
Blackbeard
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Lost in the $MMT trenches. Do not buy all the shit I Tweet about.
Hong Kong
Joined July 2017
I've been getting a lot of DM's lately from people asking for help with trading. So I decided to share my most used trading setups with a short explanation. I will be updating this thread daily with setups and other helpful information, so make sure to follow. Cheers! 🍻
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Cross-chain trading isn't the innovation anymore. Everyone’s doing it. Most still feel like patched-together bridges with thin books. @OrderlyNetwork goes deeper. It's the execution (exchange) layer - the middleware that gives every dApp access to institutional-grade liquidity.
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Back then, DeFi was simple - swap, stake, farm. Everyone was chasing APY screenshots and governance tokens. Then came the multi-chain era. TVL scattered. Liquidity got stuck on islands. Bridges broke, fees spiked, and 'cross-chain' turned into a meme. We built faster chains but
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The $POL rebrand wasn't really a rebrand imo, it was a reset. It's the backbone of @0xPolygon 2.0, unifying PoS, zkEVM, and every CDK-based L2 under one standard. Interoperable. Scalable. Seamless. Polygon 2.0 is stitching the multichain mess into one system.
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Bridging two worlds. @RaylsLabs is connecting TradFi and DeFi through a dual-layer architecture, private compliance-ready rails for institutions + public liquidity layer for open finance. Every transaction fuels $RLS demand. 🤝
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100% APY on $MIRA. HTX just made holding @Mira_Network smarter, not riskier. Earning while verifying the future of on-chain AI.
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The market is increasingly less concerned with chasing hype and more focused on clarity, structure, and genuine value. As @MitchellDemeter said, investors want stability in both the vision and the team they're backing. That's exactly what @SonicLabs is building, a foundation
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Everyone's still testing scalability. @Aptos already shipped it. - 160K TPS live. - PoS + validator sharding running. - Move Prover locking down contracts. - 220K+ devs pushing code, not threads. Execution > experiments. The Move era just started fr fr. $APT
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$ARB now doing 80% of Base’s revenue. 30D: +549% 1Y: +556% Base: +171% / +141% This isn't a blip - it's a breakout. L2 fee wars are real-time. Sequencer rev = usage = conviction. OP lagging at $44K. Celo, Gravity background noise. @arbitrum not catching up. It’s hunting. 🎯
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On-chain trading has been bottlenecked for years. Traders are stuck choosing between: 🔹 Slow blockchains with MEV drain 🔸 Centralized exchanges with custody risk @FogoChain - an SVM Layer-1 built for trading, is here to change that. Here's a deep-dive anon🧵
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The numbers speak for themselves. $78B+ in (total) trading volume. $220M in TVL. 2.2M unique accounts. @WalrusProtocol is scaling like an L1 with the heartbeat of DeFi. Real adoption. Real liquidity. Real on-chain impact. $WAL
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#Bitcoin meets Sonic. @SonicLabs just went live on @Build_on_BOB gateway, enabling seamless bridging to and from $BTC in a single transaction. More liquidity, more integrations, $S keeps building nonstop
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You don't get 99.9% community sentiment unless people feel it. That's conviction, not marketing. $PEAQ isn't just another AI or DePIN narrative, it's the infrastructure behind them. From powering autonomous machines to enabling real-world robotics economies, @peaq is quietly
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While most blockchains are chasing hype @RaylsLabs is chasing the banks and $100 trillion in liquidity. $RLS is building the first blockchain built for institutions: - Private + public layers - Native compliance and governance - Quantum-safe privacy infrastructure If TradFi's
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The difference between hype and real adoption? @0xPolygon has both. $POL powers real-world use cases already touching millions: - Stripe for onchain payments - Starbucks for loyalty programs - Nike, Meta, Reddit, Mastercard for NFTs and digital identity Polygon is where Web3
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The gap between CEX and DEX liquidity is officially closing and @OrderlyNetwork is clearly leading. $SEI and $BERA matching Binance. Add in $BNB, $DOGE, and $XRP liquidity boosts, and we're seeing what real DeFi market structure evolution looks like. Welcome to the Exchange
We just took a major leap in altcoin liquidity. $SEI and $BERA top-of-book liquidity now match Binance...yes, Binance. We’ve also added over $1M in liquidity boosts across $BNB, $DOGE, and $XRP. Liquidity across our top 15 pairs has been massively strengthened. Our
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$APT trading volume just hit $5.62B last week and is growing every single day. Momentum is building fast across DeFi and gaming on @Aptos, and liquidity is following. When fundamentals and network activity align like this… you already know what's next.
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The $ULAB flywheel in full motion. Interest comes in, turns into $ULAB, gets kicked back to stakers + LPs. System spins harder every cycle. That's not just yield farming - that's a liquidity engine @LayerBankFi built from scratch.
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Before 'perps meta' was a narrative, @GMX_IO was already clearing billions on @arbitrum. Now? The whole vertical settled here: – @GainsNetwork_io – @variational_io – @OstiumLabs (forex/stocks) – @boros_fi (funding rate markets) – @Rho_xyz (interest rate perps) Not just
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AI won't just generate the future, it'll also need to verify it. As models get stronger, truth becomes harder to prove. That's where @Mira_Network steps in, building decentralized AI verification where data, claims, and outputs are validated onchain. $MIRA
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