Crypto Bull 2024: Altcoin Season Inbound?

Recorded: March 7, 2024 Duration: 1:08:31

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Hello, hello, everyone.
I think we're trying to
wait for the last few ones
for the last few ones
to come in.
Welcome, everyone.
I see some familiar people
over here.
Exciting topic for all of us, honestly.
Now that we're actually
having or seeing the
this is very, very exciting for us.
Specifically for me as well.
Hopefully we can get
our bags filled in
before it becomes
even more moonish.
Okay, guys, I think we're pretty much
settled. The other ones
that's going to come in, I will
add them in later as they go.
But, yeah,
hello. How are you guys doing?
It's been an amazing week.
I think we are all due for this discussion.
Considering how
most of us haven't really slept
much, from either
trading too much or from
having too much Red Bull like me,
as you experienced quite an exciting
turnout for the crypto market.
But, yeah, before all that,
again, as a quick intro from
our side, I am RC from
Carol Labs and I will be your host
for today.
If it's your first time to join our spaces,
welcome. Happy to see you guys here
and, again, some of our regular joiners.
I'm so happy to see you guys as well.
And a quick intro about us.
We're Carol Labs, crypto market maker
and pretty much been in the space
for more than four years.
As everyone else, we're just
excited to know more about
this upcoming altcoin season
considering the ETF approvals
and all that jazz.
And, well, to start up,
I guess I want to give our amazing speakers
today some time to introduce themselves
and the project they're
working on. I give the space to
you. On my watch, I see Layer
1. Please go ahead.
Can you hear me? Yes.
Out of here, sir. Awesome.
Thanks for having us on your AMA today.
I'm looking forward to this topic.
My name is Cody. I'm the Chief Experience Officer
at Layer 1X.
For those that don't know about us,
we are a Layer 1X.
Like I said, we're the next
generation Layer 1
that is fully decentralized blockchain
that is built to transform
the Web3 experience.
And how we're doing this is actually through
our flagship and proprietary
technology that focuses on
bridge-less interoperability.
We've coined this known as
X-talk because, let's be honest,
interoperability, the word, is very
cliche in crypto these days.
And we kind of want to bring a new
meaning to it because
not only are we removing
the risk for
risky and costly bridges,
but we can also move
not only move assets,
but we can also move data and logic
freely across EDM and non-EDM
Our whole ethos
is basically that we are looking
to unite all the
chains, all the projects,
and the value
of data just as
if it was currency.
Today we're doing for data what
Bitcoin did for payments.
Looking forward to it. Thanks again
for having us on here.
Can't wait to dive in.
Always a pleasure to have you here.
We're very, very
honored that you are joining us today.
Let's call in another
one from Creatorverse
again. Happy to see you back here, sir.
I'm so happy to be here.
I really enjoy these spaces
that you all are doing and
the other projects that you have on here are wonderful.
I love what you guys are doing over there
at Layer One.
We're Creatorhood.
We're an NFT Marketplace and Creator Launchpad.
We're actually featured
on Killer Whales.
I don't know if you guys know about that show,
but they just made the big announcement
that it's on Hello.
Check out the Killer Whales show
and you can see if we sync or swam.
We're building a
really creator-friendly launchpad.
We announced a token that we'll be
launching soon.
Right now, if you
use our platform to buy and sell
NFTs or to create NFTs,
you'll earn points and those points will turn
into a Khood token.
If you're looking for a new, awesome
creator-friendly Marketplace,
we'd really appreciate you checking us out.
We're super excited for this space
and we really appreciate you guys letting us join.
Thank you so much as well.
I'm also happy to have you guys gear
almost every week now, I guess.
So that's pretty cool.
Yeah, we're buddies now.
That's true, that's true.
Happy to have a regular, actually.
And also, King Julian.
I'm happy to see you back again.
Hello, hello.
My name is Julian.
I'm the co-founder of
So I started my journey quite late
unlike most of you probably here.
I started during the Dogecoin era.
But previously,
my career was in Web2 products
focusing on user experience
and growth.
So, yeah, when I tried to get into Web3
and buy Dogecoin, I couldn't do it.
So I was like, you know what?
I need to build some in so that other people like me
can do this very easily,
especially my grandma.
When we know that
grandparents can start using Web2 products
we know that grandparents can start using Web3.
We know that Mas adoption is here.
And, yeah,
during that process, I've
brought on my co-founder, Mitri.
He's not here today.
I do, I guess, all the talking.
He's more so in the darker corner of the basement.
yeah, so he's
previously built Mas
unicorn companies
as the top engineer in those companies
as a staff or principal.
We're going to be building those
real solutions in it
in companies such as
Spotify and Autodesk.
And, yeah, so one thing
that's about Masma is that we're a Web3
everything app. So we are coming
after Elon Musk. We are coming
after, you know, Brian Armstrong.
We're coming after everybody.
So we've bootstrapped our
project up from now. We will be
planning a launch actually
probably in the coming months.
We have a really highly anticipated
feature actually in Masma, whereas
able to build transparent communities.
So imagine you see
tokens on your Twitter page.
You click on the actual token
hashtag and now, boom, you're on
an exchange page.
And now you're able to see everybody
on Twitter that actually owns it, who's talking
the truth about it, and then you're able
to buy it in one click.
So we reinvent the
wallet, the exchange, the
socials. All in one platform, so it's
giving me five times better than any experience
you've ever felt touched
So, you know, quickly,
Coinbase, PayPal, Venmo
meets like a coin market cap and
Twitter. Thank you.
Thank you so much for that
amazing intro as well. And please
meet your grandma. She sounds like a
musical person in my perspective.
Okay, how about
CollectorCrypt? Let's
Hi, good morning everyone.
I'm Tuam, I'm the CEO and
co-founder of CollectorCrypt.
