engineer founder, rugged by SBF. member FTX Official Unsecured Creditors Committee, Head of Crypto @ Alpaca

Joined February 2009
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“In several months, I think probably by the end of the year, we’ll see that all these tokenized stocks will have very deep liquidity. Just as deep as TradFi.” Our Head of Digital Assets, @arush, joined a panel at the 2026 SIFMA Operations Conference & Exhibition discussing tokenization and digital assets. The session explored: 1️⃣ The evolution of infrastructure for traditional markets as new generations of investors engage with more crypto-native ecosystems 2️⃣ Why connectivity between the DTCC and crypto world is important in reducing friction for institutions and end users 3️⃣ How tokenized US equities liquidity is deepening through products like Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network (ITN) Thank you to the industry leaders, including Michael Winnike from @The_DTCC, Charles DeSimone from SIFMA, Jonathan Jachym from @krakenfx, Mustafa Al Niama from @Mysten_Labs, and Germán Soto Sanchez from @Broadridge, for a great conversation.
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Hyperliquid (Tradexyz) traders predicted the exact opening price of SpaceX. The Hyperliquid SpaceX perp was trading at 171 just 1 minute before they announced the starting price of $171 per share. app.hyperliquid.xyz/trade/xy…
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Another breakthrough from an Alpaca client
Replying to @DinariGlobal
Tokenized equities used to force a tradeoff: investor protections or DeFi liquidity. $SPCX is the first ownership-linked US equity on @HyperliquidX, live on HyperCore. Real ownership, trading onchain from the market open. Read more: x.com/DinariGlobal/status/20…
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Nailed it
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alpaca having that much custody share is actually the more interesting part than binance angle tbh, custody concentration always ends up mattering more than trading flow narratives lets be mutual @arush
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Pretty wild to see this in my timeline tbh
Binance disclosed that it holds a minority stake in Alpaca, which holds approximately 94% market share in the custody of tokenized US stocks and ETFs. Binance just partners with Alpaca for US stock and ETF trading. Per their agreement, Binance receives 50% of Alpaca’s Payment for Order Flow (PFOF) fees and 65% of the remaining profit from user stock lending after paying interest to users.
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Whosever idea it was to spin the stablecoin yield debate into a national security imperative just put on a 4D chess political powermove masterclass and I would like to hire you
1/ Today, we’re sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Schumer signed by 160 former national security, intelligence, and law enforcement professionals in support of the Clarity Act. theblockchainassociation.org…
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Replying to @Alpha_Ex_LLC
the SK Hynix Hijinks continues... the 2x daily leveraged beast, ticker 7709 out of South Korea may have been back in the options market to get delta exposure. I can't say for sure, but here are the potential tracks: a 37k lot of the June 11th 1,400,000 call traded on the underlying stock today. that's a 90 delta call option, consistent with the lev ETF's need to buy delta. the implied vol is outrageously high as shown in the chart lower left. the bid/offer is giant as well. from a vol perspective, buying a 90 delta call is the equivalent of buying a 10 delta put. would you think twice about selling a 10 delta put on a stock that is up 84% in a month? you'd probably ask the buyer for a large premium, esp when that buyer was forced to buy the option. we saw the same in $MSTR in Nov'24. the open interest in June 11 expiry is north of 500k options across the 1,200,000, 1,400,000 and 1,500,000 strikes. the open interest ratio is 25x calls to puts. I don't think I've ever seen that before. the daily notional volume in the lev ETF is roughly 5-7x what it was at the start of the year. it feels like something could break here. zooming out, KOSPI2 is an a giant "spot up, vol up" period. the Kospi is up 108% YTD and its 1m implied vol has doubled from 55 to 110. SK Hynix and Samsung are 50% of the index.
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Dear John “Anthropic is vaporware” Ray Where are you? I just wanna talk…
We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.
