Caan Crypto retweeted
The first 20% and the last 10% of executing an idea are super exciting.
The middle 70% is awful and boring.
This is why very few achieve anything.
When you start something go into it expect the passion to and drive to crash as you get closer to the finish line. Prepare for it. People that can do this absolutely slay life.
Caan Crypto retweeted
if you fell for the “ViTaliK iS SeLLInG FuD”
then you are retarded
he proactively announced weeks ago that he would be selling some tokens to fund critical future network development. i.e., he’s giving all of it away to invest in future capability development FOR ETHEREUM
and transparently has like 95% of his personal wealth stored onchain, on Ethereum, in ETH
while almost every other Foundation and founder in the space LARPs, dumps on your head every day, and you have no fucking idea because you don’t know what their wallet address is
gg wp
Caan Crypto retweeted
Believe it or not but I don't always like bull makets.
It's always like I'm underperforming vs others and feel bad about it.
Missing out on play A or B that did XXX% even though I actually did pretty good myself.
But in a bear market I know no one is doing well. Ironically this gives me a bit more peace when I'm not making anything yet myself either.
No endless posts online about people making millions right now (even though it's likely fake).
You just buy when you feel the time is right and you're not plagued by fomo around you.
You wait till a few of those positions play out (some will, others won't) while it's usually quiet around you.
It's a way more relaxed environment in a way (despite prices going up in a bull market being great as well).
Caan Crypto retweeted
The only bull case for ETH that actually makes sense and is totally practical is becoming the money layer for AI agents.
The problem no one's talking about that I've been harping on in private group chats is that agents can't use banks. They can't KYC. They don't have social security numbers. They can't wait for ACH to clear. They can't call customer support when a wire gets stuck.
In order to be truly useful tools for the world, AGENTS NEED TO TRANSACT!!!! A lot. Agent A needs compute, pays Agent B. Agent B needs data, pays Agent C. Agent C needs API access, pays a protocol. This is happening millions and jillions of times per day, and it's going to happen without humans in the loop.
The only way this works is with programmable, permissionless, always-on money. That means onchain stablecoins.
And ETH is the only ecosystem with the infrastructure to actually support this.
Deep liquidity so agents can swap without getting destroyed on slippage. Battle tested contracts that won't lose agent funds. Account abstraction so agents can operate with programmable wallets. Composability so an agent can swap, stake, borrow, and pay in a single atomic transaction.
Solana is fast but shallow. Bitcoin isn't programmable. New L1s have no liquidity. Traditional rails won't serve non-human actors by design.
Every other ETH narrative has stalled. Ultra sound money didn't capture mindshare. L2 scaling fragmented liquidity. DeFi plateaued. NFTs peaked.
But this is different. This isn't a narrative you have to sell people on. It's just what happens when agents need to move value and there's only one system that works.
The AI economy needs money that doesn't require permission. ETH already built it. 8004 unlocks a lot of cool stuff and I'm about to release my research here shortly. Stay tuned.
Caan Crypto retweeted
Last time Vitalik sold ETH, it was around $1.6k and after that, the market went on to rally all the way to $4.2k. The whole timeline was wild, but people keep misreading it. What many don’t understand is how his donations are structured across years: they’re planned in advance, and the ETH gets sold to fund those commitments whether the price is $20,000 or $1. Treating every sale as a market signal completely misses that context.
Vitalik has always been transparent about using ETH to finance long-term philanthropic and ecosystem goals. So when he moves or sells tokens, it isn’t some secret bearish call on Ethereum it’s simply the mechanics of turning crypto into real-world funding. Making a big deal out of it without understanding how those donation schedules work just leads to unnecessary noise and bad takes.
Caan Crypto retweeted
Part of creating wealth is surviving drawdowns so you can have money to invest later.
Control the drawdowns in your portfolio, then the upside will eventually take care of itself.
Caan Crypto retweeted
You don't lose if you don't sell right?
Well, being 9 years in here I can confidently say a large part of where I've gotten is due to being really good at selling at a loss.
I'm not talking about quitting or anything. Just taking the loss and moving the opportunity elsewhere.
I've long learned that 80-90% of all the tokens in here eventually go to 0.
Does that mean I avoid them? Not at all. I often see opportunity in many of them. But only temporarily. When they are the flavor of the market. When they show the setup or have the right narrative.
The blue chips are an exception ofcourse. But most of the market is a different breed.
I can't count the amount of times I've entirely took the loss after being down 40-50%.
Why would I do that? You need to wait till it gets in profit Nova. Sell in profit, buy in a correction.
In a theoretical easy world that would be the case. But it's not.
Spend enough time in here and you'll often see the signs when something is like 40-50% down but will likely go down even 90% more.
Instead I often see people adding, and adding and adding.
"Getting the average purchase down and doubling down on a downtrend"
Again, all good in a theoretical easy market. But this market is far from easy. Often it doesn't come back.
Again this doesn't apply to everything. Blue chips are mostly different.
Yet too many people think they only hold blue chips though. That's another problem.
