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Pump.fun set fire to $370 million in tokens. Luca lays out the airdrop math that says they should have done the opposite.Thank you to our sponsors!MultiChain Advisors is an emerging technology growth firm that has helped create $50B+ in enterprise value for 80+ clients over the past 4 years. They're the partner to help navigate markets. Build real traction today at multichainadv.comPump.fun had a choice with $370 million worth of its own tokens. It burned them.On this week’s Uneasy Money, Luca Netz argues that was the worst option on the table. He lays out the “people’s champ” math that, in his view, could have turned Pump.fun into a $5 billion-a-year business if Alon Cohen had launched the biggest airdrop crypto has ever seen—and bought the tokens back at the bottom.Kain Warwick and Taylor Monahan also dig into the 137,000 ETH community effort to plug the KelpDAO hole, why Tay thinks Aave—not Layer Zero or KelpDAO—is the key player in DeFi’s latest blowup, and Luca’s blunt new take on whether DeFi yield is even worth the risk right now.Plus: Meta paying creators in USDC, the ghost of Libra, and OpenAI’s leaked AI-native phone.Hosts: Kain Warwick, Founder of Infinex and Synthetix Taylor Monahan, Security Expert Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy PenguinsLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices



