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Building in public is good, but trading in public is quite bad I respect James Wynn’s optimism, and maybe things would have been different if his billion-dollar leveraged position wasn’t publicly viewable onchain for everyone to hunt his liquidation price Hence the value

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This is pretty massive if you think about it Billions of dollars being distributed to creditors around the world from a bankrupt crypto exchange that had a $10 bln “hole” / illiquidity gap just 3 years ago Via a crypto exchange with banking rails

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Super thoughtful discussion on network states between Balaji and Jason. Funny enough, my favorite part is at 22:30 where Balaji refers to the micro-state San Marino as the “duck-billed platypus” for understanding San Marino as a missing evolutionary link to micro state

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As a side story to the synthetic vs "real" equity story, some folks are surprised by Robinhood's strict rules on tokenized stocks. But after many years in crypto, I've learned something: Adoption benefits from guardrails. The key is figuring out how to set the guardrails to

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Tom Lee pivoting to ETH bull as chairman of Bitmine (MSTR for ETH) is worth watching. His core ETH investment thesis is: 1. Stablecoins are the killer app of crypto and Ethereum is their foundation “It really started with stablecoins, which is the ChatGPT of crypto… viral

Tom Lee pivoting to ETH bull as chairman of Bitmine (MSTR for ETH) is worth watching. 

His core ETH investment thesis is:

1. Stablecoins are the killer app of crypto and Ethereum is their foundation

“It really started with stablecoins, which is the ChatGPT of crypto… viral
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Good follow up research piece on Robinhood’s tokenized equities. This extract summarizes the promise of tokenization nicely: “Tokenized assets are inherently programmable, which unlocks more streamlined utility than their traditional counterparts can offer. For example, tokens

Good follow up research piece on Robinhood’s tokenized equities. 

This extract summarizes the promise of tokenization nicely:

“Tokenized assets are inherently programmable, which unlocks more streamlined utility than their traditional counterparts can offer. For example, tokens