My Crypto Journey: From Michelin Star Kitchens to Onchain Trenches I used to work in Michelin-starred restaurants and 5-star hotels for 5 years. Then COVID hit in 2020 — and it forced me to stop and think. A friend tells me in March 2020: “Look into Ethereum. Smart contracts. That’s the future.” ETH was $100. I made my first investment and ended up with 100 ETH. A few months later — ETH does x3. I’m shocked. I sell half my ETH and buy a Volkswagen Golf for $15k. Felt like a genius. 😄 Then ETH hit $1,500. Then $4,500. My Golf cost me 50 ETH. I tilted. Hard.(Golf for 220k)😅 2020–2021 Altseason Turned $10k into ~$150k. I was a complete noob. No experience with losses. Thought I had figured out crypto forever. Went all in on alts. Then 2022 arrived. FTX. Luna. -90% on my portfolio. Left with $10k. During that period of stress and alcohol — I gained 20kg. A 5-year relationship ended. I was alone with my depression. Early 2023. Wake up call. “Stop drinking. Nobody cares if you don’t save yourself.” I stepped away from crypto completely. Made a plan. Hit the gym. Running every day. Zero alcohol. 6 months later — lost 20kg. Got my mind back. And met the woman who became my wife. 🙏 End of 2023 — I notice Solana starting to move. Memes launching everywhere. I start exploring. Buying 1–2 SOL on meme launches. Just watching. Learning. 5–6 runners hit 100x. By early 2024 — I was back to $150k. Life felt good again. But crypto always humbles you. The meme hype faded. Markets turned ugly Jan–Sep 2024. Lost 70% again. (Also spent too much 😅) But I felt something — onchain is where the money is. September–October 2024. I start looking at Base and Virtuals Protocol. Back when there were fewer than 50 agents in the ecosystem. Allocated $5k to this new game. By year end — that $5k was worth 100x. 🤯 I caught the entire AI agents narrative at the start. The whole market pumped but AI agents were THE narrative. Was early on $Tibbir , $Game , $Vader and many others. This time I was smarter — or so I thought. Locked profits into ETH, VIRTUAL, USDC. ETH at $4,800. VIRTUAL near $5. Went on vacation. Watching interviews @ethermage . Bullish on AI agents. (He was right about Ai Agents) Decided to put half back into promising agents. Then Trump tariffs hit. ETH dropped to $1,400. Portfolio down 50%. Again. Emotionally — at rock bottom. Again. Believed again. Lost again. But I didn’t quit. I launched my Twitter account — @3dmax_virtuals I had experience. I had alpha. And when I was winning, I wanted to share it. Over 2 years I gave away $10k+ to 2,000+ people in giveaways. From 0 → 1k → 5k → now 13,700 followers. Starting that account was one of the best decisions I ever made. April 2025 — Virtuals Genesis launches. I allocate $50k. In a few months — x8. 📈 ATH portfolio. October 2025. Thought I finally broke the system. Took half profits. Held the rest. Then October 10th. Woke up -$60k on futures. Money was there. Then it wasn’t. In one day. February 2026 — BTC -50%. My “tech” portfolio down even more. Maximally tired. Maximally disappointed. Friends leaving the crypto. Many with nothing left. Then I find out I’m going to be a father. 👶 New motivation unlocked. Sold part of the portfolio. Created a backup. Withdrew from crypto — so I don’t end up at zero. June 2026. Sentiment is the lowest I’ve ever seen in my 6 years in this space. My trading wallet was drained — $40k Bad but not dead. I’m still in the trenches. Still here. Grateful for the experience. Portfolio took damage — but not for the first time. What I’ve learned: After every failure — there is a win. That’s just life. The question is patience and risk management. When everything is great and you want to screenshot for your friend — take profits and withdraw. When your feed is full of red candles and everyone is screaming — those are the opportunities to DCA Work for your families — if not you, who will build a future for them? See you onchain 🫶

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The First 20 Members received 5 Virtuals as a Welcome Gift! Opened a long position on Virtuals and ready to use more Butler! If you’re an active trader, join my private group on the Virtuals app. I will reward active members with virtuals *The Gentlemen*Club

Just created my private group on the Virtuals App! I’ll be sharing ideas with close friends in the Virtuals community and trading there with the help of Butler. If you want to be part of it, DM me! Requirements: Stay active and deposit some balance into your Virtuals App account to trade. 👀

Early Gamble @cardboard_trade Dev @joebuild from @jito team They copypast @papertrade_xyz 1 to 1 and add Solana with 1000x lev I see @mert followed ,and couple guys from @jito like @aajxbt @adamdelphantom @Evan_ss6 started shilling so can be something I just deposit 1-2k$ and gamble here early days better R/R Goal get more Cardboard tokens and stake it to get rewards cardboardtrade.xyz/trade/sol…

Thanks $LLL for the 4x from KOL. My entry was at an 800K market cap, so that’s 6x from entry with a good-sized position. That’s exactly what we need in the Virtuals trenches. LFG congrats Virgens

Bought this $LLL looks like a Gem at 1.2Mcap app.virtuals.io/virtuals/144… 1.4 Years ago got investments from Virtuals Team+many big fondations. nitter.siddz.com/nanditmehra/status/152… 2. Site looks like Virtuals App Utility. 3. 75% supply +1 year lock linear 4. Dev @nanditmehra foo with @DavidSacks 5. Github story from 2016 github.com/nandit123 nitter.siddz.com/LighthouseWeb3/status/…

