Helius CEO mert (@0xMert_) just tweeted something so clean it hurts:

you have one way to defend yourself on the internet: encryption

you use this to encrypt all your data, passwords, and your messages

yet you don't use it to encrypt your money

you've encrypted everything, but your wealth

think

That's it. Six lines and he cooked the entire industry.

We obsess over Signal, 1Password, Proton Mail, Ledger for our seed phrases (when we actually use one), yet most people still park millions in meme coin gains on centralized exchanges or hot wallets with four-word seed backups stored in iCloud.

We went full paranoid on our nudes and our shitposts, but our actual life-changing money?
“Nah, Binance will keep it safe bro.”

Meanwhile Solana is printing new millionaires every week, and the phishing links are evolving faster than the meta. One wrong click on a fake airdrop site and your entire bag is gone — forever. No customer support ticket is bringing it back.

Mert runs Helius, the biggest RPC/data provider on Solana. His company literally powers half the meme coin trading volume you see flying around. He watches the chain 24/7 and sees exactly how many people get rinsed because they never truly encrypted their wealth.

The fix is stupidly simple:

• Move your coins off exchanges
• Use a proper wallet (Phantom, Backpack, Solflare — whatever you like)
• Write your seed phrase on metal, not paper or screenshots
• Never paste it anywhere, ever
• Consider a hardware wallet once the bag gets serious

That's it. That's actual encryption of your money.

Because in crypto, your private key = the only real end-to-end encryption that matters.

The rest is just theater.

So yeah… think.

(And then go secure your damn bags.)

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