VC

RefrigeratorLow1259

That's crap, ADA had a fair distribution of tokens - CH's company only got 5.5% of the initial offering for development - plus no VC funding..

Cryoto_Rucky

No VC wanna founding in bearmarket, that's most desperate time.

mrjune2040

Meh- define growth. Most are living off either VC money from prior raises or the revenue generated from sold holdings of the protocol token. Very few protocols are actually making money (ie have long-term sustainability) outside of those parameters. And if a protocol can’t sustain itself on its technological merit and usage/uptake then it IS a shitcoin.

puffman123

Core's behavior is also concerning. We need pleb devs. Not VC backed devs who have questionable motives.

irgeorge

One developer, who lost all their bitcoin and called the FBI. Then all of a sudden popped up running a VC backed firm and pushing their forked bitcoin client.

TrollingStones420

Been keeping an eye on 0x0 lately — honestly one of the few projects that actually feels like it has long-term utility. They’re building a fully decentralized exchange that allows for completely anonymous trading, no KYC, no middlemen. What’s even crazier: 100% of the trading fees go back to the token holders. No VC cuts, no pre-mine, just clean and community-driven. It’s privacy-first, fully open source, and was fair launched from day one. Even CZ (ex-Binance CEO) recently discovered it and showed some support, which brought more attention to it. If you’re thinking long term, this is the kind of infrastructure project that actually has a shot at sticking around.

jawni

>Because the fundamentals are rock solid I'm curious what specific fundamentals do you mean? >we will solve the blockchain trilemma early 2026 Cardano is decentralized, but needs to solve the other two sides still **without** sacfricing that decentralization and not just a little scaling, it needs to scale 10-100x. And Hydra is more akin to a state channel and won't do that, and Midgard isn't even in prod yet. So early 2026 seems laughably ambitious. >and btc defi is in development and will take off this year. And why would this be? The only thing people ever can say is "the btc isn't wrapped" but that makes no difference to the end user unless the worst case scenario happens. The things that do make a difference to the user, like liquidity, speed, fees, and assets to trade for, are all things where Cardano struggles. So can you make sense of that for me? >Also, we grow without VC backed growth. Our growth is organic and without bots. Nothing inherently wrong with bots or VC's. But you get a gold star for avoiding good sources of funding and additional automation on these smart contract platforms.

jawni

>There is a big cardano community on twitter/x. On reddit, not so much. That's every coin. >And the activity on the Cardano chain is real, not bots like sui, sol and other VC coins. I can't speak to SUI or other chains but the activity on SOL is very real. Don't just take youtubers at their word, look at the data yourself, there are plenty of great sources for people to actually do their own research now. Now, the activity on Cardano is definitely real, but it also barely exists. Just for fun lets see how many transactions it's done in the last few minutes. https://imgur.com/a/SaeLSSJ Over the last 7 minutes, Cardano has only processed... 95 transactions. which comes out to a whopping 0.22 transactions per second. (95 txn / 420 seconds = .22) >It's a good chain, not yet the most popular. But hey, you don't have to buy it, but you are certainly welcome. My point is that if it was a good chain, we'd see evidence of it, and wouldn't have to be told how good it was.

geppelle

especially since there is limited selling liquidity, no inflation, no VC, etc.

Milan_dr

> Omg, thank you. Admittedly, I just logged on and spent ages looking for it and realised I had to switch to video generation. This is bad UX from us! We'd love to redirect more people to the Media Generation page since it's the best/easiest to generate on. Were you using on mobile or desktop? > Do you have a page that summarises all the different AI models and what they specialise in? Not so much - our API page gives an overview with the descriptions of all the text models (https://nano-gpt.com/api), but aside from that it's frankly a bit impossible also for us to keep up to date descriptions on what models are best at what. We have an auto-model for text models and model recommender for images, this incorporates the leaderboard rankings for text/image on a bunch of different categories/styles and such. > I've been following this project for quite a while now and I would like to give some brief feedback... Feedback is very much appreciated! Thank you! For a "simple" mode, would something like showing just the top 5 text models and having the "Auto Model" preselected work? The auto model automatically routes to the best suited model, which I think for most people would frankly just work. So we could make it so that if you land on the website you're shown the "simple" version, you can go to "advanced mode" where we show all models for you (which is 200+ at this point). FYI we also have a model recommender which I think maybe does what you want - input a prompt or description and it recommends which model to use (and why). > Finally, and a bit of a long shot... Are you looking for investors? Not really since we're quite profitable and don't necessarily need it, but we've been considering it a bit lately because it could help us grow even faster. We also need to decide on, if we do go for investors, whether we do it through a token of sorts since we're crypto native and that feels like a great way to allow anyone to invest, or whether we go the VC route (we've had quite a bit of VC interest so far which we've been turning down). Awesome to even have you inquire about it by the way - I love that we're building something that others also think is valuable.

SpontaneousDream

In crypto, and in tech-investing in general- there's a common theme: **own the app, not the platform.** What does this mean? It means that what you want to own, in the end, is **killer apps**, not the protocols or platforms that power them. Killer apps accrue value, not the middleware or backends that power them. There are so many quotes from well-known players in crypto/tech/investing that espouse this idea, but I love these two below: >“The best products win, not the best protocols.” -Chris Dixon, A16z. Chris was the guy who initially said this back in 2016, challenging the "fat protocols" thesis. >“You want to be the front-end that people love, not just the back-end they forget.” -Balaji Srinivasan, OG VC/Bitcoiner & former CTO of Coinbase Imo, and I know this is unpopular here, but there are SO many protocols out there today that are just...protocols. Sure, they have apps on top of them, but the protocols don't accrue value directly from these apps. The protocols just power them in the background.

zzeekip

It's important for me. And the fact that it has been a top10 coin for years, it's probably important for other people. There is a big cardano community on twitter/x. On reddit, not so much. And the activity on the Cardano chain is real, not bots like sui, sol and other VC coins. Cardano has never been halted or offline. It's a good chain, not yet the most popular. But hey, you don't have to buy it, but you are certainly welcome.

jawni

>For better or worse, Cardano is a non-VC, organic chain. It had a pretty egalitarian launch in terms of the initial token distribution, at least compared to many chains, and has always had a culture of small holders being important. VCs are not inherently bad. VCs can also buy into any project on the secondary market. The villification of VCs here is so misguided. >For the Cardano community, it's about maintaining control; they don't want big VC and centralized stablecoin money to come in and take over their chain, even if it means no moon. That's cool, just don't come here shilling it based on qualities that have been proven to not move the needle over the last near decade. >Growth has been slow due to the measure twice, cut once philosophy but it is occurring. There are homegrown fiat stablecoins on Cardano now, such as USDM, as well as over-collateralized stables and other synthetics. All the usual Defi facilities exist. USDM is barely *stable* and barely even has a supply worth mentioning. The "Defi facilities exist" and that's about all they do, none of them are doing anything impressive usage wise and average fees on Cardano are already high despite the low usage.

