Andrei Popa entered crypto in 2017 and lived through the ICO mania, the exchange wars, and now the memecoin meta. In this brutally honest conversation, he breaks down how coins really move today: coordinated raids on X, bot-driven pumps, points/airdrop farming, and why so many traders end up as exit liquidity. We revisit EOS, Civic and Kadena, unpack the Trump token liquidity drain, why Bonk built a real culture, and how “points” (think Hyperliquid) changed launch dynamics. We also talk about Andre’s own experiment “Barfight”—a community battle game that ties streaming with memecoin incentives—and what he learned building in public.

This episode covers:

The memecoin engine: raids, bots, points, airdrops

Why “free money” creates cliffs and brutal post-TGE dumps

Trump token’s liquidity black hole & the Bonk counter-example

ICO lessons (Civic/EOS) and the Kadena near-miss that hurt

Surviving the meta: distribution, liquidity, profit-taking & timing

What actually scales next (beyond hype)

Whether you’re crypto-curious or knee-deep in degen land, this one separates signal from spam.

Nothing here is financial advice. DYOR.

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