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4 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read
1) Unpopular take: @cz_binance partially saved @CoinMarketCap.
2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT DATA ADVICE. NOT MARKETCAP ADVICE.
3) Let me start by saying something more popular:

@coingecko has caught up to CMC. It happened slowly and then all at once.

That's extremely impressive.

And it's extremely bad news for CMC.
4) And it happened, in part, because Binance further hurt CMC's reputation by the perception of bias.

A perception of bias did the damage. But there was also actual bias.

@OKEx is currently ranked #37: coinmarketcap.com/rankings/excha…

Tell me that's reasonable, I dare you.
5) @coingecko is the better product.

But that's been true for a while.

And if you look at what's happened _recently_ --

Gecko has gotten better.

But CMC is a world of difference.
6) A year ago, CMC wasn't even close. 80% of the 'top' exchanges were fake.

It was a matter of finding the real ones, not removing the fakes.

It was a running joke how bad it was.
7) And now, it's...

not that bad.

OKEx is egregious, but the top 10 spot are overall somewhat reasonable.

Top 10 derivatives could use a bit more work, but it's like 70% correct, which is still way better than before. ImageImage
8) And, I mean, I don't *know* why.

But I have a guess.

Pretty much the day Binance bought CMC, it started getting better -- a lot better.

It has a lot of catching up to do, but the product has gone from hopelessly fucked to competitive.
9) And in the end the perception of bias, combined with the historical sins and the actual bias, might do it in.

Plus, CoinGecko keeps getting better: they're hungry.

But for CMC, there's hope; their BTC pricing is no longer 1% off, and their exchange lists are useful.

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4 Oct
1) What are Pools?
2) Pools are one of the key fundamental primitives of DeFi.

Pools are places you store stuff, and tokenize the ownership.
3) For instance, AMMs are Pools.

You store ETH + DAI in a Pool, and you tokenize ownership with an LP token. You can send back the LP token to get your ETH + DAI back.

Uniswap Pools have a twist: anyone can send DAI to the Pool, and get back an equal % of its ETH.
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2 Oct
1) @arjunblj wrote up a piece on his thoughts on the future of crypto.

Some responses to that below.

arjun.af/crypto-market-…
2) I mostly agree with the 2.0 section:

new liquidity/maturity coming from:

--derivatives
--borrow/lending
--automated OTC
--stablecoins

A few disagreements:

(a) @arjunblj mentions institutional products. While they are growing, they are still small and not important.
3) This might change soon -- some of them (e.g. @FireblocksHQ) are showing promise -- but so far it's mostly just promise, not adoption.

(b) lending + stablecoins as reserve asset misses something key.

where are the loans coming from? who's the ultimate lender?
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1) how to make moats
2) build a good product
3) constantly keep making the product better
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1) The Debate 2020 tweet thread

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
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1) FINALLY -- a GUI to list markets on Serum!

dex.projectserum.com/#/list-new-mar…
2) Listing a market:

a) get your token; you can turn ERC20 <> SPL at sollet.io

b) go to dex.projectserum.com/#/list-new-mar… to list the market. "Mint" means token contract address.

c) enter parameters and Submit. Check Sollet for messages

d) Copy the New market address
3) If anyone wants to trade on the market:

i) click the +

ii) enter the New market address

iii) click Add
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29 Sep
1) Alright so here's what I gather happened with EMN:

@AndreCronjeTech was working on a new protocol. It was still in the testing phase, not ready to be released, in case e.g. it had bugs. He hadn't yet vetted it.

It did, in fact, have an exploit
2) People were digging around Andre's code, found what he was working on, and started to talk about it.

To be clear Andre hadn't promoted it and wasn't intending it to be used yet--it (obviously) wasn't finished with testing!

But people found it anyway.
3) The people who found it started talking about it and spreading it (probably not maliciously -- probably just excited).

Everyone wants to get in on the next big Andre project, so people started FOMOing into it when they got wind of it.

So a bunch of people started buying.
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