Trenches idiocracy
Down in the on chain trenches, it is pure PvP. Idiocracy abounds, and if you don’t understand how the food chain works, you are the food.
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Trenches
Memecoins, cabals and survival on chain.
Sep 28, 2026
Edition 08
Edition 08
Sep 21, 2026
Edition 07
Edition 07
Everyone Is Calling It Too Early
I had launchpads open, tokens saved, NFT projects I wanted to watch, Bubblemaps supporting the chain immediately and enough people talking about Arc that finding the actual runner was already…
Sep 21, 2026
Edition 07
Edition 07
Arc: the 100x happened before Day One
Before Arc became public, native USDC on the chain was already becoming its own little market.
Sep 7, 2026
Edition 05
Edition 05
Retail is back, but the plumbing moved
In 2021, the action happened on WallStreetBets with $GME.
Sep 7, 2026
Edition 05
Edition 05
How to spot hot tickers early
If you wait until a ticker hits the top of DEXScreener, you are the exit liquidity.
Sep 7, 2026
Edition 05
Edition 05
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
There’s always a bigger fish
Paper gains are a fugazi. It’s fairy dust. It doesn’t exist until it hits stablecoins.
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
Paper gains, fugazi millions
Consider this scenario: a trader apes $40k into a project around a $1m market cap.
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
Cabal Mechanics: Main Wallet vs. Shadow Network
The most profitable market actors don’t fight liquidity, they engineer it using public visibility:
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
Everyone is winning except you?
The market is hot, let’s be honest, it’s possible that the worst of the bear market has already passed, Bitcoin looks strong at $79,000, Ethereum for the first time in a long time is moving well even…
Aug 31, 2026
Edition 04
Edition 04
The trenches aren’t for everyone
In recent years, the center of almost every success story has had one factor in common, memecoins.
Aug 17, 2026
Edition 02
Edition 02
Trenches + Cabals
The overpopulation of tokens has created a submarket colloquially called the trenches where attention is the only thing that matters, when something happens, an internet event, something that catches…
