Denis Kornyukhov

Founder @xccy_finance | Building fixed-income markets in DeFi
$300К liquidity| $3M Volume 30d

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@Krouxzz Check your DM bro

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Started with $20 and reached +$95 after the first 5 trades

He let Claude keep coding overnight.

Woke up to:

• a completed script
• +$95 from the first 5 trades

According to him, he didn't change anything.
Then he came across this wallet:

0xb27b...b82

• $384,858 profit
• 13,070 predictions
• $18.5K biggest win
• Started March 2026

His take: almost nobody is paying attention to it.

He says that, while developing the script, he copytraded it to check the math.
The starting amount was $80.
→ $4,218 in a few weeks
All positions share the same structure.

As he puts it: one equation that runs while you sleep.

The post gives these examples:

$17,839 → $36,318 (+103%)
$3,112 → $15,011 (+382%)
$10,676 → $22,178 (+107%)

This is the framework he gave Claude:

1. Temporal bias
Identify BTC time windows with >65% edge, as the post describes it.
Ignore everything else.
2. Kelly sizing
Adjust position size according to confidence.
Never use fixed bets.

f* = (p × b − q) / b

3. Volatility filter
Avoid high volatility.
Trade only in clean conditions.

4. Bayesian updates

Recalculate probabilities after every trade.
The goal is for the estimates to improve over time.
According to him, Claude built the entire system overnight.

He funded it with $20.
Minutes later, the first trade fired.

The author's copytrading link: https://t.co/a85oQImyKH

The setup he states: Claude + a device + 1 hour/day.

He's giving it away free for 24 hours. To get it:

Follow me @hornyhov (so i can DM you)

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@wanix76 @M1sh2ka Check your DM bro

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@acecreamu thx for the framework

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@KhizriAliev Repos pls

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Our CEO Denis Korniukhov @hornyhov is presenting at @StellarOrg Meridian in Lisbon on Oct 28, at Convento do Beato

He'll talk about why onchain lending needs rates you can plan around, and how fixed rates can work on top of Stellar lending

The team is at the side events Oct 27-29 too. If you lend, borrow or @BuildOnStellar, come say hi. Happy to talk rate risk, term loans, or what you'd want from a fixed rate

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@acecreamu thanks!

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Even a future 100x winner can turn your $100,000 into $30,000.

Another great quote from the @AcquiredFM podcast on $HD, this time about finding 100x companies and holding through volatility.

This goes beyond @ethena (which I do believe is a 100x opportunity). It applies to $ASTS investors (some of whom, according to @tedchenCPC, have started looking at $USDE), $CRWV investors, and other growth names that have drawn down recently.

This quote is about Ken Langone's investment in @HomeDepot:

"I went and looked back at this, that little 5% he got at founding compounded 25% for nearly half a century. But you all know this, that the hard part is actually not about the stock picking. The hard part is in the holding.

So in 1985, and this is a great Arvind stat, I mean, longtime listeners know Worldly Partners, their whole thing is figure out what it takes to build a business that can 100x as a public company and then figure out how to have the stomach to stay with those companies through the downturns, because there are always massive drawdowns in these giant 100x companies. I mean, you look at Nvidia, you just have to weather through them and know enough about the business to believe that it's going to make it through. So in 1985, the stock [Home Depot's] was down 66%, and Ken didn't sell. Then in 2002, down 70%, and he didn't sell a share. Then 2008, the whole Nardelli situation, the housing bubble, and then again down 70%, he didn't sell. In fact, if you bought the shares at their peak in '99, your investment would've been underwater for a full 12 years until the stock recovered in 2012, but Ken still never sold.

The value is in the holding."

Three takeaways:

(1) If you're a trader, great. Figure out how to sell high and buy low. But get it wrong, and you could end up like someone who bought $HD in '99 and spent 12 years underwater. Be realistic about your ability to generate trading alpha.

(2) If you're not a trader, that's fine too. Figure out what you want to own for the next 30 years. Buy it, hold it, and ignore the volatility. Own enough to be happy if it works, but size the position for the drawdowns.

(3) If you want to learn how to identify 100x opportunities, start listening to the Acquired podcast. There's so much to learn from history. A few hours of listening can deliver months' worth of independent research.

