From Triple Integrals to Trust: How $NERD Graduated Beyond the Pump

Andrea Koury Judkins
3 min readDec 24, 2024

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You know that moment when life hands you lemons and you accidentally make something better than lemonade? That’s my $NERD story.

The Tattoo That Changed Everything

Picture this: There I was, getting a triple integral tattooed on my skin, riding high on math-nerd energy and project hype. The ink wasn’t even dry when the rug got pulled. Hours. Literally hours after getting permanent math on my body, the project turned out to be a scam.

The Plot Twist

But here’s where it gets interesting. Instead of just being another sad rug story, something different happened. The community — all of us who got caught in the hype — we didn’t just disappear. We stayed. We talked. We built.

From Rug to Real Vision

When everything went south, I did something that felt natural — I started telling people about Nerdy Investors. Not as a pump play, not as a quick flip, but as something real. Something that actually meant something.

The Graduation

You see, sometimes it takes getting burned to find your real path. $NERD graduated from pump and dump territory not because of complex tokenomics or fancy marketing, but because a community refused to let a scam be the end of their story.

The Ironic Beauty

The beautiful irony? That triple integral tattoo — a symbol of higher-level mathematics, of complexity and understanding — became a permanent reminder that the best things often come from our biggest setbacks.

The Lesson

Getting scammed sucks. But what you do after the scam? That’s what defines you. We didn’t just recover — we evolved. $NERD graduated from pump fun because sometimes the universe has a weird way of pushing you exactly where you need to be.

Moving Forward

Now when I look at that triple integral, I don’t see a reminder of a scam. I see:

  • A community that refused to give up
  • A project that grew beyond the hype
  • A movement that found its real purpose

The Bottom Line

There’s a saying, no risk. No reward. If you don’t bring it to God.

Sometimes you need to get a permanent reminder of a temporary setback to find your lasting purpose. $NERD didn’t just survive a scam — it transcended it.

And that’s how my mathematical tattoo became a symbol of something much bigger than a pump and dump. It became a mark of transformation.

Keep building, keep learning, keep believing.

Even when the ink dries differently than you planned.

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*From pump to purpose, some lessons you wear forever.*

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