Will FTX Selling Nuke It All

A weekly recap of the largest crypto events and narratives, with an extra dose of insight.

Here’s what we have for you:

• FTX selling

• DWF labs pump and dumps

• Prisma new debt caps

• Premia Blue

• BananaGunBot fiasco

FTX may start selling its assets. Creditors have been waiting a long time to be made whole, and unfortunately for us, creditors are paid back in US dollars instead of crypto assets. That means that $1.2B in SOL, $560M in BTC, and $192M in ETH will slowly have to be liquidated. Don’t worry, it won’t be a complete firesale. There will be limits of $50M for the first week and $100M for subsequent weeks. However, the courts can raise the limit to $200M.

In other news, CoinEx was drained of $54M in an apparent hack. They’ve decided to donate the funds to North Korea’s new nuclear submarine, as North Korea’s Lazarus Group continues on its crypto rampage, stealing a total of $270M in the last 102 days. At this point, I’m considering learning how to code and immigrating to North Korea cause they’re probably going to become the largest crypto holders in the world at this rate.

The SEC is reviewing various ETF applications and the Grayscale application, which they kinda have to, so I’m not really sure why this is news. On the CeFi front, Coinbase is planning on integrating the Lightning network as the popular CEX continues to expand, while other exchanges such as Binance haven’t been faring so well with their US CEO leaving along with a third of its workforce. I suspect such moves will continue as the CEX industry continues to consolidate as trading volume dries up and regulatory enforcement ramps up.

-RektRadar

DWF is the most sus market maker I have seen in a long time. I don’t know about you, but does the graph above look like organic price action in the middle of a bear? Definitely not. That is the most obviously manipulated graph I have seen in a long time.

Here’s the shocker. This isn’t the only time they have done this. The same sequence of events occurred for PERP, as the token price rapidly increased from $0.42 to $1.29 in a matter of five days.

Similarly, DWF recently put up a governance proposal for SPELL by requesting for a $1.8M token loan of SPELL and a $1M purchase of SPELL at a 15% discount. Since then, SPELL rapidly pumped 30%, albeit retracing some of that move.

DWF’s CEO also tweeted that “two coins can generate a lot of funding rate right now. Just check the ticker if you want.” Is this the most suspicious thing ever from a market maker? Yes. Does the token price always go up? Also yes. If you want to look past the obvious market manipulation, I’m sorry, market making, occurring here, then it would be wise to pay very close attention to what DWF Labs invests in next.

1. dydx chain is expected to go live late September, could be a good event trade.

2. APE is unlocking 11% of its circulating supply on September 16th.

3. FXS is launching its staked FRAX program, similar to sDAI. It’s targeting a minimum yield of 5%.

4. $UNIBOT is turning on its revenue sharing program on September 15th. This will allow eligible token holders to receive 2% of all trading fees.

5. Synthetix will be relaunching its incentive program for trading Synthetix perps.

BananaGunBot was one of the most hyped token launches in a while. In a classic crypto mess, the team first launched a fake token to trick token snipers (idk if this is even legal), and then subsequently launched the real token.

However, despite two audits, the token contract had a critical vulnerability in that the sales tax of 4% did not work as intended. Instead of going to the project itself, the 4% of tokens remained inside the user’s wallet. If only taxes could be like that too. I get taxed on paper, but the money remains in my bank account. How nice would that be.

Despite that, the token still managed to pull off an impressive rally, quickly rallying from the launch price of $0.65 to almost $9, and then plummeting to $0.02 a few hours later as the vulnerability was discovered and made public. What a classic crypto chart.

Despite the huge snafu, the team did the right thing by refunding 740 ETH to various wallets that did not manage to sell in time. However, it’s important to note that there is always a risk of something like this occurring in crypto. And that not all teams will always do the same thing as Banana and refund users who lost funds. Nothing is truly ever safe, even if it’s the most hyped telegram trading bot in history. And so take caution in that, and never all in something. When the bull market starts, I would always have a % of your portfolio that acts as a limit for a single position. 10% is a safe bet.