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willofscott

My intention wasn’t to portray a message of a guaranteed thing, highly probable, but nothings guaranteed. Also to push back on Arthur Hayes, flippant disregard based on VC involvement, and how that’s seems to totally render the project useless in his mind (which is frankly only concerned with Arthur’s shorts or longs, and doesn’t truly give a shit about anyone else, ie the hyperliquid pump and dump to buy his Ferrari, sheesh) We shall see, this chain seems to have what it takes and has tech none other has had. See you on the way there, let’s meet at a much higher level. lol.

willofscott

Just like any industry there will be critical infrastructure which replaces the old infrastructure. The tokens/coins related to these projects which are critical infrastructure, will do well, and trust is not really an element. If it’s necessary people are forced to use it and in time they trust it from experience and continuity. There will be older projects with a proven track record with older tech, like ethereum and there will be coins like BTC which achieve the pinnacle of a niche, niche being a digital gold, or store of value, there will be newer projects proving themselves as a financial avenue for transactions, and then there will be brand new projects which have solid up to date tech which strive to prove themselves to be better then the older versions, such as Monad is a eth code compatible, copy and paste migration capable from ethereum, with speeds 1000’s of time faster then ethereum, and extremely cheaper to transact on. On Chain finance is the future of finance, it’s a known thing by all financial players in trad fi, dex and cex. It’s the automobile when horses were the primary form of travel. Trad fi is the horses, give it time and everything will be on chain driven. Why? Because you maximize profits and speed all things transactionary, so it’s inevitable. Profits drive innovation, greater profits channel the world into the specific network which achieves this. That is blockchain. So is there any other coins/tokens of course, but they are not so much based on trust as BTC is, they are based on the value they deliver to the ones utilizing the system, and the transactions deliver the value to the coin in form of gas fees, liquidity for lending, paid expenses of transactions, etc. Crypto, it’s not nefarious or mystical, it’s the delivering of value like any business that thrives does. Crypto for “the utility”is the business model, which adds value. The question is which ones may or may not end up adding value to society, but we know the ones that do add value, their tokens will climb in price. The older they are the lesser the gains but less risk, the newer they are and have well telegarphed tech advantage have less risk and medium to high gains being a bunch of the gains are baked in due to the recognition of high quality tech and stellar team building it. These traits are all in Monad as it is right now. Then You have the unknown non-telegraphed new ones with minimal backing that are a crap shoot, which if they make it are parabolic winners becasue they start from next to zero, but frankly most don’t make it and choosing the ones that do is extremely difficult if even able to, it’s more about luck. Many a crypto millionaire was just in the right place at the right time buying something they had no idea what they were buying or if it would make it or not, and they got lucky to buy the right one, by luck. My assessment…BTC buy, Solana buy, Ethereum probably buy, Monad 100% buy, Chainlink buy, etc. The reason Monad is in that list, is ethereum has big limitation issues, well known in the industry, they are institutional level secure but cannot scale to even close to what is necessary and critical without some very creative reworking which has not even been planned yet and obviously not even commenced yet, and it happens to be the main core for trad fi right now. Monad is purposefully built to exactly solve the ethereum scaling problem, by copy and paste eth code so no down time migrating and instant access to lightning speed, instant finality, massive ability to scale volume as it stands right now and operating successfully right now, without even ramping up its core functionalities, which in the future it can be scaled up when needed, even more with ease. It is the new super highway rapidly on ramping apps and services at a pace that’s getting faster and faster, as this is happening ethereum is losing its apps and services. The migration is based on profits of the apps and services, it’s inevitable. More speed, cheaper fees, ready made scale, means more profits and greater success for the apps and services moving over or building from new, all utilizing Monad. When you help businesses succeed they will come, It’s a sure thing, it is happening. It’s the better new super highway. The project is and has been understood to be solid tech to the tune of having 250 million in funding to build this tech. That would not happen without grave scrutiny of the quality of the proposed tech, and the excellent merits of the team. 250 million isn’t planted into a project without massive due diligence and review. That alone says a lot for the objective of this chain. Its main net is live, its adoption is ramping up everyday, its chainlink and other core systems compatible from its birth, it’s a primary contender for the top 5 chains, its new so its behind older ones, but it comes with better more up to date tech, so it can quickly outpace other more established chains. It’s going to be a winner. A little more risk, but not like unknown projects, a little more muted returns possibly being some of the appreciation is “baked in” to its value from the start but that’s due to more confidence in its actual achievable value. It makes it safer not a disadvantage as some people tend to misrepresent this dynamic, as in claiming “VC pump and dump” uniformed, misunderstood statements. As if invested capital which builds important ventures in this world somehow poisons the project just because it has institutional investors, and no other reason. That’s a very immature opinion indeed. Anyone in business knows it takes money and in a lot of cases a hell of a lot of money to build systems, pharmaceuticals, technology, etc. These VC investors will rightly take there profit over a period of time, and then retail which bought after they did will have the next period of time to ride up and take profits, it’s so natural an occurrence, why it is deemed evil is a mystery to me. I think it’s a bit of jealousy that investors which can plant 250 million are buying when the coin is .00001, and when it comes to market the coin is .025 so they make a ton of money, BUT they took a huge risk when they bought in, because there was nothing to hang your hat on accept due diligence and proposals. So when they sell, the profits they get have been earned, then it’s the next period which is ours to reap, and getting in early to a high quality project can be a very very rewarding action. Plus, if we had that kind of money, 250 mil, we would of bought along time ago too, and be selling around this time, it’s so normal and predictable type of event, it confuses me why people have a problem with that. I understand if it’s not backed with solid tech then its not so good, but you would have to be out of your mind to plant 250 million in a sketchy project just to pretend it’s quality and hope everything subvert goes to plan and goes ok…that’s way too much “what ifs” built on nothing special , for any investment firm to risk. That’s just silly thinking. Monad is built to solve the problems of the most secure and utilized utility chain today that has flaws, ethereum, even Vitalik discussed these issues and limitations and is still in the potential concept phase of solution discussion…all the while the solution is here and operating as we speak, and absorbing ethereum apps and services every single day since its launch in November of 2025, Monad is the solution to ethereum ills, the ethereum antidote, Monad, is the operating cure, its built for the future which started yesterday,. Go MON, show me the MONey! DYOR.

