Aptos & Sui

The Next VC Solana style Playbook?

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Current Hot Topic Issue:

Aptos and Solana have been gaining momentum, hype and attention in the past several months. Let’s hear the Crypto community’s honest and unrestrained opinions and what they’re looking forward to for these upcoming L1s.  

TL:DR: 

• Most CT natives view it as another VC infested play. Another alt L1 cycle that’ll come with their own ecosystems and the same story we saw with Solana. Backed and shilled by big name investors to retail.

• VCs are eager to get access to the early stage projects being built so they can repeat the playbook from the last bull run.

• Retail Degens are excited for another narrative that they may be able to profit from

• “Jason Choi stated, technology superiority alone almost never wins — success also depends on business development, go-to-market. Technology needs to translate into performance then results”

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Negative Takes:

0xMontBlanc 😼 @0xMontBlanc

@0xfbifemboy i honestly dont think aptos/sui will get as much hype as people think A lot of people just assume we will replicate the previous bull run of alt L1s... Arbitrum etc will kill that hope... PoS ETH + L2s <3

kamikaz ΞTH @kamikaz_ETH

LMAO head of marketing at Solana also jumping ship for Aptos Could it be any more obvious? VCs milked Solana dry and the tech is fundamentally broken Now all the VCs, dev teams, and even Solana staff are switching to Aptos/Sui to start the cycle over again allsotiresome.gif

Austin 💚 @austinvirts

Personal news 👋 I have joined @AptosLabs as Director of Ecosystem 🌊 I am thrilled to join such an impressive, passionate, and talented team to lead ecosystem development and growth initiatives This is the start of something exciting - more details 👇

polynya @apolynya

Couldn't be arsed to read about Aptos or Sui, but those shilling it because Move - why does this need a new, insecure L1? Can't we just have a Move-based rollup? No need to kill Solana, just be a Move-based rollup on Solana, collaboration > selfishness

Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital

The new Solana style pumps will be Aptos and Sui once they launch their shitcoins. They will *absolutely* be VC backed pump and dumps but if you get the timing right there may be money to be made. Keep an eye out. theblock.co/post/159439/ap…

Dylan Macalinao ↗️ @DylanMacalinao

Solana killer / Aptos vs. Sui / etc are all narratives created by media / crypto Twitter / VCs to pump bags In reality, there's a lot of collaboration happening between devs across ecosystems to experiment with new tech!

guleid @riddle245

Everyone knows Aptos and likely Sui will be a VC fuck fest. Will it be more like Solana where token outperforms entire eco due to eco dumping or Near where main token gets dumped so hard microcaps outperform? Let’s see.

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Positive Takes:

Ash @Token2049 🇸🇬 @ahboyash

• New layer 1s (Aptos, Sui, Sei Network, Canto) • Layer 2 narratives (Optimism, Metis, Arbitrum, zkSync, Starknet) • Dogchains (Dogechain, Shibarium) • Free mint NFTs to 5fig value • 5fig airdrops from interacting with testnets Crypto is starting to look fun again 🫡🫡🫡

Corleone @corleonescrypto

- #RealYield (GMX, BTRLFY, GNS, DPX) ⁃ NFT Finance (Sudo, Looks, NFTX) - New Layer 1s (Aptos, Sui, Sei Network, Canto) - New Layer 2s (Optimism, Metis, Arbitrum, zkSync, Starknet) - Memechains (Dogechain, Shibarium, Berachain) Crypto is getting fun again 🔥

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