My challenge to every crypto builder: Use your own product. Experience your user's journey. Live in the ecosystem you're building for. That's how we make crypto better for everyone 🫡

Just posted about how many crypto "experts" have never actually used crypto and it blew up 🤯 Shows how broken our industry is when people building DeFi products can't even swap tokens or explain gas fees. You can't build for users you don't understand. Use your own product.

Propaganda I'm not falling for as a 27-year old working in crypto: 1. "Alt season is coming back" 2. "Memecoins are dead" 3. "Decentralization is everything" 4. "You should stay loyal to your employer" 5. "You need to grind 80+ hours a week to be successful"

I'm working with some of the biggest players in crypto - partnerships that are super rare to access. But I won't announce anything until contracts are signed and everything is locked in. This is how the industry should work: build real shit, not marketing hype.

Here's what most blockchain companies get wrong: They focus on explaining the technology, when they should focus on solving problems. The real breakthrough happens when everything just... works

Yesterday I saw another "partnership announcement" in crypto that made me laugh. Two companies shake hands, and press release time. Six months later, nothing has materialized. We have to start holding web3 companies accountable. Partnerships should be about tech, not hype.

We've been talking about web3's UX problem since 2018. And it's costing us BILLIONS in adoption. Yet we're still asking users to manage multiple wallets, understand gas optimization, navigate bridges between dozens of chains, and track assets across this fragmented mess.

Can you imagine if the internet required a different browser for every website, manual network configuration each time, and fees just to click a link? Why are we making web3 users: - understand technical concepts - deal with multiple networks - pay fees for basic actions -

Solana made progress on user experience, but Ethereum - the dominant platform - remains challenging for users. Every additional step kills conversion. Every confusing interface destroys retention. Every friction point shrinks our total addressable market.

(not so) hot take: Users shouldn't need to understand the difference between L1s and L2s. The protocols that win will be the ones that make web3 feel like web2 - seamless, intuitive, and invisible. Until we fix this, we're building for 1% of the world instead of 100%.

let's have a great week 💪

$HYPE feels like early Solana to me right now.

I'm stepping in as Chief Revenue Officer at BitVault! 🚀 In 10 months: we grew VaultCraft from $2M → $100M+ TVL, partnered with Matrixport/Lido/OKX, then Mischa0X⚡️ and I built BitVault from scratch. We closed $2M from GSR, Keyrock, Auros, Gemini, RE7 and others.

Sales/BD is the most important role in crypto. If you're a founder, you either become obsessed with sales or you find someone who is. No way around it.

If you work in crypto BD, read these: Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." Hormozi's "$100M Offers" and "$100M Leads." Duhigg's "Supercommunicators." Collins' "Good to Great."

If you work in crypto... Make Sales/BD your obsession. Or hire someone who lives and breathes it.

Last month's BitVault coverage: Business Insider ✓ Investing. com ✓ CoinTelegraph ✓ CoinMarketCap ✓ Benzinga ✓ Strategic investors (GSR, Gemini, Auros) + real product + narrative that matters beyond crypto insiders.

random BD/growth hacks: - study cultural business norms before international deals - research your prospects like you're writing their biography - read one sales book per month - crypto BDs are some of the worst salespeople because they think technical knowledge = sales ability

Hot take, ETH isn't hitting 4k this cycle 👀