🟪 Trade finance might not be sexy, but it’s blockchain’s key to success
Dune’s Arrakis Freman and Shogun’s bustling markets of feudal Japan would have benefited from blockchain to solve their trading woes.
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I will have more to say on this the next few days and I am not a fan of the AMLR, but don’t believe the FUD that is being shared.
Self custody wallets are not banned. Payments to/from self custody wallets are not banned. P2P transfers are explicitly excluded from AMLR, as are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
— Patrick Hansen (@paddi_hansen)
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the secret to successful pairs trading is not cointegration or stationarity its actually quoting your correlation values to at least 16 significant figures. Citadel has a special C++ team to quote it up to 128 significant figures. few know this.
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Just remembered that I wrote the original DePIN + DeVIN post in 2020
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It's increasingly apparent that orderbooks represent the most efficient model for perpetual trading, with the primary obstacle being that the most popular blockchains are ill-suited for hosting a fully onchain orderbook. Hyperliquid is a perpetual trading protocol built on its own L1 that aims to replicate the user experience of centralized exchanges while offering a fully onchain orderbook.
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