We're trying to bring some
piece to the
traditional collectibles
market by providing
a physical to digital bridge where these
collectibles can now be traded on
blockchain. And just as a
specific example, there's around
$75 billion
worth of trading cards in circulation
right now. And these
cards are traded typically on
eBay or on other types of
exchanges. The minimum transaction
fee that you'll expect to pay on eBay is
around 13%, and
sometimes those fees go all the way up to 25%
and then you're also responsible
for shipping, taxes,
and tariffs, and it just gets very
expensive. And just for scale,
the total NFT
market cap is around
$25 billion. So we're talking
about trading cards like Pokémon stuff
that has $75 billion
or three times the size. Blockchain
is a great solution
to be able to address some of these issues.
And CollectorCrypt,
we're paving the path to get there.
So we're planning to launch
our token here in the coming months.
Our platform has been live for about
10 months. I encourage you to come check us out.
Thank you so much, and happy to also
have you here.
It's always a pleasure.
And who's this other one?
Chiba Neko, you're up next, sir.
Hey, guys.
Pleasure to be here. Not a sir, I'm afraid.
Even better.
Hi, ma'am.
Yeah, we have to have some
female representation, shouldn't we?
Indeed, indeed.
Really happy to be here
today. Like I said, I'm
the head of globalization over at Chiba Neko.
And we're building
AI translation solutions
for communities, specifically
gaming communities. We also have
our own token. And I think
especially with the season
that we're having now, staying connected
is so, so important.
So as someone who's been building
communities for a couple of years,
I think Chiba Neko is just
such a precious
gem to have, because
we do Discord integrations,
we do Telegram integrations, and we're
able to do
comprehensible translations
for various communities, because
it's such a struggle sometimes
to use all the translations
and to just get literally lost
in all of the
communications that are coming
out, especially during such a busy season.
So I feel like, you know, if
you're building a community, if you have a really
active kind of a game,
Discord or anything else, Chiba Neko
is really there to help you out.
We maintain multiple
pairs of translational pairs
and you can set it up in a really
convenient way that works
for your specific community. So
definitely check us out if you haven't
already, and looking
forward to this discussion.
Thank you so much, and also happy to
see Kat. I always like seeing Kat,
so that's a good plus for me.
How about
Arcus, you're on my list. Please go ahead.
Hello, this is Dan from
Arcus Champions. We
are building an Unreal Engine
5 competitive ape shooter
with a novel web3
esports protocol called Skill Staking,
and we're going to be releasing
our beta very soon with
the Play the Airdrop Treasure Hunt,
which will reward
the first people who come in. Thank you.
Short but sweet. Thank you so much for that.
How about you, Katie?
Hey guys, thanks so much for having me.
I think this is my second.
Oh no, this is my first one. I was on the last one
and I saw Layer 1. I think I was on a Layer 1
space, so thanks so much for having me.
Great to be here, especially
with a woman. Nice to have
some representation in the space.
I'm Katie, obviously.
I run Babs, which is
a web3 user acquisition
firm. We focus, obviously, on
helping web3 projects get users.
We do that through four pillars,
which is the first one is go-to-market strategy.
Second is
PR, all organic PR.
Third is branding, and then
of course, lastly, is
aggressive KOL campaigns.
We've all been in the space
on my team. We consider ourselves to be pretty
veteran in the space for a minimum
of like six years. Our
head of strategy was part of the founding
consensus marketing machine.
So, yeah, I think
we do most of our work
is actually DeFi, so I'd say about 80%
of our projects sit in the DeFi space.
I'm really excited to kind of
have this conversation today because
I've been doing a lot of reading.
A lot of Altcoin projects coming
through and a lot of projects looking to launch
I think there's a lot of interesting
discussion to be had around whether
a token is necessary always, when
it is necessary, etc.
Thanks for having me and looking forward to
meeting new people and hearing new ideas.
Thank you so much, and welcome for your first
time. Always a pleasure. Again,
we're sad we missed you last time,
but happy you're finally here.
Thank you, RC
and Karen Knapp for having me.
Hello, everyone. My name is
Cloris. I'm the CEO
and co-founder of Cogito Finance.
So, we are a spin-off
from SingularityNet, which is
a leading AI company in Web3.
Cogito stands as
an intersection of AI and
RWA, so we utilize
SingularityNet and Bankersource AI
expertise to manage portfolios,
and then we token
those assets for online integration.
So, that's what we do.
It's very nice to be here
and share more of the
market thoughts
with everyone here.
Thank you so much, and last
but not the least, Bren.
Can you hear us,
investor Bren?
Okay, it seems that his
identify has issues, apparently.
okay, let's go ahead and start
up again.
Quick reminder before we
actually move forward, please
retreat this spaces
if you can, so more people will be able to
join. This is an interesting topic. This is something
that I am personally
trying to induce people to talk about.
As you can see, I'm quite alone here
today with XCOhost. It's because
this is personally a topic that I'm personally
invested in. I have a lot of my bags
in altcoins, so I really want to know
what's going to happen next. But also,
as a kind reminder, we encourage people,
although we encourage people to converse
freely here, we do impose a
strict and emotional policy.
And as a disclaimer, any discussions
about this topic is not
a financial advice. This is
some mere friendly banter only based on our
own opinions. So,
yeah, since we got that out of the way,
let's address the biggest elephant
in the room as we did see a
huge, yet quick, I would say,
a retrace of Bitcoin
this week, which kind of
pushed the liquidity a little bit
back into the altcoins, which
is happening right now. What do you
think is going to be coming after
this? Are we seeing more of an
extended upside of altcoins,
or do you think we'll close the week with a
huge correction? Any thoughts on
this, guys?
I don't think we're going to see a
correction quite yet, but I do
think we'll see a big correction
before a massive
Everyone's still so happy
and so elated after waiting
so long for the bear. I think things
are still going to pump for a little bit.
But I do still think that we're going to have a
big correction.
But I could be wrong.
Who knows?
Go ahead.
Yeah, Clarice here. Actually,
I have, I would say,
a slightly different opinion on this.
