5 Ways I've Watched People Build Wealth (Ethically) In Crypto:
1) Being super early
Obviously this one is hard to replicate... you had to be on Silk Road in 2011 with hundreds of spare $BTC lying around... or got into $ETH right at the start... etc...
HOWEVER we see the same thing on a more moderate scale over and over...
Last cycle there were projects like $OHM and DFK you could have been early too... And various 2024-2025 coins as well...
2) Catching a bear market >>> bull market trend
My buddy
@alpha_pls did this perfectly with $SOL in 2022, going hard in at like $8 or whatever it was in the depths of the bear market...
3) Airdrops
Whether airdrops in general, like good ol' CC2Ventures...
Or a singular airdrop, like the my man
@reisnertobias with $HYPE :)
Takes hard work and conviction but is still one of the best strategies imo...
4) Getting really good at the BD + marketing side of CT and providing value to projects in this regard
Lots of my friends have done this...
@crypto_linn as a perfect example...
@JiraiyaReal with TailoredWeb3... etc...
5) Building something legitimately valuable
The Phantom guys are a perfect example of this...
Or Cobie selling Echo to Coinbase...
Or many other similar stories as well...
...
But yeah, still think any of these work in 2026...
Most people have checked out and are not paying attention to the market...
But right now as we speak there is some major coin that is going to 100x over the next 2 years...
There's some low-key airdrop that is going to be the next $HYPE...
And some new anon with 100 followers who is going to be a major CT account next cycle...
Never feels like it in the depths of the bear market...
But happens over and over again once conditions turn :)