Recap · July 31, 2025 · 1:03:27
Millionaire Crypto Traders Explain BEST Strategies, Biggest Wins/Losses, and More | TG Podcast
The Signal
Threadguy brings together Profit and Cupsy for an unusually candid look at Solana's post-memecoin boom trading culture. They distinguish quick, informed trading from the wallet clusters and insider activity they believe now dominate many launches, then explain the tools, habits, missed holds, and endurance behind their own runs.
Key Takeaways
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The game got more extreme
Cupsy says his own fast buying and trimming was minor beside traders using many wallets to make roughly 50 SOL before a token even bonds. Both still see a route back for Solana if majors rise, fresh narratives appear, and launchpads produce genuine runners.
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Wallets are the research layer
Profit describes spotting dormant wallets buying a coin with no activity for hundreds of days; Cupsy says he increasingly keeps wallet activity beside his chart. Their edge is less a single signal than recognizing who is buying and why.
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Sniping required capital and speed
Telegram bots made it possible to monitor a contract address, set a minimum token fill, and pay a high bribe to land early. Cupsy recalls spending a needless 500 SOL fee and 500 SOL bribe on an AI-hackathon snipe that still made about $600,000.
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Community knowledge stays fragmented
Their lists of best traders lean toward people who rarely post: Durant, Nim, Slippage and other traders inside Pioneer or private groups. Profit estimates that about 70% of his trading comes from following wallets, while Cupsy stresses that different profitable strategies fit different people.
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A turnaround is about incentives
On Pump.fun's battle with Bonk, the guests reject cosmetic fixes. They argue that teams need to support communities, create visible winners, and regain volume before attempting an airdrop; competition, they say, could improve both venues.
On the Record
“What's happening now is way more extreme than what I was doing — full-on, like, 10 multi-wallets by one trader into a coin making like 50 SOL before a coin even bonds.”
“Dormant wallets going at — that coin had no buys for hundreds of days, and suddenly a dormant wallet buys the coin. Like, I'm going to buy it too.”
“I did like a 500 SOL fee, which is like what you're not supposed to do really. And I did like a 500 SOL bribe, but I still made like 600K on the snipe.”
“All it is is putting in the time. You just have to want it more than everybody else, and actually dive deep into certain things: finding wallets, figuring out what coin does what.”
The Breakdown
Two traders survey a thinner Solana tape
Profit opens by calling the market rough, with only scattered opportunities. Cupsy accepts that he helped normalize fast buying and selling, but says the practice was already emerging. The difference now, in his view, is scale: traders use clusters of wallets to enter before a token bonds, extract quickly, and leave ordinary buyers facing a very different game.
The cost of selling every runner
Cupsy remembers buying ARC at about an $8,000 valuation, deciding the quiet project looked fake, and selling a roughly 5% position for a tiny profit. He also owned six SOL worth of Moo Deng at $20,000. The lesson is not to freeze after a miss: if someone is constantly grinding, he says, those outcomes happen every day and the only option is to improve and move on.
Crime, wallets, and selective copying
Asked how much of the current market is manufactured, the group puts a large share in that category, but treats identifying it as a trading skill. Profit looks through wallet histories, price action, and which people are promoting a coin; repeated wallet use can reveal a group. His John Pork buy, he says, came from watching an old inactive wallet suddenly enter a dormant token, not from a direct tip.
From migration buys to costly snipes
Cupsy credits conversations with Durant for changing his approach around the start of January: instead of watching possible opportunities pass, they began buying every coin they thought was good around migration. He explains that bot-assisted sniping became accessible through Twitter monitors and Telegram bots. Users specify a desired allocation, set a bribe, and hope the transaction reaches the front of a launch; one excessive fee still led to his $600,000 result.
The traders whose names rarely travel
The top-five discussion becomes a map of private trading circles rather than a public leaderboard. Cupsy calls Durant one of the best traders on Solana and describes Nim as a heavy buyer who kept adding even while already up heavily on JellyJelly. They also invoke Slippage as the standout of the earlier sniping era. Profit says most of his own decisions are wallet-copying, while Cupsy only recently began tracking wallets directly.
A first six-figure trade changes the rhythm
Cupsy's favorite personal trade was Sorcin Coin, a January play tied to a BlackRock interview clip. Before it, he had repeatedly round-tripped $70,000, $80,000, and $90,000 gains without reaching six figures. He woke up, finally crossed that threshold, then made another six-figure profit the same day. He says he now buys fewer coins, uses more SOL per position, and holds longer than he did earlier in the cycle.
What Pump.fun would need to win back
The closing argument is that Pump.fun cannot simply announce an airdrop while volume belongs elsewhere; recipients might sell and buy Bonk launches. Cupsy argues that it first needs market share, community interaction, team communication, and capital injected into coins that can run. If traders start seeing 10-, 20-, or 30-million-dollar winners on the platform, sentiment could turn quickly. The guests welcome the contest because each platform's response should make the other better.
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