I am actually expecting more of
an extended upside of
altcoins, because
we're in crypto, right? Crypto is
all about flow of money, or as the
pros would say, macro liquidity.
And then we can see
the macro liquidity has
increased significantly, both from
retail and from the institutional money
driven by Bitcoin ETF,
which means the altcoins should
pump more
as it has for
a month or two for many of them
already. So I'm actually expecting it to
go even higher. But I suppose
if you ask me
what the price will look like in the next
24 hours or the next day,
I wouldn't tell that because
I'm not a fortune teller and crypto
market is very volatile,
as everyone is aware of. But if
you are asking me for a longer
frame, for example, a month or two from here,
I am, I'm going to bet
that we'll see a higher number than now.
I was just going to jump in.
I agree 100% with what you just said, Clarice.
I think you said you're right,
Clarice. I think we're going to see
altcoins definitely pump.
I'm interested to hear
what people think in terms of the
current correction. I don't think
it'll drop much below 60
at this point, but I could be completely
wrong. Again, no financial advice
coming here.
But I think that we're going to see,
as you just said, perfectly about
micro in terms
of having more liquidity put into
the altcoins, I think we're definitely
going to see some altcoins pump for sure
in the next, I don't know,
next quarter, more or less.
And if I were, I know
myself as an investor, I'm definitely
looking in that direction more
than in the bigger coins
right now, personally.
As well as meme coins, I think meme
coins, we're going to see a decent
size increase as well.
Julian, go ahead.
Yeah, I mean,
I definitely think that there is
definitely a possibility that we could retrace
down to 55,000
just look at indicators
for support lines.
We're just kind of going parabolic
right now on Bitcoin. Right now, we're in that
kind of phase where everyone's looking at each
other like, are you going to sell
or are you going to buy?
It could go
either way from here.
What's interesting, we also need to pay attention
to with the ETF
hype is that the
US is going through
politics right now.
VC money is still
I believe once
VC money starts pouring in, you're going to start seeing
all coins go nuts.
As well with institutional investors,
they're probably still going to be
waiting for
the US elections in November.
Because right now
there's the whole Trump thing
something's going to go nuts
in November and I think they're kind of waiting for that
because they don't want to maybe put money in now
goes lower and lower
and then maybe November hits and it just
So that's also interesting to play
and there's also the other perspective
if you do talk with high
net worth individuals who are holding
over $100 million
in Bitcoin. All
the advisors, all these investors
I've talked to, there's
actually a sentiment
that's okay, well this is the last
bull ever. That's going to be
significant for us.
And so they actually might
once Bitcoin hits them, $100,000
or $150,000, whatever
a specifically high number,
a lot of them are actually looking to sell
all their bags.
Because they expect a lot of turmoil
to start happening around the $100k mark
they've been waiting for a long time.
So yeah, there's a lot of
things playing out there.
Yeah, go ahead.
So the elephant in the corner I think
is the Bitcoin ETF
and a previous
speaker spoke about
money flow. And I think it's really
important to take a look at
money flows into the Bitcoin ETF. We've had
$7 billion of
net inflows of capital.
This is including the amount that's been withdrawn
from grayscale in the
past two months since Bitcoin has gone in.
And this is just a phenomenal
amount, right?
So I think
and a lot of the banks and
the investment advisors, they haven't even
began recommending these
ETFs to their clients. So the
large, large institutional accounts
have always been able to get access to Bitcoin.
The small RIAs that have
independent platforms, they've
been able to recommend Bitcoin to their
clients. But what we've totally missed
out on are these kind of like
income, lower
very high net worth people
that use investment
platforms that those
platforms have not yet even approved
Bitcoin ETFs for usage there.
So there's going to be billions and billions
and billions of dollars of net inflows coming
in. And I assume that
this is going to prop up
the entire market. And
halvening comes out and all this kind of stuff. I know we
have additional topics on that question.
But I think, you know, this
is just going to be a phenomenal market
that we're going into. And it's not
going to be, it'll
be similar, but it's going to be different from previous
bull runs. So my advice,
my opinion, non-financial
Chiba Neke?
Thank you. Yeah,
just to kind of echo what some
of the rest of the speakers said, I think
altcoins are definitely going
to have a massive run. Meme coins
are obviously having just
knocking it out of the park
completely. But I also think there's
something interesting coming up that
is definitely going to kind of reflect
in the markets. And that's the
Nvidia conference next week.
I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it
yet, but I've seen quite a lot
on our timeline. And I'm not sure
if it's because we're doing
collaborations, but I feel like that's definitely going
to have an impact on the market. Obviously
all really dependent on
US politics as well. But I really feel
like the Nvidia conference, it
will have some kind of an impact because it's
massive. They're bringing back the
IRL experience. They're going to have a
lot of networking and
workshops and a lot of kind of demos
and stuff. So I feel like
that's definitely something to keep an eye
on for the next couple of
days and weeks.
Investor Bren.
Yeah, hi.
So I missed part of the explanation
so hopefully I'm not repeating anything.
The one thing that
I wonder myself is that
we have a lot of inflow coming
indeed from institutions and so forth.
But they're putting their money into Bitcoin
and we're so used to having
money cycle from Bitcoin to Ethereum to altcoins
and then all the way down to
shitcoins.
But all that money is coming
now from a different type of investor.
So aren't we
jumping to conclusions just assuming
that it will keep
doing the same flow?
Because suddenly you have an inflow
into Bitcoin with
a completely different type of investor
that probably, that money isn't
just going to shift down
to Ethereum and into altcoins.
Yeah, I was just going to
just add to that and that's a really interesting thing
and I also wanted to ask someone
was mentioning that they
didn't think that the price would go
below 55 and they were saying
that I think it was the person before, the last
person that spoke, that some of
the millionaires
and super high net worth individuals
that are holding a ton of Bitcoin are waiting for 100k
and then they might sell.
My question was like, if we had this conversation
six or eight months ago, what
would have been our limit?
