By the end of this you will be able to read crypto twitter without being eaten: the language, how narratives move money before the facts catch up, how to spot a paid shill, and how this industry actually hires.
You have walked the whole city. You know the assets, the machines, the players. There is one thing left before the tour ends: the square where everyone actually talks, and the language they talk in.
In this industry that square is a feed, mostly on X. Founders ship and announce there, researchers publish there, and a surprising number of jobs start as a reply. Learn the language and the square opens up. Skip it and you are doing business in a town whose words you cannot read.
Here is the square as it looks on any normal morning. To a newcomer it is a wall of strange words: gm, DYOR, wagmi, ape. It can feel like a clubhouse built to keep you out.
It is not. Almost every word does a small, sensible job. We are going to decode them one at a time, with respect, because the people using them built a lot of what you have learned to use.
Six terms carry most of the daily conversation. None of them is a secret handshake. Each one is shorthand the locals reach for because it says something specific faster than plain English would.
Tap each row on the board to see what it actually means.