As with any hot narrative in crypto, there are dozens of airdrops that everyone tells you to farm and dozens of tokens being shilled.
What they often don't tell you tho, is if the project you're supposed to farm or buy into has any technical and/or product-level moat that gives it a real USP in the longterm, and how early or late you actually are.
The same is happening amid the CLOB wars, where KOLs getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in Aster tokens are shilling you the most recent CEX-led value extraction effort, piggybacking on Hyperliquid's success and clearly targeting retail.
If you're aware of the risks and manage to successfully make money on top of an artificially induced hype driven by CZ and co (alongside fake volumes and wash-trading), gg.
But if you're looking for REAL opportunities to be early on, assets to invest in for the long-term, put in the work and study emerging players like @bulletxyz_, @tradeparadex, @MonacoOnSei and @Lighter_xyz (all teams building truly innovative tech) or keep maxxing on current market leaders like @HyperliquidX (no explanation needed).
With @a1research__, we help you stay ahead of the curve (for free).
Don't fade CLOB SZN anon, but DYOR and don't get rekt.
If you're looking to DYOR on the CLOB wars, @a1research__ is currently the primary institutional-grade research outlet covering the vertical.
This week we covered:
- From AMMs to CLOBs: The $7T Race to Bring Nasdaq Onchain
- The State of the CLOB Wars (a data-driven perspective)
- @bulletxyz_: The Network Extension That Turns Solana Into an Onchain Nasdaq
- @tradeparadex: The Zero-Fee SuperExchange for the Internet Economy
- CLOB DEXs (+ infra enablers) landscape overview(s)
Stay tuned for more research articles, with the next one dropping as soon as tmrw, and a full week of more content (incl. an in-depth report on @MonacoOnSei and another top tier space with reps from @tradeparadex,
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Check links in comments if you want to read what we've published so far!
Tbh I do also find it a bit sad that so many ppl out there call themselves "crypto natives" or "defi maxis", etc. but blindly follow extractive KOLs to fill the pockets of the enemy (the CEXes) hoping for a quick buck, instead of supporting the teams that actually put in the work to build real DeFi infra.
But at least @DefiLlama has delisted Aster for providing fake volume data lol. We're winning frens.
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