Here's what nobody tells you about crypto: it's lonely. I've been at this for years, through a few cycles now, and for most of that time the only real conversations I had were online. Discords, crypto Twitter, a few curated telegram groups. The intellectual connection was there, but it never left the screen. And I was surrounded by people trying to shill their NFT or their coin or their trading system, people who didn't care about the tech or the future it could unlock. So I retreated into the cave and traded knowledge with strangers I'd never actually sat across from. That started to really bug me. Then someone I met in the Solana ecosystem told me to check out a @SuperteamAE event. First one was a pizza meetup in Dubai after the summer lull. The vibe was electric. Good conversations, jokes, people who understood the thought patterns running in my head. I didn't have to explain myself. It fit like a glove, fast. That's what Superteam UAE changed. It took the conversations that had only ever lived online and brought them into the physical world. Real events, real people, and a network that kept growing every time we sat down together. So I kept showing up. Every meetup. Positive-sum every time. You talk about what you're building, someone gives you real feedback, no egos in the way. I wanted in, but it's a vouching system and I'm not one to campaign for myself. So I just kept attending, rigorously, for the better part of a year. Eventually I reached out to @afscott to ask if I could join and start adding value. A couple hours later: "you're in." Turns out a lot of people I already knew were members and had vouched for me themselves. So I'm humbled to be named member of the month, and I can't wait to see what the future holds. Here's to everyone ive met along the way, thank you especially to @SolanaSpacesAE @InnaK2305 and @NidhiShroff28 for always listening to my rants 🫡 One thing's for sure: Superteam will still be here to support its members, and I'll always be here contributing to that vision.

NEW MEMBER: @AryaNedaee_ Founder of @Cryptic_Web3, a leading crypto marketing agency behind campaigns for Mantle, OKX, Canton, Algorand & Bybit Arya won “Best Media Company” at Paris Blockchain Week and “Crypto Visionary” by BeursInside Off duty: chess, boxing & running