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We spent a good part of last week criticizing Pumpfun over the Kimchi situation.
And there's something I've been thinking about.
Every time Pumpfun does something controversial, people like me write about it.
Everyone argues, screenshots spread, and Pumpfun remains at the center of CT.
Even negative attention keeps its name in front of traders.
I don't regret calling out the issues because some things deserve to be criticized.
But I'm starting to wonder how much of the attention we're giving Pumpfun through these controversies is actually helping them grow.
Sometimes, even the people criticizing a project end up becoming part of its marketing.
A trader shares a $10K profit on X, and everyone wants to know his strategy.
The same trader loses $10K the following week, and suddenly people are calling him a gambler who knows nothing about trading.
It's even worse when he shares the losing trade publicly.
People start digging through his old calls to prove he was never a good trader.
This is one reason CT has so many people posting screenshots of their wins and hiding their losses.
We celebrate the results we like and ridicule the ones we don't.
I'd rather follow someone who shows me 10 wins and 10 losses than someone who has supposedly never lost a trade.
A woman invested $500 in a crypto trading app and successfully withdrew $1,500.
Her family saw the money and decided to join.
Her husband invested over $3,000 and started encouraging his coworkers to join.
She invited her church members and friends.
Their daughter invited her friends too.
Then the app suddenly stopped withdrawals.
First, they claimed it was a system upgrade.
Then a network issue.
Then a tax audit.
Now nobody can withdraw their money.
Someone from the family shared the story, saying they're worried about losing the trust of everyone they convinced to invest.
They went from celebrating a $1,000 profit to potentially ruining relationships with friends, family and coworkers.
And the craziest part is that some of the people they invited invested their own savings because they trusted them.
Have you seen how difficult it has become for most people to make money?
How hard it is for new projects to even launch?
And how frequently existing projects are shutting down?
I believe all of this would have started happening since last year if not for @KaitoAI.
So, if you were one of those who claimed Kaito killed airdrops back then, I'm happy to tell you that you were wrong.
You know crypto is cooked when some of its biggest VCs start shifting their attention and money to other industries.
a16z crypto just rebranded to a16z Frontier, expanding into AI, robotics and other industries.
Paradigm raised a $1.2B fund in July that also covers AI and robotics, while Haun Ventures has expanded beyond crypto.
For context, a16z raised $4.5B for its crypto fund in 2022, compared to $2.2B for its latest fund.
These are some of crypto's biggest investors.
They're not abandoning crypto, but they're increasingly looking elsewhere.
And that could make fundraising even harder for crypto projects, especially those with nothing to offer beyond launching a token.
wyck 📴 retweeted
Most AI agent projects are still building dashboards.
Meanwhile, @termix_ai has processed $28M+ in job volume and generated $570K+ in protocol revenue from a 2% fee.
No token needed to generate fees.
- Agents hire agents
- Payments secured by on-chain escrow
- Reputation backed by transaction history
The interesting part isn't the AI narrative.
It's that if agents are already generating this much economic activity, we're still early. very bullish on what's coming.
🔗agent.family/r/VSYMN8M8
UNPOPULAR OPINION:
Most vibecoders will never make a single dollar.
Not because the tech is bad.
But because finding people willing to pay for what you built is very difficult.
👉Don't build for fun only.. Make money from it
Try @termix_ai
- find actual users on agent.family
- register your AI agent
- discover available jobs
- submit bids for tasks
- list your services for hire
- get paid in USDC or USDT
The goal is simple: turn your AI agent from another cool experiment into a service people can actually pay for.
Because nobody cares how many agents you build if nobody uses them.
Good luck on your journey, geng ... Your AI journey is about to become more intresting ✌️
wyck 📴 retweeted
What @termix_ai is doing is simple.
You have an AI agent, you deploy it, get paid when it completes jobs for people, and also earn points that might qualify you for an airdrop later.
A few interesting things:
- You can get paid in USDC or USDT for completed jobs.
- Other AI agents can also hire your agent.
- @termix_ai's AACP protocol handles escrow payments, delivery verification and reputation.
• You can earn additional points from agent registration, referrals and other qualifying activities.
Basically, instead of just vibecoding AI agents and launching tokens around them, you can build agents that actually earn money.
Of course, you'll still need people willing to pay for their services.
You can explore it here: agent.family
No confirmed points-to-token conversion yet.
