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Every day reinforces my belief that LARPing and scamming are profitable in this space, and there’s no getting around it. More so than elsewhere in finance or everyday life, where, depending on the country and context, there are at least some legal boundaries that people respect because crossing them can have consequences. Here, practically anything goes. What keeps it going is a following that isn’t critical enough, doesn’t understand enough and is too blinded by greed to care. The rot goes deeper than individual scammers or their followers. It’s embedded in a culture where harming other people has become an accepted part of the game, even an opportunity to get rich. And what standards are we supposed to expect when official accounts and founders are right at the front, promoting gambling and cheering on autocrats and scammers? A small number of us recognised this years ago. Others have only acknowledged it in recent weeks, despite being part of the same machinery themselves, and now want to present themselves as perceptive voices warning everyone else. The rest simply don’t care, because there’s still $1, $100 or $100,000 to be made as long as somebody else keeps playing. It’s also telling how many people say self-custody matters to them while continuing to trade on CEXs or platforms where they hand control over to someone else. They do this in an industry where security flaws and warnings get ignored because keeping the money flowing takes priority. An industry whose established players have secured their positions so thoroughly that your chances often depend on whether you had the right contacts early enough. I refuse to accept that as the way things have to be, and you shouldn’t accept it either. And I accept that taking this stance has severely hurt my growth here and left me with very few people with a larger following I can stand alongside. Even those few tend to disappear the moment it’s their turn to do something for me, and I suspect many of you know exactly what that feels like. Liking a post from some fucking idiot who has contributed nothing to moving this space forward, just because he briefly interrupts his PnL screenshots to publish something critical, won’t change any of this. It rewards another performance while the people doing useful work continue to be ignored. We need to change how we behave, who we reward and what we support. Find the people actually building something useful and providing value consistently, including when nobody is paying attention. Pay attention to what they do over time, instead of handing credibility to whoever discovers a conscience when warning people becomes an easy way to collect likes.

I am done being polite about this industry. Not disappointed. Done. I spent the last months pulling wallets apart instead of posting charts, and what sits in my database now is not a pile of unlucky trades. It is hundreds of thousands of connections between wallets, coins, launch tools and payment flows, and they draw the same picture every time: industrial draining. On Solana first, because that is where the machine runs fastest, but the same hands show up on other chains under other tickers. This is not degens getting rekt. This is organised crime with a Pumpfun profile and a leaderboard rank. You want to know what "KOL" means in 2026? Last week I followed 3 wallets off a copy trading leaderboard. Their money does not come from calls. It comes from wallets that create coins by the hundred and by the thousand. One of those feeder wallets has 4,578 coins to its name. In September alone 852 SOL net moved from the factories to the 3 "influencers". One coin was created, dumped 33 seconds later, and the money sat in the KOL wallet 2 minutes after that. Then I checked the big names. Leaderboard wallets with 103,000, 134,000 and 146,000 followers on Pumpfun that have personally created 1,759, 953 and 1,217 coins. One of them is at 6,464. Create, buy in the same transaction, sell everything 3 to 5 blocks later into whoever got there in that second. Same second, or the next one. Over and over. And these people get called traders. They get podcasts. They get "gm". And the platforms? Fee on the way in, fee on the way out, and they call it volume. So no, I am not writing you another post-mortem every time retail gets emptied. The post-mortem is always the same and it changes nothing, because the people who benefit are the same people who get the reach. Every "isolated incident" conveniently skips the question of who keeps getting paid, who keeps promoting, and why the exact same wallets are back in the game before the thread has finished loading. I will keep saying it, because this space forgets everything the moment there is a new bag to chase. Some of my posts will get fewer views for that. Fine. But anger alone is content, and content is exactly what they want from me. What I want is tools. You should be able to look at a wallet and see its 1,217 launches before you ape. You should see who funded the dev, which "KOL" he paid last week, and what you are about to sign, before the damage is done, not in my thread 2 days later. That is where MASTR goes now. The intelligence machine gets wired into my apps and my sites, so the research lives where you trade instead of dying in a timeline. The people who support this work get that intelligence first. That is the only alpha I care about: knowing what is happening before someone else's exit becomes your loss. And I will say the uncomfortable part out loud: I cannot run this for free forever. Data, infrastructure, development, investigation, it all costs real money, even when the finished tool makes it look effortless. I refuse to pay for it by renting my name to whichever project needs a clean reputation this week. I also refuse to pretend I can subsidise everyone out of my own pocket while the drainers cash out your SOL and climb the next leaderboard with it. If I survive in this industry, it will be because I built something useful enough that people choose to back it, and stayed angry enough to keep pointing at the machine it runs inside. Receipts are coming. Every transaction linked. Check me.

