Notes to self. Managing Partner @plaintext_cap. Opinions are my own. Not investment advice
Joined December 2013
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Jun 15
The depth of American dilusion around foreigner feelings for their country on X this week is astounding.
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Jun 2
It's actually mind blowing to see this dispersion in crypto token performance. While we all lauded the BTC ETF as our savior, it has decimated the active management space since BTC has been the best performing assset by far in the last few years, and it's accessible at a low cost
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Jun 2
Basically everywhere. Having bad assets go down while good assets go up is fundamental to a healthy market. This will be painful for all the BTC strategies that have proliferated in the last few years...
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May 22
One thing to put in perspective when you see everyone worried about the amount of oncoming IPO supply (which is a lot) is that there has been a lot more wealth created, so when you hear the doom porn of $600 bln in IPO supply, it’s important to put that into relative context.
The bigger thing to worry about is global FX, oil, rates and realized volatility rising into mid-terms.
Solid charts from Tony P at GS today.
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Apr 30
The number of DeFi hacks reached ATHs in April, but their impact is still relatively low and stable.
While it’s possible the rise in count is due to AI, what’s more likely is that it’s a function of more contracts being deployed over time.
Although 2% - 4% of total value locked hacked per year is still way too high for mainstream adoption, there’s no reason to be an alarmist about it yet.
Will note too that it’s typically weaker, often times abandon/ill-maintained protocols that get hacked, so this 2% - 4% per year is in a way a weeding of the crowd.
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Apr 29
Bad investor relations will kill your token
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Feb 27
Hermes Agent is officially our fastest-growing project ever!
A huge thank you to everyone who has been experimenting with it, shared the announcement, or took the time to make a contribution to the project.
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Feb 25
Introducing Sophia.
Distributed training changes the AI landspace by making compute fungible.
The entire global supply of compute becomes available to anyone building models—not just the few who can afford to concentrate it in one place.
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Jan 21
To everyone who said prediction markets are just sports, here’s the CEO of a $110b company:
1. Weather and temperature contracts are the most frequently traded
2. Utilities will soon hedge electricity and natural gas contracts using these markets
Prediction markets are already institutional
You’re just not paying close enough attention
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Jan 20
Can definitely see this happening for the foreseeable future. No incentive to lock Pendle while others are earning outsized returns.
Jan 20
The new sPENDLE upgrade by @pendle_fi might not be the token sink many are expecting. Existing ve holders get a big multiplier boost, so they earn a much higher APY than anyone staking fresh. With the average lock around 1.54 years, vePENDLE converts into sPENDLE with a 3.31x boost that slowly decays as unlocks progress.
That creates a lopsided incentive structure. New stakers are earning between 5%-7%, while boosted veholders earn between 16%-24%. Imo the yield for new stakers is too low to pull meaningful new supply into staking.
If sPENDLE is going to work as a real sink, revenue has to ramp quickly through Boros and V2 so yields can rise for everyone. Otherwise staking demand probably shows up much later, once the average multiplier on legacy vePENDLE drifts closer to 1.
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24 Nov 2025
Equity perpetuals are going to see huge adoption in this industry.
Why? Because most tokens are absolute trash possibly worse than trash. You now can get leverage on the MAG7 that literally only go up.
It’s hard to lose buying these assets. After everyone has been rinsed by CEX listing crime it’s the only viable way to run it back.
Market severely underwriting the TAM for this sector.
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24 Nov 2025
RT @Swingtrader: Brilliant article by @profplum99 - I don’t think this could have been articulated anyway possibly better.
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21 Nov 2025
The thing people forget is that all the fear indexes were max red for a large part of 22.
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20 Nov 2025
Stablecoins won the popularity contest this cycle. Everyone loves them so much they stopped asking what’s actually inside the box. So we treat every stable like it’s backed by treasuries — even when some are backed by fumes. DeFi integrates them the same. Reality won’t.
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