The-John-Galt-Line

For better or worse, Cardano is a non-VC, organic chain. It had a pretty egalitarian launch in terms of the initial token distribution, at least compared to many chains, and has always had a culture of small holders being important. For the Cardano community, it's about maintaining control; they don't want big VC and centralized stablecoin money to come in and take over their chain, even if it means no moon. Growth has been slow due to the measure twice, cut once philosophy but it is occurring. There are homegrown fiat stablecoins on Cardano now, such as USDM, as well as over-collateralized stables and other synthetics. All the usual Defi facilities exist. And I think that tight knit community is why Cardano is still in the top 10, holders just don't leave

jawni

>VC are launching different protocols all the time trying to enrich themselves, some project even do it with DAG technology similar to Nano. These projects have ICO and make sure they keep most of the supply themselves. Tell me how many of them don't have smart contracts. All DAG chains have deviated from Nano's path. You didn't really think about that aspect did you? >Tell me of these thousands of other assets that are worth sending around, that are not MEME coins or Fiat currency disguised as crypto? Well *you* think they're all worthless, like I've shown you, most other people do not. Keep sticking with your beliefs if you want, but you do understand that you're in the vast minority, right? >Just because price has decrease since 2017 does not mean its forgotten. I think becoming a largely used cryptocurrency with a lot of user will take time, mostly because u have the chicken and egg problem. If no one accept Nano for services then there is no reason to have it, and if no one has it then there is no reason to accept it. So adoption has to start somewhere and this is a very hard thing to achieve. The price action of Nano in 2017 when it did a 1000x in 4 months and reach a price of $30 was not because it used by a lot of people as a peer to peer currency, it was mostly just because price increase and people got hyped which caused price to increase even more + low liquidity since it was on small unknown exchanges. And how is this chicken and the egg situation magically going to solve itself? >I think if the digital money narrative takes of, then Nano is probably the best crypto to have. I also don't think 10 years is a long time for adoption. It's made near zero process so far, what makes you think that changes?

RefrigeratorLow1259

Do we really need another VC backed L1? Especially an EVM one with a limited set of validators, 39?!

zztopsthetop

The same kind of people that thought we needed 20 different VC sponsored alternative layer 1s in 2021 and 15 vc funded layer 2s.

NFTbyND

Because the fundamentals are rock solid, we will solve the blockchain trilemma early 2026 and have over 10k tps, and btc defi is in development and will take off this year. Also, we grow without VC backed growth. Our growth is organic and without bots.

craly

> I didn't mean an exact 1:1 copy, but even if they did that, they still absolutely could make a shitload of money by launching a non-profit foundation to govern a Nano-like copycat chain. The non-profit distinction just means the foundation isn't for profit, but as founders/insiders/whatever, they would make shit loads of money from the allocations during the TGE. VC are launching different protocols all the time trying to enrich themselves, some project even do it with DAG technology similar to Nano. These projects have ICO and make sure they keep most of the supply themselves. >And with Nano, you sacrifice the ability to send anything other than XNO. You either can send XNO and only XNO for free, or you can send literally **thousands** of other assets, including what is literally the most popular asset on the planet USD, for a fraction of a cent, along with having robust programmability and interoperability and integrations that reach far more vastly than Nano could dream of. >If the tech was as promising as a bunch of redditors seem to think it is, then there would be at least one opportunistic group trying to usurp it. Tell me of these thousands of other assets that are worth sending around, that are not MEME coins or Fiat currency disguised as crypto? Smart contract and programmability is most overrated and unessecery feature of most cryptocurrencies, it only creates more bloat, imo. >I'm not asking rhetorically, like in 2017-18, you might think "oh it's waay faster and cheaper than everyone else and it's pretty new, good chance it takes off!" and that would make a lot of sense. But years later it's largely forgotten about and it's relative strengths are objectively not as impressive as before due to improvements from competitors. So shouldn't you be far less bullish on it now? And if you still think that investment thesis is sound, then at what point would you admit you're wrong? I Just because price has decrease since 2017 does not mean its forgotten. I think becoming a largely used cryptocurrency with a lot of user will take time, mostly because u have the chicken and egg problem. If no one accept Nano for services then there is no reason to have it, and if no one has it then there is no reason to accept it. So adoption has to start somewhere and this is a very hard thing to achieve. The price action of Nano in 2017 when it did a 1000x in 4 months and reach a price of $30 was not because it used by a lot of people as a peer to peer currency, it was mostly just because price increase and people got hyped which caused price to increase even more + low liquidity since it was on small unknown exchanges. I think if the digital money narrative takes of, then Nano is probably the best crypto to have. I also don't think 10 years is a long time for adoption.

jawni

Be that as it may, it doesn't really change anything or discredit my point at all. Many coin have unsustainable rallies and many coins are more robust then they were half a decade ago. And in the case of Nano, the benefits it used to offer are severely and objectively marginalized. Free txns were quite the selling point when most people were paying anywhere from $10-$100 on BTC or ETH, but with scaling solutions and newer L1's, now instead of saving $10, you're saving a fraction of a cent, and the same goes for the speed, as many chains have sub-second block times now. I've been a holder since the Raiblocks times, but it's always been a long shot and is even more of a long shot now. The biggest implication against it's success is the lack of a VC copycat IMO, if it really offered as much promise as people here seem to think(and lets be honest, outside of this subreddit, no one really is bullish on it and this subreddit is the lowest of the low when it comes to expertise), then you'd see other groups launching similar chains with major backing. Much the same way we've seen a plethora of Bitcoin forks, or EVM chains launch and even some SVM chains now too. But no one has any interest in funding a Nano competitor.

PrestigiousLoad6098

Kaspa. There are a lot of Kaspians that are technologically literate and seem to be in the project because of how true it is to Nakamoto principles. They celebrate the fact it's fair launch and had minimal VC input. Feels like the BTC community of old.

MrTheums

This sounds absolutely APE-s**hit** crazy, in the best possible way! Love the "forget utility, remember instinct" vibe. Seriously digging the anti-VC sentiment – tired of waiting for permission slips from the big boys. My question is: what's the actual *mechanism* behind $TUGGIN? Is it a DAO, a DeFi protocol, or something else entirely? Understanding the underlying tech is key before we send this to the moon! Also, what's the tokenomics like? Knowing the emission schedule and distribution is crucial for assessing long-term viability. Let's get some DD flowing, apes! WAGMI!

