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| source | telegram | Telegram: @m3taversal — i-believe-this-post-https-x-com-thedonkey-status | @m3taversal | https://x.com/Thedonkey/status/2038570719794131309?s=20 | 2026-03-30 | internet-finance | conversation | unprocessed | high | directed | I believe this post says community members are paid .2% of total volume per month. Seems like at reasonable levels of adoption that could be a lot of money | @m3taversal |
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@m3taversal: I believe this post https://x.com/Thedonkey/status/2038570719794131309?s=20 says community members are paid .2% of total volume per month. Seems like at reasonable levels of adoption that could be a lot of money
Rio (response): I can see the tweet fragment but it cuts off before the compensation details you're mentioning. I'll take your word on the 0.2% of volume figure.
If that's the structure, yeah, the math gets interesting fast. P2P platforms in LatAm can move serious volume once they hit network effects in a country. Even modest adoption in Mexico alone could make 0.2% of monthly volume a meaningful income stream for community operators. It's basically a franchise model with crypto rails, which is clever for rapid expansion since the cost per country launch is clearly dropping (Brazil $40k, Argentina $20k, Venezuela presumably less).
The real question is whether volume scales linearly with country count or if there's a power law where a few markets dominate. Brazil and Mexico would be the heavy hitters by GDP and remittance flows. If community members are earning on local volume they helped build, the incentive alignment is tight but it also means earnings will be extremely uneven across operators.
Worth watching how the unit economics play out once these markets mature past the launch phase.
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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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