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The biggest test for decentralized perps platforms was 10/10
If the biggest liquidation event in history didn't make people stop gambling - nothing will.
That's why I keep DCAing into $HYPE and $ASTER (Biggest perps platform and CZ's baby)
I will come back to this post in the bull

I look at some of these "solo traders" and genuinely wonder how they haven't lost their minds yet.
Some degen sitting alone in his room 16 hours a day staring at axiom,
buying and selling shitters, not speaking to a SINGLE human being the entire day.
Even 9-5 wagers have ppl around them to talk at lunch..
The "solo trader" has literally nothing except for few-min charts.
This is why community memes and utility coins will ALWAYS be the play for me.
Not even from a money perspective but from a SANITY perspective.
You join a TG, you talk and argue with degens, you hold bags together, you celebrat

The thing that ACTUALLY onboards people into crypto is NORMAL degens turning $500 into a million by HOLDING
Not by extracting scraps from 50K mcap coins 16 hours a day via buying, bundling and snipping.
You think a normie sees that and wants to participate?
A normal person with a normal job sees a video of some kid bundling 20 wallets, launching a coin and selling it for 20 SOL is NOT appealing.
Return to quality and the normies will come.

Got a D M this morning: "Bro why don't you shill this coin? It's full of OG whales and a very strong community!!"
I go and check: 225k MC ☠️

I DCA in $TAO because it's currently the biggest AI token during the biggest AI bubble in modern history
I DCA in $XMR because it's the strongest and most widely used privacy coin - in a world where privacy doesn't exist anymore.
The more this world gets fked up - the more ppl will need privacy

I see all the doom posters telling me I'm "delusional" for being optimistic.
40k $BTC, some even calling for 20k
Cool, but what's YOUR thesis?
Because every single time I ask one of these bears to explain their reasoning all I get is "the trenches are cooked bro".
Where is the reasoning for why 40k is the PROBABLE outcome versus everything else?
Do you understand how little of impact the trenches had on $BTC in the last year or so?

If we want to heal the trenches,
We can start by not putting a badge of honour on T!ktok teenagers who screen record themselves extracting 20K from a 40K topper with some cringe remix in the bg.
Back in the day that same jeeter would've been blacklisted from every group and community,
tx's screenshotted and passed around like a mugshot.
Now? they get engagement, cheering and copy traders.

8 figs ballers reduced to shilling their 5x on an 84k MC shitcoins (and no, I'm not kidding)
This is what HAPPENS when you over force trades..
You go from flexing mansions to begging for engagement on a coin with less liquidity than an avg meal
Stop forcing trades and leverage

Am I the only one experiencing that - or we are hitting RECORD levels of people leaving the trenches?
So many people that were extremely active during the euphoria phase have basically vanished.
Even the haters stopped hating because there's nothing left to hate on.
Makes you think that the bottom is closer than we realize - the crowd is almost always wrong at extremes.

The biggest mistake you can make now is take a break until the market "looks better".
So many people have been sidelined for MONTHS waiting for their "perfect entry" while smart traders are spending time networking, learning new tools and skills and DCAing into majors.
Every single fake KOL telling their followers to "wait for confirmation" - you know what that translates to? "I'm coinless and out of touch and I need you out of touch too so I don't feel like a failure."
If you don't use THIS TIME now to improve your reach and network - PLEASE don't complain once you see us making 100x's every

What ever happened to all the guys that were running 48 different autonomous openclaw agents on their 4 mini Mac studios?
Is it only me or we barely see them on the timeline anymore?

I've been through so many CYCLES and I can tell you with a great confidence:
The sideways grind is DESIGNED to make you go INSANE.
It's DESIGNED to shake you out.
It's DESIGNED to make you question everything.
You'll watch your portfolio do NOTHING for weeks.
Meanwhile some pf degen on your timeline is shilling his 47th dog coin that pumps 40% in an hour only to dump to 0 a few minutes later.
You'll think "maybe I should rotate into something different. Crypto seems to be done".
NO.
That's EXACTLY when you lose.
Macro doesn't give a fuck about your feelings.
Macro doesn't care that you're bore

I see so many good and WELL known traders getting rekt for money it took them YEARS to make.
The biggest common thing about them?
All of them are forcing trades trying to 'make it all back in 1 trade'.
There are times to trade less and learn more.
Embrace it and you'll 100x when the time is right, just like we ALWAYS did

If someone is calling 5-10 new projects every day in THIS market
He is 99% losing money.

Asymmetric DCA opportunities (MAJOR coins):
- $TAO (AI)
- $XMR (Privacy)
- $HYPE & $ASTER (Perps)
Personal opinion ofc, nfa.

Most of the decent AI companies are currently private (e.g Anthropic) making it impossible for the retail to invest in it.
One of the only ways for retail to get an early exposure is crypto , the only thing we need rn is DECENT AI projects to launch on the blockchain.
Not stupid "creator" coins, not github slops -> just real shit with real usage.
AI szn in 2026 is not a dream