noun Internet Slang

alpha

· noun · internet

Edge info on a coin or NFT before it moons.

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Insider or early information on a crypto project — a mint date, a partnership, a wallet's accumulation, a token about to list. The currency of Crypto Twitter and private Discords. 'Dropping alpha' means sharing it; 'alpha leak' means it got out before it was supposed to. Borrowed from finance, where alpha means returns above the market benchmark.

“Joined a paid Discord just for the NFT alpha, paid for itself in one mint.”
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Dominant, high-status male in pickup-artist and manosphere lingo — the 'alpha' to the 'beta'. Built on a debunked reading of wolf pack hierarchy but lives on in gym, dating and red-pill spaces.

“He won't stop posting about being an alpha, which is generally the first sign someone isn't.”
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alpha In A Sentence

Joined a paid Discord just for the NFT alpha, paid for itself in one mint.
He won't stop posting about being an alpha, which is generally the first sign someone isn't.

Origin & Usage

Crypto sense lifted from hedge-fund jargon (alpha = excess return). The masculinity sense traces back to a 1947 wolf study whose own author later retracted the conclusion.

Variants alphas
Tags #crypto#web3#finance#nft

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