SoggyGrayDuck

As long as they keep enough reserves for a 80% BTC pullback. It's entirely possible we move away from the boom and bust cycles. Especially with all the VC money and the games they play with the markets but something like tether going under would be impossible to prevent a crash.

SunDreamShineDay

I’ll add a few So one day a few years ago I wanted to see what companies globally didn’t care about the SEC’s case and signed up with Ripple after they were sued by the SEC, so I put together a list that ranged from 2020-2023, all say XRP is being used. This isn’t a complete list from that time period, and there have been many since, but here are a few I put together, and these are some key corridors across continents. >SBI Remit said that it had expanded its services using Ripple’s XRP to bank accounts in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. By leveraging XRP as a bridge currency and partnering with its affiliate SBI VC Trade, SBI Remit aims for faster and cheaper money transfers that can boost adoption of XRP in target markets. SBI Remit and Ripple are eyeing these Southeast Asian markets because of their growing remittance flows. https://www.kapronasia.com/blockchain-research-menu-item/sbi-leans-further-into-digital-assets.html >Ripple’s cross-border payments technology is used by enterprises, and its clients are primarily banks, payments services providers and other fintechs. The overall payment volume on its payments network RippleNet exceeds $15 billion, and its global ODL volume has grown ninefold year-on-year. ”We have seen a lot of interest in our services in MENA. We have partnerships with several leading banks in the region, including with SABB in Saudi Arabia and QNB in Qatar. We are also working with local payments service providers such as Pyypl and LuLu Money, which are using Ripple’s [ODL] crypto solution to facilitate global movements between different currencies,” Gupta said. https://www.zawya.com/en/markets/currencies/interview-ripple-bullish-on-mena-expansion-to-cash-in-on-crypto-payments-surge-h57fzchx >LuLu Exchange, Ripple’s business partner based in the UAE, has formed a strategic alliance with (Mbank), the acclaimed first fully integrated virtual bank in the United Arab Emirates. LuLu is an early adopter of XRP, implementing business solutions via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service (now Ripple Payments). In a previous press statement, the Managing Director of LuLu Financial Holdings, Adeeb Ahamed, disclosed that Ripple’s ODL facility played a pivotal role in enhancing its fund management capabilities within the APAC region, all while adhering to the established regulatory guidelines. https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/11/02/uaes-al-maryah-bank-selects-ripple-odl-partner-for-cross-border-transfer/ >Filipino banking firm, ChinaBank has joined forces with Qatar National Bank (QNB) to facilitate direct transfer from Qatar to the Philippines using the RippleNet payment solution. With Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), both banks can enable instant settlements using XRP, doing away with the need for conventional correspondent banking relationships and the costs and delays that go along with them. https://coingape.com/ripple-expands-further-in-europe-xrp-price-rally/ >Ripple the leading provider of enterprise blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for global payments, announced today the launch of RippleNet’s first live On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service implementation in Japan, in collaboration with SBI Remit Co., Ltd, the largest money transfer provider in Japan. With ODL now available in Japan, RippleNet customers can leverage the digital asset XRP to eliminate pre-funding and reduce operational costs, unlocking capital and fuel the expansion of their payments businesses. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210727006246/en/Ripple-Launches-On-Demand-Liquidity-with-SBI-Remit-to-Accelerate-and-Grow-Cross-Border-Payments-from-Japan >Ripple has launched RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) in Brazil with Travelex Bank, the first bank in Latin America to utilize ODL. Travelex is the first bank registered and approved by the Central Bank of Brazil to operate exclusively in foreign exchange. By utilizing XRP, a digital asset ideal for payments, Ripple’s ODL solution allows customers to send money across borders instantly with very low-cost settlement and without the need to hold pre-funded capital in the destination market. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220818005147/en/Ripple-Launches-Crypto-enabled-Enterprise-Payments-in-Brazil-With-Travelex-Bank >Ripple has announced a partnership with FINCI, the Lithuanian online international money transfer provider, to deliver instant and cost-effective retail remittances and business to business (B2B) payments via RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages XRP for crypto-enabled cross border payments. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005134/en/Ripple-and-FINCI-Introduce-the-Benefits-of-On-Demand-Liquidity-to-Lithuania >Morningstar, a financial information services subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, will continue its XRP shareholder benefits program. The new dividend payout option comes as part of the company’s year-end reward program to thank its shareholders for their continued support in addition to interim shareholder benefits. Under the program, Morningstar will provide XRP rewards of 2,500 Japanese yen ($23) units per 100 shares owned by shareholders as of March 31, 2021. https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbi-holdings-subsidiary-continues-xrp-benefit-program >Ripple partners MFS Africa. The partnership will allow MFS Africa to make use of Ripple’s on-demand liquidity to streamline real-time mobile payments for customers in 35 countries. In contrast to a legacy payment infrastructure that’s prone to errors and needs an average of 3 to 5 days to settle international transactions that involve multiple parties, ODL leverages Ripple’s XRP token to act as a bridge between two fiat currencies. This allows the system to ultimately settle payments in local currency at the payment destination in a matter of seconds. ODL corridors now exist in Europe, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and Africa thanks to its recent partnership with MFS Africa. https://thepaypers.com/mobile-payments/ripple-partners-mfs-africa-to-streamline-real-time-mobile-payments—1259214

aaaanoon

Has VC funding = avoid

JustStopppingBye

Few reasons why imo (obviously). Crypto market is still driven by hype (scams that do nothing but pump for no reason) not fundamentals. Its also not VC-owned, so it lacks the artificial pumps, coordinated narratives, and liquidity games that other tokens get (cough hyper and sui cough). Its a long term infrastructure play.

