BREAKDOWN: The Real Story of the Crypto Crash Has Very Little to Do With Elon or China

It wasn’t narrative but market structure that drove yesterday’s big move down. 

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In this episode of “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at the market structure dimension of the crypto crash, leveraging insights from Alameda Research, Willy Woo and many more. He explores: 

Why the recent bull run was driven by derivatives more than by spot tradingHow crypto moving onto exchanges signaled the big move downHow cascading liquidations made the down moves even more extreme What the industry thinks about 100x leverageInsider reports on how institutional investors responded

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