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Well written. Loan collateral liquidation path is key, superstate tokens bifurcate liquidity from public markets guaranteeing they will trade with different prices to NMS shares. Ironically this is the same deficiency that issuer sponsored token purists highlight as being the problem with the Linked Securities model
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Good read @100y_eth @RwaLlama We solved the liquidity fragmentation problem you mention in #5
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Exactly what I said last week at sifma ops
For all you equity token folks. I publishing thoughts on US Equity tokens. Equity Tokens Need Netting Not Instant Settlement of Every Trade blinks.bloomberg.com/news/st… Second one is here - Tokenizing Stocks Creates a More Efficient Wrapper blinks.bloomberg.com/news/st…
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Arush (FTX Creditor) retweeted
Today, Alpaca was announced as a member of the DTCC Industry Working Group, a collection of firms advancing the adoption of digital assets and tokenized services. Last year we launched Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network, and by the end of 2025, we grew our position as the leading infrastructure layer supporting tokenized stocks and ETFs to 94% market share. Today, Alpaca partners with notable companies building tokenized US equities offerings, including Anchored, Dinari, Ondo Finance, and xStocks (Kraken). With Alpaca’s real-world experience in providing infrastructure for the tokenization of US stocks, we are uniquely positioned to help the DTCC in modernizing the US capital markets. We’re excited to be collaborating with the DTCC and the entire Industry Working Group to develop best practices and advance industry readiness. Learn more in the thread below.
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Binance lists HL perps. This is what crypto promised, open, permissionless composability
One wallet, all access.
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Dear John “Anthropic is vaporware” Ray, Thank you for delivering us from these returns Sincerely, FTX Creditors
The IPO market is about to make history: Anthropic's pre-IPO stock, one of the most anticipated IPOs of all time, now has an implied market cap of $851 billion on Jupiter. In October 2025, the value of a share of Anthropic's pre-IPO stock on Jupiter was as low as ~$122. Just 7 months later, and these shares are up nearly 640%, to ~$900. These pre-IPO shares are structured instruments backed 1:1 by SPV exposure, giving investors direct price exposure to Anthropic before the IPO launches, allowing the market to dictate potential valuation. Between SpaceX's anticipated $1.7 trillion IPO and both Anthropic and OpenAI targeting $1 trillion, the IPO market is about to witness history. The AI Revolution is accelerating.
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gotta love how they are trying to kill the petrodollar yet continue to price everything in… **checks notes** U.S. dollars
🚨الأيام الخمسة عشر القادمة. يومًا بيوم. احفظ هذه الصفحة. 📅 غدًا - 6 أبريل، الساعة 8 مساءً ← انتهاء المهلة. إيران ترفض جميع الاتفاقات. وترفض جميع المفاوضات. "جاهزة، مستعدة، شامخة." ← مدد ترامب المهلة مرتين. لا يوجد تمديد ثالث. 📅 اليومان 2-3 - 7-8 أبريل ← الولايات المتحدة تضرب شبكة الكهرباء الإيرانية - انقطاع التيار الكهربائي عن 80 مليون منزل ← توسيع نطاق الأهداف: محطات توليد الطاقة آبار النفط جزيرة خارك محطات تحلية المياه ← إيران ترد على أرامكو السعودية، ومصافي الإمارات، والبنية التحتية الكويتية ← فجوة أسعار النفط تتجاوز 160 دولارًا 📅 اليومان 4-5 - 9-10 أبريل ← إيران تستهدف رأس تنورة - أكبر ميناء نفطي في العالم. ضربة واحدة = توقف 6,500,000 برميل يوميًا عن الإنتاج. ← الحوثيون يُغلقون البحر الأحمر - إغلاق معبرين حيويين. سابقة تاريخية. ← النفط يصل إلى 200 دولار. سعر الخام الفعلي يتجاوز 250 دولارًا في آسيا. 