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ricardo

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ricardo

@notawizard

investing + research + data @paradigm

made in brazil

Joined May 2019

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ricardo
@notawizard
Apr 20
Applications are now open for the 2026 Paradigm Fellowship: a 4-day retreat for young people who are obsessively good at something technical. For our fourth year, we're expanding to welcome builders across every frontier — AI, robotics, energy, bio, prediction markets, or
GIF
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@notawizard
Jul 8, 2025
I'm thrilled to share that I've joined @paradigm as an Investment and Research Partner! Over the past 2 years, I've helped protocols analyze their user activity to distribute over $5 billion in airdrops, and learned a few tricks along the way…
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ricardo
@notawizard
Jul 4, 2022
Just released the beta version of The Wallet Analyzooor... You can already use it to check the historical balances, transactions, and transfers of ANY ETHEREUM ADDRESS! Here's a quick demo:
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ricardo
@notawizard
Nov 4, 2025
who's building the moonshot, axiom or bonkbot for kalshi and polymarket? every time a new asset class reaches escape velocity, there's a rise in specialized frontends. We've seen this with nfts, memecoins and perps the "app layer" for prediction markets is wide open
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@notawizard
Jan 15, 2025
we parsed 600 million trades, 10 million wallets and $200bi in volume then we did the biggest sybil detection project ever, and tweaked the allocations to reward 2 million real users and after months of work the checker is finally live thanks for being part of the jupiverse!!
kash
@kashdhanda
Jan 15, 2025
JUPUARY 2025 CHECKER IS LIVE It’s the most wonderful time of the year - Jupuary is nearly here! Jupuary is our annual airdrop designed to Grow the Pie. Our goal is to send a gift to qualified users, invite them to contribute their ideas through governance, and continue
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@notawizard
Aug 21, 2025
the kanye launch showed once again that solana is the best place to launch a coin for massive retail adoption this scale would break almost any other chain, while their protocol, infra providers and frontends scaled smoothly we're ready for internet capital markets
Max Resnick
@MaxResnick
Aug 21, 2025
Metrics looking good. Nobody messaging in slack. PoV when Kanye launches a coin on Solana. Internet Capital Markets
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@notawizard
Aug 13, 2024
i still remember being frustrated when the results of the 2022 paradigm fellowship came out i barely spoke english, i didn't have fancy logos in my cv, and i wasn't a founder -- could i ever be as good as all of these cracked kids? we have come a long way since then... LFG!!
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@notawizard
Oct 3, 2024
some personal updates: after 2 amazing years, this is my last week at @AlliumLabs as a dropout, this is the closest thing I'll have to graduation, and I couldn't have had a better school next, I'll dive into the research and investment side, more details to come soon!
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@notawizard
Feb 18, 2025
i've also worked with @JupiterExchange for over 2 years (and with basically every all the other large protocols on solana) my impression of them has always been that they're high integrity, cracked engineers, and some of the best stewards of the solana ecosystem
Eugene Chen
@0xShitTrader
Feb 18, 2025
.@ellipsis_labs has worked closely with @JupiterExchange since we started the company 2.5 years. Throughout our collaborations the Jupiter team has always been high integrity, high competence, and a responsible long-term steward of the Solana ecosystem.
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@notawizard
Jul 22, 2025
there's 3 days left to apply for the paradigm fellowship I was a fellow in 2024 and it was one of the highlights of my year if you're young, technical and interested in crypto, markets and how money moves online, this is your chance to meet more people like you -- apply!
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@notawizard
Aug 4, 2025
im super excited to see teams working on alternative hyperliquid frontends with builder codes phantom hasn’t even fully rolled out their hyperliquid integration yet and they already made $1.5M in the first month
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ethn
@ethanyish
Aug 4, 2025
1/8 📊 Just launched: a real-time dashboard to track Hyperliquid trading volumes, builder and referral metrics, profit & loss, and more. Built by @AlliumLabs Let's dive in 🧵
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ricardo
@notawizard
Jul 10, 2024
y'all have no idea how much effort @soleconomist and the sanctum team put into this super creative airdrop design + top-notch comms with the community... really excited to see the results it was super fun helping them for the past few weeks!!
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@soleconomist
Jul 10, 2024
# On the $CLOUD airdrop, Part 3 314,367 wallets signed up for Wonderland. After adjustment to accurately reflect retroactive EXP [^1], the total EXP across all wallets was 2,525,753,364,296.272 -- 2.5 trillion. The top wallet earned over 100 billion points. This is roughly
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@notawizard
May 15, 2023
4 insights about @eth_ben and $PSYOP: most of the wallets sending money to him are >480 days old, not crypto novices learning about metamask if this thread does well, we'll drop some sybil detection alpha showing how many of these wallets are real users later today 👀 (1/4)
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@notawizard
Jul 8, 2025
Replying to @notawizard
I'm very excited to continue this work at Paradigm, helping founders design smarter user acquisition and retention programs Who are the real users versus sybils? How do we ensure incentives lead to sustained engagement instead of fleeting attention?
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