Hey you, my fellow reader. It’s been a while. 2,5 months without publishing contents to you…unforgivable!
So at first, I’d like to apologize for my absence. Since the summer break, I deeply thought about the future of The Optimist & myself as a founder, but also as an individual, husband and dad.
So here is a short story to explain you what happened and where The Optimist goes.
PAST
2024 was set to be the transition year for the media, moving from an amateur newsletter to a more professional one. We decided to follow the same road as my peers aka The Defiant, The Rollup & Blocmates: create more contents, with higher quality, setting up a dedicated website, becoming a profitable business, and be more present on the Superchain Ecosystem. But, as the founder and the Team Leader, I have underestimated the work and time to allocate to achieve such ambition.
People like Camilla, Andy and Grant are very talented people who committed their entire body to succeed, and the present couldn’t agree more with their decision. I’m not full time Crypto (yeah I know… it surprises you, like a lot of people), i’m not even part time. My Crypto time was like a 2nd job after my 1st one, and my family/private life. 3 years grinding the rank, learning DEFI from Curve/Convex to RWA on Base. 3 years to provide actionable content for anyone interesting in managing their portfolio in the Defi space. 3 years committing every single free minute to learn, discuss, analyze, practice & share with you. This couldn’t continue for ever, I felt it!
As such this summer, I’ve decided to step down from The Optimist.
I have created this niche media from scratch end of 2022, covering DEFI on the Superchain, which is now the #1 media of this ECO. But now it was time to hand over The Optimist to someone who could commit itself to scale it up, as we had everything in place to be alongside the above quoted media.
But giving '“your baby” to someone else is tough and I had an obligation towards you to hand it over to someone who could take care of you, and not scam you. So i have contacted only a selected list of people if they were interested, but without success, and I can’t blame them.
At the same time, I could not either let The Optimist die, nor quitting this ecosystem, Onchain Finance, that is so amazing/interesting, and offer so many opportunities to manage your financial wealth. And this hits me in the Face!!!!
The Optimist is my “BABY”. It gives me so much pleasure to write to you, than you cannot even believe.
Why not continuing this chapter of The Optimist? But at a much lower scale, without setting unrealistic goals I cannot meet?
PRESENT
This is when I’ve decided few days ago, to start with a weekly project Breakdown of DEFI project on 🔵Base.
Why Base?
Part of Optimism Superchain
Impressive Growth, likely to overcome Arbitrum in the coming weeks
Powered by Coinbase, leading Institutions onchain
New Onchain Economy
The 1st project of this list is Anzen Finance, in the RWA category, tokenizing Private Credit Note into Stablecoin $USDz.
Everyone shilling you high yield on stablecoin without understanding what’s behind, where the yield comes from, and the underlying risks should be unfollowed immediately.
It’s easy to talk about +30% APR on stables, my son could do it! It’s more than easy to loose 100% of your fund after the projet suffers a risk that was here since day 1.
My thinking has always been the same: Understand first, Ape after. I’m not a degen, and if you follow me since weeks or years, you already know that. However, i have something different than everyone else (except people you & I follow): I put my money where my mouth is.
What was the outcome of this content created about Anzen Finance?
Perfect understanding of Anzen & $USDz
Talking to Anzen Finance & Percent (custodian) founders & CEO → There is no other places than DEFi where you can discuss with founders who have raised multi millions $
Got dm from other well known Base projects
Got a like from Jesse Pollak & engagement from The Duck
Got very good engagement from the Base community & farmers in general
In few words: I haven’t taken that much pleasure since weeks! So why not continuing like this? Just for the pleasure!
FUTURE
You are now close to 12,400 subscribers to this newsletter. We brought to you the essence of the Optimism Superchain thanks to an amazing team of contributors (designer, writers, translators, podcaster).
And I’ll continue fulfilling this commitment to you, with the same level of deep research, the same up to date REAL opportunities, the same level of fresh important news (forget to receive news about the latest projects farming points program), but in a more simple format, and with less quantity of information, without any commitment of frequency (whilst i still plan to do that on a weekly basis).
So, if you are still interested in reading this newsletter, here is what you will find as of now:
FREE: The newsletter will remain FREE, cause I feel the information must remain public good.
TRANSPARENCY: Some contents might be sponsored, in that case there will be a clear disclaimer
PROJECT BREAKDOWN: I’ll breakdown every DEFI projects, and the opportunities it can bring to your wealth management
SUPERCHAIN NEWS: I’ll continue screening the Superchain, but really focusing on what stands out from the crowd
NO MORE INTERVIEW: My free time won’t accomodate any podcast/stream anymore, sorry for this.
If by my own decision, you decided to unsubscribe from this newsletter, I just would like to thank you so much for being part of our readers for so long, and wish you to make it on this cycle.
If you continue along side me, i can’t thank you enough, and be sure i will never disappoint you, or at least listen to your valuable comments.
From end users, to general media like cointelegraph & Funds like Spartan group, let’s make a big CLAP CLAP CLAP for the whole The Optimist TEAM who has done a such great work in 2024:
Nataliiii/Thomas/Pedro/Barquette/Charles/Gael/TP/Couz/Mozuku/Masoud/Pumbi/IndividualX/Tan
Let’s this new chapter begin!
Disclaimer: Nothing in this content is financial advice. I may have some positions on the presented projects, however these articles are written in a non biais way so that you can make you own opinion out of it.
Do your own research before investing, and remember that Crypto is extremely volatile and risky. Be ready to loose everything you invest in.