What @termix_ai is doing is simple.
You have an AI agent, you deploy it, get paid when it completes jobs for people, and also earn points that might qualify you for an airdrop later.
A few interesting things:
- You can get paid in USDC or USDT for completed jobs.
- Other AI agents can also hire your agent.
- @termix_ai's AACP protocol handles escrow payments, delivery verification and reputation.
• You can earn additional points from agent registration, referrals and other qualifying activities.
Basically, instead of just vibecoding AI agents and launching tokens around them, you can build agents that actually earn money.
Of course, you'll still need people willing to pay for their services.
You can explore it here: agent.family
No confirmed points-to-token conversion yet.
It’s annoying how Pumpfun always finds a way to manipulate CT whenever people start dragging them.
They’ve just launched a $2.5M Squads competition without addressing the whole Kimchi situation.
And this isn’t the first time.
1. Kimchi posts a coin, Alon allegedly retweets it, then it dumps 95% shortly after.
People start asking questions.
Pumpfun drops a $2.5M competition.
2. Callers get exposed for allegedly buying before their calls, dumping on followers and still earning Callout Rewards.
Pumpfun changes the reward system.
3. Pumpfun advertises “deposit $50, get $50” without mentioning the 5-day trading requirement.
The post gets Community Noted.
Alon explains the conditions the next day and launches Packs after.
4. An employee exploits Pumpfun for $1.9M.
Pumpfun announces 0% trading fees for 7 days.
5. People start doing dangerous things on livestreams just to pump their coins.
Pumpfun pauses livestreaming.
6. People complain that Callout Rewards is encouraging spam.
Pumpfun changes the algorithm.
Some of these were genuine fixes.
But they sure know how to do damage control just to shut people up instead of addressing people's concern.
Someone recommends a coin at $0.10.
It pumps to $0.30, and they start posting screenshots of how much money their followers have made.
They post another at $0.4 and the coin crashes to $0.04.
Now the same person is telling everyone that nobody forced them to buy and they should have done their own research.
I find this behaviour very interesting.
When people make money following your calls, you're happy to take credit for influencing their decisions.
But when they lose money, you suddenly have absolutely nothing to do with their decisions.
You can't claim to be influential when things go right and pretend your words carry no weight when things go wrong.
wyck 📴 retweeted
TermiX reports 842,531 AI agents registered on its marketplace.
Those agents have generated 557,471 jobs and processed over $29.1M in transaction volume.
That's roughly $52 per job.
What's even more interesting is the technology behind it.
@termix_ai's AACP protocol allows AI agents to find jobs, hire other agents, complete tasks and receive payments in USDC or USDT.
It also handles escrow, delivery verification, onchain reputation and dispute resolution.
Basically, AI agents can now do business with other AI agents without humans managing every step.
I think we're gradually moving from AI agents that simply answer questions to AI agents that can actually earn money.
wyck 📴 retweeted
everyone is angry at Kimchi today. my guess is the next guy posting huge wins will get the same attention next week. until people stop treating screenshots of wealth as proof of trust, this story keeps finding a new lead.
Pumpfun has managed to create an entire season of crypto drama in just 3 days.
Here's what's happened since they announced their partnership with Kimchi.
1. They introduced Kimchi as a trader famous for supposedly making $40M on $TRUMP. Bubblemaps investigated and could only trace about $6M in profits.
2. A new $KIMCHI launched just 6 seconds before Kimchi's announcement and 78 seconds before Pumpfun's promotional post.
3. The deployer bought 79% of the entire supply for roughly $9K and transferred 75% to a wallet Pumpfun labels as Kimchi's.
4. The same wallet was permanently assigned 100% of the creator fees and received around $17,800 within the first hour.
5. Pumpfun publicly celebrated Kimchi making $32M in 30 minutes (which is now worth $6.9M), even though that was just the paper value of his tokens, not money he'd actually made from selling.
6. An older $KIMCHI token crashed from $5.35M to $875K in just 15 minutes as attention moved to the new one.
7. Three linked wallets bought $7,332 worth of the new $KIMCHI and sold everything for $111,748 within 9 minutes.
8. Around $6.4M worth of $PUMP also moved from exchanges into the wallet labelled as Kimchi's. The terms behind those transfers remain unknown.
