Member Spotlight 🌟 Meet Ruben Coetzee 👋 Huge congrats to Introduction member @Rub0xx on his new role as Capital Markets Director at TradFi. → Former Web3 Partnerships Lead at @MANSORYofficial → Former Partnerships Manager at @cashcomfort → Former Senior Affiliate Manager at @bcgame He started managing a crypto fund at Invictus Capital in Cape Town, then built partnerships across crypto at BC․GAME, Comet Cash, and Mansory's Web3 arm in Dubai. He also runs his own advisory firm, Coetzee Crypto Consult. Now at Trad․Fi he runs the capital side: funding home-battery installs that get repaid in 60 to 90 days via federal tax credits. Fixed rate, short duration, hard collateral, a known exit. Cape Town. Crypto. Private credit. Ruben keeps going where the capital needs to move. When a member wins, we all win. Congrats Ruben 👇

i’ve been quiet for a few days. i acquired a controlling stake in a NASDAQ-listed company. $4.8M market cap, trading at $0.12/share with a crazy 92.3% short interest. $6.2M in debt against $380K ARR, everyone thinks its dead it cost me $1,800,000 for 37.4% of the total shares. bought OTC over 3 weeks through two brokers so the I didn’t spike the price i’m tokenizing the equity on Robinhood chain - then i’m pairing a memecoin with the tokenized stock this isn’t apple or nvidia, nor even GME (which is $8B, impossible to make an effect) this is a $4.8M penny stock with 92.3% short interest if onchain volume creates even $500K in buy pressure on the underlying stock, that’s a massive move on a $4.8M company. $2M in buy pressure is a even more. and with 92.3% short interest, any pump triggers a squeeze the memecoin community doesn’t need to buy the stock directly, they buy the memecoin, which is paired with the tokenized stock volume on the memecoin flows into the tokenized stock. the tokenized stock is backed 1:1 by the real equity. demand onchain = demand on NASDAQ this will be the biggest crossover story in financial history, memecoins x nasdaq more details soon, this is either the most insane thing anyone’s ever done in crypto or the most insane thing anyone’s ever done in tradfi

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JOINING THE CIRCLE: @Rub0xx Web3 partnerships lead at Mansory, connecting one of the world's most recognizable luxury automotive brands to Web3. Also runs Coetzee Crypto Consult, a South African-based strategic advisory and deal flow originator across private markets, commodities and AI & energy infrastructure. Welcome Ruben 🤝

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Introducing the 4th member of Pulsar DAO: Ruben @Rub0x / [linkedin.com/in/rubencoetzee…] Ruben’s been in the Web3 game for years, bru, and brings proper global connections, sharp business instincts and a serious dealmaking mindset. He’s currently a partner at Keystone [keystone.is/], sourcing access to private market opportunities and leading Web3 partnerships for $MNSRY Token tied to the legendary luxury automotive brand Mansory. From high-end brand activations to strategic collabs, Ruben knows how to move in premium circles. We’re stoked to have Ruben as an early member of Pulsar DAO. While we keep building @pulsar_spaces, having switched-on oke’s around the table who understand markets, partnerships and long-term value is proper important. Together we’ll help shape Pulsar with solid governance, smart decisions and lekker momentum. Create your free account here: pulsarspaces.com/sign-up

🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA PROPOSES INSANE CRYPTO CONTROLS, POSSIBLE FORCED SALES South Africa National Treasury and South African Reserve Bank have introduced draft Capital Flow Management Regulations that could dramatically restrict crypto use. The proposal would require disclosure of crypto holdings above an unspecified threshold and could allow the government to force holders to sell assets for rand. Under the draft, investors may not buy, sell, lend, or transfer crypto above the threshold without permission, except through approved providers. Transactions would require a stated purpose, and using funds outside that purpose could trigger mandatory resale. Cross-border transfers and payments using crypto would be banned without approval. Authorities would also gain powers to search individuals, demand declarations, and seize assets suspected of violating the rules. Critics say the changes raise serious constitutional concerns around privacy, property rights, and freedom of association, calling them among the most aggressive updates to South Africa’s decades-old exchange control system.

holy fuck, a hair dryer at a Paris airport broke Polymarket weather markets & made someone $34,000 richer - polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter - basically unguarded - the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like "22°C" when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it'd hit - then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max - temperature snapped back to normal in minutes, the market resolved in his favor, and he cashed out - twice, on April 6 and April 15, before Météo France caught on and filed charges hyperstitions.