pumpfun just welcomed one of most hated men in america
His name is Martin Shkreli > became the “Pharma Bro” in 2015 > his company bought Daraprim > raised the price from $13.50 to $750 > sparked massive outrage on internet > became one of the most hated men in pharma then came the courtroom > convicted of securities fraud > sentenced to 7 years in prison > permanently banned from the pharmaceutical industry > released in 2022 but prison didn't end the story > bought wu-tang clan's one of one album "once upon a time in shaolin" > attacked ghostface for criticizing him > US government later seized it > sold to PleasrDAO for about $4M > fought with celebrities like trump, hillary clinton and kanye west then he found his way into crypto > launched Martin Shkreli Inu in 2022 > became associated with $DJT trump coin > both eventually collapsed more than 90% then came 2026 > opened a pumpfun account > started livestreaming his trades livestreaming his trades > he launched $CITRINI > pumpfun claimed he had made 6,263% ($1.6M) > $MARTIN was also tied to him it looked like the perfect comeback but then > $MARTIN crashed around 94% > $CITRINI fell around 97% > both moves happened within about 24 hours crypto gives everyone a second chance but that doesn't mean you have to give everyone your money study the person before you follow the narrative
pumpfun just welcomed one of most hated men in america
his name is Martin Shkreli
> became the “Pharma Bro” in 2015 > his company bought Daraprim > raised the price from $13.50 to $750 > sparked massive outrage on internet > became one of the most hated men in pharma
then came the courtroom
> convicted of securities fraud > sentenced to 7 years in prison > permanently banned from the pharmaceutical industry > released in 2022
but prison didn't end the story
> bought wu-tang clan's one of one album "once upon a time in shaolin" > attacked ghostface for criticizing him > US government later seized it > sold to PleasrDAO for about $4M > fought with celebrities like trump, hillary clinton and kanye west
then he found his way into crypto
> launched Martin Shkreli Inu in 2022 > became associated with $DJT trump coin > both eventually collapsed more than 90%
then came 2026
> opened a pumpfun account > started livestreaming his trades livestreaming his trades > he launched $CITRINI > pumpfun claimed he had made 6,263% ($1.6M) > $MARTIN was also tied to him
it looked like the perfect comeback but then
> $MARTIN crashed around 94% > $CITRINI fell around 97% > both moves happened within about 24 hours
crypto gives everyone a second chance
but that doesn't mean you have to give everyone your money
this platform could be the biggest opportunity for creators in years
> started in 2009 > 376M monthly active users in china > 100M+ daily active users > strong Gen Z audience > known for anime, gaming, entertainment > also heavily supports knowledge, technology, AI and other educational content
now bilibili wants to take on youtube
> just relaunched their international app > removed identity verification for overseas creators > are working toward an english language website
they're pitching the platform as Gen Z coded affluent well educated users
> creator teams are being built across US, UK japan, brazil, mexico and turkey > they're actively approaching creators > already targeted major names like mrbeast
> also building a creator brand marketplace > plus new monetization opportunities > the opportunity is for all new creators > especially strong with longer and meaningful content
so if you're a creator then don't wait for bilibili to become mainstream
they're building a serious alternative to youtube
start early, build your audience, experiment with formats and learn what works
and position yourself before the platform gets crowded
he lost $50K, got scammed, lost 95% then turned $1K into $500K
@MINHxDYNASTY’s life story is a video game
> started in crypto in 2017 > bought $BTC instead of paying student loans > bought $8K of $LTC > got wrecked into ICOs > diversified into BTC, ETH & ADA > portfolio hit ~$50K by 2022
then NFTs entered the story
> bought his first NFT (a steph curry × under armour shoe) > sold it for 2x in 24 hours and became obsessed > then he found Azuki and bought 2 > gave one to his girlfriend > moved almost everything else into Azuki
and then everything went wrong
> he accidentally lost access to a wallet > ~$40K in assets gone > somehow he rebuilt again > one Azuki reached ~20 ETH > he tried an OTC deal > accepted fake ETH and got scammed again
he wanted to quit crypto instead
> his gf and friends helped him restart > he sold NFTs for liquidity > turned that into 50+ $ETH
2024 came with another brutal lesson
> started farming blast > lost 95% of what he put in > called it his own mistake
recently MINH started a new challenge
> $1,000 → enough to buy a house > $CYBERLEEK appeared > a memecoin tied to the GTA 6 leak narrative
> instead of making one giant bet, he kept buying > roughly 2% of the entire cyberleek supply > cyberleek eventually became one of the most watched tokens on birdeye > recorded ATH around $25M market cap and 47K+ holders
suddenly the $1K house challenge looked very different
$1,000 became $500,000 with one memecoin
the life lesson is the biggest winners aren't always the people who never get wrecked
they're the ones crazy enough to rebuild after they do
GTA 6 just got dragged into one of the craziest crypto stories ever
> cyberleek leaked GTA 6 > released gameplay footage > leaked the leonida map > showed new gameplay mechanics
rockstar started issuing DMCA takedowns
cyberleek claimed it was fighting for gamers
their demands were • no digital pre orders • no paywalled fake DLC • offline access to single-player games
this sounds ideological until you look at the blockchain
> cyberleek's domain was registered aug 14 > $CYBERLEEK started trading aug 15 > GTA 6 footage leaked aug 18 > the leaked footage itself contained QR codes pointing to the token
the token didn't come after the leak
so what if the leak wasn't the marketing campaign?
