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So that's one I have active.
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I have some pudgy penguins related alerts.
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My shoes here have some beautiful pudgy penguins.
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So I have some pengu alerts.
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And I have a lot of my own wallets too, because it makes me feel good because if suddenly someone compromised wallet, like I would know very quickly.
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It's been a very strange year, because if you look at retail activity, it's been pretty poor.
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Without sounding judgmental, the low end of the retail, like smaller wallets, maybe lower net worth retail, has been largely absent since.
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January so if you look at websites like coin gecko coin market cap deck screener and so on They're down like 50 to 80 percent in traffic.
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You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain
Well clearly They're not the ones holding up the market and markets been like a little bit up and down But it seems like a lot of the flows are actually institutionally driven especially for Bitcoin and
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ETH, Solana, and so on, the major L1s.
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And so when you think about institutions, I think you can separate between crypto-native institutions, like market makers, like Wintermute or large funds like A6NC, and then the TradFi Wall Street institutions.
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And I think now you're kind of getting the rails in place, like ETFs, DATs, which are kind of unwinding to some extent, in place.
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You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain
So I think the Vanguard...
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announcement I think one or two days ago was pretty bullish in that sense because it creates new inroads for capital into crypto.
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You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain
So yeah, it's kind of a mixed picture.
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You Think You’re Following Smart Money. You’re Not |Alex Svanevik|EP55|Bonnie Blockchain
I think the lower end crypto native retail has not had a great year, but then there's kind of a almost like passing on the baton to a different cohort, like high capital, high net worth, more institutional type
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investors.
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But yeah, I think our view is that every asset is going to come on-chain eventually.
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And so we just focus on building a really great product for on-chain.
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And the belief is that retail institutions, everyone's going to come on-chain.