willofscott

Just like any industry there will be critical infrastructure which replaces the old infrastructure. The tokens/coins related to these projects which are critical infrastructure, will do well, and trust is not really an element. If it’s necessary people are forced to use it and in time they trust it from experience and continuity. There will be older projects with a proven track record with older tech, like ethereum and there will be coins like BTC which achieve the pinnacle of a niche, niche being a digital gold, or store of value, there will be newer projects proving themselves as a financial avenue for transactions, and then there will be brand new projects which have solid up to date tech which strive to prove themselves to be better then the older versions, such as Monad is a eth code compatible, copy and paste migration capable from ethereum, with speeds 1000’s of time faster then ethereum, and extremely cheaper to transact on. On Chain finance is the future of finance, it’s a known thing by all financial players in trad fi, dex and cex. It’s the automobile when horses were the primary form of travel. Trad fi is the horses, give it time and everything will be on chain driven. Why? Because you maximize profits and speed all things transactionary, so it’s inevitable. Profits drive innovation, greater profits channel the world into the specific network which achieves this. That is blockchain. So is there any other coins/tokens of course, but they are not so much based on trust as BTC is, they are based on the value they deliver to the ones utilizing the system, and the transactions deliver the value to the coin in form of gas fees, liquidity for lending, paid expenses of transactions, etc. It’s not nefarious or mystical, it’s the delivering of value like any business that thrives does. Crypto for the utility is the businesses which may or may not end up adding value to society the ones that do, their tokens will climb. The older they are the lesser the gains but less risk, the newer they are and have well telegarphed tech advantage are more risky and medium to high gains being a bunch of the gains are baked in due to the recognition of high quality tech and stellar team building it has, all in Monad as it is right now. You have the unknown non-telegraphed new ones that are a crap shoot, which if they make it are parabolic winners becasue they start from next to zero, but frankly most don’t make it and choosing the ones that do is extremely difficult if even able to, it’s more about luck. Many a crypto millionaire was just in the right place at the right time buying something they had no idea what they were buying or if it would make it or not, and they got lucky to buy the right one, by luck. My assessment…BTC buy, Solana buy, Ethereum probably buy, Monad 100% buy, Chainlink buy, etc. The reason Monad is in that list, is ethereum has big limitation issues, well known in the industry, they are institutional level secure but cannot scale to even close to what is necessary and critical without some very creative reworking which has not even been planned yet and obviously not even commenced yet, and it happens to be the main core for trad fi. Monad is purposefully built to exactly solve the ethereum scaling problem, by copy and paste eth code so no down time migrating and instant access to lightning speed, instant finality, massive ability to scale volume as it stands right now and operating successfully right now, without even ramping up its core functionalities, which in the future it can be scaled up when needed, even more with ease. The project is understood to be solid tech to the tune of having 250 million in funding to build this tech. That would not happen without grave scrutiny of the quality of the proposed tech, and the excellent merits of the team. 250 million isn’t planted into a project without massive due diligence and review. That alone says a lot for the objective of this chain. Its main net is live, its adoption is ramping up everyday, its chainlink and other core systems compatible from its birth, it’s a primary contender for the top 5 chains, its new so its behind older ones, but it comes with better more up to date tech, so it can quickly outpace other more established chains. It’s going to be a winner. A little more risk, but not like unknown projects, a little more muted returns possibly being some of the appreciation is “baked in” to its value from the start but that’s due to more confidence in its actual achievable value. It makes it safer not a disadvantage as some people tend to misrepresent this dynamic, as in claiming “VC pump and dump” uniformed, misunderstood statements. As if invested capital which builds important ventures in this world somehow poisons the project just because it has institutional investors, and no other reason. That’s a very immature opinion indeed. Anyone in business knows it takes money and in a lot of cases a hell of a lot of money to build systems, pharmaceuticals, technology, etc. These VC investors will rightly take there profit over a period of time, and then retail which bought after they did will have the next period of time to ride up and take profits, it’s so natural an occurrence, why it is deemed evil is a mystery to me. I think it’s a bit of jealousy that investors which can plant 250 million are buying when the coin is .00001, and when it comes to market the coin is .025 so they make a ton of money,BUT they took a huge risk when they bought in, because there was nothing to hang your hat on accept due diligence and proposals. So when they sell, the profits they get have been earned, then it’s the next period which is ours to reap, and getting in early to a high quality project can be a very very rewarding action. Plus, if we had that kind of money, 250 mil, we would of bought along time ago too, and be selling around this time, it’s so normal and predictable type of event, it confuses me why people have a problem with that. I understand if it’s not backed with solid tech then its not so good, but you would have to be out of your mind to plant 250 million in a sketchy project just to pretend it’s quality and hope everything subvert goes to plan and goes ok…that’s way too much “what ifs” built on nothing special , for any investment firm to risk. That’s just silly thinking. Monad is built to solve the problems of the most secure and utilized utility chain today, ethereum, even Vitalik discussed these issues and limitations and is still in the potential concept phase of solution discussion…all the while the solution is here and operating as we speak, and absorbing ethereum apps and services every single day since its launch in November of 2025, Monad is the solution to ethereum ills, the ethereum antidote, Monad, is the operating cure, its built for the future which starts now. Go MON, show me the MONey! DYOR.

DelapidatedNoodle

Premarket was allowing shorts on perceived value. It was really high at first but people didn't like the news about the airdrop or that most of the supply went to VC and founders. Retail doesn't want to get dumped on.

willofscott

He shorted the pre-ICO price, that’s good for him, yet he still knows nothing about the thing he shorted. Knows nothing about how building a new chain infrastructure from the ground up takes dedication, hard work, long hours, high salaries of very talented engineers, lots of resources, IE why VC money is necessary. So you see “VC” and you think pump and dump, why? because it’s the hip thing to say on Reddit or in crypto circles, your lucky you didn’t get burned on that short it possibly could of ripped your face off. This chain and its functionality will be here for along time gaining traction, adoption, transactions, momentum because it came online in a strong condition. Sure VC will get there gains, as they rightly should, and this may delay retails investment appreciation but this appreciation will come indeed, due to the quality of the build which is made possible from the investment of the VC. When this will happen is the unknown, hence why I’m building a position now, and ride out any dilution or volatility, which maybe be less then expected due to its rapidly increasing growth and launched projects on its rails. The money invested laid the soul to grow within, not to invest 250 million to build a pile of crap to dump, that would be so ludicrous. Sometimes you need to think, research and get educated not just short shit and build nothing. But good for you, you got your short. I look forward to being a long term investor in a thing of quality, which MON most definitely is.

noviwu97

2x shorted this VC pump n dump at $0.13 and closed at $0.022. My best play from last year.

