This is likely an event that requires a significant resource to launch, and making a big partnership announcement would be crucial to it's long term utility.
First thing to come to mind is the launch of $crvUSD
Because viral marketing tactics always hides obvious things, doing this generate greater engagement and hype.
Another thing to note is that @AndreCronjeTech has recently been extra active on Twitter after a long hybernation, suggesting he might be planning for something big.
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- Look into $CRV
- $YEARN likely has a high correlation
- $cvxCRV is $CRV with yield
- $CVX likely see TVL boost
- $ETH likely will feel a broad exposure
- $FTM like well exposed
Silvergate controls 80%+ of all crypto on/off ramps, allegedly banks billions of $USDC reserve, AND is on fractional reserve.
🟡2022 SYNOPSIS
Stock: $220 to $13 (-94%)
Market cap: $7.3B to $434M (-94%)
AUM: $13.2B to $6.3B (-52%)
Income: $75M to -$950M (-875%)
1/🧵 of pain
🟡What does Silvergate do?
Silvergate is a publicly traded, US California-based, FDIC-insured bank that is crypto-focused.
It banks over 1,600+ major crypto clients like exchanges, businesses, institutions, and ultra-high-networth-individuals(UHNWI e.g. Justin Sun).
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🟡 How will this affect me?
You have used Silvergate if you used any of these Exchanges:
- Binance(Paxos)
- FTX
- Coinbase
- Kraken
- Crypto .com
- Gemini
- Bitstamp
- KuCoin(Paxos)
- Celsius
- BlockFi
- Voyager
and hundreds of other crypto firms.
- Justin Sun to shutdown 1,100 staff Huobi China HQ
- Re-contracting all China employees to Huobi Global, Singapore
- Full-time employees become new staff with 3-Mth probation
- Revoked N+1 layoff compensation
- Revoked year-end bonus
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Continued:
- Cancelled Huobi China's employee insurance policies(which is a big deal in China)
- Changed salary issuance from $RMB to $USDT / $USDC, leading to China legal concerns
Employees are disgruntled at Justin for dismantling Huobi China within 2mths of acquisition.
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🟡 Justin's history:
- 2014, founded Tron Network
- 2017, founded Tron Foundation(Non-profit)
- 2018, switch Tron(ERC-20) to its own blockchain
- 2019, Justin joins #Tether
- 2021, Tether mkcp hits $80B, Justin becomes #Grenada diplomat
- 2022, buys @HuobiGlobal
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The significance of @avi_eisen's arrest, and what that meant for DeFi.
Timeline:
- Exploited @FortressDAO for $14M
- Exploited @mangomarkets for $115M
- Avi returned $67M, kept $48M as "bug bounty"
- Avi arrested in Puerto Rico
- Avraham Eisenberg is a US Citizen
- Based in Puerto Rico
- Studied at Yeshiva University, attained Degree in Mathematics
- Founded and operated Thimes Solutions Inc from Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
- Believes in "Code is Law"
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🟡 What happened at Fortress DAO?
Avi made his first appearance as the Lead Dev of @FortressDAO:
- Launch project
- Ousted the founders
- Printed 190M of $FORT to crash price
- Buys it for pennies
- Redeems it for $21M ($14M profit) to his personal wallet
- Project dies