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Stef breaks down how scrolling TikTok got him into crypto and led to full time trading: Stef: "I have been in crypto from 2021. I found out about it from actually TikTok scrolling like the degenerate teenager I used to be." "I saw NFTs, the small pictures of monkeys selling for millions of dollars, and I was like, 'What is that? I want to learn about this, I want to make money,' the basic stuff a teenager thinks about." "I started self educating through YouTube and Twitter. Even though I joined late at the start of the bear market, I was flipping Solana NFTs because I did not have much capital at the time. I managed to 3x my portfolio, then saved some. Those were my early learning lessons." "When the bear market hit, I was off for about a year trying different ventures like sales and marketing. But I got back into crypto around April 2024 when meme coins started trending. That was when I transitioned full time to trading on chain pairs and meme coins, and I have been trading full time for three years now."

The RiskonPod crew react to Mark Zuckerberg awkwardly sipping Guinness and discuss Alexandr Wang's insane intern class: Wood: "We had Zuckerberg drinking a Guinness as our opening scene, and I was dying at that man." Swizzle: "I only saw the clip of him drinking the Guinness and cringing afterwards." Sats: "It was with Alexandr Wang, head of Meta AI, and it's actually a great podcast. They turn up and drink a Guinness in a pub with all the top VCs." Swizzle: "It's a weird move because Zuck is notorious for saying he doesn't like putting substances in his body. Now he's just trying to chill, be cool, and be one of the bros." Wood: "Alexandr Wang is awesome. In a different interview he talked about when he was nineteen interning at a prop trading firm, HRT. There were nine interns in his class. One founded Hyperliquid, another founded Cognition, and another founded a five billion dollar company."

Rob from InfiniFi says the TGE is happening in Q4 and is much closer than people realize: Rob: "It is going to be in Q4, so it could be as early as later this week. It will not be, it will be a few weeks notice, but we are a lot closer than people realize." Truunik: "The moment I realized that this is chapter four, and chapter five is going to be the conclusion before TGE, I was like: this is actually a perfect moment to get a lot more people in that are willing to hit those 20x points that you guys are offering." Rob: "People who are getting in right now are going to walk away quite happy, I would say."

Ran Neuner reveals the lowest point of his career and the single tweet that saved him from quitting crypto: "In the bear market, I was really struggling to make content. I was dying, it was a very, very brutal bear market." "Specifically for people like us who make a daily show five or six days a week." "It was just down and down and bad news after bad news. Then we had a period from February to August where Bitcoin was stuck between 60k and 70k and nothing happened." "When I got to the end of July, I reached my breaking point." "It’s the closest I’ve ever been to giving up on crypto. Not selling my holdings, but not making my whole life about crypto anymore." "This was probably the low point of my career. My community had been battered, people hated crypto, and people hated us because we were in crypto." "To make it worse, the stock markets were ripping and giving AI-level returns while crypto was bleeding every single day." "At that exact moment, I tweeted something to remind myself of the bigger picture:" "All asset markets will be 24/7/365 and settled immediately on-chain." "Humans won't even be trading them, instead, 100 billion AI agents will trade at frequencies you can't imagine, and all those fees will be captured by crypto protocols." "That single tweet and the thesis behind it is what kept me going and kept me in crypto."

UberM argues that pairing tokens to stocks is not just a passing meta, but a concept with real staying power: "I still think that a lot of people are going to discount the ability to pair coins to stocks or anything else as like this flash in the pan situation. I don't believe that personally. I think that this idea of pairing, right now it is in its early stages. Right now it seems a little bit redundant because STONK really did accelerate the meta in that regard. But I think it is still pretty early on that concept, and I think we are going to see a lot of interesting things built around that concept." "And I do think STONK will capture some of that in the future. It might go lower from here, I could see that, I don't see why not. But I don't think it is a pump and dump situation. I think they are going to do well, and I think they are going to eventually establish themselves as a player that is going to continuously get flows." "Because one thing they have done right, at least I believe, is that they created somewhat of a loyal user base. Obviously there is always going to be mercenary capital that is always rotating from one thing to the next, but I do think from what I have seen and observed that STONK does have some loyalists that will just keep being there. And that is really what you need in crypto to survive, is just have a user base that is going to continuously play around with your stuff." "Which is kind of the same thesis as Pump, right? Like they do have loyalists as well, so by default they are not really going to die. Right now it is cooling off and stuff, maybe it probably has lower to go, but I don't think they are going to die. That is just my opinion."