SunDreamShineDay

Do you think banks and Payment companies are not using Ripple and XRP? So one day a few years ago I wanted to see what companies globally didn't care about the SEC's case and signed up with Ripple after they were sued by the SEC, so I put together a list that ranged from 2020-2023, all say XRP is being used. This isn't a complete list from that time period, and there have been many since, but here are a few I put together, and these are some key corridors across continents. >SBI Remit said that it had expanded its services using Ripple’s XRP to bank accounts in the Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia. By leveraging XRP as a bridge currency and partnering with its affiliate SBI VC Trade, SBI Remit aims for faster and cheaper money transfers that can boost adoption of XRP in target markets. SBI Remit and Ripple are eyeing these Southeast Asian markets because of their growing remittance flows. https://www.kapronasia.com/blockchain-research-menu-item/sbi-leans-further-into-digital-assets.html >Ripple’s cross-border payments technology is used by enterprises, and its clients are primarily banks, payments services providers and other fintechs. The overall payment volume on its payments network RippleNet exceeds $15 billion, and its global ODL volume has grown ninefold year-on-year. ”We have seen a lot of interest in our services in MENA. We have partnerships with several leading banks in the region, including with SABB in Saudi Arabia and QNB in Qatar. We are also working with local payments service providers such as Pyypl and LuLu Money, which are using Ripple’s [ODL] crypto solution to facilitate global movements between different currencies,” Gupta said. https://www.zawya.com/en/markets/currencies/interview-ripple-bullish-on-mena-expansion-to-cash-in-on-crypto-payments-surge-h57fzchx >LuLu Exchange, Ripple’s business partner based in the UAE, has formed a strategic alliance with (Mbank), the acclaimed first fully integrated virtual bank in the United Arab Emirates. LuLu is an early adopter of XRP, implementing business solutions via Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service (now Ripple Payments). In a previous press statement, the Managing Director of LuLu Financial Holdings, Adeeb Ahamed, disclosed that Ripple’s ODL facility played a pivotal role in enhancing its fund management capabilities within the APAC region, all while adhering to the established regulatory guidelines. https://thecryptobasic.com/2023/11/02/uaes-al-maryah-bank-selects-ripple-odl-partner-for-cross-border-transfer/ >Filipino banking firm, ChinaBank has joined forces with Qatar National Bank (QNB) to facilitate direct transfer from Qatar to the Philippines using the RippleNet payment solution. With Ripple’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), both banks can enable instant settlements using XRP, doing away with the need for conventional correspondent banking relationships and the costs and delays that go along with them. https://coingape.com/ripple-expands-further-in-europe-xrp-price-rally/ >Ripple the leading provider of enterprise blockchain and cryptocurrency solutions for global payments, announced today the launch of RippleNet’s first live On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) service implementation in Japan, in collaboration with SBI Remit Co., Ltd, the largest money transfer provider in Japan. With ODL now available in Japan, RippleNet customers can leverage the digital asset XRP to eliminate pre-funding and reduce operational costs, unlocking capital and fuel the expansion of their payments businesses. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210727006246/en/Ripple-Launches-On-Demand-Liquidity-with-SBI-Remit-to-Accelerate-and-Grow-Cross-Border-Payments-from-Japan >Ripple has launched RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL) in Brazil with Travelex Bank, the first bank in Latin America to utilize ODL. Travelex is the first bank registered and approved by the Central Bank of Brazil to operate exclusively in foreign exchange. By utilizing XRP, a digital asset ideal for payments, Ripple’s ODL solution allows customers to send money across borders instantly with very low-cost settlement and without the need to hold pre-funded capital in the destination market. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220818005147/en/Ripple-Launches-Crypto-enabled-Enterprise-Payments-in-Brazil-With-Travelex-Bank >Ripple has announced a partnership with FINCI, the Lithuanian online international money transfer provider, to deliver instant and cost-effective retail remittances and business to business (B2B) payments via RippleNet’s On-Demand Liquidity (ODL), which leverages XRP for crypto-enabled cross border payments. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220518005134/en/Ripple-and-FINCI-Introduce-the-Benefits-of-On-Demand-Liquidity-to-Lithuania >Morningstar, a financial information services subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Group, will continue its XRP shareholder benefits program. The new dividend payout option comes as part of the company’s year-end reward program to thank its shareholders for their continued support in addition to interim shareholder benefits. Under the program, Morningstar will provide XRP rewards of 2,500 Japanese yen ($23) units per 100 shares owned by shareholders as of March 31, 2021. https://cointelegraph.com/news/sbi-holdings-subsidiary-continues-xrp-benefit-program >Ripple partners MFS Africa. The partnership will allow MFS Africa to make use of Ripple’s on-demand liquidity to streamline real-time mobile payments for customers in 35 countries. In contrast to a legacy payment infrastructure that’s prone to errors and needs an average of 3 to 5 days to settle international transactions that involve multiple parties, ODL leverages Ripple’s XRP token to act as a bridge between two fiat currencies. This allows the system to ultimately settle payments in local currency at the payment destination in a matter of seconds. ODL corridors now exist in Europe, the Philippines, Australia, Japan and Africa thanks to its recent partnership with MFS Africa. https://thepaypers.com/mobile-payments/ripple-partners-mfs-africa-to-streamline-real-time-mobile-payments--1259214

craly

It was never the goal of Nano Foundation to profit of the Development of Nano. It was made as a non-profit, so it was always in the card that once the origianl developer fund went dry it would have to be developed the way Linux works. Trustable would have been great if regulation had not put a stopper in its path. Recenty i saw Duncan made a commed about Nano on r/cryptocurrency [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1j6epav/comment/mgo4uk4/?context=3&utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web3x&utm\_name=web3xcss&utm\_term=1&utm\_content=share\_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/1j6epav/comment/mgo4uk4/?context=3&utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Hopefully they will try again with something like Trustable. Nano would be the perfect tech for running stable coins or commodity trading. Commerical grade is good marketing term. Now the protocol is as the stage were it is really robust. *-I can find you 1000 examples of dead chains that continue to have small development teams pushing updates for a handful of bagholders that still believe."* This comment is not relevant to nano as its acticly developed, no matter how much you want Nano to be dead the community will still keep developing and pushing its tech and its adoption. *-There are just so many projects that do what Nano does, do it better, are more decentralized, have cheaper node costs, have node incentives, more partnerships, more funding that it doesn't have a single prayer of ever breaking through.* No there is not. Nano has a fully distributed supply and no more coins can be created, this mean it has no inflation. Nano is the only working feeless currency, this is due to how the priority machnisme has been implemented. Nano is so light weight that anyone can run a Nano node. Nano is instantly setteled with an average of 0.35 seconds settlement time. Nano had no VC funding and set out on a mission to create a crypto that could be used by everyone and was for everyone. Nano is the only cryptocurrency that has manged to create a protocol that has fully removed middlemen (miner and stakers) enriching themself. Nano proved that a crypto does not need to enrich the middlemen to secure the network. Infact it has proven that by removing rewards to validators via transaction fees and coin distribution(inflation) it is becoming decenralised then if it has choosen a model that would reward middlemen.

friendsandmodels

Please trash on my shitcoin! I may be delusional about this one so please tell me what you think and if possible find as many red flags as you can! Because i honestly dont see anything bad despite the usual risk for new projects. So this one is a base token, not a meme coin, called create. Currently it sits at \~500k mcap and rank #4400 - that alone is interesting What's more is, they are heavily involved with buildonbase and host a weekly episode there. Also I should mention it was fairlaunch so no VC or ICO can dump Jesse Pollak (lead dev of Base) is supporting this and they have a few real life events where they are present, for example the Licensing Expo recently and the NFTNYC 2025 in New York. Even better, they are official Partners of the Clankercon. Clankercon itself is a metaverse event involved and backed by Farcaster. Guest Speakers will be e.g. Jesse Pollak as well as former Coinbase VP. Source: (Keep in mind that the date for Clankercon has been delayed) [https://x.com/BasedCreators/status/1915516460245409868](https://x.com/BasedCreators/status/1915516460245409868) [https://x.com/RSKAGY/status/1915891999242154404](https://x.com/RSKAGY/status/1915891999242154404) I think the chart speaks for itself, there's never been a big dump and top wallets have only been buying - everyone expects big things in the future. There's also some speculation on my part: [https://x.com/CryptoStatuette/status/1911087725437915246](https://x.com/CryptoStatuette/status/1911087725437915246) (Coinbase Wallet Integration maybe?) For example see how base itself features create's Logo here: [https://x.com/base/status/1914782434476105804](https://x.com/base/status/1914782434476105804) Coincidence? I think not. Something defenitely is brewing. I can only imagine what will happen when Clankercon happens and marketing actually starts...

