Issue 53 ?? ?? Self Disruption ?? ??
In this issue:
?? This Week in Web3
? The Funding Revolution Founders Deserve
? Web3Weekly ? Self Disruption ??
?? This Week in Web3
??? Opensea hints at Token Airdrop
??? Bitcoin hits new ATH
??? Leverage shakeout szn??
Opensea hints at Token Airdrop
The Hype, Speculation, and Stakes
Why the frenzy? Airdrops are the crypto version of free money, and OpenSea has millions of users hoping to cash in. Early adopters are scanning their wallets, praying their activity qualifies them for a slice of the hypothetical pie. It’s like Willy Wonka’s golden ticket, except this chocolate factory prints JPEGs.
CYMI: Pluid just launched our OpenSea NFT Value Checker 2 days ago. The free widget below contains the following:?
- Total volume traded, transaction count, spent and revenue - Most expensive NFT bought & sold - First and latest trade - Top traded collections - Double volume graph - Mobile support
Check out the OpenSea airdrop calculator here.
And OpenSea just launched their foundation account now.
But let’s zoom out.
This isn’t just about free tokens; it’s about OpenSea staking its claim in the decentralized future.
Look at competitors like LooksRare and Blur—they've leaned into tokenomics and loyalty rewards.
OpenSea, meanwhile, has been playing the "we’re above it" card.
That worked when they were the only game in town.
Now?
They’re the Amazon of NFTs, and the community is starting to ask:
Where’s the innovation?
An airdrop could change the narrative. It would energize users, incentivize activity, and give OpenSea a shiny new weapon in the battle for Web3 dominance.
But it’s also a gamble. Overhype the drop or botch the rollout, and they risk alienating a community that already feels squeezed by high fees and centralized vibes.
Bottom line: OpenSea's silence isn’t a strategy—it’s a vacuum. In crypto, vacuums don’t last long.
Whether OpenSea pulls the trigger on an airdrop or not, they’re at a crossroads.
Play it safe, and they risk irrelevance.
Take a swing, and they might just solidify their place as the king of the NFT jungle.
The question is: Will OpenSea evolve, or will the tide turn?
The community’s watching, and waiting.
Bitcoin hits new ATH
Bitcoin has done it again—another all-time high, another wave of FOMO. The crypto OG isn’t just surviving; it’s thriving.
But the real story isn’t just the price; it’s the context.
This ATH (all-time high, for the uninitiated) doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Inflation’s skyrocketing, fiat currencies are floundering, and global trust in traditional financial systems is cratering.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin just sits there—scarce, decentralized, and unbothered. The narrative of "digital gold" isn’t just marketing anymore; it’s starting to feel inevitable.
So, what’s driving this latest surge?
Institutional adoption is a big one. Wall Street, once dismissive, is now setting up shop in Bitcoin land. ETFs, corporate treasuries, and billion-dollar hedge funds are piling in.
The market isn’t just dominated by retail traders anymore—it’s global players with deep pockets and long-term visions.
But let’s not ignore the flipside.
With every new high, Bitcoin faces the same old criticisms: energy consumption, volatility, and scalability. Regulators are also circling like hawks, and while the industry’s maturing, it’s far from bulletproof.
Bitcoin may be "anti-fragile," but even anti-fragility has limits.
What’s next?
History suggests that ATHs often precede corrections, but in the long run, the trajectory remains bullish.
Bitcoin isn’t just a currency anymore; it’s a cultural and financial revolution. Each new high validates the believers and silences another wave of skeptics.
For now, Bitcoin holders are celebrating—and why not? The world’s first cryptocurrency continues to defy odds and expectations.
The question isn’t if Bitcoin will keep climbing; it’s how high it’ll go before the next shakeout.
Whatever happens next, one thing’s clear: Bitcoin is here to stay, and it’s still just getting started.
Leverage shakeout Szn??
In the last 48 hours, the crypto market saw $1.1 billion vanish.
Poof.
In the past hour alone, $200 million got liquidated.
The culprit?
Leverage—the adrenaline rush and silent assassin of trading.
