Chapter 36: Short Fight
"You damn slut!" Luna suddenly grabbed Vivian’s neatly styled blonde hair and pulled it hard.
"Ahhh..." the woman screamed.
"Shit."
Vivian wasn’t someone who could be bullied. She immediately fought back, grabbing Luna’s hair in return. The two quickly started hitting each other until they both fell, continuing to grapple and strike one another.
Luna didn’t gain the upper hand just because her body was more filled out while Vivian was slimmer.
"What are you doing? Stop!" The men around them naturally didn’t let it continue. They pulled the two apart.
"Damn it, if you want to fight, let’s go outside!" Vivian shouted, trying to break free from the two men holding her.
"Let’s go... where do you want?" Luna was even less afraid.
"What are you two doing? Come with me to the office!"
A sharp voice from the doorway made both of them stop.
Anna Diaz—she had come to the cafeteria as well.
Anger was clearly visible on her face seeing a fight, especially between women.
The men finally let go of the two since a lecturer had arrived.
If they continued fighting in front of a lecturer, it wouldn’t end well for them.
"Hurry, or do you want me to drag both of you!" Anna Diaz’s anger only grew stronger.
They had no choice but to follow her.
The students couldn’t help but exchange looks.
It was a short fight but very shocking because it happened so suddenly.
The issue was, Vivian and Luna used to be very close.
No one expected them to suddenly become enemies.
And why did Vivian even raise her middle finger at Luna?
Some people realized it was also because of Liam.
At university, making two women—especially beautiful ones—fight was often seen as an "achievement," but Liam just felt a headache coming on. He finally left the cafeteria.
"Liam, what happened?" He ran into Jack, who immediately asked.
"It’s nothing..." Liam was too lazy to explain.
He went straight back to the classroom, which was almost empty, with only Qian Yingyue remaining.
She seemed to be doing some quick revisions on the analysis that would be submitted to Professor Diaz.
Looking at a Chinese international student like Qian Yingyue, Liam wasn’t surprised why that country developed so rapidly.
After sitting down, Liam looked at his phone again, checking MindChain.
6 million market cap—it was still rising.
Then he saw someone enter with $50,000, instantly pushing the price further to 6.5 million market cap.
That was from a single wallet—but one holding $1 million.
That was clearly a very wealthy individual.
Liam checked that wallet—it held many meme coins, but about half of the $1 million remained in Solana and BNB.
Of course, even with $50,000, they didn’t get up to 10 million tokens at the current price—and still had to pay $5,000 in fees.
Throughout this rise, Liam saw over $100,000 in additional fees flowing in.
The total balance in his wallet was now close to $500,000.
And that wallet had already been viewed by over 10,000 visitors.
"Jack!" Liam called when the latter entered the classroom.
At first, Jack probably wanted to talk about Luna and Vivian’s fight, but seeing Liam’s serious expression, he calmed down and sat in front of him.
"If we list MindChain on an exchange, will we still get fees?" Liam asked.
"Basically, no. Exchanges don’t give fees to developers. They set their own fees for each coin on their platform," Jack replied.
"However, if we request listing and pay them, we could negotiate some rules—like taking a portion of the fees..." he explained.
"Liam, do you want to list it on an exchange? It’s quite expensive—at least $100,000 for a Tier 2 exchange. And we’d also need to give them tokens for trading. The result would belong to them. Of course, the benefit is higher volume. Exchanges give more liquidity and prices can rise insanely."
"I don’t really want to pay like that. But exchanges can list coins on their own, right? When that happens, we have no control and won’t get fees... Eventually, as more exchanges list this coin, trading will move there and we’ll lose our fees. Hmph, exchanges could even take the profits we generate, since profits would end up in their wallets. I want to avoid that." Liam replied.
"This is complicated..." Jack started thinking.
"Usually, developers don’t care about that. They’re happy if exchanges list their coin. Prices go up and they profit big. We could do the same."
"No, I want to maintain MindChain’s philosophy until the end. I want it to keep giving profits to holders."
"If profits keep coming—even just 1% a day—people might move their coins from exchanges to wallets after buying. Yeah... but we still wouldn’t get fees. And they’d probably move their coins back to exchanges when they want to sell. Exchange fees are lower and there’s no sharp slippage. It’s hard to find a solution."
Liam realized there was no easy answer.
Trying to control exchanges would be too expensive—especially Tier 1 exchanges, where listing fees alone could reach $1 million.
He wasn’t willing to pay that much.
"If we build our own network, it might not be appropriate because our goal isn’t to serve the crypto world, but to create an investment that continuously gives dividends to holders. And that would require much higher costs and be extremely complicated."
"I’m not interested in that," Liam replied.
"It seems we can only let things run as they are," he added.
"Yeah... there’s no easy way. But if MindChain’s price keeps rising and its investment balance grows, maybe we can force exchanges to accept our terms," Jack said with a chuckle.
"Makes sense... since we hold most of the supply without any lock at all..."
As long as he remained the largest holder and controlled the developer wallet, he was the one in control.
After all, this coin was built on trust in the developer.
He then monitored Bitcoin again, feeling like trading once more.
(10–11 AM)
(Price Now: 76,999.99)
(Highest Price: 77,383.99) +0.50%
(Lowest Price: 76,768.21) -0.30%
As he watched Bitcoin’s price, it didn’t move significantly for this hour.
But it didn’t matter. By increasing leverage to 125, even a 0.80% movement would mean a 100% return.
The price started to rise as he watched.
Without hiding it from Jack, he placed a $200,000 short position right when Bitcoin reached its highest price.
Jack took a deep breath, his hands trembling.
That much money would vanish if Liam’s prediction turned out to be wrong.