pickleBoy2021

Crypto is tribal. Everyone in crypto trying to recruit. Stay away from KOL’s on YouTube. Don’t take candy from strangers. BTC goes down the whole market drips harder. If you are thinking about XRP and like the community. go to Bitcoin. Cause if your going to join a cult join the one with no VC’s, foundation, teams looking to vest. If you want that buy stocks.

aminok

Nonsense, Ethereum has far and away the most advanced technology in crypto, and any project outside of Ethereum is at best a long-shot fueled by VC ambitions. Let's go through tangible metrics: Ethereum mainnet supports 21.3 TPS, and blob-enabled rollups now push that to 125+ TPS — all while preserving Ethereum’s base-layer security and verifiability. No other protocol scales with this level of trustlessness. Competing chains boost TPS by sacrificing verifiability — offloading consensus or requiring privileged hardware, see [chart](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gn7IW8MawAAX892?format=png&name=900x900). The idea that high-TPS chains have "better tech" for parallel execution is also outdated. MegaETH — a high-performance Ethereum scalability solution — brings true parallelism and high throughput to the EVM, secured by ETH via EigenLayer and EigenDA. On execution, MegaETH now outpaces all so-called high-scalability virtual machines, [see chart](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gn7KzFBasAAg7ro?format=jpg&name=large). On data availability, EigenDA already exceeds the capacity of every competing DA solution. When it comes to DeFi security and tooling, the EVM has always been unmatched — as Aave founder Stani Kulechov points out in this interview with Laura Shin: https://x.com/laurashin/status/1889419716453601501 And on client software, Ethereum leads by a wide margin. No other chain comes close to its level of client diversity — a key factor in decentralization and network resilience. To elaborate: Ethereum is the only blockchain with client diversity across both the consensus and execution layer. No single client dominates execution or consensus. [See chart.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gsl5DDuWIAAmuB0?format=jpg&name=medium) At this point, the EVM and Ethereum stack offer: • The most secure virtual machine with the strongest developer tooling • The most decentralized and verifiable network architecture • The most scalable modular tech stack — across execution, settlement, and data availability — without compromising decentralization Despite cutting corners everywhere, other chains cannot come close to Ethereum on any metric.

SoggyGrayDuck

Yep the next hard fork to solve quantum computer risks is going to be an opportunity for VC to sneak in whatever they want into the code like they do for legal bills

Hitchie_Rawtin

It's true. Some coins have been so hyped they've led to a 20,000x for initial investors & VCs, they'd be idiots not to dump that as soon as the coins were vested. I don't know why people were buying those coins at genesis at 20,000x the VC price, that sounds like their own stupidity but they stay very bitter about it.

EngineeredStocks

ADA Cardano Has the best technology and potential. Lot people hate on the low volume on dex but its cuz there is no VC doing fake trade to pump volume. But just do your research and you will see the benefits of Cardano

pibbleberrier

Yes Defi is Alive and well. The issue is yall were betting on DAO tokens thinking you guys are actual “stockholder” The real sustainable gains comes from using the protocol not being VC investor’s exist liquidity

SmoothGoing

Rich college dropout Bro, born to traditional banking parents and grandparents, in his boyfriend's oversized hoodie is like: 1. Families are in debt. Govts are in debt. Housing debt, edu debt, transportation debt, credit card debt. It's a burden. 2. Bitcoin is great, hodl was a forum post, collateralize is a word I lurn'd. Cash flow is a term I still don't understand. 3. I don't have any dollars, cause I can live a nice life off VC dollars the company got. 4. Remember the debt burden I started talking about? Solution is - go in debt to "my" (VC owns it all) company!

SoggyGrayDuck

Yes there's a guaranteed hard fork in the future and it should be one of the bigger topics due to how much power VC has now and can throw behind their pick.

pickleBoy2021

Crypto is tribal. Do your own research(DYOR). Everyone will onboard you into their own shit like this. 👆. Avoid YouTube. They get paid to onboard you. BTC drives the industry. There are no boards, foundations, or VC’s. It’s the dog thar drives the industry. There are blue chips and cults. Avoid cults.

Aconyminomicon

Lol dude i have been coding smart contracts on Hedera for a few years and I am well aware of algorand. If you like a centralized VC funded chain that really has one use case, which is the same as XRP, then yeah Algorand is the play. The future is Hedera and the virtually unlimited amount of use cases being created on it right now. Also, Hedera has more developers and just did an equally large hackathon using AI Agents for SC's.

MaximumStudent1839

Can’t believe you write up contradictions all over the place and don’t realize it. How can you call say your alt is “serious” and has “solid tech” but mentions Cardano and “provided solutions to non-existent” problems in the same thread? Crypto’s best use case is SoV. Alts gone to trash because most wrapped themselves as fintech and ETH fell into this VC narrative trash too.

Ok_Relationship_1753

You should’ve posted this on Crypto Reddit, not Bitcoin. Bitcoin and crypto are not the same , they don’t share the same culture or way of thinking. Bitcoin is a new monetary system a sound form of money that no one can devalue or debase. It allows people to save in a stable and predictable way. Bitcoiners see it as a long-term store of value and protection from the flaws of fiat currency. Crypto, on the other hand, is mostly a scam industry where founders and VC capitalists dump their bags on retail investors people constantly searching for the “next Bitcoin.” It’s driven by speculation, with traders trying to make more fiat money, Crypto people not understanding the fundamental difference between Bitcoin and crypto space. Crypto is actually just fiat, while Bitcoin is the alternative to fiat.