Take the loss sometimes, and don't look back.
Caan Crypto retweeted
Bitcoin had a death cross today.
Note that prior death crosses marked local lows in the market.
Of course, when the cycle is over, the death cross rally fails.
The time for Bitcoin to bounce if the cycle is not over would be starting within the next week.
If no bounce occurs within 1 week, probably another dump before a larger rally back to the 200D SMA which would then mark a macro lower high.
Trade the market you have, not the market you want.
Caan Crypto retweeted
How to Survive Crypto’s Silent Moments
There’s a rhythm to these markets that newcomers never learn - and veterans often forget.
Crypto doesn’t move in straight lines; it moves in cycles. And cycles can be hours/days/weeks/months/years.
We all love the mania: the late-night charts glowing green, the dopamine of every breakout, the feeling that we’ve outsmarted the world. But the market has another side - the quiet, the flat, the empty.
That’s where many people die.
The Silence Isn’t Random
The silence isn’t the market sleeping - it’s the predators feeding.
Low volume means low noise. It’s where accumulation happens, where sentiment is reset, and where liquidity gets quietly rearranged before the next storm.
Retail gets bored and leaves. Builders keep building. Smart traders stop trying to predict fireworks and start tracking footprints in the sand - the slow accumulation.
The silence is the setup.
What You Don’t Do Matters Most
Many traders blow up not in crashes, but in boredom. They overtrade chop, they chase micro-moves, they try to “make something happen” when nothing should.
The Apex Predators don’t do that. They wait. They let the crowd destroy itself trying to force momentum in a non-momentum market.
Your survival skill here isn’t entry timing - it’s restraint.
You win by not playing bad hands.
Build While They Sleep
Builders survive quiet seasons the same way traders do: they create leverage through time, not price.
The quiet months are when reputations are built, foundations are laid, and conviction is earned. It’s when you forge relationships, refine systems, automate the boring stuff, and prepare for when the markets wake up again.
When volume returns, the unprepared scramble.
The disciplined execute.
Detachment = Edge
The silence forces you to confront yourself.
It’s not about the charts - it’s about the psychological detox.
Detach from constant stimulation. Step outside of the charts for a day. Revisit why you’re here in the first place.
If your conviction only exists when price moves up, you were never investing - you were gambling on excitement.
The Apex Predators thrive because they can live without the excitement.
The Ocean Always Returns
Markets are oceans - they expand, contract, and breathe.
If you can survive the stillness, you’ll be there when the tide comes roaring back in.
The silence is not your enemy.
It’s your apprenticeship.
Stay patient. Stay watching. Stay dangerous.
🫡 From the depths —
The White Whale 🐋
Caan Crypto retweeted
Nearing towards the end of the 2025, and we just had Trump talk about the stimmys again, hoping to these happening and yielding a mad alt szn for all of us.
The Rebrand (if you can't read, read last bit only)
I spent the last 5+ years being known as Dora Shitcoins (yes I am not compromised, I welcome anyone to try anyway), and it's been a hell of a fun ride, I have made so many friends around here and Telegram and definitely one of the most fun things I've done in my life and will continue doing so, apart from when jeets sell for 1.2x at a high potential 20k mcap token.
The reason I am making this rebrand is because my previous identity led to a number of lost opportunities for me, it was often misunderstood and also often caught in automated filters. Although I typically do not care about opportunities, such as I dunno promoting some CEX/referral stuff, I do care about opportunities that let me grow as a person in web3, because that might just be what I'll do for the rest of my life irrespective of retiring or not.
Why "Ronin"? Well, because I think it bears a more serious identity.. In Japanase, it means to be 'wandering man', a samurai who had no lord or master, which pretty much reflects who I am. I tend to always do whatever the heck I enjoy and want to do, and although I am here to make money, same as each of you, I still try to have my own identity and not succumb to others BS for monetary purposes.
First and foremost I want to enjoy what I do and not to be accountable to anybody (unless I agree to something of course), meaning I'll continue mostly market-acting (buying/selling) apart from some occassional whitelist/OTC deals and so on. But with all of these, I would love to explore other opportunities over time such as onboarding on web3 teams, consulting etc, given I am trying to entirely shift from IRL work to web3 work.
To sum up
I'll be the same tard you all know off, and I will continue buying lowcap poo coins with all of ya, as well as hard pushing good utility tokens with great fundamentals. I am not compromised at all.
Appreciate engagement so others can be informed and not fall for any potential skems later down the line - although I did my best to secure the old handles.
New socials
TG: t.me/TheDeFiRonin
TG Channel: t.me/TheDefiRoninsJournal
The year is 2025, the month is June, and I am wondering have we had our bull-run yet or not?
Is it something super subjective perhaps, where most of people on CT just use these words to farm clout and followers or simply try and pump bags collectively? Or did everything change significantly the last few years?
In my head no one really knows or can predict a bull-run or bear-season in this sense, we can all do what we can at the time by observing things and the vast majority of people you see on the timeline are just faking it until making it.