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Imagine selling too early: 2x instead of the 50,000x Home Depot’s earliest backers could have earned over decades.

I'm a huge fan of the @AcquiredFM podcast. Their recent @HomeDepot episode has several quotes that capture how I think about @ethena:

"Home improvement is just a massive category, way, way bigger than I realized. So here's a fun stat. Home Depot went public in 1981, one year after Apple Computer. And astonishingly, if you put $1,000 into Home Depot and Apple and their IPOs and you held them all today, your investment in Home Depot would beat your investment in Apple."

➡️ Tokenizing all assets will reshape how global financial markets operate. It's a "massive category" whose scale many still underestimate.

"Part of the reason why it's a better investment than Apple since IPO...It went public at a tiny, tiny market cap...you could get in as a public shareholder at a $32 million valuation...even if you inflation adjust that, that's $122 million today. Just think about that. A company went public at a total market cap of $122 million. It had so much running room ahead of it...This is not Anthropic here where everybody knows them and they're giant."

➡️ At $0.20 per $ENA, the ecosystem's FDV is ~$3B. Ethena still has so much room to grow and remains unknown to many outside crypto.

"If you do the math, that $2 million from the initial Home Depot investor group bought 50% of the company in 1978. By not cashing out here at a 2x return, those investors, if they held to today, would have gotten well north of a 50,000x return on their capital."

➡️ Generational wealth comes from a long-term buy-and-hold strategy. Trading is fun, but if you want to retire early and fly around the world in a G700, find businesses that can get you there. Selling ENA at 2x from the lows is missing the forest for the trees.

$USDe everywhere.

[Denis Kornyukhov @hornyhov]

Imagine selling too early: 2x instead of the 50,000x Home Depot’s earliest backers could have earned over decades.

I'm a huge fan of the @AcquiredFM podcast. Their recent @HomeDepot episode has several quotes that capture how I think about @ethena:

"Home improvement is just a massive category, way, way bigger than I realized. So here's a fun stat. Home Depot went public in 1981, one year after Apple Computer. And astonishingly, if you put $1,000 into Home Depot and Apple and their IPOs and you held them all today, your investment in Home Depot would beat your investment in Apple."

➡️ Tokenizing all assets will reshape how global financial markets operate. It's a "massive category" whose scale many still underestimate.

"Part of the reason why it's a better investment than Apple since IPO...It went public at a tiny, tiny market cap...you could get in as a public shareholder at a $32 million valuation...even if you inflation adjust that, that's $122 million today. Just think about that. A company went public at a total market cap of $122 million. It had so much running room ahead of it...This is not Anthropic here where everybody knows them and they're giant."

➡️ At $0.20 per $ENA, the ecosystem's FDV is ~$3B. Ethena still has so much room to grow and remains unknown to many outside crypto.

"If you do the math, that $2 million from the initial Home Depot investor group bought 50% of the company in 1978. By not cashing out here at a 2x return, those investors, if they held to today, would have gotten well north of a 50,000x return on their capital."

➡️ Generational wealth comes from a long-term buy-and-hold strategy. Trading is fun, but if you want to retire early and fly around the world in a G700, find businesses that can get you there. Selling ENA at 2x from the lows is missing the forest for the trees.

$USDe everywhere.

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@360Digipreneur being asked to choose a network before you've learned what a network is makes for a rough welcome

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@stejas809 the compliments one is sneaky. 'send me the link when it's ready' sounds so much closer to a sale than it is

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@Sabfier for a lending product, i'd happily take boring. knowing where my money is and when i can get it back is plenty of reason to return

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@The_First_Elder what made you choose to build the aggregator from scratch? there must be a story behind that decision

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@RohitDeshmane7 @DlicomApp which bug only showed up after deployment? those are the details tutorials tend to skip

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@rustoggy getting users is when the roadmap starts getting edited by people who weren't in the planning meeting

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@MariquitadB @Nicolascole77 being too close to the product is a sneaky one. try explaining it without using the words from your own homepage

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@MG_Dev56 have those first attempts to reach people changed how you describe the product? months spent building can give you a very different vocabulary from your buyers

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@saeeghaemi who would fund the backstop while markets are calm? that's the part of the idea i'd be interested in reading more about

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@2gatherwin which part have you been able to test on a manufacturing line so far? that's the bit of the build story i'd want to hear