This Is A Warning. Arc is the old system, moved onchain. Look at who is behind it. Circle. BlackRock. DTCC. Visa. Mastercard. ICE. Standard Chartered. Galaxy. MoneyGram. SBI. Sumitomo. BNY. HSBC. State Street. Société Générale. Commerzbank. Add Aave, Morpho, Uniswap, the major exchanges, Chainlink, Ledger, Alchemy and the rest of the infrastructure stack. That is institutional finance arriving with its own validator set, its own stablecoin, its own governance path and eventually its own native token. The important part should not be whether Arc pumps. The important part is what $Arc represents. USDC is the gas asset. Circle still controls USDC at the issuer level and can freeze it. Validators are selected institutions. ARC has already been privately sold to major investors. 10 billion ARC have now been minted, while no public token launch has even been promised. The people securing the network, funding the network and shaping the network are largely the same class of institutions crypto was supposedly created to route around. Again: The parties securing the network are currently selected institutions. From a bank’s perspective that is almost certainly part of the attraction. Known validators, predictable governance and regulatory accountability make Arc easier to put in front of a compliance department. From a crypto perspective, however, it creates an obvious question about how much decentralisation people are actually getting. And yet people will call this decentralisation because the transactions happen on a blockchain. Robinhood already showed where this is going. Now Circle is building an even cleaner version of the same idea: take crypto infrastructure, remove as much uncertainty as possible, wrap it in institutional control, regulated stablecoins, approved validators and compliance-friendly privacy, then connect the entire thing back into the existing financial system. Crypto adoption is absolutely happening. There is barely any serious argument left about that. The mistake is assuming adoption means the old system disappears. What we are actually watching is crypto being absorbed by it. Banks, asset managers, payment networks and market infrastructure companies looked at blockchains and realised they do not need to destroy them. They can use them. They can tokenize assets, settle faster, move dollars globally, automate markets and reduce costs while keeping the parts they care about most: control, identity, compliance, permissioning and legal enforceability. That is why Arc matters far more than another L1 launch. The battle is no longer between crypto and traditional finance. Traditional finance has already decided it wants the rails. The real question is what remains of crypto once the rails belong to the same institutions again.

When a big account shills a ticker, what do you do? Add anything I missed in the replies. I’m curious to see what people actually do.

We will depent on them. That's scary. And buy houses. ............. I had the chance to test OpenAI’s new Astra 6 model, and it genuinely unsettled me. The capabilities are extraordinary, but the speed of the progression is even more consequential. We are no longer watching gradual improvements that give economies, institutions and workers decades to adjust. Entire categories of intellectual work are being compressed from hours into minutes, and the gap between one generation of models and the next is becoming economically significant. Many people still see a smarter chatbot. The larger consequence is a potential repricing of cognitive labour itself. Code, analysis, research, design, strategy, communication and administration will continue to require judgement, but far fewer people may be needed to produce the same output. Expertise that once required years of education and experience could become instantly accessible, dramatically cheaper and far less scarce. Degrees may lose part of their signalling value, white-collar wages could come under pressure, and companies may capture enormous productivity gains without distributing them evenly. The deeper danger begins when delegation moves beyond production and into human judgement. As these systems become faster, cheaper and more capable than most individuals, the economic incentive to study certain disciplines for years will inevitably weaken. Why spend a decade mastering a field when a model can produce a better answer in seconds? Over time, fewer humans may possess the expertise required to independently verify those answers. We will not merely use the models. We will increasingly depend on them to determine what is correct, reasonable and worth doing. That creates a dangerous asymmetry. The systems will become more authoritative precisely as human capacity to challenge them begins to erode. A society that outsources knowledge can eventually lose the ability to recognise when the machine is wrong, manipulated or optimising for interests it does not understand. Convenience can quietly become intellectual dependency. Some people insist that AI will simply change jobs, as previous technologies did. I think that understates the scale entirely. This will change education, status, power, human relationships, the value of expertise and eventually our understanding of what human contribution means. The transformation will not be confined to the labour market. It will reach into the structure of society and the development of humanity itself. I am also increasingly convinced that ownership of scarce physical assets will matter more than ever. A model can generate another report, design, strategy or piece of software almost instantly. It cannot generate another square kilometre of land, another power grid or another home in a desirable location. When intelligence becomes abundant and digital production approaches zero marginal cost, tangible scarcity becomes the foundation of economic power. And? Well... The central question is whether a civilisation that delegates memory, expertise and judgement can still recognise when the intelligence it depends upon is wrong. These are simply the thoughts that came to me after testing it. I may see things differently tomorrow, but right now I believe certain developments are moving too quickly for society to understand them, let alone absorb their consequences.