Hype Central.h🕯️

If you’ve had a good run over the past 3 years there’s nothing wrong with being in wealth preservation mode now. Nothing goes up in a straight line, least of all your portfolio. Be okay with some sideways consolidation, no need to double down when things are this uncertain.

2024 was truly BIBLICAL. I still believe a time like this will repeat probably in the next 2/3 years.

WOW Professor Jiang explains how the US economy is a giant Ponzi scheme dependent on Gulf nations investing in American tech. If Iran forces the Gulf to abandon the petrodollar for food security, the US economy will face total collapse and revolution in the streets.

New Essay: Loot and Rape! On Oil Futures, Medicare, and why Amjad Masad makes Billionaire status embarrassing epilepsywarning.com/loot-and-rape.…

Earlier today, a user attempted to buy AAVE using $50M USDT through the Aave interface. Given the unusually large size of the single order, the Aave interface, like most trading interfaces, warned the user about extraordinary slippage and required confirmation via a checkbox. The user confirmed the warning on their mobile device and proceeded with the swap, accepting the high slippage, which ultimately resulted in receiving only 324 AAVE in return. The transaction could not be moved forward without the user explicitly accepting the risk through the confirmation checkbox. The CoW Swap routers functioned as intended, and the integration followed standard industry practices. However, while the user was able to proceed with the swap, the final outcome was clearly far from optimal. Events like this do occur in DeFi, but the scale of this transaction was significantly larger than what is typically seen in the space. We sympathize with the user and will try to make a contact with the user and we will return $600K in fees collected from the transaction. The key takeaway is that while DeFi should remain open and permissionless, allowing users to perform transactions freely, there are additional guardrails the industry can build to better protect users. Our team will be investigating ways to improve these safeguards going forward.

As a shareholder, I would love for Binance's valuation to increase. But the fact is, Binance's valuation can't increase when crypto prices are down. It can't get simpler than that. Stating the obvious: Binance is the largest crypto exchange. It grows and shrinks with the industry. Crypto winter = less trading. Low crypto prices = less trading fees. For this obvious reason, Binance or I will always wish the industry to grow, or more explicitly, all major crypto prices to be high. I/we never short sell, or try to "push the price down". And I work hard to advocate for crypto with many governments even when I don't manage Binance anymore. This is, of course, on top of the fact that I believe the blockchain is a better technology for money. While I appreciate Forbes thinks highly of Binance, Forbes estimating my networth increase, based on Binance's valuation increase (recently) is just a bit illogical, at least to me. Lastly, above a certain (fairly low) threshold, more money won't make you happier. There are other more rewarding things in life, like having good health and a loving family, while making the best positive impact you can.

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran tells the US it will not be able to artificially lower the price of oil and energy. "Prepare for $200 per barrel."

[ ZOOMER ] THE DOJ BEGINS INVESTIGATION INTO IRAN USING BINANCE TO EVADE SANCTIONS: WSJ

@zoomerfied $10b fines Incoming

@CallumOnCrypto @HyperliquidX "You only need to be REALLY right once" x.com/i/status/20310…

Back in 2023/24 you could've farmed hundreds of different airdrops (all the KOLs told you to) But if you had done that extra bit of research yourself, gained conviction in projects before you farmed them, maybe you would've found @HyperliquidX That could've made you millions More research, less diving in (in my experience) yields much better results Now, that doesn't mean over-researching (constantly looking more into the details without ever getting started) But be particular, and importantly you should understand why a project will be successful before you farm it yourself Sure, split up your bets between a few projects you have conviction in, but know that even a couple minutes of research will weed out a majority of projects that are doomed to fail from the start. For example: If you've been in crypto, and on CT, over the past year or two, you will have seen the success of Hyperliquid. Since then dozens of other similar projects have came and gone. There are still plenty now that are going to release tokens. Deciding which to farm is super important. I hope some of you have not seen my posts about which projects I'm farming, and I challenge you to go, research a bunch of them, let me know which couple projects are worth farming and are a head and shoulders above the others, and then come back and let me know which you find. Most people decide based on what others say, but this self-gained conviction is such a valuable skill to gain. It should lead you well. If you don't understand a project, you probably won't 'trade the opportunity' in the best way The same opportunity has been true for many narratives; NFT's, DeFi, AI, etc - the research is so important! Weed out the majority of projects, and focus on the opportunity that COULD yield you more than everything else combined You only need to be REALLY right once!

The US‑Israel war on Iran has closed some of the world’s busiest airspace. Here’s what that actually costs.

@Boitshoko_ts You're a Blessing to Me, B🌹 x.com/i/status/20312…

Flower 🌹

@KyleSamani @Bing0to Lol, That's a Poor indicator of Superior User Experience (UX)? Drift is functionally slow, execution lags, experienced numerous RPC issues while trading & they rolled out an Awful Airdrop scheme, flagging most community members as Sybils. Hyperliquid is Light years Ahead.

"Edges have shelf lives. The strategy that worked for years can stop working not because you got worse, but because the market evolved. Most traders hold on too long. They assume the edge will come back." Great Article and Insight Here👇

@NigraMain You're doing Awesome Man. The main deal is to keep exploring stuffs onchain & build great Pattern recognition for what works. Personally, I'm hibernating, haven't found great novel stuffs that has gotten me as excited as the early days of HL or even LIT yet. But it will sure come

@etherbaze Found you late lol 😂.. The alpha are from the small account

The $HYPE Airdrop still feels surreal. Woke up Friday(30th Nov 2024) to massive fortunes Airdropped into my 4 wallets. Felt surreal, so I Shut my system and went for a Weekend Hangout with my IRL frnds so as to process it. Came back on Sunday to see that it has quadrupled (4x)

@Samtolad @NigraMain Grateful for you and the very few others that still give us Hope in this Space 🙌👏

@etherbaze @NigraMain THIS 😅

@NigraMain Biggest L was Terra LUNA😭 way back. Pretty Brutal

My highest biggest recent single L .. From perp 🙂‍↔️😂 Am such a bad trader 😂

@NigraMain When I was advocating for Hyperliquid in Jan 2024, these "Idolos" were totally sidelined shilling stuffs like MONAD & DYM. When I was talking of Lighter in Q1 2025 they were Shilling KINTO, UNION & Paradex The Quality of Alpha on CT, which is why I never to rely on any "Idolo"

@etherbaze And you still cooked with LIT man.. You are too richer than most of this so called idolo that larp on the TL