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Its time to be the Lion King 👑

For too long, I played the role of the house cat in the Web3 world—purring at conferences, listening to the big ecosystems, and telling myself that I had to fit into their game. Polygon, Solana, Avalanche, Polkadot—they strutted like lions, and I thought the only way forward was to become a tame cat in their kingdoms.

But here’s the truth I finally recognized: I wasn’t a cat at all. I was a lion.

The Cat Mindset

The cat mindset is about fitting in. It’s whispering your vision instead of roaring it. It’s chasing grants and handouts from ecosystem funds instead of staking your own ground. It’s waiting for permission to build.

And when you live in that mindset, you’re always building value for someone else’s token. You’re strengthening their treasury, their flywheel, their jungle.

The Lion Realization

The lion doesn’t ask to be fed. The lion hunts. The lion builds its pride. The lion owns its ecosystem.

That’s what I realized about Ndeipi Capital. It isn’t just another fund chasing Web3 hype—it’s a lion’s den. A Web3 VC model that invests in ventures building with our token, not on someone else’s.

Already, I’ve brought five companies into the pride. I didn’t pay them to join. They saw the strength of the ecosystem we’re building and chose to align with us. They’ll sell our token. They’ll launch tokens on top of our token. And with each cycle, our treasury grows stronger.

The Token Flywheel

Here’s how the lion’s flywheel works:

1. Fund ventures building in our token economy.
2. Ventures launch tokens that integrate with ours.
3. Treasury expands as activity and liquidity flow back.
4. Reinvestment fuels the next wave of builders.
5. The ecosystem compounds—the pride gets bigger, louder, unstoppable.

That’s not a cat chasing a laser pointer. That’s a lion reshaping the savanna.

The Entrepreneurial Lesson

Entrepreneurship in Web3 is about recognizing when you’re playing small. Too many founders are pretending to be cats—waiting to be fed by the big chains, hoping for scraps of attention. But the real opportunity is to be the lion: to build ecosystems where others plug in, where your treasury fuels the flywheel, where your roar carries across the industry.

I didn’t realize I was a lion while pretending to be a cat. But now that I know, the pride is forming, the flywheel is spinning, and the roar can’t be ignored.

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