Bad-practice

People joke about “sell your house, your car, your grandma’s antique vase” every time Bitcoin dips or the road to $1M feels long… but the funny part is that the loudest critics always show up *right before* Bitcoin proves them wrong again. The road might look long, but it’s the only road in crypto that hasn’t collapsed, rugged, been hacked, paused, reset, or “upgraded” into oblivion. Blocks keep coming in every 10 minutes, no marketing team, no VC unlocks, no foundation drama — just pure monetary gravity doing its thing. Let the doomers scream “too late”, “too early”, “too slow”, “too volatile”. They’ve been wrong for 15 years straight. Meanwhile, the people who stay focused quietly stack, zoom out, and watch the long road get a little shorter every cycle. The joke isn’t “sell everything for Bitcoin”. The joke is how many people wish they had stacked harder once the next leg up begins.

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Yeah, that anger is completely justified, the on-chain transparency line falls apart once you realize the real decisions happen off-chain, behind closed doors, long before retail ever sees a candle. After Terra, it became painfully clear that code can be public while power and information are very much private. That’s actually why I stepped away from most DeFi and VC-heavy narratives and moved a big chunk into CoinDepo instead, no algo games, no governance theater, just a boring deposit → lending model with Fireblocks custody and anytime withdrawals. It’s not about pretending the system is fair anymore, just minimizing how often you’re someone else’s exit liquidity.

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Maximum-Wishbone5616

That is not a big issue as they invest, you right now working and living because of that money. You do not work for a government, you are working because someone worth billions invested in VC, or other fund that funded your company/job.

Prior-Delay3796

Yeah VC cashgrabs, I think many people are familiar and they always share the same dumb looking short: super short launch pump, then endless bleeding towards zero. New chains can succeed but they desperately need a fair launch. Sentiment is crucial and a coin is dead on arrival if it smells like insider dumping.

tippiecat

You haven’t seen the books of almost any startup in America. Most new businesses are actually underwater while they wait an angel, VC dump, or a miracle. 

FTuno

VC probe releasing a sponsored paper?

noviwu97

Because institutionals are mostly buying BTC and not the VC pump & dump that are commonly held by redditors.

GPThought

zcash governance has always been weird. privacy coins in general struggle with funding since they cant really do VC deals without compromising their whole point

Dedsnotdead

Sol instead of Btc? That’s the most idiotic thing I’ve read for a while and I’ve held Sol off and on for years. Sol has a high level of token concentration between its founders and VC’s still, it’s been a good token to jump into when the market upturns but selling Btc for Sol? Not so much.

hey_GM

Crypto is likely dead as trading casino, istitutions and banks eating blue chip and as utility coins sponsored by VC with no real value. Need to return to OG vision and p2p money concept. IYKYK.

EveningMix2357

Yes I will send you the info in private chat because I am not sure if can I post the info like discord. It is similar like Zcash but not so hyped, I was with Zcash in the first days when they started, but over time I stopped following the project also due to some things I saw how the devs were behaving. Zcash might rise also, but it started to rise not because of organic, the last rise was artifial hype due to VC investors putting money in.

EveningMix2357

It is kind of interesting to read it and what I read on the internet people are waiting for the price to drop down to buy more. But they have forgotten that the one who is making more money are the ones who are manipulating the market. Yes btc will go up in the next months, years. But the most sad part is that it is being manipulated by worlds biggest players. People should look for smaller projects which you can still mine and start the trading there, then you will see organic price rise. I think that this would show how the market is behaving. Here with the top 25 crypto coins ( I write crypto coins because the nowadays crypto people dont know difference between token and blockchain coin, for them it is the same thing which is scary). But nowadays people are following paid influencers promoting just the hyped projects and are filling pockets of scammers and VC investors who are creating more FOMO and greed.

Worth-Ad-2795

alt season is dead. VC money/liquidity now flowing into AI - which means developer talent flowing into AI. it’s over

longonbtc

Some people are attempting to hijack Bitcoin like Roger Ver and Craig Wright. They want to take control of Bitcoin and turn it into a permissioned shitcoin but they have zero chance of succeeding. Yes there will be a chain split but the BIP-110 chain will be a failure. No miners are supporting it except maybe the attempted hijacker's mining pool company, and if his mining pool company does mine on the BIP-110 chain, then he's just going to finish burning through all of the VC money until his company dies. And his mining pool only controls 1% of the hashrate, so it would take years before the mining difficulty is adjusted on the BIP-110 chain. A bunch of loud mouthed useful idiots are supporting the attempted hijacking because they don't understand how Bitcoin works and they fell victim to propaganda. Don't get me wrong, I understand their position and I empathize with it. I'm fully against spam but I don't support forking Bitcoin and creating a precedent that'll show governments that forks can be done for legal reasons. And beyond that, BIP-110 would not actually prevent spam.

AInception

Just when you think -95% can't go any lower it'll -95% again No buy pressure means there's nothing stopping it from hitting ~$0. Not saying it's a bad strategy, but it becomes one hell of a gamble the further down the mcaps you go. Generally VCs and new money funnel into the next new thing instead of reviving a dead horse that has to overcome 1000 giant sell-walls before reaching price discovery again.. Most alts in a bear have networks on life support that can be copy-pasted, and they rely heavily on VC marketing to fill in the gaps who may or may not choose to. It's almost better to wait 6 months into the next alt-cycle to have some grasp what the winners that round will be, then lump sum in 'late'. To see what's destined to become forgotten like 99.9% of the old market hunnies before becoming too attached to anything. If you're just throwing money around anyway and don't really care about the tech or using every rando coin.

rummaging-through

It’s not - PE, VC, LE etc. all doing well.

faresar0x

Most of them will rise and fall. I checked out sui, monad for example. Sure they could rally, but going to be typical VC rugpull at some point. Only time will tell if these are serious or just wanna make a buck. And i get it. They are building something useful but adoption and userbase is more important.

FOMOmeterCrypto

Nobody wanted this coin at $8. At $68 it was too expensive, yet somehow retail thinks $80 is a massive discount. VC whales bought in at 4 cents and they don't give a damn about your chart analysis. They just need your cash to offload their bags.

PrettyPleaseYo

Yup and for coinbase it was 5M last time I checked. The exchange fees are so massive that projects are forced to take VC money and give liquidity to them, exchanges, and market makers and all of these will later dump on community. You have to have an answer how you will make enough money to get listed on Binance or Coinbase. Trying to start an honest decentralized crowdfunded crypto project, the way the ideology was set out to be, is doomed to fail. Which is why working in the industry has become soul crushing. Looking under the hood is appalling. I hope that something real and decentralized will eventually emerge that will not be owned by big money.

