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PANDAPALS Roundtable, Part 2 → After Dark 🐼

Host: Panda (@PandaPump_), with cohosts Waldo (@waldoforrealz) and Curtis Gore (@curtisgore) · Date: Tue 18 Aug 2026 · Duration: ~5h38m across two rooms (Part 1: 1:01, Part 2: 4:37) · ~15 active speakers

TL;DR

The night's prompt was simple: what was your biggest mistake in web3, and how did you learn from it? — and nearly everyone who grabbed a mic answered with a real war story.
The recurring lesson across the room: know when to sell. Billabong, Beast, Peanut, and Panda all circled the same "take a little off the top / don't round-trip it" discipline from different angles.
Waldo shared long-form lore about a project he helped run to ~$30M, getting pushed off the admin team, and his "community first, always" ethos — plus a live update on minting pixel NFTs for a Nigerian charity.
Curtis minted Coda, the only red panda (a 1/1) in the Panda Pals collection — the emotional high point of the night.
After the restart, Part 2 slid into a genuine after-dark comedy marathon: soundboards, chipmunk voices, invented franchises (panda poppers, smart mops), and Waldo re-enacting the legendary "guy got arrested live on a Space" clip.
The whole thing ran roughly 10 hours across two rooms, ending in a drawn-out "Minnesota goodbye."

Highlights

Waldo's for-reels / $30M lore — [P1 6:25] Waldo recounts helping onboard thousands into a meme project that hit millions, then getting branded a "grifter" and kicked off the admin team when the founders pivoted toward a "corporate" retirement-token model. He describes holding his bag from $44k down to $7k out of loyalty, calling it his "toxic sickness of community first."

The topic gets named — [P1 30:48] Panda frames the evening's exercise: your biggest web3 mistake and, more importantly, how you learned from it — an intentional attempt to make the Space a place people leave "invigorated" with something usable, not just vanity metrics.

Wulfu on scams and morality — [P1 34:14] Wulfu ("Wolf") talks practically about fake insider chats, getting drained for $6k on a bad click, and why real solutions have to come from people who actually know the chain. He lands it with a father-son parable about passing down wisdom [P1 36:15].

Tori's tattoo ↔ NFT bridge — [P1 42:28] Tori, a commercial and tattoo artist, says his biggest mistake was ignoring the 30-year client base he already had when he "started from zero" in web3. He sketches a vision of NFTs redeemable as tattoos and a "best tattoo NFT artist" award at conventions — an untapped bridge between a multi-billion-dollar industry and this one.

Billabong: take your own advice — [P2 7:52] Billabong, the room's pattern-reader, says his biggest error this cycle was not taking his own advice — spotting tops and calling them for others, then diamond-handing his own bags to zero. He later walks through a real, un-named project he watched run 1M → 2M → back to 300k, explaining psychological price "beacons" and how flywheel tokens quietly cannibalize the original [P2 30:11].

Beast plays the people, not the charts — [P2 23:55] Newest to web3 (2–3 months), Beast shares how a bad "green-flag" project taught him to fine-tune his circle. His most profitable options runs came from predicting what people would do and undershooting their exits — plus a hard-won gratitude mindset [P2 39:06].

Peanut's honeypot lock-up — [P2 42:20] Peanut vividly relives a late-2023 "scheme" where, sitting in his room with a large wallet, he hesitated at the red flags, re-rolled into another lock-up period anyway, and never saw those funds again. His takeaway: when you feel the urge to screenshot the peak, it usually is the peak.

Curtis mints the only red panda — [P2 1:57:12] Waldo spots it first — Curtis has minted Coda, the single red panda 1/1 in the collection, with the only pointy ears and the only phone. The room lights up; even Billabong's daughter, apparently red-panda-obsessed, "went crazy" over it [P2 2:17:11].

Panda's own confessional — [P2 1:47:21] Panda finally takes the seat, cataloguing 2017-era ghosts: not selling, being scared to use a cold wallet (and losing funds on a hacked exchange because of it), holding 60 tokens at once, and botching early entries on Solana, Matic, and SHIB.

After Dark tips into chaos — [P2 2:20:xx] The voice-changers come out and the Space becomes a chipmunk-and-well-echo circus, spawning fake franchises (panda poppers, smart mops, smoked-bacon-maple ice cream), before Waldo re-enacts the archived saga of a community member who got arrested live on a Space while trying to explain his "Ethereum phone" to police — and was thrown to the wolves when he begged Waldo to vouch for him [P2 3:33:xx].

Notable quotes

"It falls on the fate of the father to teach the son. And if the father fails to teach the son, then it results in society suffering from it." — Wulfu [P1 36:15]