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ltrd
ltrd@ltrd_·2d

RAVE: Step-by-step breakdown

ltrd analyzed the RAVE pump-and-dump using on-chain microstructure data, finding that Bitget spot—not major exchanges like Coinbase or Kraken—showed 10x liquidity and a -$80mm cumulative delta, suggesting a designated market maker absorbed selling pressure through aggressive limit orders. The pattern indicates arbitrage between Bitget spot and Binance perpetuals, with perps showing 200bps permanent market impact, likely netting the DMM millions while the project or OTC buyer used the liquidity to push price up from $0.25 to $25 before a 95% retracement.

On-chainPerp Trading
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Hydromancer
Hydromancer@hydromancerxyz·4d

29% of directional Hyperliquid native frontend traders are profitable. Builder app users do worse.

Hydromancer pulled all HL perp trades Aug 2025–Apr 2026 and filtered out market makers + delta-neutral farmers. 29% of native-frontend users are profitable over the period; builder-app users materially worse. Useful baseline for anyone allocating through a vault or copy-trading — most users lose money, and the venue/frontend materially affects the outcome.

$HYPEOn-chainPerp Trading
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Peter Kacherginsky
Peter Kacherginsky@iphelix·5d

The LayerZero DVN Problem Is Bigger Than KelpDAO

After the $193M Aave exploit via KelpDAO's weak DVN config, the narrative has focused on KelpDAO specifically. Peter argues that's wrong: many other protocols are running the same insecure LayerZero DVN setups. Systemic LayerZero-stack problem, not an isolated KelpDAO bug — and forecasts more exploits from the same pattern.

On-chainInfrastructure
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Donovan
Donovan@donovanchoy·5d

Are TradeXYZ users real or airdrop farmers?

Donovan analyzes 224K wallets that traded TradeXYZ markets between Oct 2025 and Apr 2026. 47% had zero prior Hyperliquid activity — a sybil signal. But trade-size distribution is mixed, and the largest user spikes map onto the Strait of Hormuz crisis (93% of the March surge traded $CL crude oil) — organic geopolitical trading, not coordinated farming. The decisive signal is frequency: median xyz-only wallet made 2 trades on 1 day then went dormant; 78% inactive within a week vs. multi-market wallets' median 144 trades over 69 days. Read: meaningful sybil activity in the user count, but a real organic long tail underneath.

$HYPEOn-chainPerp Trading
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