Bitcoin moved in lockstep with other macro assets last week following Fed Chairman Powell's speech. Bitcoin and gold tracked each other almost perfectly, with a 3-day correlation of 0.76 before, during, and after Powell’s speech.
Irony: many investors left Wall Street and came to digital assets specifically to get away from the “don’t fight the Fed” manipulated equity & debt markets, and yet a few years later, Bitcoin investors are now hanging on every word from Powell too.
Meanwhile, small cap, value-accruing digital assets continue to outperform large-cap, legacy "cryptocurrencies" that accrue no value. While some are comparing the euphoria to 2017, today’s market resembles nothing close to that of 2017.
The biggest difference between 2017 and 2020 is that many of the tokens today are being created AFTER a company has already found product market fit, which creates much more sustainable growth.
Instead of tokens issued simply to fund pipe dream “decentralized projects” with low probabilities of success, many of today’s leading tokens are used to enhance already thriving ecosystems and to grow customer bases faster.
Blockchain technology itself is revolutionary.
But these hybrid equity/utility tokens (or pass-thru tokens) are evolutionary.
We believe pass-thru tokens are amongst the most novel capital formation & bootstrapping instruments ever created.
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I'm fed up with misinformation in crypto. Somehow the world seems to be getting even LESS educated on what is happening with the true growth of blockchain. For every rational, honest, factual take, there are 100 dishonest, incorrect takes floating around.
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Take this blurb from @NYDIG
Really? Everything that isn't BTC is still an “altcoin”? There are 10+ distinct sectors now, & hundreds of different token types (asset-backed, quasi-equity amortizing buyback tokens, debt-like, etc).
Stop pandering to the dumb & start educating.
To take this space seriously, we must differentiate the wheat from the chaff. We put together a taxonomy almost 5 years ago - it’s definitely not a brand-new concept. Take the time to learn and teach.
The market is losing its mind over the $TRUMP coin, and completely missing the plot. Here’s why this is going to be incredibly long-term bullish for the industry (and it has nothing to do with TRUMP coin itself).
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To start, the pushback for 3+ years from both potential token issuers and potential investors in the U.S. has been “regulatory concerns”. This is now completely eradicated when the President himself is both and issuer and an investor
Now, just because the President issued a memecoin doesn’t mean the entire world will only focus on memecoins. Trump validated the technology, yet introduced only one use case of the technology. Potential issuers and investors can see beyond this limited use case
Been tweeting / replying a lot today about the FTX court approved sale of crypto assets, so if you missed key points, here's a summary with a few updates:
1) Galaxy Asset Mgmt, not their trading desk, won the bid. They must act as a fiduciary & sell gradually & opportunistically
2) Galaxy is receiving massive amounts of reverse inquiry already (some from real funds, some fishing expeditions). But OTC sales will dominate the buying. Less likely to see a lot of selling on exchange or via TWAPs. As good bids come in, they will engage.
3) The $100mm max per week is really not relevant. They can ask for court approval if they get a bigger block bid, and they don't have to sell anything in any given week. The $100mm was just a guideline to prevent dumping and destroying value for the estate.
Mostly irrelevant since no one operates in the US anymore and a bunch of non-criminal charges for past wrongdoings don’t really matter.
I see 2 actual negatives from this: ⬇️
1) SEC explicitly defining certain tokens randomly as securities could lead to delistings on Kraken & coinbase or any other US exchange
2) negative sentiment effect if CZ is out and people loved him
That’s about all I see. Pretty benign otherwise.
From a market standpoint... how many times can you rally on the same news over and over again (2020 - corporates buying BTC) or sell off on the same news (2023 - SEC hates crypto)
2) Over the past 6 months we observed other $DYDX stakeholders highlight these same issues on DYDX’s public channels. We expect significant improvements to the value & sustainability if the tokenomics are fixed, especially as users move from CeFi to DeFi derivatives post-FTX
3) Arca has engaged the @dydxfoundation , DYDX Trading & major stakeholders to address some of these issues but have been met with resistance and apathy.
With product delays ahead of a major bear market unlock, it is time to make this discussion public.