I’m still continuing my strategy of going long on altcoins with low leverage, spreading my positions across major alts and smaller alts. I have four different wallets on Hyperliquid, each with a different strategy. I don’t hold many alts on spot, so I use 3–5x leverage to open $300–$500 long positions. I keep extra capital to lower my liquidation risk. I don’t know which low-cap alts will pump, so I just open small positions in different coins (60+) For example, I bought $STRK at $0.027, and it’s now up around 10x from my entry. A few tokens like this can generate solid returns across the entire portfolio. nitter.siddz.com/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

Just asked Butler in the Virtuals App to DCA into the S&P 500 every week for the next 18 years for my baby, who was born just a couple of days ago. Thanks to Butler, he’ll slowly DCA into an index tracking the 500 best companies in the U.S. for the next 18 years. I’ll gradually add more funds over time. Thanks to @virtuals_io for building this app. And @ethermage, this might be a great use case for Butler. 🤖 Let’s see where this journey takes us.

Who need invites in Virtuals App just Dm me i have offer for my reffs apps.apple.com/it/app/virtua… This gonna be huge. I think virtuals will boost hard this app and users So be fast. Codes limited

Robinhood Chain is not done yet. This was the first big pump and a good dump. A good test for people holding big bags. But @vladtenev does care about @RobinhoodCrypto , and he knows how to grow network activity. He has done it before. So I think attention will come back to Robinhood again. I bought the dip : $AI 110Mcap $MOO 6Mcap $NET 270$ $INDEX 15Mcap I also opened small x3 futures longs on $PONS 0.39$ and $CASHCAT 156 Mcap Small size for now. If they drop another 20–30%, I will DCA more $PONS — main launchpad. $CASHCAT — the face of Robinhood. I think it could become like $PEPE this cycle.

On January 11, 2025 My teammates and I got in early and saw $Tibbir @ribbita2012 before the migration at 21k mcap That was the special day 🐸 was born. Today: 130M market cap — 420M ATH. No fake, no bullshit ,real degen vibe. One coin can change your life. Thank you @mickymalka Gribbit

In 2021, Robinhood was fighting for survival. During the GameStop crisis, clearinghouse requirements forced the company to raise $3.4B in emergency funding. Ribbit Capital, led by @mickymalka , was one of the key investors and committed roughly $500M through convertible notes—helping keep Robinhood alive when the market needed it most. Fast forward to today. Robinhood isn't just a brokerage anymore. It's building the infrastructure for tokenized capital markets with Stock Tokens, giving European investors blockchain-based exposure to 200+ US stocks and ETFs while developing its own Layer-2 chain @RobinhoodCrypto for real-world assets. Sometimes the biggest venture returns come from backing a company before the market realizes what it's becoming @mickymalka launched @ribbita2012 What if @vladtenev post 🐸 1 B for $tibbir easy Strong community around promising tech

Best virtuals strategy in the last 8 months? Buying $TIBBIR on dips. While others dropped -70%, $TIBBIR, @ribbita2012, and the strong community always bounce back. We were early — check Jan 11 with my team.

Global liquidity is going absolutely wild. The world’s total money supply has just reached a record $103 trillion. The Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, and PBoC injected another $1 trillion in August alone — marking 10 consecutive months of growth. And now we’re seeing something interesting: $BTC and the broader crypto market, which have historically moved with global liquidity, are starting to catch up.

Everyone wants to buy alts "when the trend is confirmed” well… ⚠️ Altcoins/Bitcoin (Monthly): First green momentum bar since 2022. Same signal fired in 2017 and 2021 and alts did x20 to x100. Two days until the close.

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I’m starting a new strategy with $10K I’ll call this wallet “Only Winners.” $5K bought right now. The other $5K will be added over the next 1–2 weeks or during a bigger dump The idea is to focus on the best-performing alts and add to the positions only on the best high caps. My Rules Maximum 5x leverage on Alts Use cross margin. Always keep some extra capital available. DCA into positions and add more capital if the strategy is working. If altseason starts, the plan is to use profit and continue DCAing into the winners, while also adding on dips. Let’s see how it plays out. $BTC / $ETH / $SOL / $LIT / $HYPE / $PUMP / $TAO / $MORPHO / $ZEC / $AAVE / $AVAX / $NEAR / $UNI / $LINK / $ENA / $ARB /

1) Majors already TP’d, and I’m long $CASHCAT right now until 30 sett. 2) $VIRTUAL portfolio already moved from $10K to $35K 3 )59 alts are all green, from $10K to $39K. Started with $30K and built 3 portfolios in just 1 week ago , now already over + $100K. Keep clicking. nitter.siddz.com/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…

Blackrock made a post with 3.7M views about AI and crypto. nitter.siddz.com/BlackRock/status/21024… Winner tickers for Ai in crypto $TAO and ethereum:0x44ff8620b8ca30902395a7bd3f2407e1a091bf73 my position ethereum:0x44ff8620b8ca30902395a7bd3f2407e1a091bf73 entry $0.60 - $0.79 now Waiting for news by @virtuals_io nitter.siddz.com/3DMax_Virtuals/status/…