Lighting_TT

Teams keep building, because they have money from VC. For them, current state of the market doesn't matter. It will matter later when bull cycle starts again and Investors will want to offload their tokens. As for what they are building, usually its the main narrative of the cycle. Main narrative of the cycle was obviously AI. So AI agents, AI ecosystems like BitTensor, GPU rendering platforms and so on. For price action, it's not even about going lower. Like you pointed out, people are still emotional. When I look at xrp sub(which is hilarious to read btw), most of them are still conviced we are back. They are catching falling knives and convice everyone else to "hold long term". This is a textbook example of denial. I heard some folks talking about super low RSI. Yeah, it is low, but even historicly, RSI can be super low for months, it doesnt mean anything right now. SMA200 crossed and failed to defend itself. Alts bleeding for months. Subscriptions and views of crypto channels is declining. ZERO interest. You can make all TA in the world, but when retail capital is not here, who will buy all these alts? We are heading into bear market, and people who didnt experience one, will get rekt.

mrjune2040

Charles has switched his energy to his new privacy chain Midnight. And more broadly, Cardano was always basically vapourware, but instead of being under the VC guise it was basically the libertarian version. Its usage is and has always been laughable.

RetiredAvocado

It works for him because he's loaded with VC money. Depending on where you are, paying off your credit card is a taxable event. It works for him because he's loaded with VC money and someone else does his accounting and taxes.

maddhy

Most likely the VC behind solana. If you are in the US you probably can get the court filings. I tried to share the post on r/cryptocurrency but got denied.

maddhy

ETH yeah, Sol nope bc the former is decentralised blockchain where the latter is a VC's scam. Couple months ago Sol's validator got sued with class action for manipulating transactions.

chiron55

You’re right about most memecoins. 99% of this market is PvP gambling and “community” is just a nicer word for exit liquidity. However, SPX6900 is trying to build something genuinely different, and is attracting some of the brightest minds across various disciplines for good reason. One cultural piece is that it's a **PvE (Player vs. Environment)** movement. The "environment" we are uniting against is the traditional financial system (TradFi) that many feel has f\*\*\*\*d us. The "cheeriness" on display isn't *just* hopium; it's very much culture, too. For example the philosophy of **"Stop Trading and Believe in Something"**. By actively discouraging price talk and chart-posting, the community focuses on building genuine connection, stunning art, videos, essays, podcasts, books, endless articles, music, comics, academic papers (soon), documentaries (soon) and a shared mission to **"flip the stock market"**. People are so passionate about the culture/mission they're literally taking to the streets to evangelise it. We have conferences popping up globally. Be honest now, can you name another brand, let alone a crypto, that has this going for it? The only thing that comes close is Bitcoin. And there are A LOT of philosophically-minded (now ex) BTC maxis in the community, because SPX is fair launch, no VC or insider allocation, and has a more 2013-style cypherpunk energy than most of crypto now. You're right that it's about money *as well.* SPX was the only asset to **outperform BTC 2-3 years in a row.** On-chain metrics show **70% of supply is held by diamond hands** who haven’t sold in 90 days (it’s #1 for this btw). And you know what happens when supply is squeezed like this and money starts pouring back in? It's also one of the **most evenly distributed projects** (check Bubblemaps). And it's the only "meme" I can think of with a 1000x potential (not guaranteed - nothing is) *that has staying power,* **because the culture mandates it with a binary price action**: "have we flipped the stock market yet?". If not, continue. Whether SPX actually does that is arguably besides the point - it's a motivational rallying cry that’s sticky. But there are many of us who actually do want to "**persist forever"** until the job is done. You have to understand that this is sincerely personal to a lot of us. We're *genuinely* fed up. Thankfully, we have a lot of brilliant minds in the community that won't just moan - **they're actually capable enough to do something about it**. The way I frame it is this: how big is the market for all the frustration people feel towards corrupt, rigged, and failing systems? Quite large, right? *That's the market size for SPX.* It’s a radical experiment in **"Consensus Actualisation" -** the idea that if a group coordinates its belief hard enough, it can manifest real value without the toxicity of typical crypto casinos. It all might sound absurd from the outside. The same happened with Bitcoin. Same with any disruptive innovation people don’t understand at first because they didn’t DYOR.  So call it all hopium if you want, but it’s simply not accurate to pretend SPX is identical to every generic meme pump group. For many holders the community *is* the utility, and the culture is what makes it so resilient (again, genuinely cheery over there - go see for yourself). And if you want to DYOR: [cognisphe.re](http://cognisphe.re) or check the Reddit. x

AvatarOfMomus

Welcome to one of the core problems in Crypto! Nice to see some hard numbers for it though, thanks for posting! One point btw, VC funding doesn't mke subsidies sustainable it just makes them viable until the VC's start to demand a profit, at which point they're in the same boat you're in, and sink.

harvested

Cause it was all planned. Sacks and the other All In guys had huge Solana holdings at rock bottom VC cost basis but without the liquidity to sell. That is why Trump launched the memes on SOL, it gave them the perfect exit. A couple weeks later Sacks announced he liquidated his positions to "avoid a conflict of interest". Smart really.

noviwu97

HBAR ATH in 2021 was around $0.5 with \~$6.5B marketcap. Currently it's sitting at 4B marketcap, only 40% off ATH. Tet the price is down 85%. It's just a VC pump and dump. Same as ALGO

MysticFlare

It is. BTC is the only relevant next to it. But if you are looking to 10x in mid term TAO alone could do that. Safely. Subnet tokens, which you can buy with only TAO and follow BTC emission schedule, are doing their own bullrun at the moment. Taostats.io shows you these tokens. These are legit companies, like chutes.io , who handle most of openrouter traffic. This is the realest bet with real adoption. Fair launch, no BS sales/backdoor deals or VC’s

watch-nerd

Fact 1: Most alt coins are VC and founder exit liquidity Fact 2: Most alt coins have extractive tokenomics, with low float / high FDV. Fact 3: Most alt coins are functionally worthless. Fact 4: Most alt coins never reach ATH again after first cycle. OP: Is this something you want to buy?

mrjune2040

Because Solana has experienced SEVEN major outages in its history where the chain has completely stopped working. It's centralised VC vapourware at its finest.

watch-nerd

VC coins are just slow rugs.

