The way to understand the ZCash bug is it’s not infinite mint of ZEC itself. It’s more like the shielded pool (Orchard) could become insolvent. Think of it more like the KelpDAO hack for ETH.
Very little reason not to proactively unshield any ZEC today. Being early to the exit is always better in a bank run. Consider Orchard burned, and don’t re-shield until there’s a new pool with a clean history
Yesterday, Hyperliquid oil perp was paying -300% annualized funding. Onchain infrastructure is telling us something about how commodity markets will work going forward
@tradexyz perps use CME front month as the oracle. Front month ~$95, back month ~$87. Oracle rolls over 5 business days, stepping down ~$1.70 per shift
The "obvious" trade is to short the perp, hedge on CME, collect the roll. We open-sourced a model to price it w/ a link at end of the 🧵