9 years of crypto market making. CEX + DEX.
Helped projects list cleanly on every major exchange — and stay liquid after.
Marketing @icg_io
TG: @ICG_Khalid
I've watched hundreds of token projects list on every major exchange since 2017.
Some launched cleanly. Their communities celebrated.
Some collapsed within 72 hours. Their founders disappeared.
The difference was almost never the product.
It was always liquidity.
Here's what 9 years taught me:
Anthropic Fable ban context:
U.S. directive suspended Fable 5 / Mythos 5 access for foreign nationals, including employees. Anthropic disabled both for all users; other models unaffected.
$ANTHROPIC perps faded, then stabilized.
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SPCXx is the lesson:
Kraken opened $SPCX IPO access, but allocation/refunds exposed the bottleneck: tokenized stocks still need real shares.
Perps fit crypto better: 24/7, cash-settled, long/short, no share sourcing.
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Ahead of the Jun 12 $SPCX listing:
SpaceX priced at 135/share, implying roughly USD 1.75T-1.77T and a record ~USD 75B raise.
Watch first print vs IPO price, pre-IPO perp basis, and spillover into $TSLA / AI-beta tape.
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Bitcoin preferreds now have a real tape.
$STRC: 11.50% rate, semi-monthly dividend cadence approved.
$SATA: 13.00% rate, daily dividends begin Jun 16.
Watch discount to $100 par, liquidity, and BTC funding demand.
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Pre-$SPCX listing tape:
SpaceX is set for a Jun 12 debut at $135 (~$1.75T). Market read: liquidity rotation as $SPY/$QQQ/$TSLA trade lower.
Watch pre-IPO perps for demand, basis, and AI beta relief after first print.
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$ORCL earnings: AI demand is real, but so is the funding burden.
Q4 rev $19.2B (+21%), adj EPS $2.11. Cloud rev $9.9B (+47%); OCI $5.8B (+93%). RPO hit $638B.
Tape focus: capex/financing vs backlog conversion.
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Pre-CPI tape:
Risk is in wait mode before the 8:30am ET May CPI print.
10Y is near 4.54%; oil remains the swing input. $SPY/$QQQ perps are the clean read if CPI surprises.
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We now support @MEXC stock perps.
MEXC stock-linked perps are live in our monitoring flow for names like $NVDA, $TSLA, $MSTR.
Track venues, tickers, and listing signals:
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Stock perps are useful because cash equities sleep, but positioning does not.
24/7 price discovery, funding/basis signals, fractional exposure, and faster crypto-native hedging make them a cleaner weekend read for names like $NVDA, $TSLA, $MSTR.
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SK hynix price check:
$000660.KS is around KRW 1.98M (-4.5%) in Seoul, off a KRW 1.855M low but still below Friday's KRW 2.07M close.
AI memory headline, chip-tape pressure. Watch $NVDA / $MU.
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More dots, same signal: $BTC treasury demand remains one of the cleanest public-market risk tells.
Watch $MSTR, $IBIT, $COIN into Monday liquidity.
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Weekend markets:
Crypto is setting the risk tone before U.S. index futures reopen. $BTC ~$62.0K (+2.3% 24h), $ETH ~$1.63K (+4.9%), $SOL ~$65 (+5.5%) as of 11:34 ET.
Watch whether the bid carries into $SPY / $QQQ futures tonight.
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