📅 الأيام 6-8 - 11-13 أبريل ← أزمة نفطية - الاحتياطيات الاستراتيجية فارغة. انتهاء تخفيف العقوبات. ← اختفاء 10 ملايين برميل يوميًا. لا بديل. لا شبكة أمان. ← النفط يصل إلى 250 دولارًا - المسؤولون الأمريكيون يُخططون لهذا السيناريو بالفعل. ← البنزين يصل إلى 10-12 دولارًا على المستوى الوطني. توقف رحلات الطيران. توقف الشاحنات. ← إيران تشن هجمات إلكترونية على البنية التحتية الأمريكية. 📅 الأيام 9-12 - 14-17 أبريل ← أزمة غذاء عالمية - 30% من الأسمدة تمر عبر مضيق هرمز. ارتفاع حاد في الأسعار عالميًا. 📅 الأيام 9-12 - 14-17 أبريل ← أزمة غذاء عالمية - 30% من الأسمدة تمر عبر مضيق هرمز. ارتفاع حاد في الأسعار عالميًا. → انهيار الاقتصادات الآسيوية — اليابان وكوريا والهند تفقد أكثر من 50% من إمدادات الطاقة → ركود عالمي — احتمال حدوثه وفقًا لغولدمان ساكس 30%. أما مع سعر 300 دولار للنفط، فهو أمرٌ مؤكد. → تصحيح مؤشر ستاندرد آند بورز يتحول إلى انهيار 📅 الأيام 13-15 — 18-20 أبريل → تحقيق المحكمة الجنائية الدولية في جرائم الحرب — الأدلة موثقة بالفيديو → إيران تُطلق برنامجًا نوويًا — جدول زمني من أسبوعين إلى أربعة أسابيع. لا يوجد أي حافز لضبط النفس. → 80 مليون شخص: بلا كهرباء، بلا ماء، بلا سلسلة غذائية، بلا جسور → أزمة لاجئين تفوق أزمة سوريا بكثير تبدأ → انفجار سياسي في انتخابات التجديد النصفي الأمريكية — سعر 15 دولارًا للبنزين تحقيق في جرائم حرب 15 يومًا. لكل خطوة سابقة. لكل توقع حسابات. وصفت وكالة الطاقة الدولية هذا بأنه "أكبر تحدٍّ لأمن الطاقة العالمي في التاريخ". والأسوأ هو غدًا. احفظ هذه الصفحة. انتظرونا في ٢٠ أبريل. لستُ هنا لأريحكم، بل لأطلعكم على الحقيقة. تابعوني إن كنتم تريدون معرفة الحقيقة كاملة.
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🇫🇷 ON STAGE: “Approaches and learnings from tokenized equities” at @rwasummit @valgui1 of @Kraken, @annabelleacta of @DinariGlobal, Ayt Belyalov of @wintermute_t, and @arush of @AlpacaHQ discuss how tokenized equities are being built and tested in real markets.
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pic looks nothing like me, hashtag solid opsec
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The Alpaca team is heading to the @rwasummit in Cannes on March 31! 🇫🇷 @arush, our Head of Crypto, will be moderating the panel “Approaches and Learnings from Tokenized Equities.” The event brings together leaders across the tokenized asset ecosystem to explore how real-world assets are moving on-chain and the infrastructure powering this shift. If you’re attending the summit, we’d love to connect.
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This is amazing
✨🇨🇳In China, first-grade children are having a math competition on an interactive whiteboard. They compete in a fun game by solving arithmetic problems, making math learning super engaging!
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One of the best and most detailed breakdowns of the perp dex wars on a technical level. Answers many questions I had of how Paradex works and the excellent design decisions they made @paradex
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The FTX calamity is proof that the US bankruptcy code needs major reform. The only winners from the FTX bankruptcy were the lawyers who feasted on the FTX carcass like vultures, then told the victims they should be happy about getting a fraction of their assets back. Sick.
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Next time you feel bad for missing something that mooned Imagine being SBF: - Put $500m into Anthropic, which would now be worth $70b. - Held $60m in $SOL at $8 that would've been worth $2.1b at the top. - Put $100m into Mysten Labs that would now be worth over $800m. - Invested in Robinhood and held a 7.5% stake that would now be worth $10b. Instead, everything got seized before they went up, and he missed out on $80b in profits 😭
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