contract address
ApZuxdpzMrbEYTGEzeY9afh5pj9d6qPRJCTgQYiipbKg
and this wallet received roughly 270M $CYBERLEEK
CbfbaNpCGV64g2fbLBC2NXKSygeJJuC7S6i36cy8RMPo
that's around 27% of the entire supply
> token went $55K FDV to millions in trading activity > estimates put transaction fee revenue around $40K–$60K > top 5 wallets made roughly $158K during the pump
then the narrative got even crazier
> people started accusing cyberleek of preparing a rug > cyberleek responded by burning its own dev tokens > roughly $1M+ worth at the time was reportedly destroyed
which made the whole thing even stranger
what if It was a crypto marketing disguised as a gaming rebellion?
GTA 6 hasn't even launched yet
but cyberleek already turned the leak into a financial experiment
2020 > slayed joins CT > starts building across web3 > learns the game from the inside
2022–24 > multiple web3 experiments > MIRAI AI raised $13M in presale > one of the largest AI agent presales ever > eventually reaches 3 exits across web2 + web3
then came the big one in may 2025
> slayed and @0x_ultra launched loudio > your all fav kols become engagement farmers for a whole week > loudio went from 23% mindshare to more than 80% mindshare on kaito > bitcoin + solana combined couldn't match the attention > loudio broke every attention record in history > top 1,000 got access to the IAO
then
> loudio was acquired by Vimix > slayed disappeared from the spotlight
until aug 2026
now he's back with @commonsmade
> new experiment with new leaderboard > same attention economy and CT is already watching > old loudio believers are back
loudio proved that you don't need the biggest product if you can own the attention
to becoming one of crypto twitter’s biggest voices
> zion thomas > known as ansem > discovered $BTC at georgia tech > graduated in 2017 > joined Capital One as a software engineer > crypto was a side hustle
quit his job in 2021
> went full time into crypto > started publicly journaling his trades > shared his wins, losses and mistakes > bought $SOL around $1.50
then FTX collapsed
> most people wanted nothing to do with $SOL > ansem went the other way > solana went upto $300 from $8 > spotted $BONK and $WIF early
his audience started exploding
> 3K followers became 100K+ > he became known as "The Solana Guy" > millions started watching his calls > he even stepped into the boxing ring against bitboy
from engineer to trader to one of crypto twitter's biggest voices
then on June 17, 2026
something completely unexpected happened
> an anonymous developer launched $ANSEM on Pumpfun > sent 650M tokens straight to ansem's wallet > ansem didn't create the coin but eventually embraced the story
then the Black Bull started running
> $ANSEM went nearly +20,000% in 7 days > suddenly everyone was watching his wallet
then came the plot twist
> instead of simply sitting on the attention > ansem announced he would redirect his creator fees back to the community through weekly airdrops > millions of dollars eventually flowed back toward the trenches
the real lesson from ansem's story is that
you don't need to start with influence
you need to start with conviction, keep showing your work
and sometimes the opportunity finds you when nobody is watching
two finance guys with one massive problem and an app now valued at $550M
this is the story of paul erlanger and se yong park
> paul started in traditional finance at deutsche bank > se yong did too > then both joined dYdX > spent years watching people struggle with on chain trading > crypto was powerful but not built for normal people
then they asked
what if trading crypto felt like using a normal app?