Because I feel like the goal line keeps
changing so I'm wondering if we say that now
but if we hit 100, if it hits
100k in, I don't know, three
months, are we still, is this conversation going to be
the same? I just think that it's just
like the space is so changing
minute to minute. I talked
with kind of
a financial person that does a lot of
these looking at the
markets and stuff the other day and he was predicting
it'll hit 240k by the end of the
year. So I just wonder
like, what is everyone's opinion maybe?
I'm trying to figure
are most people going to
continue to hold or are most people
going, I mean, when will our
limit be really? I guess is my
question, if people have an opinion
because I don't know. Yeah, I mean, to hop back on to
that point,
they've been, a lot of the people I've talked to,
they've been talking about that for months
I mean, even years, like actually it's not just
100k actually, it's, and you're
right, I mean the market move,
your sentiment changes
every month, right?
But there is general sentiment
on, for all
a lot of high net worth individuals that
this is the last
huge bull run sentiment, right?
So for them, it's either 100k
and if they're somebody
who is okay with taking 100k,
they'll go 100k, right? Because like, you know, if you're
100 million dollars and you're already, this is going
to be, you know, they could be profiting up
you know, I don't know, they're 100 million
profit, that's enough for them
and then there's going to be investors who
are a little bit more
on the actual, like, okay, I'm going to
wait two years, as they expect maybe
the bull run to be 24 months.
So they actually might wait until
2026, right?
And then maybe
You also got to understand, like, these people
who are holding these huge tokens
last bull run,
they're pissed because
they held, right?
They actually were down
like 70, 60 percent
on 100 million dollar portfolios.
They're like, you know what, I try
to time the top, I couldn't
do it, right? And now
a lot of them are now, they're like, you know
what, I don't want to play the market anymore, like
we held, we wanted to just
exit now and then wait,
right? Because now it's like, everyone's kind of used to that
it's like, we all have thought that I'm not
the same as me, I tried to top the
last one and then
I back held through the whole bear
run, bear
getting more educated
in terms of, you know what, I shouldn't
be as greedy.
And a lot of people now are probably going to come in
and be like, oh my god, ETFs,
all this, it's going to
pump so hard, and
a lot of these investors are going to be smarter
the second time around. They're like, you know what,
when it gets too high, we're just going to pull out
now because 100k is insane
for bitcoins, it's unprecedented.
And then they'll wait, they'll wait
and they'll have enough gains not
to care if they're missing out on X, Y,
and Z, they're okay.
Which is not a bad thing, like, you know, S&P
100 is so high now
and you're only going to see a few
percentage of gains here
and there and just 1% gain
in the Bitcoin market when
it gets a big enough market cap
will shift, just 1%
in the Bitcoin market cap will shift all the
coins, same as S&P, like buying trade stocks,
everybody looks at S&P, moves up like
0.5% and everyone's like, oh my god, it's a great day.
Same thing is going to happen. It is right now
we're in the early market, so 15%
gains is like, literally what, 0.5%
is on S&P.
So, you know,
you don't want to, yeah, so
you're completely right, you don't know how
the money flow is going to work, but
a good way
of timing markets is
if you start screenshotting your phone
because you're like, oh my god, the games are nuts today
sell your shit
in a wait a month or something like that
every single time, I
swear to god, whenever I
look at my phone, I'm like, oh my god,
screenshot it, I send it to my
phone, I'm not sure if I'm the one that's
putting us into a bear market because every
time I screenshot my phone
on that portfolio, it goes down
the next day and I'm like, oh man,
so that is probably the outlet. If you screenshot
your phone to like, send it to your friend,
like, dude, look at this, I just, I don't know,
you want to keep it in your portfolio.
That's going to be after image.
Yeah, I want to add on that,
A, that's a very good point, but B,
like, it's fun to speculate
on what everyone's going to do and having
these discussions, it's really interesting, I enjoy doing it,
but at the end of the day, there's
so many massive whales
who just don't even exist on Twitter
and don't have conversations with anyone that have their own
exit strategies, so it's impossible
to predict what's going to happen.
What you need to do is come up with your own
exit strategy that you're
comfortable with and, you know, take
out 10% here, 20% here,
but keep your skin in the game, like, for instance,
there's a, I saw a post
yesterday about one of the devs for
the WIF coin, who
got a massive token allocation
and exited for
around 29,000, and if
he would have held on, it would have been worth
millions and millions and millions, and if
he would have just exited 50%
and held on to that, you know,
he'd be in a totally different position, so
if you could just stay in your own
lane, and find a nice
comfortable place to slowly
either DCA in
or have a nice
exit strategy, then you don't even need
to worry about predicting
what's going to happen when and where it's going to happen.
Like, generally we know we're in the bull run
this next year or two is probably going to be pretty
decent, so just have a nice, safe,
comfortable exit strategy, but don't get completely
out, so keep some skin in
the game, and that way you don't have to really
sweat everything as much as
some people just really are always trying to swing for
the fences, and that works out,
like that one person who
mined all that Bitcoin in 2010
that just exited that caused
this initial correction, sure,
it paid off for that person, but
I mean, if you just have a nice
comfortable exit strategy, you're
not going to have to sweat this bull market.
I was just going to say, I totally agree with that,
you know, you've got to have
your discipline, you've got to have
your control, and you've got to have
a plan, right, and that's what it really
boils down to.
You know, I look at,
it's been brought up a few times with the
elections that will be happening this year
in the US, I mean,
historically when you look at mortgage rates
in the US during the election years,
they always
tend to seem to kind of go
down to the lower end,
even though they're kind of high where they've been
over the last few years,
you can't even start seeing those
creep down as well, so you're
going to have a lot of people that are going to anticipate
the market and
play into this, because they know that that's
a given, right, and so
I think that if we
do have any big swings, it'll be
towards the time of
election when we decide
who's going to go in, a Democrat
or a Republican, and that will
kind of forecast where the market
could potentially go over the next four
years. So,
you know, there is, I mean, that's what the
markets are, there's a lot of speculation, but
there's a lot of variables in it as well.
