Diamond Hands! 🙌💎

You have the option between attending two parties. One is a Circque du Soleil pool party. There’s lambos, rocket fireworks, cheap champagne, roulette tables & confetti guns. The other party is a formal banquet with Andre Rieu, academic speeches & a menu with stuff you can’t pronounce. Which party are you going to? The Circque du Soleil one, right?

This is exactly how the world of crypto is structured. One party is filled with colourful characters & moonshot plays. The place you can 100x your money in a single night. A casino where you’re one away click away from retiring your bloodline. It’s insanely addictive, exhilarating & purely speculative. You’re playing Betway using digital assets.

The fancy formal party is where folks hang out to discuss technology, innovation & real world applications of blockchain. The more you learn, it feels like the less you know. A sinking, black hole of limitless possibilities. It’s the opposite of gambling - your decisions are calculated & structured.

BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is a regular guest at the formal party. Their Bitcoin ETF is now worth more than $50bn. Another formal party guest, Goldman Sachs - finally acknowledged crypto in their annual investor letter. Regulators are fast adapting. The FSCA already declared crypto a financial product in October 2022 (2.5 years ago).

How do you score an invite to the formal party? You filter out the circus noise. Focus on crypto education, building skills in this space & constantly networking. The applications of blockchain, use cases of tokenization & growth crypto payments is incredible.

Framing your journey in crypto as a long term investment helps avoid a ton of bad decisions. The temptation to “get rich quick” in crypto is a sure-fire way to torch capital.

If you don’t own any crypto (yet) — it’s worth thinking about starting with a tiny amount to learn about the ecosystem. What does this network do? Can I use this to pay for stuff? Who are the people behind this project? What makes this valuable? Join communities & ask questions. Crypto is an ecosystem where everyone is constantly learning & sharing together.

We recently locked in a partnership campaign with crypto powerhouse VALR. They recently turned 7 & have over 1 million users. To help kickstart your journey, we have ZAR 100,000 in rewards to giveaway exclusively to our BankerX community. It’s a unique prize pool for BankerX, which is pretty cool.

Here’s how to claim:

1. If you already have a VALR account: https://forms.gle/Ai3p8cBGdY5i7HTH8

2. If you don’t have a VALR account: https://www.valr.com/invite/VA576PP5

We can’t promise you any invites to Circque du Soleil crypto pool parties. BUT, we can promise you invites to the “formal” parties where smart people get together to discuss impactful stuff. If you have any crypto/ fintech questions — shoot them across to us!

In the race between fast money & slow wealth? We’re choosing the second option.