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MASTR · 2024–2026

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

Price is an outcome of trades under particular liquidity and execution conditions. It does not explain who can exit, what supply will become available, how a venue routes orders or which participants are paid before a trader sees a return. The publications here examine supply control, stablecoins, exchange concentration and the movement of capital between narratives.

Read a reported volume with its measurement method. Gross trading activity, protocol revenue, a wallet’s receipts and a trader’s net profit answer different questions. The Pump.fun fee note separates ecosystem fees from protocol revenue; the onchain-versus-exchange comparison asks what is comparable across venues. MASTR’s liquidation and JELLY records show how leverage and intervention can change outcomes during stress.

Market commentary is time-sensitive. A valuation, holding, risk scenario or cycle thesis belongs to its observation date. The full source text is retained here so its assumptions remain visible, rather than turning an old opinion into an undated trading instruction.

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Hunter Biden-linked tokens: uncertainty about the endorsement

I genuinely have no idea whether he understands what actually happened behind the scenes, but this whole episode is another perfect example of how absurdly naive (or extractive) celebrities can be when they enter crypto.

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Trust, opportunism and exhaustion in crypto

Liars, profiteers, useless parasites and self-righteous moral frauds performing virtue in public while behaving like absolute pieces of shit behind the scenes.

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Trading psychology: MASTR’s collection of attributed quotations

Not because every one of them is universally right, but because together they say a lot about what trading actually comes down to: risk, patience, psychology, discipline and surviving your own stupidity.

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Tokenisation: the asset, the claim and the marketing — original source image
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Tokenisation: the asset, the claim and the marketing

I want to take a closer look at the tokenization hype and explain why most of what is being marketed as “tokenization” in this space is completely pointless garbage.

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Onchain and exchange volume: what can actually be compared — original source image
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Onchain and exchange volume: what can actually be compared

However, the claim that DEXs already represent more than 35% of all crypto trading volume is misleading, or depends heavily on the selected dates, provider and measurement method.

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BitShine: the reported Taiwan sentencing

Taiwan’s Shilin District Court has sentenced the man behind the BitShine crypto exchange, identified by the surname Shih, to 22 years in prison for running a large-scale fraud and money-laundering operation disguised as a legitimate…

Investigação e análise2 min
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Crypto Is Still Swimming in Stablecoins.

People keep talking about the next bull run, bullish catalysts and whatever narrative is supposed to send everything higher.

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Decentralisation and control · 10 Jul 2026

How the fuck are so many of you bullish on a broker-owned finance chain just because they slapped “onchain” on it? Lmao

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Market fear, repeated warnings and the claim that crypto is dead

Anyone who has been here longer than 1 cycle has seen empty timelines, forced liquidations, panic candles, broken narratives, fake conviction disappearing overnight, leverage getting deleted, and the same people who called every dip…

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Maybe this washout is exactly what crypto needed.

Maybe this market became too bloated, too complacent, too convinced that institutions, ETFs, treasury companies and endless leverage had somehow abolished downside risk.

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