OK. Follow-up story about the transformation of investment bank risk-taking after Dodd-Frank and Basel III, and the rise of toxic Alternative Risk Transfer programs in derivatives. 💥
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ok. this references the big daddy of all elementary confusions in derivatives.
Black-Scholes (and related) models, for which Nobel prizes were won: we do NOT use them as models, we use them as normalizations only, as a convenient change of variables.
Imagine making 800 ETH in a single arb
... and an hour later then losing 1100 ETH to a hacker
Here is the story of 0xbaDc0dE, an MEV bot who gained and lost it all in a few hours tonight
In 300 years, an economic historian with access to very precise price data but a loose grasp of the UK constitutional order will write “of course, the transition from Queen Elizabeth II to her less experienced son resulted in a loss of confidence from bond and currency markets”
Exposé on the Dark Side of Market Structure
3 wks ago the SEC proposed a groundbreaking reform that could cut trading costs by >50%.
HUGE SHIT.
How did investors react?
Crickets🦗
Turns out <1% understood what's happening: how "market structure" works today.
Story time
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I sat down w/ @dannyryan and @TimBeiko of the EF to record a mega episode on Ethereum's transition to PoS. In part 1, we discuss
- how consensus works in PoW vs PoS
- the long road to PoS
- client modularity
- how to test for such a massive event
https://t.co/du9brXeZe5
Starting this week, I‘m leading Strategy @ Flashbots. This team has both the right vision and talent to shape the future of crypto and I‘m very excited to be a part of it.
🚨To conclude our UCC mega week🚨
I sat down with @EliBenSasson of @StarkWareLtd to create the most approachable and comprehensive audio resource on how STARKs work and how they will scale blockchains in the future.
https://t.co/TU3ntKHTU6