9. Then yesterday, Kimchi's X account reportedly posted a QR code linking to another token. Alon reposted it, the coin reached a $15.2M market cap, and then crashed over 98% after the post was deleted. People are claiming the account was hacked, but that hasn't been confirmed.
10. Kimchi has now removed Pumpfun from his bio and deleted his earlier promotional content. Neither side has publicly explained what happened.
And somehow, all of this happened in less than 72 hours.
I can understand why more people are getting tired of Pumpfun.
TermiX reports 842,531 AI agents registered on its marketplace.
Those agents have generated 557,471 jobs and processed over $29.1M in transaction volume.
That's roughly $52 per job.
What's even more interesting is the technology behind it.
@termix_ai's AACP protocol allows AI agents to find jobs, hire other agents, complete tasks and receive payments in USDC or USDT.
It also handles escrow, delivery verification, onchain reputation and dispute resolution.
Basically, AI agents can now do business with other AI agents without humans managing every step.
I think we're gradually moving from AI agents that simply answer questions to AI agents that can actually earn money.
He’s the Starknet Ecosystem Lead, and here’s the reply he gave after I called out Starknet’s crisis.
What do you mean Extended leaving has zero impact?
Since they left, Starknet has gone from:
• $280M → $0 daily perp volume
• $295M → $9.6M total daily DeFi trading volume
• $157.6M → $42.2M DeFi TVL
• $147.5M → $37M stablecoins
They also accounted for 85% of all tracked application fees on the chain
Extended leaving had zero impact?
Starknet might be getting even closer to shutting down after all.
@extendedapp is moving completely from Starknet to @arc today, October 22.
Starknet currently has about $159M in DeFi TVL, and Extended alone accounts for $117M. That's almost 74%.
Starknet also recorded $295M in total DeFi trading volume over the past 24 hours. Extended accounted for $280M of that, roughly 95%.
Extended also generated about $58K in trading fees, accounting for roughly 85% of all tracked application fees on Starknet.
With Extended moving its settlement and trading activity to Arc, Starknet could lose almost 74% of its DeFi TVL, 95% of its trading volume, and a major source of application fees.
That's a pretty significant development for anyone holding $STRK.
Pumpfun has managed to create an entire season of crypto drama in just 3 days.
Here's what's happened since they announced their partnership with Kimchi.
1. They introduced Kimchi as a trader famous for supposedly making $40M on $TRUMP. Bubblemaps investigated and could only trace about $6M in profits.
2. A new $KIMCHI launched just 6 seconds before Kimchi's announcement and 78 seconds before Pumpfun's promotional post.
3. The deployer bought 79% of the entire supply for roughly $9K and transferred 75% to a wallet Pumpfun labels as Kimchi's.
4. The same wallet was permanently assigned 100% of the creator fees and received around $17,800 within the first hour.
5. Pumpfun publicly celebrated Kimchi making $32M in 30 minutes (which is now worth $6.9M), even though that was just the paper value of his tokens, not money he'd actually made from selling.
6. An older $KIMCHI token crashed from $5.35M to $875K in just 15 minutes as attention moved to the new one.
7. Three linked wallets bought $7,332 worth of the new $KIMCHI and sold everything for $111,748 within 9 minutes.
8. Around $6.4M worth of $PUMP also moved from exchanges into the wallet labelled as Kimchi's. The terms behind those transfers remain unknown.
9. Then yesterday, Kimchi's X account reportedly posted a QR code linking to another token. Alon reposted it, the coin reached a $15.2M market cap, and then crashed over 98% after the post was deleted. People are claiming the account was hacked, but that hasn't been confirmed.
10. Kimchi has now removed Pumpfun from his bio and deleted his earlier promotional content. Neither side has publicly explained what happened.
And somehow, all of this happened in less than 72 hours.
I can understand why more people are getting tired of Pumpfun.
wyck 📴 retweeted
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Primus raised $6.5M from Samsung Next, YZi Labs and others to build privacy-focused data verification tech.
Their points campaign is live.
Here's how to participate:
1. Visit: s.kaito.ai/subjof4
2. Connect your wallet.
3. Install the official Primus browser extension.
4. Select the available verification tasks.
5. Verify eligible accounts and activities on X, Google, GitHub, ChatGPT
6. Complete the tasks and collect XP.
Check back for new tasks.
Some verifications require ETH on Base for gas.
Goodluck
