Slava Balaban | 8 Billions Mindset

Gm, gm, Long time no see. **New news and updates**: **1)** I am alive and feel good. I overcame a hard period in the last 6 months (health issues), but I succeeded in passing through it, and now I finally feel good and it made me stronger, healthier and more effective than even before! ❤️ **2)** We are starting a VC + Incubator, Accelerator + Academy for Web3 teams and founders. As we have expertise in launching projects from A-Z (from concept to TGE and product launch), we want to share i

**How did your 2025 start if you are the JUP team:** • You bought the Meteora team for **$50 million**, which had a TVL of **$300 million** at the time of purchase and an annual profit of around** $10-12 million** across all Meteora/Moonshot/Airlock projects; • You launched **Trump + Melanie**, creating an unprecedented precedent for launching a meme coin from a U.S. president and boosting Meteora's TVL to **$2 billion**; • You earned **$90 million** in just **7 days** purely from the fees of

__Source: __https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/02/02/this-needs-to-stop-now-elon-musk-confirms-radical-doge-us-treasury-plan/

✅** What the leader of the Lazarus hacker group looks like:** His name is Pak In, a North Korean hacker wanted by the FBI. 🗂 He studied at Kim Il Sung University of Technology in Pyongyang. 🗂 He worked for Chosun Expo, a front company for the Lazarus Group. 🗂 He is accused of launching WannaCry, a ransomware virus that infected computers in 150 countries. Victims of Lazarus: 💀 Central Bank of Bangladesh: $81 million 💀 Axie Infinity (Ronin Bridge): $625 million 💀 Harmony Bridge: $100 mill

👣 **The U.S. is experiencing mass layoffs amid the AI boom. ** American employers cut **153,074 jobs** in October — the highest monthly figure in more than **20 years**, according to a report from [Challenger, Gray & Christmas.](https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/layoffs-us-october-surge-two-decade-high-challenger-data-shows-2025-11-06/) The number of layoffs increased by **175%** compared to last year. From the beginning of the year through the end of October, employers announced