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MASTR · 2024–2026

Market structure · 2

Liquidity, concentrated supply, execution, fees, leverage and the difference between receipts and returns.

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Market structure

Paid promotion · 2 Jun 2026

Andrew Left, the founder of Citron Research, has been found guilty of securities fraud after prosecutors said he used his public influence to move markets through tweets and research calls, then traded around those moves for profit.

Research & analysis2 min
Market structure

Bitcoin: attention and incentives · 1 Jun 2026

He did it because Strategy is a company, and companies exist to protect capital, manage liabilities, satisfy shareholders, service obligations, and extract profit when the structure demands it.

Commentary & rants2 min
Market structure

Liquidity and market structure · 24 May 2026

"Waiting on a Sunday afternoon For what I've read between the lines Your lies Feelin', like a hand in rusted shame So do you laugh or does it cry”

Commentary & rants5 min
Market structure

Much of the time it is simply decay wrapped in better marketing.

The $ASTEROID and $RAVE mess, and nearly everything that supposedly reached serious market cap territory since around January 2025, keeps pointing to the same rotten conclusion: almost nothing in this space becomes large without being…

Commentary & rants2 min
Conflict, liquidity and crypto: a March 2026 scenario analysis — original source image
Market structure

Conflict, liquidity and crypto: a March 2026 scenario analysis

Within the first 24 hours after the large-scale US-Israeli strike on Iranian strategic targets, total crypto market capitalisation fell by roughly 5 – 8 %, Bitcoin dropped about 6 – 9 %, and leveraged long positions worth more than $1…

Research & analysis6 min
Market structure

Web3 culture · 18 Feb 2026

Not because the charts look bad at the moment or because the market cap is bleeding, but because the narrative that once carried us has thinned out into something I can no longer defend with the same conviction.

Commentary & rants2 min
The state of the memecoin market in February 2026 — original source image
Market structure

The state of the memecoin market in February 2026

Listen carefully, because the phase we are in right now is not a market condition, it is a structural exposure of how fragile the entire web3 and CT economy actually was once the vertical liquidity stopped.

Research & analysis6 min
Market structure

Exchange accountability · 8 Feb 2026

If we want real change, token and coin teams must be the first to act. But they are the worst when it comes to hypocrisy.

Commentary & rants3 min
Market structure

A liquidation counter is not a single trade

“CEX Futures Liquidations #ETH Liquidated Long: 1,345,535,687” means the sum of many long liquidations across exchanges over a short window.

Research & analysis2 min
Market structure

Building useful products · 7 Feb 2026

I keep receiving messages from people who want to start a crypto project to "improve this space" or whatever.

Commentary & rants1 min
Market structure

Decentralisation and control · 11 Jan 2026

I get asked about this constantly, so I want to answer it here once for everyone. Unfortunately, I receive more questions about $whitewhale than about my own project.

Commentary & rants3 min
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