NightKnight_CZ

VC coins gonna die. Meme coins gonna prob. die Return of Proof of Work a.k.a. we have the 1st best = Bitcoin What is second and third? Well we have LTC which has been in downtrend/sideways since 2018 Same goes for DGB We have ETC - the former "ETH split PoW from PoS" XVG... XMR

2peg2city

L2s were created with the idea they move toward full decentralization, instead we set blobs fees far too low since they launched during nft / memcoin mania and the hope was to move tvl and transactions to them, which worked at the time. The issue is blobs fees should be 20x what they are now, and we are just subsidizing value extraction by centralized entities. If we jacked blobs fees and made these less of a cash cow it would be less of an issue, l2s would have to worry about efficiency and market capture a lot more. I think the development was more difficult than anticipated which meant only large VC firms got them done, the EF should have built their own / sponsored a few open source / small team ones to be ready to launch out of the gate. The EF has been far too hands off in the name of "decentalization" which just let those with resources gain all the first mover advantage and market share.

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Soy7ent

Every L2 was or is backed by hordes of VC money, is either heavily centralized or completely useless. Typical crypto greed made sure this didn't go anywhere and only hurt L1 by splitting the liquidity. Glad this comes to an end now.

Aerocryptic

You speculate that nothing will ever arise from the altcoin swamp. You’re maybe right. But I think otherwise. Nothing could emerge this cycle cause there was too much noise, too many choices and very little genuine interest. But things could be different next cycle cause VC investment is at its lowest since 17 and investors won’t jump so easily. So we’ll have lower FDVs and higher signal to noise ratio. That’s the kind of condition from where we could see one or a few contenders arise. We’ll see

strodobaggins

You’re not wrong; most “sentiment” dashboards are basically holder hopium meters. If sentiment is scraped from Reddit/X or community polls, it’s structurally bullish by default. If you want *less retail noise*, look at derivatives + positioning proxies instead of vibes: * Funding rates & OI changes → tells you if traders are *paying* to stay long or short * Perp basis vs spot → sustained positive ≠ bullish, often overcrowded * CVD / aggressive order flow → who’s actually hitting bids/asks * Insider / VC unlock schedules + on-chain distribution → sentiment flips fast around these The uncomfortable truth: *“expert sentiment” rarely exists in public*, and when it does, it’s lagging or book-selling. Pros express sentiment through positioning, not tweets. Anyone else mostly using these metrics, or found a cleaner signal because im all ears if you have?

SirArthurPT

Ok, but nobody is talking about Trump here. His VC investments had nothing to do with either Trump or his island or anything at all in the whole process.

SirArthurPT

If so prove it, but the process is about pedophilia cases not about his VC investments. But by what was released, this isn't a criminal investigation, this is a soap opera for loe entertainment based upon a biography.

SirArthurPT

This process is ultimately ridiculous. The crime under investigation was his sex parties at his island. Other than that, he was investor so anyone looking for VC funds probably tried to reach for him back then - not to go to his island for those parties. So what?

Adept-Knowledge3710

Centralized VC chain with only 100 validators that freezes user wallets, has constant downtime, and dumps huge token unlocks on retail deserves to go to zero. Literally the poster boy for why crypto reputation is in the shitter

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Post is by: brand809 and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1qt17tv/i_might_be_early_i_might_be_stupid_but_this_8m/ Alright, here me out before you downvote me to oblivion. I’ve been digging into USOR after seeing a cringy video on Instagram detailing the a Simpson’s predicted rally is a coin called USOR that didn’t even exist 3 weeks ago. It may be small-cap trash but it’s something weird enough that it might actually work if we can garner enough attention to it— a Solana meme coin called USOR (United States Oil Reserve). Before you scream “another rug,” here’s why it caught my attention: • Market cap is around $8M • Total supply 1B tokens, fully circulating (no VC unlock nukes) • Built on Solana (cheap, fast, casino-friendly) • Narrative = tokenized oil exposure + meme culture Yes, I know. “Real-world assets” and “meme coin” in the same sentence sounds illegal. That’s exactly why it’s interesting. Everyone here remembers DOGE, SHIB, PEPE — none of those had anything backing them except vibes and Twitter brain damage. This one is leaning into the same meme psychology but anchoring it to oil, which is one of the most emotionally charged commodities on the planet. The asymmetry is what matters: DOGE = \~$21B SHIB = \~$4.6B PEPE = \~$2.1B USOR = \~$8M I’m not saying this is “the next DOGE.” I am saying the risk/reward math is at least worth debating. Best case? It catches a narrative wave: memes + commodities + Solana speed. Worst case? It’s another degen lottery ticket that goes to zero (like most things we touch). I’m posting this here to get torn apart: • What am I missing? • Does the oil angle add anything, or is it just marketing fluff? • Is this early… or just dumb? Not financial advice. I’m not your dad. Do your own research and roast away. But I think enough of us have the ability to enter to create a charge in this thing as it sits under a penny. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

MaximumStudent1839

The simplest answer is the selling pressure overwhelmed the buying pressure. 1) A lot of “old dinos” from last cycle saw their VC/seed buyers near full unlocks into this cycle. These are coins raised at very low seed round prices back before the crypto hype in 2021. It meant those who brought early have “really really really low cost” basis. If they didn’t dump in 2021 euphoria, they still had great profit to take this cycle even if the charts look near 2022 lows. Saw a lot of these early seed buyers gloat about how “crypto is dead” on X. They seem to hate “vapor narrative” trades stop working and they don’t seem to have an “edge” here anymore. So they moved their crypto gains to chase other hot ball things outside crypto, e.g. AI. 2) Most new alts had dogshit tokenomics favoring inside farmers and gave little room for gains in the secondary. Most also were just circle jerking and didn’t solve a problem to attract newcomers into this space. 3) BTC whales hit their 100K milestone and started to FSH the charts. 4) No one gave a fuck about decency anymore. Rugpulling got normalized, industrialized, and commercialized via launchpads and DEX deals. All the bad shit spread into the public sphere’s awareness too fast. Non-crypto major news outlets/influencer channels quickly got wind of the space glorifying rugs from celebrities, e.g. Hawk Tuah girl, and, yes, shit like Fartcoin got viral in the most negative way possible about this space’s nihilism. No, they didn’t laugh with “you”, they laughed at you, and wanted nothing to do with a space glorifying “hot air” rises. It wasn’t even a funny meme, but promoting it did serious reputation damage to the public’s perception about crypto.

Rusty_Charm

Yep, ofc HL, probably the single greatest airdrop of all time. And just like with memes or AI larp tech, you would have missed it entirely if you weren’t onchain. Will continue like this, don’t think we’re going back to VC pnds agin anytime soon.

