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7 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
1) I gave a short talk today for Money Dance; a summary:

2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE
3) If your goal is short-term maximization in DeFi, build an ETH-based yield farm, incentivize buying your token, and sell your token.
4) But if your goal is long-term maximization in DeFi -- what does that look like?

Basically, getting as large of an on-chain ecosystem as possible, while retaining composability.
5) So that means:

--scaling really matters a ton
--think about the long-term valuable products: e.g. orderbooks instead of yield farms
--pay less attention to what's hot right now
6) So that means choosing chains with serious long-term value props (@solana, @avalancheavax, @NEARProtocol, etc.)

and aiming high with the products; be ambitious.

Build each part to be able to scale (product, liquidity, throughput, composability, etc.)
7) And it means that, while 100k customers is great, 100m is the goal.

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9 Oct
1) How Alameda thinks about investments

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2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT ALAMEDA ADVICE. JUST ALAMEDA, NO ADVICE.

Also: I am not Alameda; Alameda is a team of traders. I focus on FTX and Serum. I am, however, decently involved in larger investments.

For thoughts on Alameda's trading, see @AlamedaTrabucco
3) I realize now, too late, that my Twitter feed gives a fairly non-representative view of how we think about investments.

There are a few reasons for that: mostly that I don't talk about it unless prompted, but also that I usually only talk about the good, not the bad.
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6 Oct
1) Advice for people whose coins are down today
2) NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. NOT ADVICE.
3) Well, first, that's everyone. Everyone's coin is down today. (Except USDT which is maybe up 2bps.)

But some have never been here before.

So what do you do, if you run a project, and that project's coin is down?
Read 16 tweets
4 Oct
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.
Read 9 tweets
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.
Read 11 tweets
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?
Read 25 tweets
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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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