nader.deso

@nadertheory

Sequoia & a16z-backed founder of @desoprotocol, @basisprotocol; Ex @Google, @DEShawGroup, @Princeton, @TJColonials, creator of BitClout

Austin, TX

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nader.deso
@nadertheory
Sep 22
What if you could long or short any seed-stage startup, with leverage? Today I'm excited to announce my next chapter: A new kind of exchange called Mirror, powered by a novel technology we developed over ~2 years that we call MicroPerps.
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nader.deso
@nadertheory
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One of the biggest questions I've been getting is: How can you have a perp on a startup if there is no external market price for that startup? The answer is that the market becomes less like a perp and more like a prediction market, where the market will eventually converge to
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nader.deso
@nadertheory
May 20
Every platform in crypto right now is competing to the death for the trading of the same core assets (btc, top alts, now RWAs). Some will make money but they're selling a commodity. The people who will make real money in the next cycle are the ones who create new assets for
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@hosseeb
May 20
CLOBs are not going to take us to the RWA promised land. Today Hyperliquid owns the liquidity for a handful of RWA macro names. But outside the top 10 traded assets (which are ~90% of volume) liquidity falls off a cliff. When there's enough retail demand, order books can work.
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nader.deso
@nadertheory
Apr 20
How to beat the DOJ and SEC: A story that involves getting raided by the FBI, arrested, and getting recruited by multiple prison gangs before eventually having all charges dismissed with prejudice. Big thanks to @laurashin from Unchained for helping me tell this story.
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nader.deso
@nadertheory
Apr 15
I've never told this story but Kevin was an investor and advisor with me on my last company Basis where we were pioneering an algorithmic central bank. At one point we even did a fireside chat together at a private event and I got to grill him 1:1 about what it was actually like
perry
@perry8888_
Apr 14
Kevin Warsh owns 30+ crypto projects and youre brearish the next Fed Chair's disclosure includes: Solana, Optimism, Blast, Compound, dYdX, Polychain, Scalar Capital, Lightning Network, Lighter the next Fed Chair is more degen than you
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