Closing the perp long for small profits, keeping the spot, underwhelming reaction so far, seems like a bit more time capitulation is in order first with maybe a last spike lower
Opened my first BTC long in a while and also bought my first (small) tranche of long-term spot here. At the very least, a good spot for a bounce. https://t.co/3ht7RY5IGD
Curve's founder pulled $100 MILLION out of his own token to buy two Australian mansions and left holders with a token that dumped 98%
In 2023 Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov took out $100 million in stablecoin loans across Aave, Frax, Inverse, Abracadabra and other protocols
His collateral was 427 million CRV, which was 47% of the circulating supply of his own token
Lookonchain traced $31 million in stablecoins flowing from Egorov to Bitfinex in April 2023
One month later his wife bought a $41 million mansion in Melbourne, right next door to the $18 million home they had purchased the year before
That's $59 million in Australian real estate funded by loans against the token his own community was holding
In July 2023 Curve was hacked for $70 million through a Vyper bug, CRV crashed and his positions almost got liquidated
A liquidation would have created tens of millions in bad debt across Aave, Frax and other protocols and triggered a DeFi wide catastrophe
To avoid this Egorov sold 106 million CRV in OTC deals at $0.40 per token, well below the market price, to a roster that included Justin Sun, convicted felon Michael Patryn, Jeffrey Huang, DWF Labs and several anonymous wallets
He raised $42 million in stablecoins from these deals while community holders watched CRV dump
In April 2024 he had to do it again, selling another 159 million CRV in OTC to 33 different buyers for $63 million
In June 2024 CRV crashed 24% in 3 hours and he got fully liquidated for $140 million across 5 protocols
The liquidation created $10 million of bad debt that the community had to absorb
Ethereum developer Eric Conner did the math: "He got 100 million in stables out of a 140 million CRV position. He just transferred the rektage to the community instead"
Egorov's response was that he was "committed to building Curve more than ever" thanks to veTokenomics, meaning he locked his remaining CRV to keep control of governance
CRV is down 98% from its all time high and Egorov still owns the two mansions and the protocol
When the founder of your protocol uses your bag as collateral for his mansion, you're not an investor
You're his ATM
@twocommapauper teach a man how to fish, how much guidance do you give wrt how to score things? ie did you give it a formula/rules for the composite score or did it come up with this on its own?
Think one of the reasons that everyone is talking about using Ai agents but critics say we’re not seeing much new releases is because for the first time we’re seeing product development that is contextual to an individual and not commercialized.
I’ve been having a blast building all kinds of dashboards/tools that are useful for my life but they’re all contextual to me as an individual and I have no motivation to try and make any of it publicly available
That feeling of individual contextual work flows is new and so it’s much more interesting and excited to iterate with that than to try and create some commercialized product that is more generic
Q2/Q3 historically bad for stock market in mid term years. Plus Trump currently losing mid terms decisively, the closer we get to midterms the more market is gonna price that in unless Trump pulls another stimmy rabbit out of his hat to tip the odds.
My base case is strong Q1, then volatile Q2/Q3 where I’m gonna look for Liberation Day kinda nukes to long.
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happy holidays you degenerates