They once said, “Data is the new oil.” Then, “Signal is the new gold.”. But what happens when signal gets corrupted by noise? In the previous chapter, we saw how attention = capital. Platforms like Pump.fun and Virtuals challenged the VC model by raising funds without generating real signal. But attention is like energy, when focused, it creates value. When left unchecked? It explodes. We call them Funnels Turned Weapons. Kaito: Once a Pure Signal During the noisiest days of Pump.fun, Kaito b...

They once said, “Data is the new oil.” Then, “Signal is the new gold.”. But what happens when signal gets corrupted by noise? In the previous chapter, we saw how attention = capital. Platforms like Pump.fun and Virtuals challenged the VC model by raising funds without generating real signal. But attention is like energy, when focused, it creates value. When left unchecked? It explodes. We call them Funnels Turned Weapons. Kaito: Once a Pure Signal During the noisiest days of Pump.fun, Kaito b...