My mom passed away last night with 10 family members by her side.
She was the first in our family to escape the Soviet Union. She arrived in California with nothing, hustled as a single mom of 4, and achieved the American dream in every respect.
She was crafty, resourceful, and could make humor out of any situation.
Here’s a photo of us when money was tight: I asked to be Aladdin for Halloween, so she dressed me up as a Russian gypsy and thought I wouldn’t notice.
April 20, 1950 - June 21, 2026
you can raise all the money in the world
hire all the credentialed people you think you need and pay them to pretend to care
but you will still be outperformed by someone who gives a fuck
the amount of stimulants you’d need to take in order to compete with someone who’s just purely obsessed, and will naturally live like a crazy person for expended periods of time without it affecting them, in order to see something come to life, makes it only temporarily viable
Tweet of the Day by Wale
my secret to being neither happy nor sad
i chase the feeling of pride when I work >12h a day
pride is the only thing that consistently stays when you push hard in your work
it doesn’t matter if you’re in finance or art.
the busier you are, the fewer emotions/problems you will face
there are days where I know something is messed up, but I don’t let it get to me, because I’m too busy working and making (or losing) money
fun fact: I have a court date in January, and it’s such an unnecessary process with paperwork and lawyer fees but most of the time I think zero about it, because my full focus is on improving myself.
whether it’s a new business I started last week or working on what I can do better next bull cycle
that’s why I say: pride is a feeling that can’t be replaced.
all these bullshit emotions like happiness and sadness are always temporary.
work hard, reflect & be proud of what you’ve accomplished
if you're even thinking about joining the Infinex ICO whether at a $300M or $1B valuation, you might need to get yourself checked for extra chromosomes
- if you really want to buy, you'll easily be able to get it under $1B fully unlocked a few days after TGE
- and if you're going for the $300M round thinking you're getting a 40% discount compared to Patrons FDV, you couldn’t be more wrong, 90% of the supply for those NFTs is locked
eyeing $vooi sale on legion
$112,500,000 FDV & Raise cap is $500,000
100% unlock on TGE (early december)
vooi is a perp dex aggregator, allowing users to trade on all the best dex's
they got $420M daily and $6.9B in monthly volume (really solid)
they have investments from @yzilabs & had a sale on @echodotxyz earlier this year - with $40m FDV but a huge vesting:
10% on TGE + 26 months linear distribution
comparing with other perp-dex's you can see that there is a good potential for profit (image 2)
sales looking good, but it will be hard to get in because of huge oversubscription
Day 338: The hardest part about escaping the matrix is the opinions of people around you.
People made fun of me, called me stupid, told me I’d learn my lesson one day.
It’s tough trying to break free when you grow up in an environment where everyone is brainwashed that a degree and a 9-5 job is the only path to success.
My own mother still lies to people about what I do for a living so I don’t get seen as a failure by society, even though I earn maybe 20-30x more than the average person.
I’ve always been stubborn and a bit delusional about what I could achieve, but that’s exactly what helped me break free.
Don’t let the opinions of others stop you from chasing your dreams.
current stablecoin farming stack (links in the next tweet):
all of these are super safe where you can enter with basically any size
1. @PlasmaFDN: can't do much here now except bidding pre markets (not recommended)
2. @USDai_Official: 15-20% raw apr + airdrop + ICO
- caps will be raised next week (Sept 11th), but you can bypass that by using pendle and euler (you'll be doing that anyways to get maximum multipliers)
- Strategy: personally doing a mix of pendle LPs and YTs cause they have max multipliers (details in the next tweet)
3. @capapp: 10-15% raw apr + airdrop + (megaeth exposure maybe)
- Strategy: cUSD pendle LP for 20x caps multiplier
4. @Theo_Network: 4% yield + airdrop
- Strategy 1: LP on @prjx_hl (for prjx exposure)
- Strategy 2: deposit through Liminal (for liminal exposure)
5. @liminalmoney: 15-20% apr + airdrop?
- Strategy: HYPE (2x) + PUMP + Fartcoin
6. @etherealdex: 10% apr + airdrop
- a bit under the radar because they've been farming for a long time now but with everything going on with $ENA could be a decent airdrop
- Strategy: deposit eUSDE in euler
(all links below)
Day 279: Success isn’t something you grind your way into. For most people, it’s already written in their DNA… and sealed by the environment they were born into.
The greatest injustice of life is that you don’t get to pick either of those. You don’t choose your parents, your passport, your IQ, or your natural temperament. Yet those things end up shaping almost everything about your life.