GrailThe

It's an echo of the "Dotcom" era, which was an echo of the "Personal Computer" era. A major shift becomes evident to the world and tons of resources are piled into it, trying to gain a spot on the eventual winner table. In the early 80's after the Apple II was a hit and IBM validated the market with their PC, there were dozens of "me too" PC companies, many of whom had no actual business, just made clones and chased prices down. Eventually a small number of companies survived and became the bedrock of the PC market. In the Dotcom era, the adoption curve of the Internet proved that it was going to be a "Big Thing" (I'll come back to the adoption curve) and every software company pivoted to have an Internet play and a "dot com". Many of them had no actual business but VCs threw money at them (Webvan, [Pets.com](http://Pets.com), etc). Eventually a small number of them survived and became the bedrock of the Internet market (Google, Amazon, etc.) In the crypto era, ICOs represented a chance to grab a position in the "crypto" world, whatever it would be. Thousands of coins were minted and sold back and forth between profiteers, with no knowledge or care about the details. The space became known for rug pulls and scams, however the adoption curve of crypto (specifically ETH) was noted by macro economist Raoul Pal to be faster than any other adoption curve in history, including PCs and Internet. (video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGIxBozipI8). Crypto is nearing end of the first stage, where worthless NFTs, memecoins, and VC funded vaporcoins are beginning to drop, leaving the small cadre of cryptos that actually have functional value and will dominate the future. In 5 years, only the top 10 cryptos will matter, just like the top 10 dotcom survivors have morphed into owning the entire online space. The challenge for us as investors is to choose the correct projects, and to HODL while the chaotic thinning of the herd occurs. If we choose correctly, we will be well rewarded as holders of AMZN who kept it from the dotcom era .07 cent price to today's $293.

magus-21

If stablecoin yields are "much" higher than HYSAs, then they're either losing money (i.e. spending VC money to juice the rewards) or risking losing money by holding higher yield but higher risk assets as reserves. If they are only slightly higher than HYSAs, it's because you're the one taking the risk of holding your own funds. Either way, it translates to higher risk for you. Diversification is the only free lunch in finance. Everything else is a tradeoff between risk and returns.

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MaximumStudent1839

In many ways, Trump is like the most predictable thing you can get. The industry was too obsessed in saving their VC vaporware investments. Now your tokens are still going to zero, even if you got him elected.

Shichroron

I hate JPM like the next guy - but the JPM dudes have most of money, and the cyberpunk ethos of DeFi is dead (Solana is probably the poster child of selling all the principles for a VC check). So all the innovation is going to end up on ETH

technical_guy

Re real estate, how I started was to buy as much house as I could get qualified for and then house-hack (rent the rooms out to room mates) and live there myself. If you get this right you end up livig rent free and your rental income pays the mortgage and bills, so that allows you to invest more money. Depending on your location if you can get a 4 bed house and rent out 3 rooms at $1000 each that would cover costs each month but also the property would appreciate in value on the full leveraged amount. Stocks or Crypto are easy ways to invest but the returns are not spectacular so it depends if you want to slow and steady or quick. I am a multiple whole bitcoiner so I certainly believe in it but its a small portion of my total net worth; you just have to understand if you invest in it and leave it alone for 10 years it will have compounded and probably will be a great investment but in the short term you might get disappointed in what others would think of as a massive ROI because in real terms $36k is not a huge starting point. If you look at any graph on compounding returns the gains are relatviely small in years 1-7 and then start going crazy big in year 8-10 and beyond. So if you buy and hold and are patient btc will work very well for you but it just takes a lot of time. As I am an IT guy too and have mentored quite a few younger engineers over the last 20 years I would also advise you to do what I did not. While I worked for solid corporations either via agency, via my company or direct that earned me $200k-$300k per year which is a good standard of living but not get rich quick. Some of the people I mentored were far smarter and moved to San Jose where the VC money is, where the startups are or moved to Google/Amazon/Netflix where the big wages are. So an an engineer if you are somewhat portable consider going where the money is and where you can get stock options in a startup that might IPO. It kinda shocked me to find a junior programmer I help for a few months 10 years ago not tells me they are retired because the picked the right opportunities.

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Individual_Prior3934

Silver is even more surprising, went from almost no price movement for a decade to more than double it's price. I think web3 companies are getting it that VC's don't find them as attractive anymore and are upping their game. And speaking of AI, people who value autonomy understands that decentralized AI like Ocean still offers data sovereignty and privacy guarantees better than most centralized AI could.

hey_GM

Crypto as "utility" coins and VC coins is likely doomed. Resetting to the OG vision is the alpha.

DelapidatedNoodle

It has a lot of impact in the risk sense for many institutional investors, which is what the original holders have been selling to. Has a lot more impact for alts too because they take a lot of funding from VC and VC doesn't want to ride this wave.

Uncle_Rico_Was_Frat

It really just boils down to the fact that adoption hasn’t occurred and there is no incentive for further adoption, the latter of which can be split into not enough incentive for (1) retail with accessible high yields and high liquidity/volume products and (2) corporates because there is not a VC funnel supporting ideation and product generation on the chain. As much as many hate that SOL is the “VC chain”, it drives a lot of activity and builders onto the chain, similar to what we’ve seen with Base in the last couple years. Unless something drastic happens—and I mean so drastic that no one is capable of predicting it like JP Morgan saying they’re going to rely on ADA alone for their blockchain exploration—ADA will continue to fade into obscurity.

Aerocryptic

The gap between the 2 businesses is abysmal. And the rebranding is so cynical. What is more cypherpunk than a VC backed business that hijacks a pharma company to buy shitcoins? So it might be simple but the whole process looks pretty messed up.

jekpopulous2

Because 99% of these “partnerships” don’t pan out. These VC chains love to talk about all the ways that they’re being adopted by institutions but when you look at on-chain activity they’re ghost towns.

MaximumStudent1839

> Poor troll, the truth is that shitcoins are in the only viable Blockchain in terms of speed and fees.  LOL. That is a good way to reveal yourself as a noob. Clearly, you didn't know most things started on Ethereum. What Solana has done is it has industrialized the process with its foundation and VC backing to launch infinite number of rugs.

