Front Run The Week 5/19/25
Protein > Gold. Don't Let Headlines Feed You Garbage.
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Let me put it bluntly: if you're still chasing Memes and eating fast food, you're not going to make it.
We’re in an era where protein should be a commodity. Gold’s sitting north of $3,200 an ounce—but it’s overvalued. Want something more useful? Something that actually strengthens your life instead of weighing down your wallet? Try protein.
Not the kind injected with seed oils or slapped between a soggy $18 bun at your local fast-casual trap. I’m talking about the real stuff: wild salmon, lean steak, pasture-raised eggs, Premiere Protein shakes if you’re in a rush. Things that rebuild your body. Things that prepare you for what's coming next.
Meanwhile, you’ve got people living on meme coins like BONK and PEPE, acting like $43 in profit is a lifestyle. 99% of investors in this space get wrecked. They fall for the same tricks they fall for in food: cheap packaging, zero substance.
Here’s the hard truth:
Fast food isn’t even “fast” anymore. It’s a luxury item now. A scam wrapped in a sesame seed bun. Five Guys, like all the other slow-casual food joints, is a food illusion. We once lived in a time when ten tacos at Taco Bell cost only a dollar. Even a teenager without a job could afford to stuff his face on their inclusive menu. Today, Taco Bell shills “Luxe boxes” with protein so stripped it might as well be a side of nuked fries.
Protein is the new gold—and unlike the market price of metals, it’s something you can control. Every meal. Every rep. Every day.
So before you load up on hype headlines and risk-on distractions, ask yourself:
Am I building anything real? Or just consuming calories and content that make me weaker?
Stay lean. Stay smart. Stay ahead.
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Before We Get Into the Meat…
Think about what bodybuilders in the 1950s ate.
Before Ozempic. Before seed oil. Before TikTok macros. Long before a mass monster like Nick Walker had veins in his legs that looked like gallstones desperately trying to escape.
Back when physiques had symmetry and strength meant something, steak and eggs were king. That was breakfast, lunch, and sometimes dinner. And guess what? It worked.
Fast forward to now—and every carb is a Trojan horse for garbage protein.
Soft tacos. Burgers. Sandwiches. Wraps. Every meal is a carry case for low-grade meat.
Here’s the thing no one wants to tell you: protein and carbs don’t mix great.
Not if you want results.
Not if you want to be sharp, lean, and strong.
It's like going 100x leverage on a DEX. It feels powerful, but it's just a setup to get rekt.
Metabolically, it's the same thing: carbs + protein = bloated gains, not real ones.
We live in a world where everything has to dominate. One chain to rule them all.
Solana says don’t use anyone else. Then SUI tries to front-run that with some new twist. Same game, different packaging. But nutrition works differently.
You can have carbs. Just not on the same day as protein. Or at least give it a four-hour window.
Make Sunday your carb day. Have the spaghetti. But if you’re hunting for gains—mental or physical—don’t load it on top of protein.
This has been one of my biggest unlocks after losing 50 lbs and sitting down with a real nutritionist.
She didn’t correct me—she agreed.
With the old-school bodybuilders. The ones who built the blueprint before we got sold the garbage.
Now let’s get to what else the headlines missed this week—and what they’re distracting you from.
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Let me set the record straight.
I dropped a video on Record Nexus before it pumped 90% in a single day.
Don’t get it twisted—this wasn’t luck. It was signal. And if you’ve been following me closely, you saw it coming too.
The project quietly rebranded from Music Protocol, but the token? Still $RECORD.
You can trade it on Base right now.
And this is where things get exciting.
This isn’t just a music token. This is about unlocking liquidity for the IP economy.
Copyrights. Creative rights. Performance royalties. The stuff old Hollywood still clings to—now being digitized and set free. On-chain.
We’re talking about creators actually owning their IP. Not just leasing it back from Spotify or Netflix. Not waiting for a check in the mail from BMI.
This plays perfectly into what I’ve been saying about Plume. The chain for RWA.
The chain for ownership.
What Record is doing on Base, Plume is about to amplify.
Different lanes, same thesis: own the asset, unlock the economy.
If you missed Record before the spike, don’t worry—most did. It’s my personal opinion—Not Financial Advice—that it’s going to get louder and louder.
As you might know by now, I try to see through the headlines, into the makeshift boardroom in the basement—where all the VC’s lounge in their starter pack uniforms. Where they joke about the terms and conditions that were designed to lock-out all us Norms, getting drunk on liquidity. Where they backbite the everyday investors who believe in the headlines, ready to strip them of their value with every tick on a chart.
So be it…
Crypto may not be a seat at the table, but it’s a parking pass into the building area. If you can sneak into the lobby and hang out on level 1, you might ride that elevator up a few floors if you Do Your Own Research with a little conviction. (Just not to the very top, or else you’re pushing it!)
I like to look at Web3 as a new era of business. No longer just a tool used by finance, but today the best technology is finance. It leads the conversation.
The old world system is behind the times, and they know it. Financial advisors are scrambling to figure things out with their clients who need deep insight. JP Morgan settled treasuries on Ondo, via Ethereum. SEI is ditching Cosmos in favor of EVM. Mantra is silent about Cosmos since it doesn’t seem to matter to them much after they’ve already run, looking like victims now with a token burn.
When new retail floods in at 120K—or 150K—after the headlines tell them they can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines, you’ll know things are different this time.
Steal the signs.
And use Coinbase like they’ll use fresh meat when the time comes—fomo-ing into Alts with green candles after sticker-shock on One Bitcoin.
Stay on Base and you’ll be safe IMO. Stick around for another Altseason, or whatever they’ll call it in the future.
Not Financial Advice, of course.
Just sound advice from here on.
-Chip