It’s been 42 days since I left my mom’s apartment on a journey to follow the latest biggest economical phenomenon since the great depression.
Crypto.
Now first of all, for those of you just reading this now. If you read my bio, I don't live in a 1965 VW van. I wish I did. But you'll see where I’m going with this for now.
After the bull run of Winter 2020 -> Spring 2021, when bitcoin went from $10k to $56k…we were still all in confinement, with restrictions on life due to Covid-19.
That’s when the world got turned on to Crypto. And so did I.
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Fast forward a year later, I moved out with my friend to work full time in the cryptocurrency, DeFi, web3 industries. 2 dudes, 1 dog, and an office to hustle in for 1 year.
This is where we begin a written archive, as best kept up-to-date as possible, of the journey not just from X dollar amount to X dollar amount. Not just 10Xs and 20Xs. But through the landscapes, the communities, and the talents surviving in this atmosphere.
Web3 and Crypto in general are on a path to change the world. Social interaction habits will continue to morph and adapt themselves to cultural evolution, and I hate to admit it but, with the direction, humanity is going right now, it doesn't seem that bad to go into the metaverse and try to start it all over again.
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2022 kicked off with a loud noise always chugging along in the background, if we were a character in an animated children's show. That noise would have precisely been “The Boardroom” aka “The Money Printer” aka “Brrrrrrr”.
Our degenerate souls found each other SCREAMING in the chat rooms hammering down animated emojis (yes I italicized it, don’t you see the attitude in those things). 100s of messages a minute, gifs flying out every 3 seconds, I could barely type a message fast enough for it to still be long enough to cover the whole response AND quick enough for it to be still relevant in the chat.
$TOMB, $20MB, $BASED, even good old $SPECTER…
It all started out so smoothly. Making over 10% daily apr, at the LOWEST? That’s right we're talking 20–30% average apr and tokens valued over $1000, no wonder the brrrrrr was so loud. But great things can only last for so long.
Not long after the Tomb Fork phase was commenced, it all turned sour. Not long in real life may sound underwhelming, but remember time moves twice as fast in Crypto and even more fast in DeFi.
Projects were being created left and right. Tomb had so many different forks, you could feed a 50-year high school reunion using those forks. Every day it seemed like a minimum of 3 per day. Partial, Comet, Beast, Poseidon, any name you could think of, even Boob Finance. Most would die off from lack of effort or integral community, people would shift their positions around simply chasing high apr’s, and towards the end of this phase, it was almost all rugs!
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Until finally, I found my true home.
Code 7 Finance
Building the bridge between Real Estate and DeFi, using an algorithmic stablecoin.
I knew this project was special when I read their docs for the first time. Immediately attacking an issue. At this point, it didn’t matter what the issue was. The good thing was that they were actually trying to build a use case with this creation of the Tomb Fork.
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This is where we will pick it up next time. Part 1/?
