Nacho Patsy

A few thoughts for the weekend that hardly anyone will read. Most projects here die, and surviving can mean spending years building in the shadows without meaningful recognition. Almost nobody wants that part. Look at how quickly people distance themselves from their own projects once the attention disappears and keeping their promises starts requiring sustained effort. Some are simply too lazy to follow through and too full of themselves to do work that nobody applauds. They move on to the next announcement while everyone who believed them is left holding their abandoned promises. If you want to build or launch something here, understand how much depends on money and having the right contacts. A good product can sit unnoticed while a mediocre one gets funding, introductions and constant coverage because its founder knows the people controlling access to an audience. Those relationships give you room to make mistakes, money to keep operating and people willing to explain your vision before you’ve delivered it. Without them, you can ship something that works and still spend months being asked to prove you deserve a chance. That is why a LARPer with the right group chats can get further than someone doing the actual work. They know how to present activity as progress, turn introductions into credibility and keep their name circulating. Once enough connected accounts repeat the same praise, people start treating it as independent validation. Being well connected starts looking like being competent, while the person quietly maintaining a useful product looks irrelevant because nobody influential has told the audience to care. This industry makes that confusion incredibly profitable. And spare me the endless speeches about supporting real builders. Support has to translate into something eventually: using the product, giving useful feedback, recommending it or helping it sustain itself. A like is appreciated, but it doesn’t cover infrastructure costs. If everyone agrees something should exist while expecting someone else to fund it, the person building it eventually pays with their salary, evenings and family time. Then, when they finally stop, people ask why the good projects keep disappearing. I’ve also started trading again. I had to put it aside because building all this and spending so much time here left little room for it. Now that I’ve built myself tools that give me an actual edge, I’m doing better than I expected. It’s satisfying to see the work improve my own decisions after spending so much time explaining its value to people who haven’t even tried it. I’m used to building quietly and waiting. I believe the recognition will come, and I’m already seeing value in what I’ve built. It generates a lot of value for the ones using it. But patience doesn’t make the bills disappear, and quality doesn’t automatically find an audience. Most people won’t keep pouring money and energy into something for years while watching better-connected bullshit get rewarded. For many of you, the smarter decision would be to join something that already has a credible foundation and put your skills into making it stronger. Find a working product and people who have demonstrated that they honour their commitments. Contribute where your effort can build on progress instead of starting every struggle from zero. Of course, that doesn’t fit everyone’s dream of owning the project, setting the direction and getting the recognition. But your ambition doesn’t remove the costs, create an audience or guarantee that you’ll keep working when the excitement disappears. Most people attempting this alone won’t turn it into something sustainable. Very few will endure everything required. Joining an existing effort may give your work a much better chance of becoming useful than launching another project you eventually find excuses to abandon. That is a hard reality to accept when you’re attached to being the founder, but ignoring it won’t make you the exception.

Please leave the OG $MASTR a like on Jupiter here: verified.jup.ag/dashboard/96… We’re currently going through the verification process. If you’ve used our tools or appreciate my work or the work behind what I am building, I’d really appreciate your support there. $MASTR is fucking 2 years old, up 300% since the start of this month and moving back towards its ATH following the launch of our trading terminal. There’s a ridiculous amount of work behind it, and I want people to actually see what has been built. Games, apps, security tools, onchain intelligence, a public crypto wiki and a complete trading terminal. 6 listings on dApp store, one on Playstore and Appstore. $MASTR is used as in-app currency across supported apps and games. I think anyone building in crypto should have a token. Most see it as a way to generate revenue for themselves, while I see it as the core of the ecosystem, giving the people who invest in the project real utility, access and benefits. Holders also receive benefits across the ecosystem, including reduced trading fees on MASTRtrade, additional rewards in CryptoPets and other app-specific perks. As we keep developing these products, we’re expanding what you can do with $MASTR and the benefits of holding it. Open them, use them and judge for yourself: mastrtrade.com t.me/MASTRtrade_bot mastrapps.com/mastr-app/ mastrapps.com/mastrpass/ mastrapps.com/mastrsweep/ mastrapps.com/mastrsender/ mastrapps.com/cryptopets/ mastrapps.com/rugraid/ t.me/askmastrbot mastrlabs.com/knowledge/ More in development: mastrapps.com/mastrflex mastrapps.com/mastrful We’re also considering a dedicated launchpad with a mechanism specifically designed to reward long-term holding. I consider one-click launchpads a plague on this space. I’ve yet to see one designed to retain liquidity over the long term; the priority always seems to be churning out as much trading activity as possible to funnel fees to the developers. But they’re clearly here to stay and will be part of crypto’s future, which makes fixing those incentives even more important. I’ve spent enough time watching projects get stripped apart within hours of launching. I want to give people a reason to support something beyond its first pump, with incentives built around that commitment. I’m going to prove that persistence and honesty can still succeed in this space. Every product above took weeks and months that nobody saw, and the work continued long before the chart gave people a reason to pay attention. Have a proper look at what nearly 2 years of actual building produces, because I’m nowhere near finished.

