Reputation & Social Trading

Bando made a post that went viral, calling out pumpfun devs + traders and their callouts, stating that most lose money on their trades while earning big bucks on their call outs.

Bando @bandoseithe top 25 pumpfun deployers:

> launched 770k tokens
> extracted $128M from the trenches
> produced only 6 tokens with a 20M+ MC

that's $128M extracted just by 25 devs View on X →

So, how does that work? He collabed with Bubblemas and both made an example of Ethan:

Bubblemaps @bubblemaps1/ Meet <span class="tweet-fake-link">@0xEthan</span>

He runs an extraction scheme on pumpfun

buy → callout → sell from side wallets

49 tokens. $125k in profits. View on X →

Basically it’s always the same pattern: buy -> callout -> sell from side wallets.

49 tokens, $125,000 profit, Ethan approached me months ago asking to be added to 404 as he was quote “a good trader”. I did not call it out at the time as Bando did, but I did analyse his trading style and rejected his request.

I do not vibe with people that use their community as exit liquidity. I even went as far and spoke to Alon, asking him to change the way pump works with traitors (yes, that is not a type, I did not meant to say traders) like Ethan.

Gladly he listened and the whole program got a revamp.

I often think about money and wealth and the differences between both. How most people mistake $100k for wealth and act, as if they own the world and everyone around them is a poor peasant. I see young crypto bros buying expensive watches and flexing cars that, on an honest thought, they cannot afford.

All of this is done to impress people they do not really like, nor are they liked by those. It’s classic new rich behaviour from people that never had anything. Thinking those flexes make them level up in life and in social circles, when in reality it’s the opposite.

Real wealth is not shown, it’s often hidden or at least tries to stay in the background without aggressively showcasing it.

If you want to be like Ethan and flex cheap Rolex and fake girlfriends be my guest, but I will mute and block you out of my life. I have zero empathy for such wankers and eventually, life does humble them. Trust me. There is zero reason to be jealous, rather I feel pity.

New thesis for $NEAR.

StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_I’m pretty sure now $NEAR is going to be the dark horse of this cycle

The token is up 140% in the last 30 days

Here’s the reason behind amd why you need to understand the ecosystem (easy guide)

Right now Near is focusing on connecting different blockchains and AI agents.

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On a brighter side, talking about trading, StarPlatinum shared a tweet recently, about Near, that I find super interesting since hitting a ~140% rally over 30 days (now near $5.6–$5.8 and approaching $6) highlights renewed market interest, driven by the protocol’s positioning as cross-chain infrastructure rather than pure speculation.