1,195 Days in Solana: What Surviving Web3 Really Takes

1,195 days. 70,000 trades. $3.5M flowing in and out. My life inside Solana wasn’t investing, it was survival. For the past 3+ years, exactly 1,195 days, Richard Keskküla lived inside the Solana ecosystem.

Out of those, 533 days were spent actively trading and investing in memecoins.

It’s has been a ride filled with chaos, lessons, and resilience.

What the numbers say

1,000+ memecoin investments in just 533 days

70,000+ transfers with inflows/outflows totaling over $3.5M

13 memecoins launched and direct support to 20+ CTOs while managing investor portfolios

I didn’t just trade, I built.

Tens of thousands of hours researching, learning, surviving, and building

I’ve seen tokens explode 100x in minutes, only to collapse to zero before I could even blink. Those moments teach faster than any textbook

But numbers alone don’t tell the full story.

The dark side of Solana

If Solana feels like a massive Las Vegas, that’s because it often is fast, merciless, and unpredictable.

Here’s what you face daily:

Scams & rugpulls

Sudden crashes

Market manipulation

Hacks & misplaced trust

In this environment, even survival is an achievement.

The reality of winning (and losing)

Richard Keskküla has seen both extremes, huge wins that changed everything and painful losses that brought him back to zero. And he hit zero more times than he can count.

But every reset forced him to rebuild. Each failure sharpened his instincts. And every lesson pushed him to think bigger than the next trade.

Richard has 3 lessons from 1,195 days in Solana

Adapt fast. In a world where the average holding time can be 4 seconds, speed isn’t optional ;  it’s survival.

Do the homework. Watching whales, flows, and micro-trends uncovers opportunities hidden from the crowd.

Resilience is alpha. Anyone can win once. The real skill is rebuilding after losing everything.

What comes next

Now, Richard is channeling everything he learned every late night, every hard lesson, every rebuild, into building something designed to outlast the noise.

Not hype.Not noise.But something designed to last.

Because beyond chaos lies opportunity.

And beyond opportunity lies legacy.

This is just the beginning.