👀my read on 2026 H2 and how i'm positioned:
the base case for the second half is stepwise deleveraging from stretched highs, not an ai bubble collapse, but not a continuation of ai euphoria either.
the whole thing rests on one condition: credit stays intact.
HY OAS is still low. the private credit behind the ai buildout is the real landmine, but it hasn't turned into a systemic credit event yet. as long as that holds, ai can grind at the top and bleed leverage on repeat.
what's got me leaning this way:
> leverage is still high. margin debt is at record highs, and SOXL still trades at a premium into selloffs.
> hawkish backdrop. this market already priced in cuts. so no cut IS the bad news. higher for longer welds the valuation ceiling shut.
> the fed got less legible. Warsh scrapped the rate roadmap, so every data print swings harder and the post event vol crush fades.
> geopolitical tail is back. hormuz and oil are re-entering the pricing, with crude bouncing off the lows.
net: an asymmetric tape. good news gets muted and bad news gets amplified.
two paths from here. i lean the FIRST.
1. grind lower in steps — base case
leverage never fully clears. small bounces, lower highs each time.
jul-aug bleeds. late aug, the jackson hole + NVDA window could trigger a short bounce. sep into early nov, seasonality stacks on top of more deleveraging.
post election early nov probably bounces, but the size depends on two things: did leverage actually clear, and did the fed actually pivot.
2. flush then new highs — the optimistic long shot
2024-H2 crypto style.
brutal setup though. both have to happen: a loud capitulation flush in jul-aug that wipes leverage clean, AND macro turning good with the fed going dovish.
line those up with post election seasonality and year-end highs are back on the table. but now the first condition isn't close yet.
the tail:
if private credit, ai data center financing, and HY OAS all start bleeding in one direction, that's not a correction anymore but the bubble unwinding.
how i'm positioned:
equities: 1/3 in spot. selling short-dated puts to leg into the stepdowns, using part of that premium to buy deep OTM puts as tail cover.
crypto: don't fight the tape. short the bounces while it's under the 200ma, but a fed pivot or liquidity turn is my stop.
the wildest sector on earth turning boring at the top, while the real risk hides in the debt nobody's marking daily. that's the whole setup.
AI is killing the noise and serendipity of human life.
it took the beautiful mess of human accidents and compressed it into a slider called "Temperature".
the path to an answer is no longer a winding exploration, it's just a frictionless straight line.
we're losing the complexity, but more importantly, we're losing the "friction" of paying a real price for discovery.🧵👇(1/6)
Meta ruined my life.
The layoffs also laid off my metaverse illusion, along with my 0 valueNFTs.
As an absolute OG, I remember the raw electricity of the onchain metaverse era.
Pure vibes. Real ALPHA.
In 2019, I watched the Dogecoin Center rise in @cryptovoxels,
raising funds to send $DOGE to Mars and attempting to contact @elonmusk ,
long before he ever tweeted about it. (fig 1,2)
The seeds of the DOGE-1 Mission in 2025 were planted right there.
Back then, we built the first onchain gallery for Autoglyphs,
when they were still trading at 1 ETH.
I was the architect behind it.
Years later, those same works sold in bundles at ~500 ETH each. (fig 3)
I also designed one of the largest crypto art galleries in @decentraland, hosting exhibitions to give digital artists real visibility. (fig 4)
We genuinely believed this was the future, a real path to blockchain mass adoption.
Then the pandemic hit, everyone rushed from atoms to pixels.
The niche went mainstream, the suits arrived.
OpenSea was the OpenAI of its time.
And the moment Facebook rebranded to Meta marked the absolute top.
Then came the collapse.
They came for the hype, took the profits,
and left us with the ruins.
Every niche that goes mainstream pays this price.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes.
And right now, the echoes are deafening.
So, Zuck, do me a favor:
please give me a heads-up before your next rebrand.
I really need to exit my positions first.
Thanks.
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$GDS GDS
$CORZ Core Scientific
$CLSK CleanSpark
$WULF TeraWulf
$BTBT Bit Digital
$HUT Hut 8
$BTDR Bitdeer
$BITF Bitfarms
$VNET VNET
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$WYFI WhiteFiber
$DGXX Digi Power X
$SLNH Soluna
$MIGI Mawson Infrastructure
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They’re telling you exactly where the generational wealth is.
Stop guessing.
In 2018 there used to be these tg pump groups with hundreds of thousands of ppl in them, and the operators would post a lowcap token that was listed on Bittrex, Poloniex, Binance, etc. The idea was that then everyone in the group would rush to buy the coin. If you had a scraper youd be early, etc. These coins often gained 100-200%. Even after the inevitable dump, these coins would still be higher than before the original pump, as many outsiders unaware of these groups had no idea that’s what caused the price move.
Eventually the music stopped when ppl stopped buying these charts and also when operators accumulated too much supply beforehand to sell into these pumps.