Thomas Crampton

Founder @Vallis_Alpes, @farsideapp, Sleepless Studios
Building creative infrastructure & autonomous trading systems
Web3 | Onchain markets | Chelsea FC

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

Today is the day! @farsideapp officially launches its live trading bots on @HyperliquidX and @dYdX

Thank you to everyone involved, everyone who tested the beta and everyone who has been so interested in what we are doing.

So much more exciting ideas to come, this is only the beginning.

[Farside @farsideapp]

Farside's Public Release is now LIVE!
After a successful beta, we're shipping the full platform:

• Trade on autopilot on both @HyperliquidX and @dYdX
• Email + Telegram notifications for performance updates and alerts
• A simplified grid bot experience with asset-specific leverage controls
• The Farside Points System: earn 1 point for every $100 in trading volume

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

@DeadlineDayLive If BlueCo can pull this off, best business they’ve done all ownership 👏

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

Not long to go now!

Actually only a couple hours 😆

[Farside @farsideapp]

Closer than ever now.

The next chapter starts tomorrow.

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

@Chelsearory

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

@Tgarratt10 Hope his agent is getting a bonus and raise, some hustle

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@AltcoinDaily

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@BBCMOTD I think we should let him go. Santos more than capable to fill his spot.

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@Cointelegraph

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@Kalshi_Crypto

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

Building the bots was not the hard part when I started workig on @farsideapp.

The hard part was making people trust them.

Early on I think I assumed that if the system worked, I mean...

If the strategies executed correctly, if the signals fired at the right time...

That would be enough.

Users would see the results and trust would follow naturally.

That assumption was wrong.

What I kept running into during development was that functional and trustworthy are two completely different things.

A bot can execute perfectly and still feel like a black box.

And a black box, no matter how well it performs, creates anxiety.

Especially when real capital is involved.

So we had to rebuild the way we thought about the product.

Not just what it does, but what the user can see, control, and override at every step.

→ Transparency into signal flow.
→ Risk controls that the user sets, not the system.
→ Alerts when something changes.
→ Safe-mode logic that stops execution if conditions shift outside what was defined.

None of that is glamorous to build.

None of it shows up in a feature list the way a new strategy type or a new exchange integration does.

But it is what makes the difference between a tool someone uses once and a system someone actually trusts.

The lesson I took from this is that in trading, trust is the product.

Everything else is infrastructure.

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

What are your thoughts?

@TheClubLiveTw @Chelsearory @lawrence_bury @PitchSideTweets @jamesallcott @Flav_Bateman @WeAreTheOverlap @GNev2 @Carra23 @AdamMcKola @MicahRichards @GaryLineker @alanshearer @M0lly_Writes @em_sandy @TomJGarry @SuzyWrack @HerFootballHub @GirlsontheBall @FCBarcelona @FCBfemeni @FaraWilliamsWay @kate_scott @IanWright0 @OliviaBuzaglo @JillScottJS8 @talkSPORT @TheAthleticFC @AyoAkinwo @David_Ornstein

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

Hot take:

Could Pep Guardiola eventually go coach in the women’s game?

Honestly, I think the landscape is becoming perfect for it.

Pep already fundamentally changed modern football on the men’s side. Positional play, pressing structures, build-up systems, how teams think about space, entire generations of coaches copied him.

So why couldn’t he do it again in the women’s game?

Imagine Pep going back to Barcelona and building one of the greatest women’s football dynasties ever. Multiple trophies. Global attention. Tactical evolution. Commercial growth. Cultural impact.

Women’s football is growing rapidly, but it still feels like it’s waiting for a true transformational figure from the men’s side to fully bridge the gap and accelerate things.

Pep could genuinely be that person.

And realistically… what else is left for him?

Another club job in Europe?
A national team?
MLS?
Italy?

None of those feel nearly as legacy-defining as completely reshaping women’s football forever.

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

Last round of beta spots just opened on @farsideapp

Not long to go till full product launch on June 1st 😆

[Farside @farsideapp]

Final Round of beta spots just opened.

Get bonus points, early access and even more points.

This is your last chance:
https://t.co/JZGax6rqzE

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

@farsideapp

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

We almost launched Farside with a subscription model.

For a while, it was the plan.

Monthly tiers, bot limits, a premium layer on top.

It made sense on paper: predictable revenue, clear upgrade paths, the kind of structure any SaaS playbook would tell you to build.

We had the pricing tiers drafted.
We were close to committing to it.

Then I started sitting with the question of who we were actually building for.

Serious traders don't think in monthly plans.

→ They think in trades.
→ They think in execution, in fees, in what a position costs to run.

The moment I framed it that way, the subscription model started feeling like something we'd built for ourselves, not for them.

There was also something uncomfortable about it that took me a while to name.

A subscription gets paid whether you have a good month or a bad one.

That means the platform's incentive is to keep you subscribed, not to help you trade better.

I didn't want to build something with that misalignment baked in from day one.

So we scrapped the tiers and moved to a volume-based fee model instead.

You pay when you trade.

We make money when you're active on the platform.

If the product isn't good enough to keep you trading, we don't get paid.

It was a harder model to build around.

But it was the only one that felt honest about what we're actually trying to do.

The lesson for me wasn't really about pricing.

It was about making sure every structural decision aligns with the user you're building for, not the business model you're most comfortable with.

Follow @farsideapp and stay close.

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@WatcherGuru

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Where is the next stop on the Hype train?

[Cointelegraph @Cointelegraph]

🔥 BULLISH: $HYPE has flipped $SOL in fully diluted valuation.

$HYPE: $54.47B
$SOL: $54.22B

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

@Cointelegraph 👏👏👏

Industry going to continue to grow and grow. Make sure you check out @farsideapp

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https://t.co/XCtl9FqsZ0

[Thomas Crampton @CramptonBuilt]

I think the key point is that most perp DEX liquidity today is still heavily incentive-driven and not truly sticky. The real unlock is making capital structurally productive instead of just subsidized.

Decibel attacking collateral efficiency, MM quote-update costs, and reserve monetization at the same time is a smart direction.

The bulk order system especially feels underrated. Lower quote maintenance costs can materially improve spread quality and book depth over time.

Ultimately though, the real test is whether this creates durable liquidity once incentives normalize.