We've been blessed to sit with a few of them, have the real conversation, and put it on film.
That's the whole point. We're not covering projects. We're covering people.
It was never about the token first. It's the spirit of the dev, the refusal to stop, and you only feel that in their actions and in the conversations most people never get to have.
For those special ones out there busting their ass, it's nothing to tell them thank you, whether the price is up or down. We all know that doesn't matter.
The one who keeps shipping, who reinvents, restitches, reconnects, and ships again, is the one who wins.
Stay Wise 👁️
Wisemen Morning Tea is now live!
(June 13th, 2026) with @Docsthename20
B's on the table
An Agentic Future of Commerce
Priced at 5.7 billion today. By 2030 they price it in at 3 to 5 trillion in total market cap....
22 mins. Why @ORE MAXI?
Best breakdown I can do today. You'll get it by the end. I promise you.
@hardhatchad cooked fr.
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Incredible listen from @Wisemenmentors. No need to break it down when you can hear it straight from the man himself... Each day the vision gets clearer, but this morning it clicked BIG time. The Hard Hat is permanently glued on. ⛏️🛡️👑
The Lost Tapes 01: Deep Cuts From the Mine.
Feat. @HardhatChad of @ore.
Writing the next page of Satoshi's white paper.
A line like that doesn't come from a first impression.
The first time we sit with a creator, a developer, the face behind a protocol, it's their story. Where they came from, how they got here, why they think and move the way they do. You meet the person first, because that's who you fall in love with. The builder gives you hope. The protocol gives you conviction.
The Lost Tapes is what comes after. The things that got missed the first time. The things that got lost. This is where they surface, and where we take the protocol apart down to the code. The hope was the easy part. This is where the conviction gets built.
We were never built for one and done. Sitting with some of the sharpest minds in this space and walking away after one conversation was never our personality. The Lost Tapes is how we keep coming back, sitting down again, going deeper.
Think of it like a cassette. Before you could skip to any track you wanted, you found a tape and let it run start to finish, the way it was meant to be heard. That's this. One conversation, one full swoop, no skipping.
And like everything Wisemen makes, it runs heavy on symbolism, all of it pointing back at the protocol, the token, the dev, the lore and the community. You might catch a couple things in the promo. Hence the honey badger. Double entendre. IYKYK.
This is where it all ties together. Quantum. DeFi. Minting. Mining. Store of value. Solana. Bitcoin. Zcash.
Deep in the minds, we recorded a conversation the internet needs. 📼
Conviction Only Builds in Understanding
Talk to almost anyone running this industry and all you hear about is the algorithm. The algorithm, the algorithm. What hits, what trends, what gets clicks. But watch those same people before a big interview or a write up, and the first thing they do is quietly go find the most thorough breakdown that already exists. Most of the time, that's our work. The bar they actually trust and the thing they reward are not the same, and everyone knows it.
We've watched this pattern for a year now. The hours we put into understanding a project, a founder, the dynamics underneath it become the source people study before they ever go on camera. It almost never gets cited, and that's fine.
It's about the standard.
Right now the standard is ten minutes. People show up with that and call it preparation. And it works, because the most popular take and the most thorough take are rarely the same thing. The popular one is easy. The thorough one costs you weeks. So most people take the easy one, chase the clicks, and that watered down version becomes what everyone accepts. It's easy to stamp "too long" on real work and keep scrolling. That's a disrespect to the game, and what it actually takes to build the highest quality is constantly overlooked.
And we already know reading this triggers people, even though it's just philosophical truth. Good. Be honest with yourself. When has nerding out ever been the cool thing? When has deep research ever been the popular one? It never has. Depth has always lived on the unpopular side, and that has never once made it wrong.
Projects hit us up for it every day, and we understand why. For a founder, a piece like that becomes the record. It's the thing they point to long after the launch hype fades, the representation that answers the question every serious person eventually asks. Is this real? Who's actually behind it? It doesn't vanish in a feed by tomorrow. It lives on the internet forever. And we still say no almost as often as we're asked. Not for leverage. We can't write what we're not passionate about. That passion is the filter. The projects we go deep on are the ones we actually believe in, and that is the only reason the work comes out the way it does.
And here's what the depth is actually for. Our community has been conditioned to seek this kind of understanding because they know what it does for them. It's the thing that keeps them holding through the worst stretches, and more often than not, buying more while everyone else is folding. Conviction only ever builds inside understanding. Without it, all you ever had was hype and a checkmark on a list, and hype does not survive a drawdown. The kind of conviction that holds a position through the ugliest part of a chart only comes from one thing. Knowing fully why you are in it.
So this isn't about credit. It's about whether we care enough to put out something real instead of clickbait.
You don't meet the standard. You set it. You set it by refusing to do the watered down version.
Remain wise my friends 👁️
Where would this timeline be without @pmarca ?
$50K in Bitcoin to @truth_terminal. July 2024.
The grant that funded the first AI to move markets.
A revolution nobody saw coming.
Already Alive: The Story Crypto Told First
Take down your ORE video off YouTube. It's the only one with any traction on your whole channel.
Tell you what, make a solana:zinc155BS4mSPk8GXQj4R5hkVDQXcW253pTYq5SGyfi video instead and let's see how that one does. You can't build a foundation out of zinc anyway. You just coat stuff with it and watch it rot away. The whole concept is 🗑️
We'll be waiting on your big zinc premiere. 👀
Crazy what these KOLs will do for a $250 deal.
The ORE staking program has officially been frozen.
This is a major milestone and security upgrade for token holders. All staked assets are now immune from upgrade authority risks.
Here's what this means for users... 🧵
6 months ago we mapped this out in the Extended Cycle. We just checked the math. It's worse.
Global debt then: $318 trillion.
Today: a record $348 trillion.
That's $30 trillion borrowed into existence in six months. The fastest build since COVID.
Nothing about the trap changed. $10 trillion in US debt still has to roll this year, so they can't raise rates without lighting the interest bill on fire. And they can't slow the economy either, not with China deploying more than half the world's industrial robots while America can't catch up.
So there's only one move left, and they make it every single time.
They print to stay in the race. Then they print to survive winning it.
We told you where this goes. The only update is the speed.
Most people know @solana now. Almost nobody knows what it took to get here.
Two years late. Five million lost before they wrote a line of code. A global pandemic on launch day.
This is everyone's favorite chapter. The story is way crazier than you think. Four minute history lesson.
Ch. 3: The Grind Solana: Built to Outlast