Final year of university in 2021, broke on student loans, $500 to his name — he turned it to $2,500 in a month or two and nearly walked away to buy a computer. Instead he grinded 16-to-20-hour days scalping $1K–$2K market-cap coins, averaged $500–$600 a day, and held one position from $100 to about $80K, rejecting a £30K (~$35–40K) internship along the way. A Magic Beasties pre-sale of $1–2K ran to a $700–800K bag (sold around $500K), ETH stacked from sub-$2K to a $3,400 exit, and Solana was held into the $270 Trump moment. On the Trump, Melania and Libra trades he made seven figures each — high seven figures on the latter two, over $5 million combined — and during the Solana AI season he averaged $50–70K a day for six to eight months across 30 wallets, paying taxes on six-figure coins he couldn't even name.
His one near-death experience: 75–80% of his portfolio sat in Terra's UST when it depegged from $1 to 18–19 cents. He doubled down at 16 cents and sold the bounce back to 65–70, but the fear stuck — since then he has never risked more than 5% of his portfolio on anything, regardless of size. 'Risk less and risk more often' is the formula: consistent stacking beats extreme multiples, and ETH and SOL were treated as pseudo-stables to accumulate rather than trades.
His rule for fresh launches: be there five to ten seconds max and get full size in immediately — 'you want to size bigger when less people are behind you, essentially,' and buying more as a coin climbs is the classic mistake. The Jelly Jelly trade was his example of sizing early so he never had to size late. On exits he preaches the same gospel rasmr gave the host: 'you're rarely punished for selling immediately, as long as you're not too afraid to buy back' — always be selling, and re-entering is the mental block most traders never clear.
His edge in practice: he bought Cash Cat below a $30K market cap and 'knew the second I bought it' it was good — when Robinhood listed only about four coins, an animal coin with the original Robinhood name was a narrative lock, 'good for 10 mil,' which it hit and blew past. His pattern: animal coins win on the concept of the animal (Doge, cash cat, pop cat), not the personality. The calls come out of his circles — On Chain Haven, Shala, Cosmos, Picnic, Spliz and BAM — where friends share early and he checks the strength of the narrative himself.
Asked about OSF Rekt's claim that 99% of traders have no edge, he said the number is probably accurate — most people don't have an edge and don't seek one. The tell: if your first thought when someone makes a million is 'they must be an insider,' you're not going to make it; if it's 'how did they do it and why can't I,' you might. His own edge is a network built over years, filtering bad information, and identifying good coins early — 'weighing the scales of pain,' how good could this go versus how bad, on every coin at every market cap, and never trading on autopilot.
His hot take: OpenAI's Codex is a lot better than Claude Opus for his workflow — Opus is unreliable and makes too many mistakes on the coding tasks that matter. He gives AI 'eyes and a feel for the chain,' feeding it block-explorer API keys and factory addresses on a case-by-case basis, and stops it the moment it derails. For agentic trading he recommends a dedicated wallet holding about 1% of your active trading port, so if the AI goes rogue it isn't catastrophic — and he expects purely manual trades to keep declining over the next couple of years.
He argues there are equal or more participants in on-chain than ever, but heavily skewed to smaller bankrolls — attention is being placed by people who can't see the trade through. His example: a BSC launch (as-transcribed: 'New Lie') went to $65M while Triple T (TTT) topped around $30M on Solana, even though TTT was the more viral one — viral doesn't equal marginal buyer firepower. Legacy memes outside the top Pepe and SPX haven't held up ('a lot of dead bodies floating in the water'), so he wouldn't bet the house on bases; he'd rather see a Solana wealth effect trickle down to memes than hold them blind.
On the cycle he put an 80% chance the bottom is in, saying price action looks like April 2025 — the chop right before a big run-up. He's been buying a little every week in majors and is 'sufficiently entered' with more dry powder: if you believe in crypto and you're not in majors, find an entry soon. His framing: every position is active, even holding dollars — sitting in stables is a bet on the dollar — and with stocks running laps around crypto lately, 'every dog has its day.' He also stays adverse to creator coins (Friend Tech, Zora): a figurehead takes the blame when investors are down, and he'd rather see people on FOMO make it from nothing.