People keep talking about #BTC cycles and all that, but I believe that the times have changed. Was retail here and gone, or retail was never here? I think it's a mixture of things, some retail was here but retail got milked hard by pump.fun flashy scams promising quick riches and of course bundled farms on ETH etc. You could see the extents people will go to in order to make 200 bucks.
How can on-chain market be so dry while the overall crypto landscape is looking so bullish? I have no clue, there's still probably going to be alt season and all that, but I feel there's just way more players in the game now, way more chains, all these spreading the overall liquidity even more thin. There clearly is not enough new blood to hug all these chains, launchpads and "places" to be in order to give us a sense of bull-run same as in the past.
Is something like this coming? I have no clue, I don't think we will relive the previous bull-runs in this sense where everyone was primarily focused on ETH, but we might be getting mini seasons with sparks on specific chains, as we are seeing happening already.
We might also get a way softer "bear-market" in this sense where enough people will be around for all of us to continue enjoying gambling our money.
I do think that the overall landscape has turned entirely rotative however, and people find it hard to believe in anything, I feel like nothing really matters most of the time and choosing long-term winners depends on luck way more now than before. However, there's still fundamentals, hints and tactics of course. I just think we need to be way more careful than before, do double DD, save initials on first pumps of a new launch and so on.
All these years have been an amazing journey for me, learning and connecting to so many people, having fun, and although I am poorer than what I was last summer, I am not giving up, I'll keep going and looking for ways to adjust.
One of the bright things to see recently is that influencers/KOL, have really lost their pull, maybe people collectively have realized some stuff, this is a positive outcome and despite me having a ton of KOL friends, I do think it's for the best. The pie should be equally shared between all participants to the extent possible, and everyone should be equal. This was always the deal anyway, but majority of peeps don't realize it. Hopefully all this changes one day for the best.
If anything, I'll continue doing me, sharing what I share whenever I share, with my intentions never being to quick sell tokens on my followers. I don't care about laws or rules, I only care about morals and doing what I believe is to be good. Let's continue having fun, and manifesting WAGMI.
At last, if anyone is wondering, I am still holding most of the things I hard shilled, that including $CAH, #PATRIOT, $HASHAI, $CSWAP, $BOOE.
$GENZ and $retard and #M0n3y on SOL. And many more.
For quicker degens etc, I usually find it easier to post on TG, because despite of one's intentions life always gets in the middle.
t.me/dora_calls
Caan Crypto retweeted
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Caan Crypto retweeted
When ppl claim this I always wonder how they think it happens, or have unrealistic expectations on how much $1bn actually is.
I joined crypto with $200. If I held my initial bitcoin since then and never traded, I would have ~$300k.
If, instead, from that moment I sold the top and bought the bottom of every crypto cycle on Bitcoin, and never paid any taxes, I would have ~$6m USD.
If I put my entire net worth into the Ethereum ICO and never touched it, today I would have ~$150m pre-tax.
While it was definitely possible to have made >$1bn with the opportunities in the market, these versions of reality would also require me to make no mistakes, and have no need to spend $ in real life, or take excessive risk via leverage.
In reality, I grew up in a working class family. I didn’t have a trust fund and I had to pay off my student loan myself. I had a job at Tescos while at high school. After university, I needed to pay rent and fund cost of living and eventually buy a place to live.
I worked at startups for relatively little $ salary, and while a couple have done okay, they still are illiquid and worth nothing until some exit.
Perhaps if I erase a couple of dumb mistakes and drawdowns, or if I had a lil more grind, then my answer would be different today. But it is easy to say this with perfect hindsight vision. It’s easy to see where you could have optimised better, and decisions you made look dumb when the past makes things so obvious.
The truth is I have always optimised for enjoying my life and not going to 0. I never felt like I had a safety net, so it was never possible for me to do anything in any other way. I would probably have less money if I had tried to add more risk or chased $ harder, because being all-in with your entire livelihood is a mental battle and I feel I only win that battle when the stakes are lower.
In writing this, maybe I do understand why CT folks believe this, because modern CT sees crypto as a late-stage lottery ticket farm, where the optimal strategy is to 5x leverage up your portfolio in a hope of catching a good 20% move and then leaving. Or, literally going all-in on the next coin they heard Ansem is buying. So perhaps to them, looking back at the charts, of course that’s what successful folks did.
In reality, I use leverage close to never (and typically to reduce risk rather than add risk — have used it to add risk maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, and maybe 15 times ever). I never go all-in on anything, have only ever done that on BTC and ETH before in the last decade. When I buy other things, I limit risk to tiny amounts, because I treat it as a 0 until proven otherwise (so, always <1% liquid portfolio). Liquid portfolio is also a smaller % of overall portfolio to future-proof against my own fuckups.
Obviously I made a lot of money, I have been here 12 years! CT doesn’t want to hear about “getting rich in a decade” though. I am happy with where I am and have never really cared or optimised for maximising $ earnings, but instead having a nice life that lets me enjoy the game we play together.
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