Jowe Stewart got into crypto through a random barbecue conversation and ended up building communities through ICO mania, Polkadot conviction, and now Fogo’s trading-first push as the market shifted under him.

Today Jowe and Sags sit down to discuss:

🔥 going from buying Litecoin at $2K Bitcoin to running ICO communities and defending tokens in Telegram

🔥 turning community grinding into a full agency working with dozens of projects before burning out

🔥 watching Polkadot believers push narratives while Solana wins on execution

🔥 how meme coins pulled in new users and wiped them out just as fast

🔥 why trust in crypto broke and why retail users never came back

🔥 the shift from narrative driven cycles to purpose built trading infrastructure

🔥 how Hyperliquid reset expectations for what traders actually need

🔥 building Fogo around speed liquidity and real trading behavior instead of ideology

🔥 what actually makes a crypto community stick and why most don’t

🔥 where crypto conversations moved after X lost influence and InfoFi collapsed

0:00 Intro

06:48 Polkadot and Early Conviction

09:28 Joining Fogo and Building Community

13:49 Meme Coins and Retail Damage

15:34 How Crypto Cycles Actually Evolve

21:14 Why Hyperliquid Won Early Traction

27:21 What Builds a Cult-Like Crypto Community

32:06 How Crypto Communities Changed

33:13 Why InfoFi Collapsed

35:10 Where Crypto Conversations Moved

41:15 Getting Involved with Fogo

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