5 Alpha Tweets - Derivatives Trading For Dummies, Coinbase Suing the SEC & More

Edition 69

Welcome to the alpha please newsletter. I curate five alpha tweets every Friday; that’s it, that’s the newsletter.

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*Elon is still waging a war with Substack, so I have embedded the images again. You can click them and they will take you to the tweets.

Gm friends,

It’s been a choppy week.

Zoom out and keep your eyes on the prize.

Your weekly reads:

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1. Coinbase suing SEC TLDR

What you need to know about Coinbase suing the SEC.

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2. Circle’s CCTP

Circle just shipped CCTP and it could be a big deal.

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3. Derivatives trading for dummies

Want to be able to trade crypto derivatives?

Read this:

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4. Sui

Sui launches on mainnet May 3rd. Here’s a run down on the Move based L1:

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5. How to protect yourselves from sandwich attacks and failed transactions

Simple guide to adding Flashbots’ RPC endpoint.

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Random protocol update I liked

Decentralised social media is scaling.

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alpha_pls tweet of the week

A breakdown of Chronos.

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And that’s your alpha.

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Not financial or tax advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Do your own research.

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