Squirrel_McNutz

This is valid. New alt coins are coming onto the market with absolutely massive valuations and horrible VC vesting schedules. There is no point being early - it only leads to getting dumped on.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; KAT is the native token of the Katana ecosystem, designed to align users and core apps through a decentralized model. With a total supply of 10 billion, KAT is non-transferable until February 20, 2026, or earlier. It powers the ecosystem by enabling holders to earn fees and direct incentives via vKAT, a voting token. The tokenomics prioritize community participation, with no pre-sales or VC investors. KAT will support liquidity, incentivize users, and drive sustainable growth through a modified ve(3,3) model, benefiting the entire DeFi ecosystem on Katana. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

splinternista

The reason is that Ledger is a very bad hardware wallet. Its firmware is closed source, so nobody can verify what the firmware actually does.. They can, without your permission, steal all the funds from your hardware wallet.If you use Ledger, it’s basically the same as keeping your funds on some exchange. Another important point is that it’s a shitcoin wallet , it supports a huge number of scam tokens (shitcoins). Supporting so many shitcoins increases the chance of bugs and attack vectors. This is completely immoral because almost all shitcoins are created by founders and VC capitalists with the goal of dumping their bags on naive and uninformed retail investors. Crypto has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but naive people or those who haven’t deeply researched fall into the trap of thinking everything is the same and that Bitcoin is just one of many cryptos. People easily fall into this trap, and Ledger participates in this scam and exploits people. There are so many good Bitcoin-only wallets.Check out Coldcard, Blockstream Jade, BitKey, Passport Foundation, and other Bitcoin-only wallets.

CunningStunt_1

I am incredibly suspicious of hyperliquid and it's VC backers.

mwdeuce

THIS, Joe Lubin has been the biggest holder of ETH next to Vitalik since the ICO, he's a dime-a-dozen VC rat, not even remotely in the same league as Saylor, who was a bitcoin skeptic at first. This article is hilariously aimed at noobs who have no idea what they bought.

Easy-Dust-3129

well, give it a taste I would say. snektimeline.com. SNEK is different than the common do nothing memecoin in the centralized VC chains

RefrigeratorLow1259

It's not VC backed, Do some research! You're thinking of SOL and SUI....

pickleBoy2021

June historically is a bad month. I would DYOR. Crypto is tribal. People just recruit you to 💩projects. Most projects are garbage, vaporware, don’t need a blockchain, have been tried before. Macro is a hot mess so take notice. Bitcoin has no foundation, or board, or VC’s. It’s own beast. It drives the price action for everything. Chains like Sol and ETH are real and have billions and usage. Wall Street is buying these and stablecoins. Look at chain like a restaurant. Is it busy? Do people use it? Does it have TVL or money on chain? There are lots of cults or ghost chains. People pitching coin but after so many years of existence, “still building” or have no adoption. People will say it’s the future. Everyone in here is going to recruit you into their cult. Some new things will have promise but like any real world startup, look who is behind it. Learn VC’s and investment fund names. Rabbit hole. Because they also fund equities and crypto project. Learn market cap and FDV. It will save you. You are tech analyst managing your own PNL. Never listen to the shills on YouTube. They are paid to recruit you in the cult and dump on you. This is the Wild West. Remember. Survive! [https://cobie.substack.com/p/on-the-meme-of-market-caps-and-unlocks](https://cobie.substack.com/p/on-the-meme-of-market-caps-and-unlocks)

Hot_Molasses_4006

Ofc people will downvote my sentiment.The blue chip coins like ada,link,xrp,are all owned by VC’s that got in @ a very low marktcap.I wanna make real gains in good community cult coins @ a low marktcap! FartCoin is useless,but it went to a billion marktcap.The early ones are loving life.

RefrigeratorLow1259

As long as the issuance total is hard coded and there's no big VC backing with a large amount of supply, PoS is ok.

Hot_Molasses_4006

Go on YT and check out Suppoman channel.If you wanna make real gains this year! He’s been in the game since 2017,and goes by the narratives.Not the VC pumped coins.Cheers! Always dyor.

CunningStunt_1

I didnt even touch the on the shitchains propped up by VC money.

Radiant_Being_7322

If you hold $WHITE don’t sleep on WhiteNet, it’s live. 1:1 swap. No pre-mines. No VC games. Just raw access to RWA infra w/ 200K TPS + ZK privacy. Flip your $WHITE > $WHITENET before the herd. Use my link, let’s both win. You get additional tokens, I get a commission. Generate your own referral link here: http://network.whiterock.fi/contribute?code=WHITEWINS

No_Song_8952

And it’s all circulating… no token unlocks to dilute the market. It didn’t get distributed to VC’s or any insider groups before the public got it unlike Solana sui and so many others.

Ready_Respond_8449

Jesus how are people still asking questions like this?? This is all XRP is. VC scam for noobs. WAKE UP!

Hot_Molasses_4006

Put this money into cult coins with good communities.Low cap gems that can and will hit a half billion marktcap and higher by years end. AWR,FCK925,ASS.Check em out,and make life changing money by end of year into 2026.All the high caps are VC owned and we’re their exit liquidity.Period.Btc and Sol are imo the only high caps i buy.Let the downvotes commence.Cheers!

cascading_disruption

Because ETH is a shitcoin, its lunch is being eaten up by other top 10 crypto, memes, and VC chains like Aptos, avalanche, sui and other shit networks. There's no suppression here, it's price is 2.5k too high for a thing that can't scale and has 1 billion L2 that eat its lunch too.

CunningStunt_1

Oracle fault completely collapsed all lending and liquidity pools. Should have used chainlink. For some unknown reason Sui price isn't dumping to oblivion. I'm just going to assume it's the usual VC parasites up to their usual tricks.

RefrigeratorLow1259

ADA, fully decentralised with a hard coded token limit, not VC funded. UTXO instead of less secure accounts based EVM, SVM etc. Governance voting by all holders on chain. Can become the L2 for BTC through trust minimised bridging without 3rd party 'wrapping'... Check BitVMX out.. https://bitvmx.org/

No_Balls_No_Glory

SUI is also heavily VC backed. You'll never know how deep their pockets are and / or when they will pull out.

RefrigeratorLow1259

The VC backers will support the price, don't worry....

RefrigeratorLow1259

Circle don't like Cardano, it's not VC enough for them lol

RefrigeratorLow1259

If you like VC backed stuff, with crap tokenomics and not decentralised, go ahead ..It's a rushed protocol that's not stood the test of time.

RefrigeratorLow1259

I've said before it's VC backed, not decentralised and has bad tokenomics. It's a rushed protocol - I bet there are code flaws lurking throughout it - Did Cetus actually have an audit?

RefrigeratorLow1259

That's a huge generalisation, some are truly decentralised, with fair distribution, capped supply and no VC backing.

