Crypto's Biggest Liquidation, DAT Strategies, & The Purification Trade | Jeff Park
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I am disappointed by the amount of wealth destruction that just happened for pro tail retail investors, and it probably means there will be consolidation towards hopefully higher quality assets. I And will take that as a win because if more investors are able to kind of build wealth through the Bitcoin lane first and then diversify into alternative exposures, I think that's the right path rather than the reverse. So, hopefully, this also just means that we'll see more consolidated flows into what I think is the most topical asset today being Bitcoin because it's at the center of global macro.
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That felt that kinda felt like you know that scene in Gladiator when Russell Crowe is, like, fighting for his life in the Coliseum, and he goes, are you not entertained?
What was the spiciest? I didn't I didn't catch it. What was, like, the spiciest Nah. Takeaway?
I think, generally, it was pretty civil. If there was a spicy moment, I would say I try to it hear for the virtues of Bitcoin relative to altcoins as a way to imagine what the treasury landscape should be like.
As opposed to just OTC deals from foundations and few series stuff.
For token funds to dump their coins on retail in a different format.
Yeah. Yeah. No. That was good. Yeah. It's fun. But yeah. Here we are. Next session at DAS London. Good times. Jeff, obviously, you are deep in the DAT world right now, but you're also very dialed into the derivatives world and all of that. So I'd love to just like get your post mortem on the weekend. We we had Avi Feldman on before this, we're diving into a little bit of it. But I'd love to just hear your story of of the events of the weekend and how you read from.
Sure. Man, at a high level, I think it was as a headline and another data point for why DeFi has some superior qualities relative to, its centralized counterparts. But those higher qualities also come with certain trade offs, and those trade offs are happening at maybe the social level too as to what their expectations should be to the user experience that investors and traders are hoping for. So taking a step back, I think it's really important for people to understand that the futures market, especially when you apply leverage to it, is a professional environment. It's not really one for, I
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