5 Alpha Tweets - UK DeFi Under Attack, Crypto Mental Models & More
Edition 5
Welcome to the Alpha Please newsletter. I curate five alpha tweets every Friday; that’s it, that’s the newsletter.
1. Defi in the UK is under attack. A thread by ourselves on HMRC’s latest defi and crypto staking tax guidance
alpha please@alpha_pls
1/ Crypto Twitter. The UK needs your help.
Two days ago, HMRC published new defi tax guidance, which if maintained can severely damage defi in the UK and punish all users.
We need to make some noise about this.
A thread 🧵👇
12:05 PM · Feb 4, 2022
112 Reposts · 217 Likes
2. Tons of alpha within
Resonance@resonancethis
wHaT bEaR mArkEt
This thread is an assortment of mental models and frameworks I've developed and relied on throughout the span of my trading career, with some personal anecdotes mixed in.
I will continue to update this thread as I identify new trading maxims w/ time.
9:25 AM · Feb 3, 2022
1.15K Reposts · 3.29K Likes
3. Lessons from 2021 by a pastry
pastry@PastryEth
2021 was one of the most impactful yrs i’ve had in crypto
I’ve matured greatly both as a trader & a person
Bc it’s the start of a new year, I figured i’d make a list of what I learned, both for future reference for myself & for those that are curious
🧁’s lessons from 2021…
5:05 PM · Jan 30, 2022
82 Reposts · 323 Likes
4. A few very useful VC crypto related tools…
zachxbt.eth@zachxbt
Some tools I use to see what VCs backed a project:
dovemetrics.com
>data for less projects but has more details about raise
cypherhunter.com
>data for more obscure projects but less details about raise
cryptorank.io
>Public & Private sale price/unlocks
4:34 PM · Jan 31, 2022
639 Reposts · 2.89K Likes
5. An explanation of the $300M Solana Wormhole exploit
smartcontracts@kelvinfichter
Alright. I figured out the Solana x Wormhole Bridge hack. ~300 million dollars worth of ETH drained out of the Wormhole Bridge on Ethereum. Here's how it happened.
1:01 AM · Feb 3, 2022
3.69K Reposts · 13.6K Likes
And that’s your alpha.
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