CardStarter / $CARDS -- The Launchpad Defining the Future of $ADA (a thread)
Okay, let me start by saying this:
CARDS is that rocket that only goes up -- it is that one GEM that I feel so bad about not sharing early enough.
Here’s why:
1/ I got in $CARDS immediately after listing at an average price of about $1.4.
I didn’t share $CARDS then because the team was anonymous at the time (and I’ve been burnt by a few anonymous projects leading to that period).
2/ In fact, I’d have invested a lot more in $CARDS if I knew it will be this big.
It quickly shot up and ranged around $4 - $6 for a while; partnerships kept coming in and I felt more confident in my investment, but I did not share because I felt it had pumped already.
3/ I’d hate for it to dump immediately after mentioning it.
Well, $CARDS did not stop and just kept going up.
I made a casual mention of it at about $15 -- still no thread cos I don’t want to post something my followers FOMO into which then dumps.
4/ I gave a shoutout to Ashwin Somasundaram (a leader at $CARDS) because he’s such an AMAZING human being (more on this later) when $CARDS was trading at $30.
I planned to do a thread then but delayed it because $CARDS seem to only go up.
5/ $CARDS is solidly over $50 these days and does not appear to be slowing down!).
Since this rocket isn’t coming down, I’m doing my thread now:
6/ What is CardStarter / $CARDS?
$CARDS is the first launchpad, accelerator, and incubator for the Cardano / $ADA ecosystem with insurance:
In other words, if $CARDS launches a bad project they’ll give you back your investment (no exaggeration!).
And that’s putting it simply.
7/ $CARDS is doing A LOT of things right that I genuinely believe it is currently a Unicorn on a discount.
I rarely do this, and I want to stress that it is NOT financial advice, but I *personally* believe $CARDS will be worth AT LEAST $5 billion before the end of the bull run.
8/ CardStarter has a market cap of about $100 million at the time of writing this thread.
9/ Here's why I'm so BULLISH on $CARDS:
First bullish case is the Cardano Factor
$ADA has a market cap of $70 billion at the time of writing this -- and I think it will probably be 10x that at some point (that’s $700 billion).
10/ $CARDS is the FIRST launchpad on $ADA; it has already launched multiple projects and keeps launching new ones weekly.
A system is in place to move all these projects to Cardano immediately smart contracts is deployed to Cardano.
11/ But it gets interesting:
Second reason for being bullish: CardSwap
CardSwap will be $ADA’s first DEX and AMM protocol -- just like Uniswap (on ETH) and PancakeSwap (on BSC).
12/ So, yes, you got it, CardSwap is practically the Uniswap of $ADA and it is developed directly by the $CARDS -- just imagine how BIG this can be and what it means for the $CARDS ecosystem.
13/ It’s also worth stating that CardSwap will have leverage trading as one of its core features - something Uniswap and PancakeSwap do not have right now.
Now, think about how BIG the $CARDS ecosystem will be if it is worth just 5 percent of $ADA’s market cap in the future.
14/ Third bullish case: leadership.
I’ve never seen leadership like $CARDS has in any crypto project I’ve been involved in.
Let’s start with their token sale: fair launch, no VC allocation, and no bots on listing. So everybody had an equal opportunity.
15/ I had a personal interaction with Ashwin Somasundaram, one of the $CARDS leaders, when I had a KYC issue during the first IDO.
I used a random TG username with no profile picture and Ash went out of his way to help.
16/ I was impressed that Ash personally paid so much attention, to ensure that this random $CARDS holder had his issue resolved in the fairest way possible.
This is VERY rare in crypto.
I became a $CARDS (and an Ashwin, of course!) fan for life due to this encounter.
17/ So if my writing sounds like that of a fanboy, well it's because I am!
I see CEO Aatash Amir personally interacting with the community regularly, and you can see that this ethos -- quality leadership with a focus on the community -- is one of the things that defines $CARDS.
18/ This quality, community-focused leadership is the BIGGEST reason I believe $CARDS will be a Unicorn -- and they have LOTS of other factors stacked in their favor.
19/ My fourth reason for being VERY bullish on $CARDS is their focus on valuable, high-ROI launches.
$CARDS has been consistently launching stellar projects back to back, and there are no indications they will be stopping.
20/ For starters, Charli3, their first IDO, did over 100x at ATH and is comfortably over 50x.
When you consider that people were given significant allocations -- just two to three IDOs like this will cover the investment in CARDS despite the CURRENT high cost of its tokens.
21/ For those who got in early, just this single IDO has probably covered the cost of their initial $CARDS investment multiple times over.
22/ The $CARDS team continues to make changes to ensure that people get substantial allocations (not crappy $10, $50 or $100 allocations).
They have done a tier adjustment TWICE (people kept buying their tokens and it quickly became inaccessible to the vast majority of people).
23/ More importantly, their launches are set up in a way that they are guaranteed to do significant Xs.
24/ The fifth bullish case: solid partnerships
$CARDS has partnerships with the who’s who of the crypto industry. This includes Blocksync Ventures, x21, $ORN, Coin98, Bitboy Crypto, and others.
Since I can't find a way to copy the message here, I'll make it a thread.
So here goes:
1/ First of all, if you're not in the TG group it might be a good idea to join -- I won't always copy paste messages I post there here on Twitter like I'm doing now.
So:
2/ So the last 24 hours has been a rollercoaster and I'm sure many of you are rightfully worried.
For those who might be unaware, a few things happened:
- Vitalik sold some of his dog tokens and sent them to charity in an attempt to give meme coins the middle finger.
TrueBit / $TRU -- The “Hidden” L2 Solution Backed by $ETH and Coinbase Heavyweights
In this thread, I share why Truebit / $TRU is an easy multi-billion dollar market cap project and a possible top 20 market cap contender.
TLDR:
- $TRU has been in development for 4 years now.
- $TRU has strong $ETH links and its development was extensively influenced and supported by members of the Ethereum team.
- Vitalik Buterin co-authored a whitepaper with $TRU founder Jason Teutsch.
TLDR (contd)
- Christian Reitwiessner, creator of the Solidity programming language (used by all major blockchains such as $ETH, #BSC, and soon $ADA) co-wrote the actual $TRU whitepaper with Jason Teutsch.
- TrueBit was developed based on the concepts in these whitepapers.
1/ For the sake of clarity, I was affected as well by this rug and did invested, in my own way, a significant amount.
At a point after my entry $MICRO went as much as 3x, so that was significant gains for me -- but I did not take profits.
2/ I have not sold, and will not sell, my $MICRO tokens because:
- I'll keep my tokens as a reminder to be more diligent
both in my investment decisions and in what I post for my followers.
- It's not worth much anymore anyway.