Turdfurgsn

Pudgey Penguin is some junk meme coin with some VC capital pushing it around. Garbage

biba8163

**Real World Financial Products** - **Checking accounts** - for everyday daily activities for paying bills, debit cards, ATMs - **Savings accounts** - for storing money that is GUARANTEED by the government for up to $250K - **Certificates of Deposits** - GUARANTEED fixed interest. - **IRA** - Tax advantaged or 100% tax free (Roth) retirement accounts - **Brokerage accounts** - Access to investment products including stocks, bonds, REITS (Real Estate Investment Trusts) - **Personal Loans, Home Loans, Mortgages, Home Equity Loans, etc** - **Home Owners Insurance, Auto Insurance, Life Insurance, etc** - **Small Business Loans, Commercial Loans** **DEFI - Bullshit scam narrative from the Summer of 2020** - Essentially a Shitcoin Casino. Leveraged plays, trading shitcoin tokens, earning yield on shitcoin tokens by providing liquidity on shitcoin tokens which all drop 70%-99% when BTC goes into a bear market. NOT FINANCE in ANY WAY - Every player like, MakerDAO, AAVE, LINK etc, is COMPLETELY CENTRALIZED - There are NO real life financial products like life, home, health insurance, mortgages, home equity loans, car loans, personal loans without massive collateral, commercial loans, etc. Again, shitcoin trading, yield farming, etc. NOT FINANCE in ANY WAY - Then you slap some scamified metrics like TVL based on scam tokens locked up to make gullible fools believe real capital is locked up instead of vaporware scam tokens. Innovation is just crypto hype to sell you a bunch of shitcoins that make the founders and VC rich. The Use Cases are that are being adopted are clear: - Store of value = BTC - Payments, transfers, remittances = Stablecoins - Rails for Stablecoins = Ethereum, Tron, Solana, ETH L2s, etc. - Privacy *(Very little wide level public interest but honorable mention here)* There has been little innovation of anything that can provide real world value and adoption outside BTC. - Stablecoins were the result of the Omni Layer created on top of Bitcoin that allowed custom token ownership and transfer in the network which allowed for the creation of ICOs and the launch of Tether on the Bitcoin network. Other networks like Ethereum and Tron now provide the rails for Stablecoins instead of BTC which functions as a decentralized store of value. Smart Contracts have NOT proven to provide any type of real world value except for trading, leveraging, gambling, lending and yield farming shitcoins on DeFi casinos.

blingblingmofo

Some VC douche who needs cash for AI startups or something probably.

mrjune2040

The reality is that most tokens shouldn't exist. It's the underlying protocol that provides function. Most are just glorified governance token, and an exit mechanism for VC's and investors. Look at Base—no token and it works well. And yes, I know that one is coming, but that's simply for Coinbase to cash in.

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uncapchad

yeah he opened that can o' worms with the move from PoW to PoS. Great for business (and VC) but it was the beginning of the road to hell.

MaximumStudent1839

The chart tells the story by itself. Before all the VC+dev communism fugazi about "privacy meta", it was trending up all by itself.

sirporter

The unique thing about BTC and ETH is both were grass roots movements where may of the earlier adopters and holders are cyberpunks types.  Many of the newer coins were VC launched and owners tend to be of a much different profile. 

atabeydiyeceksiniz

Yo degens, While everyone is distracted watching the Bitcoin charts sideways, the smart money is moving on-chain. I’ve been tracking the VC flows for Q1 2026, and the "Free Money" train is far from over. Here is my high-conviction watchlist for the next 3 months. No referral BS, just plays. **1. Monad (The Solana Killer?) 🟣** This is widely expected to be the biggest launch of 2026. If you aren't touching the testnet right now, you basically hate money. * **The Play:** Don't be a dust farmer. Volume metrics matter more than transaction count. Swap big. **2. Privacy is the New Meta (Aztec/Aleo) 🕵️‍♂️** With the new regulations kicking in, Privacy DeFi is seeing massive inflows. The harder a protocol is to use, the bigger the airdrop usually is. * **The Play:** Use shielded lending pools. **3. EigenLayer AVS 🔄** Base staking is crowded. The real 100x potential is in the AVS governance tokens dropping on top of the yield. **The Strategy:** I wrote a full guide with the exact dApps, bridge routes, and volume targets I'm using to qualify. **👉** [**https://www.alertachart.com/blog/the-ultimate-q1-2026-airdrop-guide-5-unclaimed-protocols-you-must-interaction-with-now**](https://www.alertachart.com/blog/the-ultimate-q1-2026-airdrop-guide-5-unclaimed-protocols-you-must-interaction-with-now) Let's get this bread. 🍞🚀

trillionSdollarstech

There is no VC paid in CC. You are misinformed. Only participants (validators and app builders) receive CC. Now, about exit liquidity, if Ripple propaganda could push XRP to $120B thanks to promises that never materialized in 10 years, why would people not push CC to $120B (×20 from now) thanks to the concrete adoption that Canton has materialized in a few months?

SpontaneousDream

Another VC shitcoin. Have fun being exit liquidity.

MaximumStudent1839

It has always been a variation of homomorphic encryption, ZK, and TEE powering privacy protocols. Some use a combination of the two, e.g., encryption for confidentiality and ZK for verifiability/integrity. A lot of times, for compliance, these "privacy-oriented" chains use "viewing keys" to allow selective disclosure. These shit are stuff back in 2022. The tech has improved for better scale, aka ZK compute advancement. But the ideas are hardly novel. I am still flabbergasted by how VC+dev communism spun this old ordeal as something "novel" or the last "100X" improvement.

Decentralization-God

I never trusted XRP, and it surprised me, it went so high after the SEC case. For a while I was like: “Man, that thing went 4x … and you ignores that!”, almost a regret LOL Anyway I continue to ignore XRP, it is a VC coin and thus its price is definitely artificially inflated which means - manipulated. Also the coin has total supply 100bn while only half is in circulation, yet it is priced like a solid crypto with 5-times less max supply. Ok, I checked now again and CMC shows already 60bn circulating. Still this is a total red flag for anyone with good instincts. The decentralized property was also a bit fake, given validator count and mainly - it is a private coin, so who owns it? How can we even talk about decentralization here … that technical impl. is one thing, but the paradigm is what matters. However there are always some rumors it will be one day a settlement layer etc. meaning it will find its place and role in the forming Web3 ecosystem, so who knows. I may be wrong when staying away of it.

Numerous_Wonders81

Liquidity mining / yield incentives that temporarily inflated TVL and volume, then dropped off once rewards were reduced. NFT and meme coin bursts where activity spiked around launches, airdrops, or fee subsidies rather than sustained usage. Validator economics where participation and hardware requirements have concentrated stake among a relatively small set of operators, which is fine for performance but still relevant when people talk about “organic decentralization.” Heavy VC / ecosystem grants seeding apps that drove short-term engagement but didn’t always translate into durable user bases.