East-Day-7888

Lmao, “finally backed”? You act like this space hasn’t seen VC-backed rug pulls before. M12 and some vague association with Microsoft doesn’t mean anything without revenue, utility, or a real business model. Being able to name-drop Bill Gates like it’s a utility doesn’t change that. Space and Time is doing what every overhyped project does — ride vague promises, throw around corporate names, and hope no one asks for actual use cases. But go ahead, show me ten non-defi use cases. Real ones. Verifiable. With customers that pay for the service. If you can’t, all you’re doing is trading buzzwords and praying for a greater fool. Meanwhile, Neuron.world spent four years building, and already has a list of real partners using its network, generating revenue before even dropping a token. That’s what ethical, sustainable growth looks like. Backed by use, not buzz. Good luck betting your future on a press release.

Exciting-Serve-2676

I was trying to figure out how you were convincing yourself the only token finally backed by a reputable Fortune 500 company and its VC partner M12 was a “useless coin,” and then you went on to shill the project you are hoping will make your rich. Good luck ignoring the first legitimately backed project the crypto space has scene in a long time. I’m going to put my eggs in the only basket that isn’t a straight up ghost project with a bunch of nobodies attached to it.

East-Day-7888

Lmao, okay, that changes everything. If you’re skeptical of Bitcoin and already see through the circus act that is Sol and Aave, then you’re ahead of most. Bitcoin’s only strength is inertia — it’s slow, inefficient, and relies entirely on being the first. But first doesn’t mean best. If we judged tech that way, we’d still be using dial-up and Blackberries. Solana’s entire brand is built on hype and VC exit strategies. And Aave? It’s DeFi recycling liquidity, not generating value. Neither are sustainable long-term plays. So the smarter move isn’t dumping into BTC — it’s consolidating into **real utility**. Projects with revenue, partnerships, and use cases you can verify outside of Twitter threads and vaporware promises. Start with Hedera. Look at Neuron.world. Stuff with an actual business model. You don’t need to run to Bitcoin for “safety” when most people are just fleeing from their bad alt decisions.

Exciting-Serve-2676

Did you just straight up lie about Bill Gates comments on Space and Time? Microsoft’s VC company is literally an investor. They just integrated it with Fabric. My man, is just literally saying whatever he can to bash this token.

Harucifer

No CEO's, no VC's, no marketing, *just an organic 21st century religion revolving around "going to the moon" after the message from the Messiah Satoshi Nakamoto was sent to us in the White Paper and the gospels of his emails and forum messages* Not a cult guys, not a cult.

PrestigiousLoad6098

I'm not going to disagree with you because who knows a and BTC has such relentless first mover advantage, but you should definitely research it. Its redefining PoW scalability through DAG chain. Became most scalable PoW in Oct 24 and just forked 10x faster without breaking a sweat. The guys behind it are cryptographic researchers, quoted in ETH whitepaper. Fair launch, very true to Nakamotos principles; due to scalability, more true to it than BTC. But you've never heard of it because it's fair launch, with no VC-backing or marketing. Old crypto heads should really only hold two coins. BTC and KAS.

Dazzling-Guest-3863

$Glue. - Project consists of L1, interconnected L2s, DEX, Stablecoin, ... (full ecosystem) - Experienced team (Ogle and Snapshot are the cofounders) - No VC overhang because no VCs involved - Under the radar for now, because marketing hasnt started TLDR: it's an ambitious project. But if you're not working at a VC, you will probably never be able to enter such a project at the current price.

crlong11

Live VC every Monday & Thursday @ 9p EDT. Strategy call on Monday and conspiracy chat on Thursday. We’ll pick a topic and go down the rabbit hole!

JazzMeUp-

BTC is the only answer. You don’t want to hold inflationary VC backed centralized shitcoins for longer than a cycle if you are into crypto casino.

Fit-Mathematician-98

Everyone says the coin they shill is what BTC was supposed to be. XRP army says the same shit. Basically, most of these projects that aren't memes, gaming, etc, are simply trying to mimic BTC and create the narrative of being what "BTC" was supposed to be. The closest thing to BTC, literally is DOGE and LTC, their coding is almost identical to BTC. Then, BCH is actually what BTC in the was in the beginning when they did the hard fork because BCH is the original code and still had the anonymity of P2P similar XMR. The main difference between BTC and every other coin, and this was mentioned, is that BTC is pre-mined. It's the only digital asset that has a fixed supply of 21Mil(3mil lost) based on its coding and algorithmic structure. The last BTC won't be mined until 2140 based on its four year halving structure, and not one entity owns it. Every other crypto can create tokens out of thin air if they choose to, every other crypto has a huge team of developers, VC's, in their inception that can easily dump, manipulate whenever they want to. The projects like ETh, where Vitalik stepped away and is letting the community governance its future, is a great step for the future of Cryptocurrency. Also, everything but BTC is a Cryptocurrency, while BTC is literally a digital asset. I suggest doing more research on these topics before spewing asinine comments about "Kaspa" being what BTC was supposed to be, just like the 100's of other token projects making the same claim, but carry on, mate. I wish you nothing but the best in your journey.

Heykindasorta

Immaculate conception -no actually No premine, no 'founder and VC team allocations' -Not universal to btc Genuinely permissionless -Not universal to btc Genuinely censorship resistant -Not universal to btc Founder gone - highly rug pull and 'vision change' resistant -True the founder is gone (as all founders will be one day) but there are still developers as with every crypto.  This doesn’t inherently make Bitcoin better than any other crypto.   Best brand by orders of magnitude -so was Woolworths, Kodak, Blockbusters… Only 'crypto' aiming to be a monetary good -Not universal to btc The first solution to the Byzantine Generals problem is a contender for a new monetary good. All 'improvements' that follow are testnets for potential new features to the original. -as with brands, first doesn’t guarantee lasting and certainly doesn’t preclude competitors So yeah I’m a fan of Bitcoin for the reasons you’ve stated.  But no it’s not a religion.  There is better technology so why wouldn’t I be open to that as well?

BrightStar_101

I think you're over estimating how much of the market behavior in crypto is borderline illegal/milicious manipulation, vs organic. Crypto VCs have been working overtime to artificially inflate their own chains, and tank others. SOL, for example, wouldn't be anywhere near its current price, if it wasn't for VC manipulation. Ethereum has been the main victim of malicious VC shorting, though that's starting to come to an end.

CasaSatoshi

Immaculate conception No premine, no 'founder and VC team allocations' Genuinely permissionless Genuinely censorship resistant Founder gone - highly rug pull and 'vision change' resistant Best brand by orders of magnitude Only 'crypto' aiming to be a monetary good The first solution to the Byzantine Generals problem is a contender for a new monetary good. All 'improvements' that follow are testnets for *potential* new features to the original.

