@0x_ZHUANG Those high performers are just average talent by global standards. Singapore’s population limits its native talent pool. Local agents making good money serving true elites is good for SG economy
rsETH hole filling tracker:
Hole: 112204 rsETH = 118.4k ETH
Lido: -2.5k ETH
Etherfi: -5k ETH
Arbitrum freeze: -30.7k ETH
Ethena: Didn't say how much, assume -1k ETH
Excess rsETH in aave / coumpound: ~-15k ETH
Stani personal donation: -5k ETH
Layerzero: Didn't say how much, assume -5k ETH
Mantle: -30k (!!!!)
Kraken / Ink: Didn’t say how much, assume -5k eth
Golem: -1k eth
23.6k ETH left to find
@0xyanshu@aave@antiprosynth@ryanberckmans "rsETH on L2s was never the same asset." - this sounds pretty logical regardless how Kelp framed their narratives pre-crisis. tech is tech, talk is talk
I was gonna hit this on the next @blockworks pod w/ @JasonYanowitz, but it’s actually pretty simple:
- This is an institutional cycle, not a retail one
- Real retail never came back in full force as rates are still high + inflation crushed disposable income
- The retail that did show up got churned through by Trump, then Melania, then Milei memes
- There are simply too many tokens — attention + liquidity fragmented everywhere
- https://t.co/dFcSThJpOB conditioned a generation that hodling = losing, so every pump gets sold into
- The altcoin market still has a classic lemon problem
- Crypto equities have rightfully vampired a lot of the altcoin bid
- OGs are selling this year, stuck in the 4-year-cycle fallacy
- 10/10 just wiped out prosumer traders + MMs who were even slightly levered or delta-neutral
It’s not the cycle you wanted, but it’s the cycle we’ve got.