Research proves this. Twin studies show that traits like grit, self-control, and discipline are 50–70% heritable. You don’t “learn” them, you inherit them. On top of that, simply being born in a third world country can predetermine the entire trajectory of your life. No matter how hard you work, the ceiling is capped.
So much of who ends up “winning” is just luck at birth: the right genes, the right environment, the right moment in history. That’s why most people will never get there. They quit too early, they can’t stomach the risk, or they simply never got the chance for it.
People don’t like hearing this, but it’s the truth: life is PvP, and you don’t start on an even playing field. Some are born with the tools to climb. Others aren’t.
And pretending otherwise is just coping.
Gprove
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, @SuccinctLabs this is by far the most meaningful airdrop ever given to a community. I sold just a small part of what I received, not to indulge myself, but to share warm meals with those less fortunate in my city. Seeing their smiles reminded me that kindness is worth far more than any token.
With the rest, I bought a new iPad because I want to start drawing too, just like so many others. This airdrop didn’t just give me tokens… it gave me the chance to touch lives, to follow a dream, and to carry a piece of hope forward.
Day 256: These are all trades I took this week (14-20 July).
I don’t like showing PNL, but this is how I usually log trades in my physical notebook.
I typically take between 3–10 trades a week. Once you start writing things down on paper or in Excel, you’ll begin to spot patterns in your behavior. Especially the ones that make you lose money. Weed those out, and your win rate improves fast.
If you take a bad trade, write down why it went wrong immediately. This will help prevent you from spiraling into overtrading (which always ends badly).
This post isn’t to flex btw, it’s to show that anyone can get similar results with the right habits. And no, “not enough capital” isn’t an excuse. I started five years ago with €500 and haven’t worked a single job since.
imagine this:
you’re 25 in 2030.
you make your first $200k.
you swap it to @USDT0_to immediately. - no way you’re letting even 1 cent go off that 200k
you’re scared of splitting the money but you know you have to - so all of your $200k isn’t sitting in one wallet
you get your android phone - the one that’s a mere plus to your iOS
you download @zerion@TrustWallet@Rabby_io & create 3 fresh wallets on each app
you carefully write down your seed phrases & back them up to ensure full recovery
you carefully split the $200k in chunks - sending around $22k each (to all of the 9 wallets)
you’re done & happy. you have twenty two thousand United States dollars on not just one - but 9 wallets
you pause & think. - things have finally changed for me & my family
it’s your younger sister’s 18th birthday - you’re happy you can finally blow her mind with a present
you ask for her EVM address. she sends it. you send her $2000 & send the TXN link.
she clicks it - seeing $2000 as part of the “transaction successful” figures - in bewilderment - she clicks on your address & sees $20k sitting pretty
she’s screaming now.
1) for receiving $2000 from her brother who’s only ever sent her $200 max in one go.
2) the realization that her brother has $20k & all the nice things she can do with that money
after all - her brother’s money is her money.
but wait - she wonders - how did it get there?
in one click - she finds the source transaction & sees all the $22k he sent from the source wallet totaling $200k
she doesn’t check again & straight up calls this man
“Ahhhhhhhhjjjjjjjj - thank you so much! who gave you 200 fckn thousand dollars!!!!? have you made it? are we rich?!!!”
you pause. you feel a little discomfort
aren’t you supposed to be happy about everything that’s happened?
I mean, you made 200k & just gifted your younger sis the biggest sum she’s ever received in her life
what is this feeling making your joy stale?
and then. it hit you.
you might have $200k. but your sister isn’t exactly the first person you want knowing your entire networth
at least not like this. at least not now
you haven’t even gotten the time to do some vanity spending (for yourself)
now everything you have feels monitored - you’re going to have to act responsibly & be accountable to someone for your own money.
where did it all go wrong?
you should have just used @RelayProtocol to bridge your @USDT0_to on @megaeth to @PlasmaFDN
that way / every transaction splitting the 200k would be shielded thanks to plasma’s shielded txns - thus untraceable.
you would’ve bridged - but you just made $200k & didn’t want to risk bridging that money
what if at the point you wanted to bridge / the bridge got hacked? / you were trying to risk as little as possible / understandably scared that your new found fortune could just as easily be taken away
I don’t blame you. I blame the fact that in this piece - 5 years from now - the issue of security in crypto is still “fragile”
but well - if you had bridged in bits to plasma - you wouldn’t have to deal with this privacy breach on your new found fortune.
idk man / I wrote this to highlight the importance of privacy, the fact that DeFi still feels insecure & why I personally think @PlasmaFDN is one of those blockchains that’ll host day-to-day usecases - bringing the dream of trillions to reality.
if you came this far - I lub you. 😗