Here’s how it works:
You borrow big to bet big. If the market moves in your favor, the gains are massive. But if it doesn’t? Liquidation hits like a freight train. Your position is closed, your capital is gone, and the market moves on without you.
Yesterday, Bitcoin wobbled, and the overleveraged crowd paid the price. A cascade of liquidations triggered a sell-off that spiraled into chaos. The result? A bloodbath on the charts.
The Real Problems:
The Lesson: Leverage isn’t a game. It’s a tool—one that can make or break you. Overuse it, and the market will teach you an expensive lesson.
The real winners?
They’re not the ones chasing moonshots—they’re the ones who manage risk and live to trade another day.
The Funding Revolution Founders Deserve
Building should be your job. Begging for funding shouldn’t.
The funding game is broken. What’s supposed to fuel innovation has turned into a full-time hustle of pitching, proving, and praying. Founders are burning time, energy, and brainpower just to survive the process, while investors are throwing cash at “vibes” and hoping something sticks.
The result?
35% of projects get abandoned in under six months.
42% of startups fail to hit basic milestones.
$7.4 billion vanishes every year in duplication, inefficiency, and guesswork.
Let’s be real: Founders don’t fail because their ideas suck—they fail because the system sucks.
If you’re a founder, you’re blindfolded and sprinting through a minefield. If you’re an investor, you’re betting on shadows. Web3 said it would save us. Instead, it handed us the same broken system with shinier branding.
This isn’t sustainable. Something has to change.
Meet F3AI: Build, Don’t Beg
F3AI isn’t here to tweak the funding process. It’s here to rebuild it from scratch. By combining AI, tokenization, and multi-layer identities (MLI), F3AI transforms chaos into clarity, inefficiency into action, and pitch decks into progress.
Here’s what that means for founders like you:
Tokenized Founder Representation: Scale Yourself
Your job is to build, not pitch. Yet here you are, stuck in a never-ending cycle of cold emails, calls, and investor decks while your product gathers dust.
With F3AI, you get an AI-powered digital avatar that pitches for you—24/7.
Founders should never have to choose between scaling their product and scaling their presence. F3AI makes sure you don’t have to.
Multi-Layer Identity: Proof Over Promises
Founders are more than a polished pitch deck. You’re about momentum, milestones, and the grind no one sees.
F3AI’s MLI framework captures that grind:
Your skills.
Your progress.
Your achievements.
This isn’t a glossy narrative; it’s hard proof. Investors get clarity without the bias of warm intros or who you know.
Just you, your work, and your results—front and center.
Intelligent Capital Allocation: No More Wasted Money
The funding system isn’t broken because there’s no money. It’s broken because money isn’t matched to momentum.
F3AI fixes this with AI-driven capital allocation:
The results?
No more guesswork. Just precision funding that fuels progress.
The Vision: A Permissionless Future
F3AI isn’t just fixing a broken system. It’s building a new one—where founders don’t need permission to innovate, and investors don’t need a crystal ball to make good bets.
Imagine a world where: ? Founders finish projects instead of abandoning them. ? Investors know exactly where their money is moving the needle. ? The entire ecosystem thrives on efficiency, transparency, and trust.
This isn’t some distant dream. It’s the future we’re building, today.
A Movement for Founders, by Founders
Before F3AI:
With F3AI:
We’re done funding the noise. It’s time to scale the signal.
The funding revolution isn’t coming—it’s already here. The founders who embrace it now will lead the next wave of innovation.
Are you ready to build the future?
Let’s stop begging. Let’s start building. Let’s change the game.
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But here’s the thing: we’re just getting started.
2025 is going to be a year of evolution.
A time to disrupt ourselves and rethink what it means to deliver value in Web3. Because the truth is, this was never about email inboxes. It’s about building something bigger.
The next chapter?
A new iteration of Web3Weekly, designed to meet the needs of a Web3 ecosystem that’s maturing, expanding, and redefining itself.
Details?
Not yet.
Let’s just say that what’s coming will challenge expectations—about media, education, and the role we play in this decentralized future.
What I can share is this: 2025 won’t look anything like 2024.
And that’s exactly the point.
Stay tuned.
The best is yet to come.
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—Nick
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