Like, we don't know when the next
Silicon Valley bank will
collapse and take
down a whole bunch of
VC-funded startups
with their cash, and
you know, when those kind of things happen,
there's a lot of institutional
money that starts jumping back into
safer things, and you know,
I saw a couple of my
investor friends jump in
just to kind of shore up their
capital so that they
could get it out and get it into something
less institutional.
On the flip side of that,
too, is this like, as
kind of these
crypto investor people start
coming in if they're new, specifically
if they're new, you know,
they're gonna be hearing
these YouTubers, influencers, big
guys talking about all these
Bitcoin and altcoins
that they need to get into and start
DCA-ing into them,
and they're gonna get into them thinking
that they're mean coins, thinking that they're gonna
10x, 1000x,
and they're gonna get bored, and
through their cognitive behavior, they're
just gonna start seeing all these
bubbles and all these different
kind of coins going off, and they're gonna
pull out of these altcoins and jump
into those and just get wrecked
because they don't know how it is, but
I think that there's too much
variable going on right now, but
I think that a lot of it will be stable
due to the elections in the U.S.
That we can count on.
Yeah, I totally agree.
I want to echo that
as well, but also, in
the bull markets, we kind of see that everyone
became or becomes
a crypto expert at some point,
and they just kind of create this
FOMO for everyone, like, oh, I did
this, oh, did I earn from this, oh, from
that, and I know that
personally, that FOMO
feeling is like your biggest
how do you say it, your biggest
enemy in terms of trading, right?
I also have my
closed, I have my plan
for the year, I know when to
close out, how much percentage
I should sell, but then it goes up
20% after that, and then it goes
high a little bit more, and then you're
like, oh, man, and then you see all
of this crypto bull run expert
saying, you just missed out in your
next 5x and 10x, and you're like,
oh, so you keep on buying,
and then I think that's when
you kind of put yourself
in a position that you're no
longer trading, like,
systematically, you're just trading based
on what everyone else was selling
and based on your emotions, and I
think that's also kind of a play
we should kind of look at here, because everything
is becoming a little bit bullish, and
everyone is, you know, excited,
and I think, personally,
that's one of the things we should kind of
consider, like, the market,
it's still pretty much very volatile
at this point, and we do see
that, you know, there's a lot of things happening in the U.S.,
and on top of that, we still
kind of see that
there's a lot of speculations
that, you know, a big recession is going to be
announced in the U.S. and all of that items,
so I guess
in that way,
but when the recession is normally
announced, it means that we're actually nearing the
end of it, right, so timing-wise,
do you really think that this is going to
you know, also play
a significant effect on the current
crypto rally?
I think the U.S.
election is going to be very crucial
in general in terms of
just geopolitics and
geopolitics, obviously we have two
ongoing conflicts wars happening
right now, and that is pulling on
resources, and resources impact
traditional markets, traditional
markets impact crypto markets,
so I think we actually have had
a couple of clients talking about launching tokens
and we've been telling everyone to steer
clear of November, and probably
even October, and nothing after
November, because we just
don't know what's going to happen.
it's going to be really interesting, I think someone
was just saying about what's going to happen in terms
of investors, I for sure see
that people that are now starting to
invest in crypto are going to start looking at
other ways, meme coins, alt coins,
like that will be more interesting
because maybe they're less
institutional because they're not as
Bitcoin now, because it's seen more
as an institutional asset or an institutional
investment. Going against the
man seems more aligned
when you're investing in a meme coin
or an alt coin, but
I think the end of this year is going to
just completely up for grabs personally.
I'm American obviously, but I
have lived overseas now for 16 years,
so my perception is different,
but I think what we live, living in Europe
about how the US
can ripple is
going to be huge, because I think
resources are going to be
slim at the end of the year in general.
Either way, whatever the
election goes, not to get into politics here.
Yeah, I've totally
agreed with you there.
From my perspective I can see a
shakedown coming at some point between now and then also.
the true measure of the bull run
is the amount of new money
coming in as opposed to
current investors
piping up. Obviously that plays
a factor into it too, but
it really starts to fly when
the new money starts coming in from the retail
from our perspective, from a project
perspective, a diva mod, that's
really the way we're viewing it.
the meme coin sees
in being here, as such, as people are
saying, the way it really plays
out is that there are people
as the previous speaker said
that are going to
jump in, jump out,
take a loss, and then keep moving forward.
So, yeah,
I'm on the same page, folks, I think.
But when it comes
to diversifying
your portfolios, personally,
would you recommend
just looking into the
top 100 alts, or do you think
it would be wiser to kind of risk a little bit
on the new introns to kind of
achieve that potential 5x or
Yeah, so I look at Bitcoin
and Ethereum as basically
the crypto version of the S&P 500.
So, you know, you want to be
safe and put some
capital in the safe bet in your S&P
and you're essentially just storing money
there. But obviously, I mean,
even if Bitcoin goes to
extra money, that's great. But
on altcoin, you know, or
meme coin, you can 100x, right?
So, this is not
financial advice, obviously, but what I do
is I store most of my stuff in Bitcoin and
Ethereum and NFPs and things of that nature.
And then I take some stuff
that I could literally burn this
money and be okay with, and I play
around with altcoins and
meme coins, because obviously
everyone dreams of the 100x,
and you're not going to get that in Bitcoin,
I don't believe. And so
swing for the fences, sure, but
do it with your safe money, right?
Just be smart,
store some stuff in the S&P 500
or Bitcoin or whatever,
and then play around with the altcoins and meme coins.
Like, what do you got to lose?
So, I had a
good experience. I'm a
parent, and I have
a senior in
high school that's graduating this year
that tells you how old I am.
taking a finance
class, and it's interesting.
I'm here in the US, and it's
interesting that the school system is
teaching our kids about
playing it safe and sticking it
in a bank account where
they're earning 0.0005%
it's funny because
had a job, they got their job,
they made their first
check, they made like
250 bucks.
