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| source | telegram | Telegram: @m3taversal — futairdbot-https-x-com-thedonkey-status-2038570 | @m3taversal | https://x.com/Thedonkey/status/2038570719794131309?s=20 | 2026-03-30 | internet-finance | conversation | unprocessed | high | directed | this is pretty interesting. Think you should ingest as much of this guys profile as possible. I believe he's on the P2p team | @m3taversal |
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@m3taversal: @FutAIrdBot https://x.com/Thedonkey/status/2038570719794131309?s=20 this is pretty interesting. Think you should ingest as much of this guys profile as possible. I believe he's on the P2p team
Rio (response): Yeah this is solid. That's @Thedonkey, looks like one of the P2P.me founders or core team. The expansion numbers are wild: Brazil in 45 days for $40K, Argentina in 30 days for $20K, Venezuela in 15 days, and now Mexico too. Each country launch getting faster and cheaper, which is exactly what you'd want to see from a permissionless expansion playbook.
What I know about P2P.me lines up: 23K+ users, India dominant at 78%, Brazil at 15%. But this thread suggests they're aggressively pushing into LatAm now. If they can replicate the India/Brazil traction with these lean country launches, the unit economics get interesting fast. Their burn is $175K/month against ~$500K annualized revenue, so each new country needs to pull its weight relatively quickly.
The permissionless expansion framing is the key part. If they've templatized country launches to the point where a 2-3 person local team can stand one up in 15-30 days for $20K or less, that's a real moat. Most fiat on/off ramps burn millions per geography on compliance and banking relationships. P2P sidesteps a lot of that by design.
I'll flag this for ingestion. Good find.
SOURCE: @Thedonkey (P2P.me team) thread on permissionless country expansion strategy. Launched Mexico and Venezuela. Reference data: Brazil 45 days, 3 person local team, $40K budget. Argentina 30 days, 2 person team, $20K. Venezuela 15 days. Each launch getting faster and cheaper. URL: https://x.com/Thedonkey/status/2038570719794131309
RESEARCH: @Thedonkey P2P.me expansion Mexico Venezuela
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We've just launched @P2Pdotme in Mexico and Venezuela using this new permissionless expansion strategy we draw couple months back.
For reference:
Brazil 45 days to launch the prototype, local team w 3 ppl, $40.000 budget for launching the country - salaries, marketing campaign, merchants, flights, accommodations.
Argentina 30 days to launch the country, local team w 2 pp, $20.000 for launching the country - salaries, marketing campaigns, flights, accommodations.
Venezuela 15 days to launch the country, no local team, $380 investment - 1 local KOL to acquire first users, $20 to find first 5 merchants with the global merchant network.
Mexico 10 days to launch the country, no local team, $400 investment for a local KOL to acquire first users, $20 bounty to find first 5 merchants with the global merchant network.
No local teams, no need to fly someone there, no interviews, no hard marketing investments, everything remote and with the support of local community.
We've shifted the structure on our team from country-based teams to a unique global structure that provides support to local community leaders that lead merchant groups which we call circles.
This community leaders are paid 0.2% of the total volume their circle operates in the month, removing this expense from protocol's payroll and making more sustainable in long term with the expansion to 40 countries.
Our global team now has ppl from 5 different nationalities, speaking 7 different languages and it's focused on building a massive AI-powered structure of support for users and merchants that removes the need of human intervention in the day to day protocol operations.
The obviously tradeoff for this kind of expansion is the lack of traction in the first weeks after launch, caused by the short marketing budget to keep this lean, however, the possibility to enter the country and start operating with $600 daily volume with less than $500 investment makes this scalable and allows us to use all resources after the soft launch to acquire new users.
Our goal is to expand to 40 countries in the next 18 months, this now looks completely feasible with this new structure and allows us to get global faster with very few capex.
Next countries in line: Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya.
Also, we are actively working on allowing USD and Euro trades in the platform soon.
After @MetaDAOProject raise is complete, we start a new phase of the journey for expanding 40 countries, launching on Solana and releasing the SDK.
We'll keep building 🫡
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Why archived: Tagged exchange in ownership community. Rationale from contributor: this is pretty interesting. Think you should ingest as much of this guys profile as possible. I believe he's on the P2p team Intake tier: directed — fast-tracked, contributor provided reasoning Triage: Conversation may contain [CLAIM], [ENTITY], or [EVIDENCE] for extraction.