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Alex Svanevik

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392 total appearances

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Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

You could probably write a book about that.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

I mean...

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

There's a few different things.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Last time I was in Dubai, actually one thing I was talking about is how most people lose money on meme coins.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And there's a few people that make a lot of money.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And the ones that make the most money are actually the meme coin trading platforms.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

People are quite optimistic, I guess.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

Nice way to put it.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

About their own abilities to trade on-chain.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

But in reality...

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

It's pretty hard, actually, to outcompete the market or to beat the smartest money.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And so one thing we do a lot at Nansen is to measure, you know, what is smart money?

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And so smart money investors, I mean, the way we sort of define it loosely is that these are addresses that have really high P&L, right?

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

So they're consistently very good at trading or investing.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And sometimes you can be smart money, but then you can lose your status and become, we even label them in that platform as former smart money, which is kind of funny.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

But if I go back to say like 2022, there were a lot of people that people considered

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

smart money, think of three arrows, for example, that ended up being not so smart money.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

And so over the years, I think one thing we've learned is actually pay less attention to the names and just look at the behavior.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

So just because you have a famous fund doesn't mean that you're going to be really successful in investing, actually.

Bonnie Blockchain
You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain

We have a lot of smart money addresses that we've tagged.