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Two types of people in this world:
1. Those who complain
2. Those who execute in silence.
Which one are you, anon?
🤖 Made with AI
I read every swap on @metricxyz while Snooping for some Alpha.
This is what I found 🔎
Metric is a DEX on Robinhood Chain. An oracle sets the price, LPs deposit into bins around that price, and traders pay a spread. Fees are earned via the spread.
I measured 7 pools: WETH plus tokenized SPCX, META, NVDA, GOOGL, TSLA, and AAPL.
Pulled every swap, LP deposit, withdrawal, and fee from launch over the past ~12 days. I rebuilt every LP position from the events and matched it to what the contracts hold.
The 7 pools did $311.3M volume across 140,162 swaps.
Most of that comes from wallets that buy and sell in nearly equal amounts. Simple rule I used: 10+ swaps in a pool, buys between 45% and 55% of that wallet's dollar volume there, and almost never routing through another protocol.
334 wallets meet that. They account for 57% of all volume. 55 of them trade in all 7 pools. Those 55 addresses alone are 45% of all volume 👀
These addresses could be hedging elsewhere, farming, arbing, or something else. The data just shows how concentrated the volume is.
Public aggregators routed 5.6%. Another 32% went through contracts I have yet to label. Either way, 5.6% from known aggregator addresses this early is already impressive.
Traders paid $78.0k in spread.
LPs: 80% ($62.4k)
Metric: 15% ($11.7k)
Pool Manager: 5% ($3.9k)
59% of that spread was paid by the 334 round-trip wallets. A large share of what LPs earn comes from that group.
Over 11.6 days (Oct 15–26), LPs across all 7 pools are up 0.96% vs holding, an adjusted APR of about 30%. Ahead in 6 of 7 pools.
The ETH pool is the exception. It is slightly underwater from the recent price movement, and can easily catch up.
Of the 2,019 LP wallets vs just holding:
385 ahead by more than $1
325 behind by more than $1
1,309 within $1 of break-even
Summary: busy protocol, most flow from a few hundred farming-style wallets, and real aggregator flow is already showing up.
Interestingly enough, there's a good number of influenzas buying on side wallets. Super easy to find and super profitable.
I don't know The__Solstice but Bubble maps investigations are always amateur...will have to verify before passing judgement.
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1/ An investigation into @The__Solstice, top #3 social trader, and his ties to a massive bundling operation
Snooper 🔎 retweeted
An urgent notice from the Railway team
blog.railway.com/p/security-…
Found an airdrop farm cluster providing 43% of a new protocol's volume for the top 5 highest volume pairs.
I'm rooting for them, even though it was easy to find.
Wonder if it is the team 🤔
Will snoop further 🔎
🔎 Discovered that someone copied my free educational site (non-crypto) onto a lookalike domain, ran it through AI, and is charging for it.
my 70+ .edu and wikipedia backlinks say "good luck" 👇
Snooper 🔎 retweeted
Lately it’s been hard to come to grips with the fact that the crypto world I grew up in and loved is mostly gone and I don’t fit in with or relate to what’s popular in crypto anymore
Hopeful that this will change one day but I’m not going to hold my breath
Snooper 🔎 retweeted
PSA the ledger incident isn't limited to Asia
This is a device purchased in store from an official reseller in Europe (a legitimate device doesn't have any of these cables as can be seen in picture 2)
This even seems to be an old version of the 'spy implant' even though the device was purchased a couple of weeks ago. The newer versions usually hide the implant by the screen so it's easier to miss
What's interesting is that this compromised ledger never transfered funds to an exploiter. Either the device didn't work or they were waiting for a more widespread usage of the comprised devices?
If you own a ledger that didn't directly come from the ledger online store make sure to not just rely on the software genuinely check by ledger but to actually open up the ledger yourself to make sure its original, again there are reported cases in Asia, south America and now Europe as well.
@MagicalTux made some useful videos on how to open the ledger and what to look for.
CryptoBilis sells Trezors too 👀
Ledger is investigating reports of loss of funds from users in South East Asia who purchased products from a reseller named CryptoBillis. As a precaution, and pending the results of our investigation, we have asked CryptoBilis to pause all sales and shipments of Ledger devices. We recommend Ledger users who purchased from this reseller in the last 90 days to not initiate set up if you have not done so yet. If you have set up your Ledger device, consider moving assets to a new Ledger signer (with new seed). We will continue to inform customers of updates as the investigation progresses.
Reach out to Ledger customer support through official channels with any questions: support.ledger.com/
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Seeing some great projects come out using Uniswap V4 hooks. The two I like the most are @whatthehookv4 and @Hookrfun.
great tech 🔎