By the time they took it home, it was like
200 bucks or
100-something dollars.
And so, what I did is
I taught them something really interesting
about crypto, and
so I said, look, let's take
200 bucks, stick it into the bank,
and I'll match
the 200 bucks, but let me set you
up in crypto. And so, what we did is
we bought
a few bucks of
a very fractional
amount of Bitcoin.
We bought some Ethereum, BNB,
we bought them some
L1X coin,
but then we also
took about, I would say
about probably
25 bucks,
and we put 5
bucks into about
5 different meme coins,
and because
they came to me telling me that they
wanted to throw all 200 bucks of their
hard-earned money into one meme coin,
and so I wanted to prove
to them that not every
meme coin is gonna
1000X, right? And so
we played it, and we had
one hit, and that 5
bucks turned into 50 bucks,
which was great, but then they lost
the other 20 bucks as well.
And so, you know, the point
I was trying to make for them is then
we broke down after a month,
and I showed them how much they made
off of their $200 bank
inside of an institutional bank
versus what we got for
them after buying it and staking
the altcoins
and stuff like that in yield
farming. It was night and
day difference, and I think that
this is a big miss that
our institutional school
education system is really
missing, is
trying to teach our kids how
money works, and
I think crypto is a great way to
re-educate a whole bunch
of civilizations out there
across the world.
Yeah, I would like to be adopted
by you so I get like free investment
like tutorials, definitely.
Well, I just gave them their
inheritance up front, let's be honest.
I want the
$200 match, that's what I want.
Julian, go ahead.
Yeah, that's funny. That's awesome
that you do that for
these kids. And basically
what you're basically saying is
it'd be great to teach them about
some frameworks, like for example
the VCs, they use the power
law, which dictates
only a handful of investments
typically drive the bulk of return.
At VC, they'll
look at all these, like basically
they're looking at high-risk assets
which is basically what a main coin is.
You know, you reinvest
in 10, you spread them out, you're looking
for the bonds that are going to 10X the most
only one of them, two of them, three
of them could, so
you don't want to put it all into one
basket. VCs certainly don't do
Cloris, I see you're raising your hand.
Wait, are you talking?
Yeah. This is Cloris.
Oh yeah, so I want to
say something because this is such an interesting
topic. I got
a lot of people ask me this a lot
actually, because I am
very happy investing in crypto
personally, so I get questions from
friends and family like what to buy
and do we buy top 100
or do we buy the other smaller
I would say in general, this question is very
challenging to answer because it
depends on each individual's
investment strategy, right? Like their
risk profile, their tolerance level,
and also the amount of network they are
willing to invest. So there one
I just mentioned like a lot of
for example, the high schoolers, they
might have $200 to invest.
I think like that
will have a different investment
strategy as to people who have 20
million to deploy, right?
So generally speaking of the top
100 altcoins tend to have
more stable performance, which might be
better for those who are happy with
2 to 5x return in the bull market.
Like that's totally doable. For example,
Solana right now is
slightly less than 150. People
are looking for like 5x here.
That's doable, I would say
in a crazy bull market. But also
the smaller caps have a
bigger potential for 5x, 10x
or even 100x in some
instances, but they also have a much
higher risk of significant losses.
Again, at later one I said like one
of the coins might go 10x and the other
four might just lose everything.
So me personally,
I trade super tiny coins. Some
of them have like less than $1 million
market cap. That's where we spot
Weave actually. One of the
early speakers mentioned Weave.
The problem with this kind of
very smaller caps is that first of all
because market cap is so small, which means
liquidity is very small. So even
like a few thousand dollars can spike the
price by a lot of
up movement.
And also like we are not sure
whether these small caps cannot
take off or not, so it's very hard
to predict. And then even if
they do take off, the exit liquidity
may not be very favorable, so it's pretty
hard to take profit. So
going back to the example of the
Weave death, which had
a chance sold with
$29K, which could otherwise
be $700 million
if they hold till today. But chances
they won't be able to actually
exit $700 and realize
how much profit. So that's a very practical
problem to consider.
So in general,
the traditional upside is
significantly higher, I would say, but also
there are much higher risks here.
So because of that, I would say
everyone's situation
is unique, so they should understand
their own circumstances, the potential
rewards, the potential risks, and
make sure that they're comfortable with the risks involved.
So that's my comment on this.
Yeah, I totally agree
on that. But for those
who are trading, I would
say I'm trading a baby here.
I'm pretty much new to it
and all. What can you
what are your normal key
indicators that suggest
that a bullish scenario for altcoins
are coming? What do you actually follow
and how do you
kind of personally prepare
for it in some way?
I can start. We
actually take a bit of a different
approach. I also am a baby, so
in terms of trading. So
I'm not a true degen yet
in terms of trading.
But we take a different approach because
we work on token
launches and coin launches.
What we're seeing is a lot of
correlation between what kind of KOL
the projects are getting
and what kind of partnerships
the KOL is doing. So
we, for example, know we'll
look, not projects of our own, but projects
that we see up and coming that might
be doing some sort of partnerships. We feel
usually if it's a solid KOL
that's out there talking about trading
that really knows their stuff, means
that the coin is going to do
relatively okay. Totally, totally
researched
and unproven my theory, but up
to now it's worked for us.
That's kind of what we do.
Other than the rest of it, I think
sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot. We do
quite a bit in meme coins.
the idea. I think it's
just like a playground and the idea
to think that you could get in on something that really
means absolutely nothing but makes
money for you is kind of cool.
Usually we just go by if it has a
cool name or not.
So you kind of suggest that
you kind of look into their narratives versus
just the total market performance.
For me, I personally
have no time to look at every single
narrative and what kind of KOLs they kind of
had. So the only indicator for me
is how you're performing market-wise.
How are their tokens performing
basically? So do you
think that's not a
smart way to go about it? No.
I think that's a smart way to go.
