Wholecoiners aren’t the ones stacking now — they’re the ones who will try to. The theory is that a generation raised on the American Dream of owning a home will soon replace it with the dream of owning one Bitcoin. But when they finally step up, they’ll face sticker shock. At six figures and climbing, the wholecoin dream won’t deliver what they expect. In this episode, I explain why wholecoiners will only get half of what’s coming, and why the other half lives in overlooked infrastructure plays like Band — the rails that AI agents and crypto markets will run on in Vaultseason.

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September is being staged like a play — with a rate cut carrot dangled in front of retail, Coinbase hyping a so-called Banana Zone, and a wave of new investors set up to believe in Altseason as if every token were a hero. But this isn’t the Rebel Alliance. Some coins are bounty hunters. Some are traps. And the Banana Zone can just as easily turn into a Banana DeadZone if you’re not careful.

In this episode, I break down how to spot the setups, why the carrot narrative matters, and what it means for you before the next move. And at the end, I’ll spotlight Lagrange LA — an Ethereum verification layer with Intel and Mantle ties that fits my thesis: verifiable before valuable.

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In late capitalism, not all kings built their kingdoms — some just aligned with the right rails at the right time. Michael Saylor and Tom Lee are celebrated today, but the real architects were Satoshi Nakamoto and Vitalik Buterin. In this episode, I break down the aligner’s playbook and why early positioning beats invention in today’s economy. We’ll explore how SEI Network’s bold shift from Cosmos to Ethereum’s OP Stack — and its selection by the state of Wyoming for a stablecoin pilot — makes $SEI a textbook case of early alignment with power. We’ll finish with how OTEC, my Own The Economy Coin on Base, uses the same principles to give everyday investors a way to align before the next wave hits. Subscribe to Front Run The Week for more plays like this and get the Signals sheet before they trend.

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Get early signals before they hit headlines. Subscribe free at tokentrust.substack.com — and become eligible for OTEC, the token to Own The Economy.

The Chip Mahoney Show is a Big Pond production. This podcast is for entertainment and educational purposes only.

For media inquiries or guest bookings, please contact:
DV Collective at dvpodcastshow@gmail.com

https://www.chipmahoney.com/

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