Ludwig Eiknow

[Covie @covie_93]

BREAKING: United States becomes the first country in history to pay $300 billion to a country they defeated 50 times in one war.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

Regret minimization is a real thing. I advocate for having tail positions if you notice yourself often looking back.

[Pumponomics @ThePumponomics]

in 2021 i put $450k into palantir at $25.

it dropped to $7. i sat in that drawdown for almost three years. when it finally came back i sold at $36 in nov 2024, relieved to get out with a gain.

two months later it was $200.

i'd love to tell you i didn't care. truth is i deleted it from my watchlist the day i sold so i wouldn't have to watch whatever came next. this was cope/pure self defense.

but it worked. never reentered out of spite, never revenge traded it, never let it follow me into the next decision.

not the first trade i royally screwed up. won't be the last.
the only part you control is leaving clean.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@ryandcrypto $145

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

I served my heart on a platter.

Naivete yes

Honest yes

I felt misinterpreted and misunderstood

Walking on eggshells

It feels unfair

Seven months later

The painful waves have subsided

Vulnerability felt abused

No one meant harm

Or did they?

We'll never know

Love.

[il.hl @hyperliquidmax]

Most DEX teams post about token price.

@chameleon_jeff posted about API latency.

That's not boring — that's what serious infrastructure looks like. 👀

Two changes coming in the next Hyperliquid network upgrade.

Change 1 — Market integrity:

Modify-to-snipe just got closed. 🔒

If you modify an order to IOC (immediate execution) → rejected. If GTC → auto-converts to ALO (Add Liquidity Only).

Plain English: a tactic used to exploit market makers via order modification no longer works. Market makers are better protected. Orderbook quality improves.

Change 2 — Data infrastructure:
📡 l2Book fast mode: order book pushes every 0.5 seconds
📡 Normal mode: 20 levels every 5 seconds
📡 allMids price feed: every 5 seconds
📡 Compressed mark prices feed: coming soon
📡 webData2 being phased out → migrate to webData3

0.5 seconds. On a decentralized exchange. Free. Public. Available to any builder.

Mainstream take: "Just a dev update, skip."

The counterintuitive read:
Professional trading firms pay thousands of dollars per month for co-location and Level 2 order book access at traditional exchanges. Speed is a product they sell.

Opinion/interpretation: Hyperliquid is shipping sub-second order book data to any builder, for free, and actively deprecating old endpoints like a real tech company running production infra.

The cost of building institutional-grade tools on Hyperliquid just dropped. Again.

Every builder who builds on this data → more applications. More applications → more volume. More volume → more fees. 99% of fees → buy $HYPE. 🔄

The question worth asking:
When was the last time a "DEX" actively patched market microstructure exploits, upgraded data latency, AND deprecated legacy APIs — all in the same week?

The label says DEX. The operational playbook says something else entirely. 🏗️

⚠️Not financial advice. Always DYOR.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

INSIGHT: @Zcash developers have finalized consensus rule changes for the Ironwood upgrade, targeting late July.

The new pool will be formally verified before activation, mathematically proving no counterfeit $ZEC exists before the fix goes live.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@WuBlockchain How do I join the group to view it?

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@ozzy_livin @SKomshija @ryandcrypto Any underlying fundamental changes that could cause you to adjust your long term target?

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@SuperCycleBear @ryandcrypto Do you have price targets?

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@TheGoldenPenis @ryandcrypto What’s your comeback strategy?

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

This is the way

[Petro D. | Research @PDmytriiev]

@ryandcrypto Holding $HYPE is truly the only right thing in this market

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@CatOfLongTails @Rendoshi1 Over what timeframe is this investable?

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@Mr_Derivatives Narrative has shifted

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@stackhodler Love it

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

BIG IF TRUE

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

🚨 It's not just ZCash.

Opus 4.8 also found a vulnerability in $USD that allows for unlimited issuance which could theoretically enrich insiders at the expense of all holders

huge breaking

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@InputEndorsers @PaxZio @cypherpunk @andyyy This should actually harden the holderbase.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@InputEndorsers @PaxZio @cypherpunk @andyyy i'm of two mins: 1) the people selling this will thin out the herd of future sellers on weakness 2) the people buying are comfortable with this risk. This risk is more realistic of all privacy focused projects with varying risk factors of this sort. This should actuall harden

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@InputEndorsers @PaxZio @cypherpunk @andyyy This is an unknown that must be accepted. It will always be unknown. There are unknown unknowns that we must also live with.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@PaxZio @cypherpunk @andyyy That’s not how it works. Can you prove it was exploited? Bold claims require evidence.

There always was a risk of an exploit of some sort.

Nothing has changed except we know the cutting edge technology was needed to find the bug and the team was the first on the scene.

[Ludwig Eiknow @LudwigVCrypto]

@ayasakura08 There’s no proof of exploitation