Worried-Jury7078

Says it all in the title. He’s a VC. You think he’s going to say anything other than something so extraordinary. What to VC’s do?

pickleBoy2021

Are you talking about lifestyle businesses like your local restaurant, hvac company, real estate, or investment trust. Any corporate entity has shares and owners. Yes there are companies you can own for years. IBM is still around but they’re not MAG7 and setting the world on fire. I framed it from owning something to get the growth appreciation since this is a new and nascent industry. Maximizing the S curve. Not some mature company or industry. I heard the stat from a VC. He was framing up how to think about changing industries and timeframes for investments. If a fund raises money, deploys into a sector to build it, and then returns that growth to its investors. The funds timing is 8 years and that 20 years was the lifespan assigned. So startups get acquired,/merge, become zombie companies, become lifestyle, become hits or fail. Marc Andreeson of A16Z hit rate was 7% on over 250+ companies. Meaning 7% got to a billion dollars which would as a metric get you to a 20 years life. Enron lasted 16 years and at its peak was a top 10 company in the world. This pod I was listening to yesterday was about market makers discussing their business. They did discuss the issue with alot of big coins becoming zombies. Foundations and the founders are sitting on billions from cashing out but the chain, app, or product is a zombie with little to no users in a changing market. Your coin can live forever and you can do buybacks but how is this any different than a IBM or Microstrategy that just uses its businesses cash flow to service buying BTC. BTC is the only coin where we don’t have to deal with management, founders, and funding. Everything else is just another startup wrapped up in crypto. They have teams, payroll, HR issues and investors. [https://overcast.fm/+AA9KZZO2jWQ](https://overcast.fm/+AA9KZZO2jWQ)

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Crypto Valley, encompassing Switzerland and Liechtenstein, has grown by 132% since 2020, now hosting 1,749 blockchain firms, according to the CV VC Crypto Valley Company & Industry Report. Zug remains the hub, accounting for over 40% of web3 companies, followed by Zürich at 15%. The region's blockchain sector has a five-year compound annual growth rate of 18.8%. Infrastructure and financial services dominate, while associations and foundations are increasingly popular legal structures. The Swiss blockchain industry is globally significant. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

vlatkovr

How stupid can you be? The only crypto that is actually not a shitty centralized VC project besides bitcoin is ethereum. You don't have to shit on it just because you are into bitcoin

leorolim

Had a client with a platinum Daytona and a week later another one with a VC Overseas. No way I'd pay that much money for a watch even if I could...

regularDude358

Well, of course everyone here is shilling its coin. But honestly ERGO is the original coin out there - no VC, PoW, extended UTXO and so on. Sub-blocks incoming (transfers will be much faster). So.. it's not yet another Pepe Floki inu...

SoggyGrayDuck

Not with this much VC money in. They won't let it. I feel like they know how to profit off both the top and bottom which makes it seem smoother for retail. We just don't get to participate because they snatch the liquidity

AnoAnoSaPwet

Advertise a finished product. In this case, memecoins are a finished product. Cryptocurrencies largely aren't treated as competition, and most networks have strong VC funding. 

NavyTopGun87

#Feenix on solana is the only correct answer gas free swaps via Feenixbot, VC on board actively marketing with KOL’s…its a no brainer r/Feenix

OG_Snowbound

The Crescendo upgrade unlocks smart contract programmability. Ecosystem coming in next 90-120 days with Igra and Sparkle. Patience, grasshopper. If Kaspa had VC backing we’d have already been there but it’s a complete grassroots community funded movement. The same ethos of Bitcoin. Don’t fade.

Blarghnog

It’s called a startup ecosystem.  It’s how startup markets work.  The idea that because startups have a high rate of failure experimenting in early stage markets is keeping us from being successful at our mission of exploring product market fit and scaling outwards to make crypto successful is actually laughably the opposite of reality. > However, one of the fundamental reasons he says crypto startups can fail is that building a successful startup is tough regardless of the industry. > According to Exploding Topics, up to 90% of startups fail across almost all industries. In the first year, the average failure rate is around 10%, rising significantly from there.  > “Now translate this general market data to crypto, and the challenges get a lot bigger; the crypto market is highly volatile, and we just came out of the longest crypto winter,” Hoogendoorn said. https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-startups-failure-business-markets Personally I’m surprised there are so many survivors so far. I expected a lot higher rate of failure given the obvious scams and crazy frothy market conditions. I’d say things are going well, and we have a lot of really interesting projects from VC that are contributing to adoption handsomely. The real concern should be the regulatory agencies and big banks. They are starting to take a keen interest, and have already pushed aside a lot of real economic freedom for private investors for their own interests. 

jawni

Seems like a lot of buzzwords for what amounts to the same thing AI agents have been doing for a while now, while being very sparse on the actual details. How is "all happening on the Recall network" when I can barely even find a single thing to show that the network actually exists? I see a connect wallet button on some of the pages but that's it. Nothing on Coingecko or CMC, and when I google Recall Network there is basically nothing in the search results. Is it still in testnet? Why is it such a ghost town? I see the results, but it's pretty obvious they are using assets that aren't native to Recall, so how is that possible? Is this just paper trading being recorded on chain? And if so, why does it even matter what chain it uses? Why only 1 week? Seems like a poor way to actually figure out which agent works the best when using such a short time frame. The fact that you say "Raised $39.5M from top-tier VCs (backed by folks who don't miss) " and don't name the VCs makes me think they aren't as great as you think, and every VC misses plenty, that's the nature of it, high risk high reward. idk, not impressed with what I'm seeing.

SouthfieldRoyalOak

Really? Turn the spam filter off on your email accounts. Tell me if your life improves. What they are doing is making it so that node runners have *no choice* to run the filter. Which means a bunch of VC backed shitcoining jpeg slingers will use YOUR hard drive to store their garbage for free.

achow101

Funny you say "VC backed" because Luke is one of the few people who works on Core who is actually VC backed.

TP43

Core devs that are heavily invested in the VC firms that would benefit from this are the ones pushing it through. This same mission creep happened on Ethereum buried it. This is why the bitcoin runes people, Citrea and JPEG enjoyers are celebrating the changes. They are trying to pile shitcoins on top of the L1 and this how it starts.

TP43

Its less about knots being so great and more about not wanting to run this VC backed slop on our nodes.

CunningStunt_1

More VC funded bullshit. Designed to funnel as much money from retail into the hands of the few.

mabbsy1976

ICP has one of the worst charts I have ever seen. VC dumped, and now you are left with huge resistance. I would not touch ICP.

Suspicious_Button509

No, Kaspa is if you ask me. Its ended up at almost 3 billion market cap without VC funding. Thats a lot of money

JustKiddingDude

We’re talking about government here, not VC firms. The only investing that government should be doing with taxpayer money is in infrastructure and their people (healthcare, education etc), because that benefits society as a whole. If people want their money to be invested in speculative assets, they can do that privately and there’s absolutely no benefit in doing that with public money.

Crap911

Ppl start learning not putting money into sht alt coins anymore. Memecoins are still better because they dont need development VC investment