Russ | Valiant
@ValiantRusty
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Building the last DEX you'll ever need @ValiantTrade
Joined June 2025
This is what happens when you have two siloed VMs. Much harder for hypercore value to flow to hyperevm.
HyperEVM tokens have underperformed. To date, 7 HyperEVM-native DeFi protocols have airdropped tokens, including @HyperSwapX, @Upheavalfi, @Hyperwavefi, @KittenswapHype, @Hyperstable, @looping_col, and @HyBridgeHL. When HyperEVM launched, many speculated on the attractiveness
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Guy whose claim to fame is being early on a baby hippo tells you why NYC is doomed
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Should be a good one come by and chat
Red days aren’t excuses. Learn. Build. Connect. LIVESTREAMS TOMORROW 1PM PST: Clay (BD @ Metaplex) - the standard for Solana token + NFT deployment 3:30PM PST: Rusty (Founder @ ValiantTrade) - spot-only high-performance DEX built on @fogo L1
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If you post more than a couple times about politics its an auto unfollow we're here for the coins man
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Pivot to long term thinking
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one click trading “it feels like you’re trading on a cex, both from speed and the experience standpoint”
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Days like today are a great time to renew your focus on the long term. Say no to doomers and short term grifters. We're only just getting started.
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im still not sure what these monad golden tickets are for and at this point im too afraid to ask
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If you thought DeFi token valuations on SOL are bad I present to you SEND on SUI. $13M in rev with buybacks, $500M TVL and a $18M marketcap.
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I haven’t seen this much SOL v SOL team drama since 2021 Drama aside competition is still good for the end users so im here for it
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Competition for the aggregator space heating up on SOL, first time I’ve seen JUP reps sweating a bit Ultimately everyone wants a monopoly but competition is good for users
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Sometimes trading spot is better for your health
daily reminder of why CLOBs on RWAs don’t work you’re trading an illiquid derivative of an illiquid derivative subject to crypto’s liquidity dynamics - not the real market
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Had @m00des and @ValiantRusty on spaces last week, we had a good conversation about why they chose @Fogo as the SVM-compatible L1 chain to build Valiant on Russ mentioned that L1's are some of the most challenging things out there to build, but also going on to saying that the
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Are DeFi cults over?
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if you like alpha, follow @ValiantTrade, launching on @fogo soon my partners are absolute savages who built some of the top trading protocols on solana if you haven’t heard of us yet you will be hearing about us a lot more from here on out as we’ve built one of the smoothest
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Getting a job with @ValiantTrade has been one of the better choices I've done. I know you can lock yourself down early on for something and it can hurt you're growth, which is what often Wale says, and I agree. However if you can position yourself with a team of builders and a
Never overestimate your market value. I know it's a meme but most people who brag on the timeline about declining (fake) job offers should realize this before it's too late
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App specific tx ordering rules will not fix this
1) Ghost explains: Wide Sandwich Attacks (with updated website at the end) We looked at a full year of Solana trades and found that wide (multi-slot) sandwiches extracted 529,000 SOL. Wide sandwiches now account for 93% of all sandwiches
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