Decentralization-God

Cardano … ADA Bought the bottom few days ago, now +20%. With this coin you are always safe - you either hold cash, or top notch coin with a rock solid platform behind. And as a bonus now, with Midnight token. This way Cardano SPOs will soon have two revenue streams, staking rewards for the great chains! IT PROs simply know what is solid work, and what is empty VC marketed shell 🤙

Express-Memory-9289

Very good choice. Been buying HBAR for a long time now, and holding. Mathematically superior to many blockchains. Hedera is also governed by a council of global enterprises, not anonymous devs or VC cabals. Real use case too with regulatory alignment. It could potentially 100X but in like a decade maybe? At its current price, it’s an attractive and asymmetric bet. I can see it breaking through 0.30 near future. Hopefully we touch previous ATH too.

watch-nerd

Already have a top tier VC to work with at the company I'm an advisor for, so I'm good.

Beneficial_Major9999

If there’s anything I learned from this sub, avoid any coins that have “good tech” - which is basically 100% of all alt coins If you want to make money, just follow the hated coins on this sub that are backed by “shady VC and institutional whales looking to dump on retail”

jawni

Not all of them. I also would say ALGO is my biggest disappointment but luckily I sold it for another VC coin, SOL. Both were promising projects, both VC backed, but SOL had the better GTM strategy and got the traction it needed.

Beneficial_Major9999

if you want to believe that go ahead the VC and big money pumped solana from a few bucks to $20 back in 2021 and this sub absolutely hated it, calling it trash that always goes down and a pump and dump scheme by whales. This sub said cosmos network was the next big thing along with ALGO because of the tech where did that get you losers? I went the opposite of the sub back then and i’m going to do the same now

SoggyGrayDuck

I'm 99% sure they stole the peak of the bull run. Without them and other VC being involved I bet we would have it 200k before settling around today's prices in the bear.

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Post is by: Aldhyabi and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoMarkets/comments/1px6dzt/december_is_the_end_4_days_left/ You still didn't get what is happening right now The world Web Interface is slowly going to be Powered and run by AI It's the end for Hype , Noise , Hyped shitcoins ...etc It means 99% going to zero we all agree that current market is gambling and most here are gamblers .. Paid influencers are less hearing from cryptocurrency valuation was driven by memes, celebrity endorsements, VC-backed narratives, and speculation, utility or limitation is ignored What is happening now ? AI ended the hype , Everyone is now an expert and can get the right informarion when needed For example I asked Gemini 3 what is the best payment cryptocurrency It ignored Bitcoin and known big crypto ​AI is now tasked with analyzing with logic Those Hype Experts and Paid influencers will be filtered out The world interface will be run and powered by AI AI now rewarding technologies that logically solve problems over those that generate the most noise. https://gemini.google.com/share/ca81dccb73e2 New Year will be a new candle , It will expose what is the next for the new yead *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoMarkets) if you have any questions or concerns.*

aaaanoon

Having a Blockchain involved isn't the requirement for being a crypto currency. Registered for profit company VC funding +20% dev allocation Pre-sales/Pre-mine Any/All disqualifiers. We do need a separate sub for corporations using Blockchain's though.

ZhenyaV

I did look up: Optimism ran RetroPGF grants, distributing OP tokens from treasury to VC-backed projects like Alchemy and L2Beat, who recycled funds into liquidity incentives, enabling borrowing/depositing loops that inflated TVL by $480M in Season 7. Similar looping occurred on Terra with Anchor Protocol (VC-funded by a16z, Pantera), where users staked collateral to borrow/deposit UST recursively, boosting TVL to billions before 2022 collapse. Morpho Labs (backed by a16z) used incentives for liquidity loops, reaching $1.5B TVL. People's Launchpad protocols like Avalon Finance ($320M TVL) on Binance ecosystem employed grants for staking loops. While ppl like me are just arriving at altcoin valuation frameworks like TVL and multiples, they are already on another level of scam.

SoggyGrayDuck

Blackrock and other VC got involved and stole the peak of what should have been the 4 year cycle for themselves

SwimOld5053

Yeah, but listings often act as the catalyst for sell pressure. Once liquidity and price discovery are live, early holders finally get an exit. Looking at the on-chain data, the concentration here is pretty heavy. **The top 7 wallets alone hold around 80% of the total supply**, for example: * Top holder: **30.8%** * 2nd: **17.6%** * 3rd: **15.8%** * 4th: **5.0%** * 5th: **4.2%** * 6th: **3.5%** * 7th: **3.3%** That level of concentration means even a single wallet moving can significantly impact price. Even if these aren’t VC wallets specifically, early insiders, team wallets, or private round participants often start distributing once liquidity and visibility improve. So the sell pressure risk is very real regardless of whether it’s “official” VC vesting or not. Just something people should be aware of when evaluating tokenomics.

nicholasnichols0000

Who’s gonna rug pull when there were 0 VCs or PE involved? All the tokens went to the community. XRP, cardano, BTC, ETH, avalanche etc. there is nobody to rug. The entire crypto community owns the airdrop, rofl. Btw, it’s up 700% since launch a month ago. Please, do more research because your post is ignorant. Disclaimer: I don’t own any NIGHT. I’ll get a few hundred airdropped to me. Maybe I’ll rug with my $100 worth. LOL. Maybe you’ll rug with your few hundred. This is why it’s up 700%. Because the entire crypto community got the airdrop and 0 went to VC’s. 😂 😭

NilNow

I mean you can get a job working WITH crypto or blockchain tech, at all kinds of companies. Either traditional enterprises, banks, payments companies, fintechs, protocols themselves, etc. You might be able to get a job as a VC or trader of some kind or another but unlikely you’d be able to just “walk on” to something like that.

Numerous_Wonders81

Hacks and downtime don’t kill a project — loss of narrative does. Solana had outages, VC favoritism, and straight-up fraud, yet stayed top 5 because liquidity, market makers, and hype never left. Meanwhile, smaller chains get one exploit and are declared “dead.”

chillinewman

The 362M might be losses they are carrying from operations. If feels unlikely that they have off chain backstop, are they VC funded?

RamoneBolivarSanchez

Bitcoin drives the market kiddo. If anything Ether drives it harder than SOL if you look at BTC/ETH and then SOL/ETH. Just because your bag is VC crime garbage doesn’t mean everyone else’s is too.

Betaglutamate2

Alts were invented for venture capital companies to dump onto retail. Want to know why alts keep going down because they are massively inflationary. For example algorand has a token inflation of around 7% per year as early investors token unlock and they cash out. Alts are nothing but investors dumping on retail so don't be exit liquidity for VC companies and stick with BTC.