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.
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This guide offers broad principles for assessing speculative crypto assets, especially new projects, presales, meme coins, and low-cap tokens. It recommends prioritizing fundamentals, practical use cases, transparent teams, and credible roadmaps over hype,…
This overview compares long-term holding with active trading and suggests a hybrid allocation that combines a long-term position with short-term trades. It also describes automated tools, including dollar-cost averaging, and notes that bots may offer…
The document explains how to size a crypto derivatives trade by relating account risk to the distance between entry and stop-loss prices. Its example sets a fixed fraction of capital at risk, then divides that amount by the per-unit loss at the stop to…
This guide explains crypto margin trading as borrowing funds to control a position larger than a trader’s own capital would permit. It defines leverage ratios and illustrates how leverage expands buying power, then describes short selling and hedging as…
The document explains how leveraged ETH trading works and describes short selling: a trader borrows ETH, sells it, and aims to buy it back at a lower price. Leverage increases exposure relative to posted capital, so favorable price moves can magnify gains…
The article recounts two ZEC whales’ activity on Hyperliquid to illustrate how leveraged positions can produce sharply different outcomes. One trader reportedly opened longs with $2.21 million in initial capital across two price ranges, saw account value…
The document explains liquidation in leveraged crypto trading: an exchange may close a position when losses reduce collateral below required margin. A margin call can give a trader a chance to add funds, while the liquidation price depends on factors such as…
The document uses a large Zcash short position to illustrate how a sharp price rise can create substantial unrealized losses and bring a leveraged trader closer to liquidation. It reports an entry price, position size, liquidation level, and added…
The article explains Compound III, also known as Comet, as a redesign of Compound’s decentralized lending protocol. Its central feature is a single borrowable base asset model, initially described as USDC, with other supplied assets serving as collateral.…
The document describes South Korean company Bitplanet’s shift toward a Bitcoin-focused treasury, including a stated accumulation goal and regular purchases using dollar-cost averaging. It presents recurring buys as a way to spread entry prices over time and…
A crypto winter is described as an extended bearish phase marked by falling prices, lower trading activity, and negative sentiment. The article sketches three historical episodes: the aftermath of the Mt. Gox hack in 2014, the unwinding of the ICO boom in…
Ethereum’s September 2022 Merge replaced proof-of-work mining on the main network with proof-of-stake validators, making ETH mining impossible. The document outlines former miners’ options: mine proof-of-work alternatives such as Ethereum Classic, Ravencoin,…
The document explains how leverage lets a trader control a position larger than the capital committed as margin. Its example shows that 10x leverage can support a $10,000 position with $1,000 of the trader’s funds. Because gains and losses apply to the full…
The document defines leverage trading as borrowing funds to control a position larger than the trader’s own capital. It explains that leverage magnifies both gains and losses and can lead to forced liquidation when margin falls below the required maintenance…
The document explains how a validator contributes to a proof-of-stake network by validating transactions and securing consensus, then describes Intellistake’s validator on Fetch.ai. It presents two revenue sources: rewards on the operator’s own staked FET…
The document explains how a crypto-backed loan uses assets such as Bitcoin as collateral and defines loan-to-value (LTV) as the share of collateral value available to borrow. It describes the appeal of accessing liquidity without selling holdings, alongside…
The guide distinguishes three calculator uses: converting between crypto and fiat currencies, calculating profit or loss, and projecting staking rewards. For a basic P&L calculation, it defines cost basis as purchase value plus fees and compares that amount…
The document uses James Wynn’s reported $99.3 million liquidation to explain how leverage magnifies both gains and losses. It says Wynn used leverage as high as 40x and notes that, at that leverage, a 2.5% adverse price move can exhaust the position’s…
This guide explains liquidation in a unified trading account using the account’s margin level. It states that when the margin level falls below 100%, the exchange may close some or all of an open position; traders should not assume liquidation waits until…
The guide proposes evaluating cryptocurrencies for long-term holdings by their use case, network effects, security, decentralization, and development activity. It presents Bitcoin as a scarce store-of-value asset and Ethereum as a smart-contract network with…
The guide explains that leverage increases market exposure relative to posted margin, amplifying gains and losses while moving liquidation closer to the entry price. It describes setting leverage per order and checking the platform’s estimated liquidation…
The document describes crypto bull markets as periods of rising prices, strong confidence, and active trading, often led by Bitcoin and Ethereum. It presents breaks of support and falling trading volume as possible signs that a bull phase is weakening. It…
The document explains how borrowed funds enlarge Bitcoin positions and magnify both gains and losses. It focuses on large wallets opening highly leveraged long and short trades, giving examples of position sizes, leverage multiples, profits, and a…
The document surveys reasons companies may hold Bitcoin in treasury, including diversification, inflation concerns, and institutional acceptance. It compares several approaches: one large public holder is described as financing purchases through debt and…