According to Patrick McCorry, crypto should reward merit over geography and founders must assemble and retain top contributors under libertarian principles, framing why team quality is central to project outcomes that investors monitor. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. He states that good people attract good people, so founders should do everything to help top contributors take an early bet on the project and then be selective to compound the snowball effect. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. He advises cutting rot and toxicity early because strong contributors will not stay in toxic environments, and he recommends observing how others react when someone leaves as a litmus test for hidden toxicity. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. He recommends leveraging limited availability of high-impact contributors rather than letting capacity sit idle, emphasizing process design to make the most of scarce expert time. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. He notes that persistent frustration about direction and pace leads to departures and suggests surrounding the core team with people aligned on the path or willing to disagree and commit. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. He stresses opportunity cost and fairness, warning that underpaying strong contributors leads to outbidding by others and that equitable treatment reduces resentment and attrition. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025. For traders and token investors, these governance and retention signals can be monitored as proxies for execution risk and community health during due diligence and position sizing, per McCorry’s guidance. Source: Patrick McCorry (@stonecoldpat0) on X, Oct 18, 2025.

According to @KookCapitalLLC, Plasma shipped a mainnet featuring gasless USDT transfers in under six months, positioning speed-to-market and low-cost stablecoin UX as key differentiators for liquidity attraction, source: @KookCapitalLLC on X, Sep 28, 2025. According to @KookCapitalLLC, Monad has been raising hundreds of millions for roughly four years but has yet to release a product, framing an execution gap that could weigh on sentiment toward pre-launch L1s, source: @KookCapitalLLC on X, Sep 28, 2025. According to @KookCapitalLLC, the author characterizes Monad as a high-profile institutional rug, an allegation presented without supporting documentation in the post, which underscores the need for traders to validate claims via verifiable mainnet status, USDT transfer costs, and public release timelines before reallocating capital, source: @KookCapitalLLC on X, Sep 28, 2025.

According to @adam3us, the network policy Schelling point for transaction relaying has shifted, with a tolerant minority now setting a more permissive relay limit through preferential peering, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. This change indicates relay behavior is no longer anchored by the prior default node policy, increasing heterogeneity in propagation across peering clusters that traders must account for in on-chain execution, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. Latency-sensitive strategies should assume uneven mempool visibility and variable relay speeds between clusters and adjust fee models, routing, and timing to manage slippage and arbitrage risk, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025. Risk monitoring should include multi-peer propagation checks and cross-cluster mempool sampling to detect relay bottlenecks before submitting time-critical orders, source: @adam3us on X, Sep 14, 2025.

According to Adam Back (@adam3us), filters do not work and BitMEX Research has empirically shown, consistent with information theory, that such filters cannot work; source: Adam Back on X, Aug 28, 2025. For trading, this asserts that strategies or risk controls relying on filter-based enforcement in crypto systems carry inherent failure risk that should be accounted for in execution and operational risk models; source: Adam Back on X, Aug 28, 2025.

According to @RhythmicAnalyst, a circulating Coinbase message is fake and funds are not being made available for trading on the platform. Source: @RhythmicAnalyst on X, Aug 20, 2025. Traders should verify fund availability and platform status directly with Coinbase before placing orders to manage execution risk. Source: @RhythmicAnalyst on X, Aug 20, 2025.