I don’t know what happened, but back in 2023, I got used to having bad days. I don’t think I had a single winning day that entire year. I was never really happy. I reflect a lot, and I just realized it’s been a damn good few years. I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, even when things are down. I’ve never been more confident in myself or the future.

I get messages daily from people asking how we grew @crshmarket so fast. The truth? We didn’t rely on one platform. 40K on Discord, 220K in another Discord community, 7K on Twitter, 6K on Telegram, and we’re launching Instagram and TikTok next week. Most founders put all their eggs in one basket, then wonder why growth stalls. Diversify your distribution.

What a week it’s been in Singapore at @TOKEN2049! Here’s what we’ve done: Placed 2nd out of 1,200 startups in one of crypto’s biggest startup competitions, went on a roller coaster with @_jhunsaker, co-founder of @monad and @category_xyz, announced our $3.5M raise to hundreds of people IRL and thousands more online, and met so many incredible founders and people across the industry. Now it’s back to the States to continue my comedy tour, perform in front of 20,000+ students this year, scale @CRSHMARKET to 1M users, and become one of the biggest names in the industry. Very blessed. Just getting started.

We just made Top 5 out of 1,000 at Nexus @TOKEN2049! $250K prize pool. Let’s win it.

It’s been a pretty crazy 4 months. Before entering the summer, we had about $20K left in the bank and all of us were getting close to calling it quits. Then we got accepted into @nitrodotacc by Monad, received a $500K investment, mentorship, and a chance to change everything in New York surrounded by some of the best founders you can think of. We launched 3 separate times, once in May, relaunched in June, and again in July. After 2 months of building, we were stuck at 1K users, had little retention, and had no way to push ourselves out to the public. July came around and we took a step back to move forward, taking everything we learned from months 1 and 2 and applying it to month 3. We figured it out. We entered Demo Day with 20K users and $250K in trading volume. August came around and we went viral across socials once again, generating $10M in trading volume and reaching 30K registered users in just 30 days. Now it’s October and we’re still moving forward with the best support behind us. We have some huge announcements coming next week and the week after, and we’re looking to finally push ourselves to the top of the prediction market leaderboard globally. Trusting the process is probably the biggest lesson I’ve taken from all of this. Keep going.

I’m excited to announce that @CRSHMARKET is a Top 10 finalist for the NEXUS Startup Competition at TOKEN2049 Singapore! 🇸🇬 See y'all in Singapore :)