> in 2025, both teamed up with prashan dharmasena > they started building fomo > the idea was remove the complexity > one account with multiple chains > no manual bridging and gas headaches
but they also noticed something bigger
> trading isn't just financial, it's social > so fomo made trades visible with trading + social media > also added apple pay option > suddenly buying crypto didn't feel like crypto > just download, fund and trade
> the numbers exploded with 120K+ users > then 600K+ > now 625K+ > $4B+ trading volume > 110M+ social interactions > 68K+ people bought crypto for the first time
then investors noticed
> benchmark led a $17M Series A > and in June 2026, index ventures led a $75M Series B > valuation $550M > their bigger vision is the social layer of finance
sometimes the biggest startup isn't the one creating new technology
it's the one hiding the complexity everyone else accepted
one of the biggest hardware wallet security failures in bitcoin history
> ColdCard bitcoin-only hardware wallet by coinkite > launched in 2017 > known for air gapped security and offline signing > used by bitcoin OGs, whales and institutions worldwide
until this week
> researchers uncovered a critical vulnerability affecting wallet seed generation > victims didn't click phishing links > attackers exploited predictable randomness used during wallet creation
> estimated damage over 1390 $BTC (~$88M) stolen > around 500 wallets compromised > many wallets had been untouched for years before being drained within hours
then reddit exploded
> one user reported losing 18.25 $BTC > another said years of weekly DCA vanished overnight > multiple victims claimed their entire life savings disappeared
if your wallet was created using vulnerable firmware, your bitcoin may have already been at risk
the only safe fix generate a brand new wallet using secure entropy
meet the CEO @vladtenev quietly turning Robinhood into one of crypto's biggest winners
> vlad tenev > bulgarian immigrant > taught himself coding as a teenager > studied mathematics at stanford > dropped out of UCLA PhD program to build startups > co-founded robinhood in 2013 with baiju bhatt > made commission free trading mainstream and disrupted traditional brokers > survived the 2021 GameStop controversy despite global backlash > took Robinhood public in 2021 under ticker $HOOD > now building robinhood chain to bring stocks and real world assets fully onchain > this season Robinhood Chain has become one of the biggest narratives in crypto > they did $9B+ volume since launch > memecoins are dominating 85% of total volume
we're watching the beginning of a very different financial system
it is the first creator card trading game built on robinhood chain
you can trade your favourite X creators and compete for ETH rewards
robinhood projects are already giving 4-5 fig rewards to users
✅️ how hoodfrens works > go to hoodfrens website > enter code = xpcrttpd > buy creator cards > hold them at the daily snapshot > creators rank by their X virality through their Pulse score > holders of the winning creators split the $ETH pot > sell whenever you want
if you're a good creator with a small audience, this post is for you
we've all seen how the creator economy works today
most agencies only want big creators while smaller creators get pushed into endless "$20 raffles" and engagement farming campaigns
but Rally is different
Rally is the first decentralized AI-powered marketing protocol built on GenLayer
your content is evaluated by AI based on its quality, accuracy, clarity and impact
that means a creator with 500 genuine followers can outperform an account with 50,000 followers posting low effort content
join here: waitlist.rally.fun/joinme/guraahq
there are multiple campaigns live on Rally right now but one of them caught my attention: > $5,000 prize pool > top 10 winners can earn around $500 each > ends in less than 2 days
many creators are earning real rewards simply by creating quality content
the best part is that you can participate directly using your X account, get evaluated by AI and earn rewards on-chain
a platform where AI characters can be created, owned, funded, traded and grown by communities
some things most people don't know yet: • every character starts with $20K market cap • character-owned allocations are locked • every public character can have its own market • some early users have already received 4 fig rewards • confirmed airdrop for early users
now the charms leaderboard is live charms.ai/leaderboard
a live record of who's shaping charms across creators, traders and holders to show early contribution
i created an owl character and it's currently ranked top 8 on the leaderboard 🦉
if you want to support $OWLY • chat with it • create memes • hold $OWLY • remix your own owl version
most people will discover character economies after they become obvious
How to position for a potential polymarket airdrop without spending money
everyone knows farming polymarket isn't easy if you don't have much capital
but most people are completely overlooking the easiest opportunity
polymarket has repeatedly encouraged users to connect their X accounts
they've also confirmed that creators will be rewarded
think about the numbers:
• 500,000+ active users on polymarket • only ~2,000-5,000 quality polymarket creators on x
that's a massive gap.
right now, 80% of polymarket content is: • fake PnLs • win screenshots • reposts of polymarket tweets
with just 10-15 genuinely valuable posts, you can already break into the small group of creators actually adding value.
$POLY likely isn't coming before Q4 so you still have time to build your position.
if you are not sure what to post then pick just 1-2 topics and go deep
• fifa world cup markets (hottest niche right now) • politics • top polymarket traders • ecosystem news • weird markets and predictions • market analysis and narratives
just own 1-2 topic niche and post consistently until the $POLY TGE
now let's do some simple math
if $POLY launches at a $10B FDV and allocates just 0.5% of supply to X creators, that's a $50M creator pool
assuming there are only 2k-5k quality creators, the average allocation would be:
2,000 creators → $25,000 each 5,000 creators → $10,000 each
and that's before accounting for larger allocations to top performing creators
the opportunity is obvious but the competition isn't