Could you (please) spend 5 minutes on mastrtrade.com and tell me honestly what you think? @MASTRtrade puts research and trading in one place: Solana, Bitcoin and 19 EVM chains, including Ethereum, Base, BNB Chain, Arbitrum and Robinhood Chain. - MASTRscan: 40 security checks on Solana, 45 on EVM, each with its source. A check that could not be read is never shown as passed - WalletGalaxy: up to 150 of the largest holders on one map. Who funded them, which wallets are linked, which were created or bought together, and where they got in compared to the price now - Wallet Watch: follow 90000 KOLs/Wallets and any wallet, with alerts - Exit check: what selling your position returns right now, before you click - Every trade is reviewed before you sign: amount, minimum received, price impact and costs in plain words - Self custody: you trade from your own wallet, your keys never leave it - Lite, Trader and Professional views, from your first coin to full detail Check any coin for free on the start page, no wallet needed: mastrtrade.com The same scans work in Telegram, in DMs and in any group. Just paste a contract address: t.me/MASTRtrade_bot (already over 200 users) It's used hundreds of times a day, but I need to know if it gives you a reason to switch from the platforms you use now. Is this enough to make you switch to a self custody platform? And if not, why do you still prefer to hand over your funds, your keys and your data just to trade, or stay on platforms that don't offer even a fraction of this? - How much do self custody, understanding what you sign and knowing what you buy matter when you choose where to trade? - What's useful? - What's confusing? - What's still missing? I'm building this myself, so your honest feedback decides where my time goes. Reply here or DM me.

Good intern, good. I can keep exposing the bullshit and building tools that give people a better option, but those tools need to at least pay for themselves. If you keep kissing the old guard’s ass and stuffing millions into their pockets, what fucking incentive do they have to change? You reward the same behaviour every day, then act surprised when you get more of it. I honestly don’t know what else some need to see. There are independent builders who have spent years earning your trust, delivering actual products and putting their own money behind their work. You don’t even need to donate. Use what they build, share it, tell people it exists. On MASTRtrade.com, you can even generate your own referral link and earn a share of the fees when people trade through it. You can literally get paid for bringing people over while helping an independent builder stay independent. I don’t fucking understand this space. Small builders don’t have the reach or the paid shill armies of the big fuckers you keep feeding. Everyone wants better tools, more transparency and fewer parasites, but the attention, volume and fees still go to the same old names. How do you expect better alternatives to survive if you won’t even use them?

I built trading bots with AI. Then I did what almost nobody does: I let it trade against a coin flip. Short version here, for the long version watch the video: 16,307 paper trades, every cost counted: - 19 of 20 books lost money after costs - Copying smart money wallets: -16.7% per trade - Following KOL calls: -7.4% per trade - Buying fresh listings: -52.6% per trade - My best strategy: +1.0% before costs, -1.5% after - 12 of 12 AI models rejected by my own rules Next time someone gets 1,000 likes for a trading bot, ask: - How many trades? - Compared to what? - After which costs? Evidence. Not verdicts. All data from the most advanced trading terminal: MASTRtrade.com

Happy weekend everyone! Sorry if I’ve been posting a bit less lately, but there’s a good reason for it: I’ve been spending most of my free time building. I’m working on bringing MASTRtrade.com properly into the EVM world so trading and token scans can work there with the same depth I’m already building around Solana. The goal is not to bolt on a half-assed EVM swap page and call it multichain. Next is $KAS Kaspa because I rly like the chain. I want the same philosophy across chains: as much useful information as I can realistically surface for the people who want depth, while keeping the interface flexible enough that someone who just wants to trade can switch to Degen mode or configure the terminal around their own workflow. Referrals should work on EVM the same way they do on Solana. If someone joins through your referral and trades, you receive 25% of the platform fees generated by those trades directly. One limitation will remain: the $MASTR holder benefit, where holding the token reduces trading fees by 1/3, can only apply to Solana trades for now. Once everything is stable and I’m confident it isn’t held together with duct tape, @mastrtrade will announce it properly. Another weekend mostly spent building. At least I managed to get out biking with the boys and have a drink by the lake with my wife, so the batteries are recharged and I’m back at it. Wish me luck. There’s still a ridiculous amount to build.

Do you know why my like-to-impression ratio is often unusually high? It’s not a conspiracy, and it’s not bots. I check it regularly. What stands out is that almost all of the shares actually pushing my posts beyond my own audience come from small accounts. Not the people with hundreds of thousands of followers. Small accounts. And that tells me 2 things. Most large accounts deliberately stay away from my content, even when they clearly see it. Small accounts are far more important to this ecosystem than people admit. A huge number of the people sitting on big followings today were built by thousands of smaller accounts liking, replying, sharing and amplifying them before anyone cared who they were. A lot of people seem to forget exactly who helped put them there. And instead of using that reach to say something useful, build something that actually matters, support people doing real work, or help move this industry forward, many of them spend their time shilling casinos, politics, bundled shitcoins and whatever garbage pays this week. Worse, they keep attaching themselves to the same already-rich elite that has extracted billions from this space for years, while pretending they are somehow part of a community. The people who benefited from thousands of smaller accounts giving them attention eventually become the same people who ignore those accounts, protect the hierarchy above them and help funnel even more money upward.