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When a Crash Hits, Founders Don’t Lose Price… They Lose Time
Crashes don’t just take your token down. They take your time — your runway, your team’s patience, and your community’s trust. Overnight, you go from product builder to firefighter on four fronts at once. 1) Runway to oblivion Most projects keep a big part of their treasury in their own token. When the market drops 60–80%, that war-chest shrinks fast. On paper you had £40m… now it looks like £8m. Your costs don’t care. Infrastructure : validators, RPC, storage, analytics, mo
Afsheen Jafry
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Crypto Founders — Your Tech Won’t Survive Due Diligence
Most founders think VCs pass on them because “the market is dry” or “investors don’t get crypto.”Let’s cut the excuses. VCs don’t reject you because they don’t understand. They reject you because your tech doesn’t survive due diligence. The Brutal Checklist You Can’t Dodge 1. Smart Contract Audits Reputable audits aren’t cheap. Expect $50K–$200K+ from firms that institutions actually respect.If your code hasn’t been battle-tested, you’re not raising capital—you’re raising eye
Afsheen Jafry
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The Death of the 4-Year Bitcoin Cycle
For years, Bitcoin’s believers treated the four-year halving cycle like sacred geometry — neat, mathematical, and divine. Every four years, the supply was cut, the market bottomed, and then the parabolic bull run began. It gave traders a sense of order in chaos. But the illusion of predictability is gone. The four-year Bitcoin cycle is dead. Arthur Hayes saw it early. We’re no longer trading halvings — we’re trading the Fed. The new cycle isn’t coded in Bitcoin’s protocol; it
Afsheen Jafry
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Crypto Founders — You Don’t Have Product-Market Fit, You Have Product-Noise Fit
Let’s strip away the hype. Most crypto founders think they’ve achieved product-market fit when what they really have is momentary momentum disguised as validation. A few thousand Discord members? Vanity.A spike in testnet users? Illusion.A viral X post? Temporary dopamine. The market has matured — and so have the investors. VCs no longer write cheques for noise. They’ve seen too many “next big things” vanish by the next cycle. What they’re looking for now is ruthless clarity:
Afsheen Jafry
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Why Most Crypto Projects Fail to Secure VC Funding — And How to Fix It
Every week, I hear the same story from crypto founders. They’ve built something groundbreaking. The tech works. The whitepaper is crisp. The idea could reshape an entire niche. And yet… their inbox is silent. No term sheets. No traction from VCs. Just the sound of runway burning. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. The problem isn’t your code, your vision, or even your product.It ’s that you’re building in a funding fog — the blind spot between what founders think in
Afsheen Jafry
3 min read
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