Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
3,101 documents
Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) invests a fixed amount at regular intervals regardless of market price. The approach buys more units when prices are lower and fewer when they are higher, spreading entry points over time. The document presents it as a way to…
This teaching example outlines a basic arbitrage strategy for digital-asset spot markets across multiple exchanges. It gathers account balances and quotes, adjusts buy and sell prices for exchange fees, and compares venues to find opportunities to buy on a…
This reference describes signed exchange actions for trading and account management on Hyperliquid. It explains how asset identifiers are derived from perpetual and spot metadata, and how subaccounts or vaults are accessed through a master account with a…
This page is an introductory guide to non-fungible tokens, pointing readers toward topics such as what NFTs represent, ways to buy them, collection rarity rankings, and blockchain gas fees. It also gives brief descriptions of example NFT collections and…
The article compares the first 30 trading days of US spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs, examining net flows, assets under management, issuer patterns, and asset prices. It reports substantial Bitcoin ETF inflows alongside redemptions from Grayscale, while…
This market snapshot reviews Coinbase’s crypto futures approval and Base’s launch alongside activity across centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, lending markets, and several blockchain networks. It reports declining exchange volumes and market…
The document explains HODL as a cryptocurrency-community term for retaining an asset through price fluctuations, in contrast with frequent short-term trading. It traces the term to a misspelling in a Bitcoin forum post during a market decline and describes…
The document presents exchange limit order data as a way to monitor large crypto traders. It distinguishes resting limit orders from market orders, then describes tracking unusually large orders by price, size, direction, and duration. Its central premise is…
This notice describes global cryptocurrency reference rates calculated as volume-weighted moving averages across exchanges. Users can request a rate by asset symbol, aggregating across exchanges and cross-rate pairs, or by a specific trading pair,…
The document summarizes US federal tax treatment described for cryptocurrency staking. It says rewards are generally included as ordinary income when the recipient gains control, with their value at receipt serving as tax basis even when the tokens are…
The document explains how linked spot assets move between Hyperliquid’s HyperCore and HyperEVM. A token must first be linked to an EVM contract; transfers from Core use a sendAsset action directed to the token’s system address, while transfers from the EVM…
This guide explains how decentralized finance yield farming works: users supply crypto assets to liquidity pools, lending markets, or other smart contract applications in exchange for trading fees, interest, or token rewards. It distinguishes liquidity…
This annotated educational strategy describes hedging cryptocurrency spot exposure across multiple exchanges. It aims to exploit price differences by buying on the venue with the lower effective price and selling on the venue with the higher effective price,…
This tutorial extends a basic grid strategy to several cryptocurrency spot pairs and focuses on the engineering decisions needed to run it. It covers retrieving aggregated quotes and account balances, tracking assets and performance by pair, and assigning…
This example shows how to combine a spot BTCUSDT mid-price series with US dollar margined futures order book data in an hftbacktest simulation. It parses spot book ticker messages into local timestamps and mid prices, then, at each backtest timestamp,…
This weekly snapshot reviews digital-asset activity from February 6 to 13, 2024. It compares centralized exchange volume in major Bitcoin quote pairs, decentralized exchange volumes, lending deposits and withdrawals, token-level depositor activity, and…
This article explains a contrarian rebalancing strategy that keeps a Bitcoin position and cash at roughly equal market values. It begins with the broader stock-and-bond allocation idea, then applies it to a BTC account. When the asset values diverge beyond a…
This glossary explains terminology used by the Binance Spot API, including order types, order statuses, time-in-force settings, trade and allocation fields, balances, market data, and order-list structures. It distinguishes concepts such as limit and market…
The article explains how proof-of-work mining validates transactions and rewards miners, tracing the shift from home computers toward large operations using specialized ASIC hardware. It describes mining as increasingly difficult for small participants as…
This October 2023 snapshot reviews crypto market structure and activity alongside industry news. It reports shifts in centralized exchange volume share, including gains for Bybit and changes in Binance and OKX shares, while noting that aggregate exchange…
This weekly crypto snapshot links institutional news and regulatory developments with activity across centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, lending protocols, and blockchain networks. It describes spot Bitcoin ETF filings and a planned traditional…
This guide explains how an exchange API key lets trading software interact with a cryptocurrency account without using the account’s email address or login password. In the OctoBot example, the key is used to read wallet balances and to view, place, and…
The document explains how Bitcoin can be represented as an Ethereum ERC-20 token backed by BTC held on another network. This structure is intended to combine Bitcoin’s liquidity with Ethereum smart contracts, allowing the token to be used in decentralized…
This developer guide explains how an exchange connector tracks orders and reports their state changes to trading strategies. A buy or sell request returns a client-side identifier promptly while submission proceeds asynchronously. Tracking should begin…