I think she makes a fair point
because meme coins
are strictly driven on hype.
for meme coins specifically,
ride the wave. Sell the news.
It's all hype. It's all who's talking about it.
How many people are in on it. So if you're in
the right communities and you're following the right people
because meme coins don't really inherently
have any value other than
the hype. But altcoins
are different. So altcoins
generally have a little bit of a higher market cap
and for those, I look for
A. Who's involved
what the team is, what
the background of the team is, and if people are building
on it. And so I don't own any of this
so I'm not pumping my own bags but I am probably
going to buy some SEI
coming up soon because I see a lot of
interesting people using it and building
NFTs on it and things of that nature.
So for altcoins, I look for what people are
doing with it and the people are building on it
and who's involved. But for meme coins,
it's just silliness.
So you never really know.
I agree with both of you guys. I think
crypto trading is very
much sentiment driven, which means
attention is the key to success.
Be it altcoin
or meme coin, I think they work
a similar way. But actually
I think one very important lesson
that I have learned from past few years
is that when it comes
to crypto trading, there are
very clear trends.
For example, currently there are three major
trends. One is
with majors, they are driven
by ETF flows. And we know
there are confirmed potential there.
The second one is
meme coin led by
weave, pepe, sheep, etc.
That is basically web3 culture.
We cannot dismiss that. And then the third
one will be AI led by AGIS,
Fetch, etc.
There are other smaller trends
for example, like ordinals and RWA
led by Ondo, etc.
So a very safe play
according to my personal experience
is that as long as you get into the
leaders of each trending
then you are
pretty good
You may not outperform
the best performers in each respective
field, but you will likely outperform
most people in this space because
that's where the money is. That's where
the attention is. So that's basically my
personal experience here.
I 100% agree with that.
Julian doesn't know this
but him and I are going to branch out and we're
going to make the grandma meme coin.
So be on the lookout for that.
Yep, exactly.
I love what creator
said. You know, if you look
at the cognitive behavior behind FOMO
and you look at
the psychology behind it, it's very
interesting. Yes, meme coins are
definitely 100%
all hyped. It's about
community. It's about
the fear of people
missing out wanting to belong to
a certain type of group.
I think it was
our host that basically mentioned
you don't have time to
research everything. Well, if these
marketers of these meme coins
do their job correctly
and they can tap into similar
like-minded
communities, you don't need
to. You'll discover those because
people within the community will
be talking about it
and because you build it
I'll use the old Kevin Costner
Field of Dreams thing. If you
build it, they will come.
And it definitely will
happen that way. Now, the FOMO on the
other side, when you look at the psychology
behind that, when you look at
I'm just going to use layer 1
as an example. Our
coin has such a
unique utility behind it because
it can be used as a universal
gas fee token.
You can use LNX on
Polygon, Avalanche,
Ethereum as
the gas token. You don't have to
have that native token.
When you look at the FOMO behind that
in comparison to the utility
the FOMO is a little bit different
and I think Clarice is the one
that hit upon it is that you look at
the tech more
you look at the team behind it
and it's more of the long-term
investor play
behind it and that's why these alt
coins have these
big maxis that hold all of
these coins because they
value the tech. They see the tech
of where it's headed where most of
these other guys, they're there for the
pump and dump and they're on to
the next meme coin and go
and then you just, unfortunately
there's without any
tech, any utility
behind it, it's a dead cause
after a while and it's just like
a fad or a trend. It will
die down. However, you'll
see how Doge is making a slight
comeback and they do
come back and it's
nothing new. It's like
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
You'll have a viral kind of trend
and it will die down and then
all of a sudden, somebody will be like
oh my gosh, this was so hilarious
and then they'll retweet
and share it again and it starts
the meme process all over
again and so we see that
very similar in
crypto as well.
I see a lot of
breathing hands here. Let's go for
Mr. Brentley's first.
Yeah, I wanted
to pick up on what you said
because momentum trading
is also a
viable trading strategy.
You don't necessarily have to do deep
dive into everything, especially
not in a bull run.
If you see there is momentum
in a coin on the charts,
just check out if there is
real momentum as well
on social media and then
just ride that momentum
and get out fast
enough. It's a very fair strategy
and you don't have to look at fundamentals
and I think secondly, especially
in a bull run,
we all like
to say and
give ourselves a pat on the back that
we looked at the fundamentals but
everybody is just
most of the people are just chasing the gains, whether they are
fundamentals or not, whether it's a
meme coin or there is
a nice story. People
want a light paper, not a
white paper. They want to scroll
through it very fast.
They want to quickly look at the
team. They will not go on LinkedIn. They will
not do a background check. They will not
they just want to give themselves
enough confidence
to hit that buy button and
to not feel stupid when it goes to shit
so they can at least say we did some research
and the more the bull run
is heating up, the less
research, how little it was already,
the less research there
That's just my view on things
so I wouldn't get too stuck up on
doing research and
looking at real numbers and
how realistic a market cap is
because when you're in the bull run,
it's not that important anymore.
That's why you not go by light.
I love this so much.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, I just say I
love that comment very much.
Yeah, light versus white.
I also will put that on my next wallpaper.
Katie, let's go ahead.
I was going to disagree
wholeheartedly with that because
we are on the side of the launch.
We're not the builders.
utility at some level, you find
that crypto has such
short attention span that
people say, I want to see utility
and then you give them utility
and a lot of times, they don't
care either. So I think
the people ride the narrative.
They look for the easy research
quote-unquote, see something that kind
of appeals to them. Soul is doing
really well. I'm going to go in that direction.
I've seen a couple interesting projects here.
I'm going to go in that direction.
But I think it's only
the true crypto
researchers that
will go really deep and look at it
I don't think anyone
really understands what they should be looking for
wholeheartedly yet, but
even it's funny because some of the communities
we build, you build out this great utility.
It's going to have all this great stuff and then
like you said, you build the field
and still no one comes, but yet
something else. There's something other appealing,
another type of project you build.
