Blood in the streets II

What was all the panic about?

We all knew it was only temporary...

Didn’t we???

Usually, anyone who claims to know what will happen in the markets should not be trusted.

However, when it comes to top signals, the dog tokens were particularly blatant.

Bitcoin crashed by 30%, Ethereum by 44%, centralised exchanges froze and decentralised exchanges required thousands of gwei to make any transactions.

Was it China or was it Elon?

Perhaps it was the DOGE ASS and CUMMIES.

Another bloodbath, this time perhaps slightly overdue. Now the markets have settled somewhat, do you dare be as long as before?

The meme coins didn’t cause this pullback, they were simply symptoms of the “bull market, bear development”. Maybe now we’ll come back to fundamentals, but it’s hard to imagine that TikTok traders will stop forever.

It might be worth pointing out that it’s not just leveraged traders who fall victim to liquidation. Overconfident farmers who leverage their assets via DeFi protocols achieve the same result, but maybe feel slightly less degenerate whilst doing so.

Perhaps this is why we saw $8.8 billion in liquidations yesterday.

The increased usage of Layer 2s added to the chaos, as Julien Bouteloup pointed out;

One pattern that I've seen a lot from people using bridges. User lends into L1, borrows assets, sets liquidation ratio around 1.5 and then bridges those assets into L2.

The gas gets insane, they are stuck on L2 and they get liquidated on L1.

Coinbase, Bitfinex, Binance, Kraken, Gemini, Huobi all struggled, for some stopping trading activity or restricting withdrawals to some chains.

In the meantime, even though Ethereum was unusable, or at least very expensive to use, everything worked as intended.

Curve did $1.4B yesterday, Uniswap close to $6B, and DeFi looks as promising as ever.

However, even for those who have experienced market crashes before, yesterday was particularly brutal. Perhaps the markets have cooled off somewhat, but it remains to be seen if the trend has been broken.

rekt on repeat:

The fundamentals remain the same.

DEX volume continues to increase, code is still shipped and the ecosystem still grows.

The builders haven’t stopped. Roadmaps are unaffected.

Fast money hunters are the ones hurt hardest by pullbacks like this. Those who add the least value feel the most pain.

Also - those who seem to add value can quickly take it away - even the "WARONRUGS" account turned out to be a rug.

(We generally don’t waste time on low quality projects, but the beautiful irony of an anti-scam scam was worth a small mention.)

Metamask has grown by 5X in the last 6 months, and yesterday will have been the first major pullback for many of its 5 million monthly users. All across crypto, those with red portfolios are now faced with a choice - call it quits, or zoom out and try to learn from the experience.

We were all apes once.

We are all rekt now.

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