Discover how gamer and creator Orangie used Whop to build and scale Potion Alpha, a 100K-member blockchain and crypto trading community moving with market trends.
Orangie (aka Gabriele Leyva) grew up online. He posted his first gaming YouTube video when he was eight, spending the next 14 years building his personal brand as a respected gamer, creator, and crypto trader.
Now, at just 22 years old, he’s running one of the biggest trading communities on Whop.
Potion Alpha is built around one goal: get the edge on whatever is making money on the blockchain right now.
I’d call myself a content creator and entrepreneur just moving on to whatever is hot.
That means when the markets shift? He shifts with them.
No loyalty to a crypto niche, no attachment to a single product. Just finding the next opportunity (and bringing his audience with him, of course).
Building in public
Orangie didn’t begin with a community roadmap, or a grand plan to teach thousands of traders.
In truth, building a community was initially a creative solution to an annoying problem.
At that point, Gabriele was trading 15 hours a day, deep in the weeds of a market that was moving faster than most people could keep up with.
The right tools made all the difference, but they weren’t cheap.
So he tested a simple, almost throwaway idea. What if he shared those tools with a tiny group of followers on Twitter, and charged a small weekly fee?
Honestly, I was paying out of pocket for some of these tools that I was using to trade meme coins. I thought if I just gave these tools out to people on Twitter, and charged a small fee for it, the tools could pay for themselves. Obviously, it became much bigger than that.
You know what they say, necessity is the mother of all invention, or something like that.
The intention behind the first interaction of Potion Alpha was to cover Orangie’s own trading tool costs, but before long, he had a cult following.
Going where the money moves
Potion Alpha isn’t tied to a single niche or strategy. It was set up to follow whatever corner of the internet is making money right now.
In one sentence? We’re a community trying to gather an edge on whatever the hottest moneymaking opportunity is.
When meme coins were running hot, the community leaned into them. When the cycle cooled (and the same tools he first offered access became free), Orangie pivoted again.
That’s kinda the point, here.
This isn’t a meme coin group, or a derivatives group, or a prediction market group. It’s an online crypto community where 100,000+ members collaborate to master blockchain trading.
And it shifts alongside the market, which is why members keep growing.
Real results in real time
Potion Alpha didn’t need to rely on marketing hype or glossy claims – Orangie’s personal brand pulled people in with ease.
The only reason I got to where I am, which was the number one crypto group on Whop, is because of my personal brand. You can't really go far, I would say anywhere in this new digital era, without a personal brand. It's super, super important.
But once they were in? They stuck around for the wins and results.
People inside were catching opportunities as they unfolded, sharing wins and riding on each other’s excitement.
One of the wildest examples? When Donald Trump unexpectedly tweeted about a meme coin, Potion’s Twitter tracker caught the signal instantly.
Members who reacted fast enough got in before the wave, and more than a few walked away with life-changing wins, including multiple traders clearing eight figures. Sheesh.
Once a community sees real outcomes, trust forms fast, and stickier than any branding campaign. Potion Alpha didn’t need a funnel, or a TikTok strategy, or paid ads.
The results became the marketing, and the members became the proof.
Potion Alpha grew faster than Orangie expected
Potion Alpha scaled faster than anyone thought it would (including Orangie).
At the peak of the meme coin run, new traders were joining daily. Beginners, degens, analysts, and high-level operators all poured in at once, and the pace was impossible to control.
With that scale came the hard side of running a trading community:
- Endless questions
- Constant pressure
- New members who didn’t understand the culture yet
- Growing criticism from people who expected guaranteed wins
I don’t need to tell you guys, but crypto is volatile, and so are the reactions. When markets cool, emotions rise. And when your face is tied to the community, those emotions land squarely on you.
I've definitely encountered negativity. But, I feel like there's been a good level of trust because of who I am.
At one point, Orangie even experimented with going all in. I’m talking three physical offices, over 50 employees, and payroll hitting $200K a month.
