I’ve been asked hundreds of times for my thoughts on new competitors launching with different mechanics. You can dress up a pig in many ways and launch, but you can’t replicate founder experience and DNA. What matters isn’t today’s battlefield, but where we believe the product and its users will go in the future, an approximation that can only be led by great product leaders.

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introducing the pump fun revenue dashboard 🔥 pump fun's daily revenues & $PUMP purchases can now be tracked in real time using in the past 6 days, pump fun purchased ~8,740 SOL worth of $PUMP, equating to 102% of total revenue over that time period.

In the current cycle, trenchers act as LPs for launchpad tokens until liquidity emerges via retail or institutions. In my view, all launchpad token founders should focus on building for and attracting consumers, especially those outside of crypto. The goal is to bring in net new users and reduce reliance on existing crypto native liquidity. Until then, most onchain apps, including wrappers, lack durable moats. Their only real advantages at the moment are execution speed and the amount of fees earned compared to competitors. If you’re backing launchpad tokens, diligence the launchpad founders and assess whether they understand how to build for consumers and their ability to break beyond crypto native users/liquidity.

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Copy trading the top traders on Polymarket is already one of the most lucrative ways to get started with prediction markets. It's already what most of our users do (if not wallet tracking) and we expect this trend to rise significantly as prediction markets reach mass adoption.

Introducing NoodleFlow What if your LLM chats were fully composable blocks you could snap together? Arbitrarily tweak the LLM context, automate repeated workflows and share the whole canvas in one link. NoodleFlow turns LLM conversations into a visual, composable workflow.

Positioning for luck - assuming many crypto startups will benefit from this.

The SEC's new "Project Crypto" is the most bullish thing I've seen in a long time from a regulator. Read the speech, it's incredible: * Almost all tokens are not securities * Want to discourage decentralization kabuki theater * Americans should not get excluded by IP/VPN blocks * Explicit exemptions for ICOs, airdrops, etc. * Non-securities should be tradeable alongside securities on the same platforms * Protect software engineers * Streamline licensing requirements * "Innovation exemption" to protect builders pre-decentralization Wow. Wow wow wow.

SEC LAUNCHES PROJECT CRYPTO INITIATIVE TO MODERNIZE SECURITIES RULES AND SHIFT MARKETS ON-CHAIN: RTRS