This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Thomas from High Stakes

Thomas reflected on the crypto space, from vanishing millions and GPU shortages to the importance of strategic positioning through foundations. For him, success comes down to a broad assessment—analyzing white papers, infrastructure quality, and costs—while only engaging in truly interesting projects, all with a bit of a Batman mindset.

High Stakes provides reliable, secure validator services for multiple blockchains, backed by strong Swiss-based infrastructure. Committed to decentralization, they actively engage in governance, develop community tools, and support other validator teams in the open-source spirit.

We spoke to Thomas about High Stakes and:

• Seeing about a million dollars that just vanished


• Bored out of my mind


• You couldn't buy a GPU because of all the miners


• Foundations, the fastest way of securing a position


• Only get involved with interesting projects


• It's about a broad assessment


• Reading the white paper


• Hobo asking for money


• Multiple parameters, quality of the infrastructure, also the cost


• Being Batman

Timestamps

00:00 – 05:20 : Intro

05:20 -- 10:41 : The switch

10:41 -- 13:02 : Deciding to go that way

13:02 -- 22:01 : What not to do and chain selection

22:01 -- 29:20 : Validators contributing to adoption

29:20 -- 36:08 : Cosmos and goals

36:08 -- 51:00 : Setup

51:00 – 55:37 : The Blitz

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Special Guest: Thomas Lafaille.

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