Prominence does not happen overnight, nor does it come easy. Luckily, there are steps people can take to increase their chances of achieving their dreams, thus achieving success. The steps to achieving your wildest dreams may include believing it is possible, visualizing your goals, informing others about them, working hard and wisely, and eventually, taking the process day by day. Matteo Zago, an astute DeFi pioneer and investor, is a testament that even your wildest dreams are achievable. His journey has been of faith and resilience to successfully attain his dream.

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Matteo, a young innovator, has realized so much at a young age. In the early days of the rise of cryptocurrency, Matteo was ranked as an Amazon bestselling author on marketing topics in 2014 for The Facebook Bible and The Twitter Marketing Guide. He was also the first person to map out the "web 3.0" term and characterize blockchain technology with it, which he mentioned for the first time in one of his most celebrated articles about the importance of "Web3." It was innovative, gained wide publicity, and was used as a reference by many journals, including the famous Crunchbase. Matteo was also the first to invest in various blue-chip projects in their early days, and many of his articles have become the most popular Medium articles of their time.

Matteo is a risk taker. He opted not to pursue a university degree and instead to venture into an industry many considered high risk/scammy. He joined the industry in 2010 when Facebook arbitrage opportunities were starting to grow for online affiliate marketing. To him, crypto was a world that had just hit a golden vein. Matteo rapidly devoted his time learning how to make money on the web.

Despite many, including his family, criticizing him, Matteo has worked hard to achieve his goals. His venture took a long time to pay off, but the idealistic go-getting entrepreneur never lost his focus. Through sheer willpower and hard work, Matteo quickly learned more about crypto and made a handsome amount of money by the time he was 22. "I was making more money than most of my educated friends, even more than what university lecturers earn. This made people think my success was accidental," Matteo excitedly shares.

Matteo has no regrets about ditching the traditional 9–5 career path. After earning the first of his returns, he started researching cryptocurrencies (specifically blue-chip crypto projects) and invested in them after realizing their potential. The growing popularity of crypto as a mainstream digital investment platform only proves Matteo's assessment expertise as a veteran investor. He is currently a household name in the global digital empire and has been featured in many distinguished media outlets.

Matteo always gives credit to the spectacular mentors he met along the way. They helped him grow into a professional with excellent investment and management abilities and have massively contributed to his success. Matteo has achieved the goals he set five years ago but still feels the urge to push further and has been developing a new five-year plan recently. He urges fellow crypto investors to consider the current status-quo of world economics and the global recession the world might face soon and use it to their advantage. Having been an early-stage investor in various blue-chip crypto/NFT projects, he sees this as another excellent opportunity to adopt projects with substantial potential earlier than others.