Zaheer Ebtikar — Founder/CIO, Split Capital (1 trade idea)

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Date Ticker Direction Thesis Source
Feb 03, 2026 AVOID "We're at the tail end of the massive valuation layer one... game." Zaheer notes that ecosystem teams are mercenary and not loyal; they won't build killer apps for you. The 2021 playbook (Buy L1 token -> Wait for ecosystem fund to pump it) is dead. Blockspace is commoditized. If an L1 team isn't building the consumer product *themselves*, the chain will become a ghost town. AVOID. Do not buy "infrastructure" tokens that lack a native, revenue-generating "killer app." A specific L1 might secure a hit game/app by chance, causing a temporary pump. The Block
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