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Nov 23, 2022 12 tweets 6 min read
🧵 How to lose millions in crypto risk-free

A brief overview of @avi_eisen most recent “highly profitable trading strategy”

… and how it went wrong 1/ First, since I've seen some confusion, let’s go over Avi’s plan.

1) short $CRV perps
2) borrow $CRV against USDC on @AaveAave
3) dump $CRV for max slippage
4) withdraw max $USDC collateral at min oracle tick
5) close $CRV shorts, leaving @AaveAave with bad debt
Nov 13, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
🚨 Bitfinex is levering ETH to maintain the Tether peg

Bottom to Top:

1) Send a ton of ETH to hot wallet
2) Wrap ETH to be lent on Aave
3) Borrow USDC against wETH
4) Swap USDC for Tether in Curve 3Pool Bitfinex has supplied over 300,000 ETH - in the past 3 days alone - to a hot wallet labeled "Maple Finance" on @nansen_ai

The hot wallet swaps borrowed USDC for USDT in private transactions
etherscan.io/tx/0x5bcf5b78c…
Nov 13, 2022 5 tweets 4 min read
🚨 Exchanges are sharing reserves

> Crypto .com sends 320k ETH to Gate .io
> The amount is returned ~ 1 week later

This is *exactly* the window in which @gate_io got its "proof of reserves" audited If you sent half a billion dollars to the wrong address, would you wait a week before asking for it back?