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.

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I’ve been asked to do more to promote the token that powers all of this. Well... Sorry I’m not good at creating hype :-( I want people to recognise the real value organically. I’m not just another name with a token attached; there’s a lot more to what I’m building and doing. I can show you 3 years of consistent work: 2 browser and mobile games, 4 mobile apps with releases across the App Store, Google Play and the Solana dApp Store, and a fully functioning trading terminal with a Telegram bot, built on 3+ years of experience scanning tokens and delivering insights and alpha you won’t find elsewhere. ...And countless things you heard from me first, before others picked them up and got all the credit. I know I’ve made myself unpopular with a lot of people here, and being blocked by half of CT isn’t exactly a great business model. Transparency, independent research, self-determination and self-custody aren’t particularly profitable here either, but that’s what my tools and this account are built around. I also don’t build fancy spiders that crawl around your screen because, frankly, spiders have done fuck all to help me with my work over the past few years. So I depend on the people who recognise what I’m doing and how I’m doing it. I can’t buy your support, and I can’t throw $10K, $100K or more at a chart to manufacture demand and make everyone suddenly decide the product is worth looking at. But I’m here, just as I’ve been here for the last 3 years, and I intend to be here for years to come. This should be the most bullish thing you’ve ever seen, but it doesn’t always register because the average CT user’s memory barely stretches beyond a week. I’ll probably watch thousands more hype cycles and metas disappear as quickly as they arrived, while a few of us keep trying to build something useful that barely anyone notices. I’d love for more people to discover the work, but I’m not going to abandon the principles behind it just to get their attention. Thanks for reading this far. mastrtrade.com/?p=tools#/too…

Am I the only one that thinks that 99% of the people in Crypto are just trying to scam you? 🤔