That’s a level of operations most 22 year old business owners couldn’t dream of getting to.
But scale for scale’s sake didn’t feel right, and it wasn’t sustainable.
So Gabriele cut his team down to ten, trimmed his overheads, removed unnecessary layers, and rebuilt his structure.
And it worked, if the reviews are anything to go by.
The next online money-making wave
During our call, I was lucky enough to get to pick Gabriel’s brain. So, naturally, I asked him what he thinks traders should be paying attention to moving into the next few months.
His answer?
We're seeing the rise of prediction markets pop up, and I think there's a real edge to be found there. And honestly, now there's hundreds, if not thousands of markets that you could bet on.
If you're wondering, "What exactly are prediction markets?", think of them as trading meets forecasting.
Instead of charts, you’re placing capital on outcomes in politics, sports, geopolitics, even pop culture.
Who wins the election, whether Bitcoin hits a certain price, how many times Elon Musk posts on X. You get the idea.
Gabriele explains it perfectly: if you understand the world well enough (or you’re fast enough), you can monetize almost anything.
It is fun, but there's a fine line between gambling and actually trying to make money.
Just like early meme season, prediction markets are still wide open. They’re unfamiliar, lightly trafficked, and often inefficient (exactly the environment where a plugged-in community thrives).
Maybe that’s the next big chapter for Potion Alpha. Maybe it’s just another stepping stone.
Either way, Orangie’s playbook remains the same. Find the edge first, and bring everyone with you.
I asked if there were any crypto myths that piss him off, and he straight up said the biggest mistake people make is thinking they need insider information to win.
Gabriele largely taught himself to read the markets, and look where he is now.
Oh, and the other myth worth dismissing? That it isn’t worth investing small and steady when it comes to crypto.
Sure, members of Potion Alpha largely focus on chasing big, timely wins. But that doesn’t mean Gabriele isn’t a fan of traditional investing, too.
Even in crypto, you build up your portfolio small and steady. So $5 every day, or $5 bucks every week, whatever it is. At the end of the year, you'll have a lot more than you did if you didn't.
I'll be heeding that advice.
Finding the ultimate community setup
Orangie didn’t have to spend months wiring together systems. He played scout and fed plays to his community, while Whop handled pretty much everything everything else in the background.
Potion Alpha was built on Whop because Gabriele already had experience with the platform, account managers, and marketplace.
I actually started using Whop much prior to Potion. I ran an affiliate marketing business, it was actually one of the first ever businesses on Whop, and I scaled that to $50,000 a month.
So when it came time to spin up a paid community, he already knew where to build it.
My own account manager invited me out many times to the New York headquarters. Being able to meet the founders and the team and being able to chat with everyone, it's always felt very hands-on.
And sure, a hands-on team, dedicated account managers, and 24/7 support is a bit of a flex (just saying). But the real magic is in how easy it is to build out and customize community offers with minimal admin.
Potion Alpha offers Discord access to one free and two paid communities, four different tracker tools, and discounts for multiple months’ access.
Whop does the entire process for me. I just have to have a good product, and they manage everything.
Whether you want to offer courses within your community, SaaS tools, file access, livestreaming, giveaways, or pretty much anything else, there’s a dedicated Whop app to make it easy.
Beyond that, Whop handles:
- Payments
- Renewals
- Access control
- Member management
- Fraud protection
So you’re never stuck stitching together integrations and navigating crashes.
Build any niche community with Whop by your side
The best thing about building with Whop? You’re never locked in. Change your storefront, products, and pricing as you wish.
Wanna add a course? Do it in five minutes. Thinking of moving your community chat from Discord to Whop? Add the Chat app. Need to add a new payment method? Whop Payments gives you 100+ payment methods to choose from.
Build like Orangie: choose a core idea, commonality, or goal (chasing the next internet goldrush, for example), and adapt your offers to fit as you grow, learn, and evolve alongside your members.
Start selling on Whop and get dedicated support, simplified payments, and access to one of the internet’s hottest marketplaces.
