Co-founder & COO @cedehub | Bringing real traders to your markets | $1.8B+ CEX volume, 450+ campaigns | Posting on listings and post-TGE growth
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Just something ... 🐼
Something new just shipped on @cedelabs Cede Hub 👀
Hyperliquid spot and perp markets are now live for trading. Rewards? Stay tuned.
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I don’t think it’s the AI clock. This bear just never closed the casino.
I’ve been in crypto since 2016. In 2018 the ICO money vanished. In 2022 the leverage and the fake yield vanished. Each time the fast track died, so patience was the only option left. That’s where “we’re all in this together” came from.
This time the fast track is still open. The memecoin trenches keep putting a new 22-year-old in a lambo on your feed, so nobody is forced to slow down. The clock and the envy you describe are real, but they’re symptoms.
A bear is supposed to filter. This one hasn’t fully done the job yet. Until attention and liquidity rotate back to tokens with real products and real traders behind them, it will keep feeling personal.
The filter always comes. I’d rather be positioned for after it than racing a deadline before it
i've been trying to figure out why the 2026 drawdown feels so much more personal than 2018/2022 even though it’s not nearly as bad price wise. my take:
a lot of people on here have decided there's now a clock running. ai is coming, the door to escaping the middle class is closing, and if you haven't made it in the next couple years you're on ubi as a pleb forever.
i don't know if that's true. but it doesn't matter if it's true. people here believe it, so they're putting a deadline on themselves and when the market doesn't cooperate on that timeline it feels like they’re missing the last train out of a burning town rather than “just a bad few months but we can recover”
this also explains retails pivot to memes as a “fast track” to making it.
add instagram to the mix. 22 year olds in mansions and lambos all over your feed, most of them you suspect got there by rugging people like you.
envy is one of the strongest emotions there is, and envy plus a ticking clock is my guess to why we are seeing crash outs instead of just "this cycle sucks but we’re all in this together bros”
it truly is diff now
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Yes, but not because traders lost money. Traders lose money on everything.
Memecoins made launching a token the goal, instead of building something people keep using.
They did prove one thing though: attention moves liquidity faster than any roadmap.
We've run 450+ trading competitions on exchanges, and with several memecoins. Same pattern every time: the campaign brings the volume, only tokens with something real behind them keep it.
That's where I'd put focus and liquidity.
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What October's exchange numbers mean for your token:
> CEX spot volume fell 11% while futures down by 8%
> CEX listing activity down by 39%
> Perp DEX volume up 6%
There's a continued shift towards more decentralized markets and trading environments.
We're seeing it in our own demand as more teams are requesting DEX campaigns. We ourselves are actively integrating more DEX venues too.
I don't believe this means CEXs are dying. They're still the easiest gateway for most people, even for institutional players. Better UI / UX, significantly more liquidity and despite the Binance incident, a lot better security.
But centralized exchanges have began to lose some of that coveted status they once had.
Interested to see how things will stand 6 months from now.
Finding PMF took way more conversations than I ever expected.
Since 2021 we've built 7+ products, but by the end of 2024, we had 2 months of runway left. Literal survival mode.
We needed to figure out a product many teams would find immediate value in.
So we got on calls with everyone in our network: builders, token teams, distribution partners. Basically anyone who’d give us 30 minutes.
Most people told us what would be nice to have, while others told us what was costing them money.
However, the same problem kept coming up: teams with a live token but low trading volume. This bottleneck had been stopping these teams from growing and scaling, yet nobody had a clean fix.
To me and my co-founders, that was a problem worth solving. We'd been building CEX-connectivity since 2021 and already had a retail user base, so we pointed both at it. Through multiple iterations, this became what Cede Hub is today.
Almost two years later and despite $1.8B+ in CEX volume across 450+ campaigns, we are still building on what those calls told us.
If you haven’t found PMF yet, you probably haven’t spoken to nearly enough people.
Book more calls, find real problems and you’ll have done the hardest part.
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
The new Cede Arena format is here:
⚔️ BATTLE ROYALE ⚔️
We’re going live today at 3PM UTC to show you exactly how it works.
More players. More pressure. Only the best survive.
Set your reminder to watch the first Battle Royale in action🔥
teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1dKrPrWzw…
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
Cede Arena integrated with @Crossmint.
You can now deposit directly with fiat, making it much easier to fund your Cede Arena account and start competing.
Crossmint powers the on-ramp behind the scenes, supporting cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay in 160+ countries.
Less friction. More trading. ⚔️
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
We're elated to announce that Surgence Labs is hosting Convergence, our curated TOKEN2049 mixer, with @ADIChain_ as title sponsor.
Alongside them, we have our gold sponsors @Anti__Capital, @cedehub and @zerufinance join us, with partners @Vandergrid_, @Web3Auditing and @Outlaw_HQ.
Registrations are closing soon, so head to luma.com/convergence-mixer-b… before it's too late.
Extremely bullish
The Tournament is coming ⚔️
$100,000 Prize Pool
Whitelist only. Applications now open 👇
cedearena.io/100k
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Gabriel Begazo retweeted
🐼 The wait is over.
The @WemixNetwork Trading Campaign is officially live on Cede Hub, in partnership with @krakenpro.
Trade on Cede Hub and earn your share of 150,000 $WEMIX in rewards.
app.cedehub.io/wemix-kraken-…
Just joined the waitlist for @breakoutdotapp — the launchpad for bagworkers.
Currently #16, posting this to climb higher 🐼
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Gabriel Begazo retweeted
I'm truly honored to be invited to trading competition hosted by @cedearena ⚔️
For those who don't know yet: Cede Arena is a platform where traders battle each other head-to-head.
Simple format, you and your opponent each put in $10 into pool, winner takes entire $20.
Real time PnL battles. Pure skill. No luck involved.
Team behind Cede Arena is same one that built @cedehub & @cedeflow, they've generated over $2B in trading volume with their algo bots and are backed by @GSR_io & @anagramxyz
Try it here: app.cedearena.io
Who's ready to compete ?
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
Growthy x @cedehub 🤝
Together, we’re helping projects bridge the gap between marketing, listings, trader participation, and post-listing growth. With $1.2B+ organic trading volume generated, 300+ campaigns executed, and $2.7M+ distributed to traders.
How does CedeHub drive real exchange activity? 👇
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
10X Founders Demo Day teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1vKpPrQXB…
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
.@cedeflow is growing exponentially fast. From our first $1M day to $108M in volume in just 17 days.
Next step: $1B. Flow mode.
We just hit new ATHs on @cedeflow and the day isn’t even over.
- +$1M volume generated through our bots
- 39 unique users
Just warming up. Flow mode on.
Gabriel Begazo retweeted
We’re opening ~50 IRL local hubs in 35+ countries from May 8-10!
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This feels unreal do this as a community. I grew up without any network, and what changed everything was finding local communities and people to learn from. That's why hosting this global initiative with my own vision means everything. I wanted to give others the same opportunity I had when I was starting.
So @dev3pack is hosting the largest Web3 & AI student hackathon co-hosted by @solana @vercel @ElevenLabs
🔗 1,000+ applications already (initial goal) - most of them are not in Web3
👩💻 Thousands of people will access education, mentorship, opportunities
🌏 A global space to discover the next generation of talents
Proud to be building this with a high-agency team: @Marcelo210909 @armolas_06 & @zintarh_dev - we have created a killer hackathon platform to support this vision alongside incredible local communities and @superteam from all over the world!
Apply nowwwww 👇
hack.dev3pack.xyz/