It has very little utility, but maybe
someone interesting has built on it that is
more applicable to the community
and this one does really well.
I feel like we're still trying to figure out
where the hook is,
why certain things behave the way they do
because I think that there still isn't
100% a rhyme or reason.
And definitely, everyone's
before we were writing these massive white papers.
I mean, I think I've read maybe
all the way through my life, right?
So unless you're
a huge dev or a huge
builder, I don't think a lot of people are looking at
the details anymore. So great
comment, by the way.
Yeah, I totally, oh, I was just going to say
I totally agree with you on that
because like when I joined LNX
over a year and a half ago,
our white paper's 119
pages and one of the first things
we worked on was basically trying to
get it down to a light paper
and I'm even trying to get it down to a
one-sheeter
kind of thing and I totally
agree. Like, what do you look at?
What do you look for in those type of things?
And I think it's one of those
things that you have your plan,
you have your strategy, and
you know what works for you and it's an
individual thing of things
that you look for.
Yeah, I wanted to just,
I've personally been in the space
for a long time.
I started in Bitcoin in 2013.
one caveat that I
wanted to make to this, and yeah, I totally
agree with
bull market,
the harbors will all rise
and things
you don't really need to put too much
time and effort into them now.
But I do want to highlight some of the risks
and when you're
dealing with meme coins and
even dealing with
very low market cap coins
that have utility and that kind of stuff,
the few things you need to keep an eye out for
are falling in love with the project.
I think a lot of people get wrecked
dealing with meme coins when
they just totally
fall in love with it. It drops
20% on them, they see
all the people,
all the influencers in KOL
start really pumping it, which is basically
the meme coin team telling
alright guys, alright guys, we gotta turn it around,
we gotta turn it around.
If you are in there to make some
money, make some money, nobody's
going to be upset at you for
selling and making a 5x, that's
totally acceptable.
The other thing I wanted to highlight
is that a lot of meme coin projects,
they launch, they get this initial
market hype, people's attention
Spanish short, they go in natural cycles.
So once you start seeing
some things start to waver,
and then all of a sudden the meme
coin team goes, oh and by the way
look at all this utility we're going to put in,
oh look at these staking mechanisms, look at all
these things. All that is trying to
do is get you to
lock up your tokens, get you to think
longer term about the project,
and a lot of those narratives,
there's no fact behind them.
So you could talk about a team saying
well hey, we're going to introduce all this utility
and you take a look and their
repo, their
right, so just be very careful about
some of these things, it's okay to take a
profit, as our favorite
Jim Cramer says, pigs get slaughtered
right, and
I'll leave it on Jim Cramer now.
Hopefully we are not the pig that gets
slaughtered.
Yeah, I wanted to see if I could
give some insight as a
founder who's building
a project that has utility
right, and how do we
make it appealing to the industry.
I also think that
as a technologist, I've worked in
AI, the AI field since
2014, and
really entering
into Web 3 is really about the
commercialization of emerging
technologies. So if you
even look at Web 2,
you can see
that there is a lot of institutional capital that
poured in, which
was a more organized Web 1
right, and I think there's Web
3 which is somewhat experimental
but then I think we're going to start
to enter like
Borderline Web 4, where
we're going to start to see a more organized
crypto industry.
Especially after the
Bitcoin ETF
was approved, we're going to
start to see a lot more institutional interest
into some of the really good
real projects that are building
and really building infrastructure.
So the top narrative is AI.
Another one is D-Pin,
which is decentralized infrastructure networks
really helping
doing what Bitcoin did to the financial industry.
We're going to do it to the big tech
industry, so being able to
build out large infrastructure is
going to be really important as well.
So I think
it really all depends on what
your portfolio is.
You have a short-term strategy
as well as a long-term
strategy. Finding
good projects to invest in, doing
the actual research, talking to the team,
talking to the community. I think
it's going to be really important in
the success, but I think
when you think long-term, you never
really lose, right?
So for us, as
builders, we even tell our community
that we want to be a sustainable
multi-decade product,
with a chain and things like that.
And yeah, don't over-invest, right?
And what we've been seeing is
that KOLs, we don't even need to pay
KOLs, right?
The KOLs that, you know, we raised
$2.5 million through our community,
but that came from the BitTensor network,
right? So
that really came through the BitTensor network
and then, you know,
we were able to raise a lot of money we can build.
So if we're thinking about, you know, $100k
Bitcoin, a million dollar Bitcoin, we're
going to need to generate more
institutional interest.
I also think meme coins are good because it is
culture, right? So on our chain,
we're going to build AI that can help
power memes, right?
So you can talk to, like, PeePee, right?
So, you know, there's
a lot of really different
angles that you can take a look at it, but I
think you should have, like, a short-term
and long-term strategy
as crypto starts to hit its next
maturation cycle.
Yeah. Alright, guys, I think we're a little
bit over time. Is there anyone else who
would like to say their final words
before we kind of, like,
close out this panel?
I just wanted to say thank you so much.
I love these faces. I love all the
guests. This has been
a fantastic experience and I hope to
see you soon.
Alright, guys, thank you so much as well.
So please,
if you want, join us again to
discuss next week about the future of
gaming and web duty. I'm going to link
the URL again on the thread below.
And please, guys, I would really appreciate it
if you can share some of our links and are
amazing your personal or even, you know, your
Twitter account so we can get more traction
on the upcoming new ones.
And again, thank you so much to
for taking the time to be with me today
and be with all the other ones today.
Always a pleasure to have you here
and to our now recurring constants
like creator, verse,
Lara1X is the second time as well,
and Julian, I think you guys are going to be
my new besties. And hopefully,
Julian's grandma as well is going to be
my new bestie on the upcoming spaces.
Again, thank you guys
so much and
enjoy the upcoming weekend.
Let's lay this upcoming bull run with bigger
bags, hopefully by the end of the year.
Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate you here.
Bye-bye. Have a great day.
Thank you so much. Cheers.