Rapture: Mattison Asher's Crypto Takes

Rapture Public #6: The Ultimate Guide to Token Classifications: Decoding the Digital Asset Ecosystem 🌐💰

Rapture #282: Real Institutional Adoption, HK Becoming a Crypto Hub, and Pendle Moons

Been a minute. I just got back from a long trip across the Dakotas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming and more. If you have not yet been out to the classic west of the USA (California does not count), I highly recommend it. Yellowstone is a national treasure and I have never

Rapture Public #6: The Cypherpunk Movement and Cryptocurrency: A Revolution Sparked by Ideals 💡

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Rapture #281: LSDfi is the new Narrative

Rapture Public #5: 🚀 A Journey Through Time: The Historical US Regulatory Enforcement of the Crypto Industry 🚀

Rapture #280: HK Trading Begins, CCP Further Embraces Crypto, TVL of Select Projects Increasing

There have been many big news items coming out of the far East this past week. Hong Kong is indeed officially opening up crypto trading for retail and Beijing released a white paper for Web 3 innovation. Separately, despite prices being materially down, the TVL of my altcoins are starting

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Rapture Public #4: The Unstoppable Rise of NFTs

Rapture Public #3: A Brief History of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

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Rapture #279: Market Commentary

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Rapture Public #2: zk-Rollups vs Optimistic-Rollups

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Rapture Public #1: Zk-snarks vs. Zk-starks

Rapture #278: The East is the Immediate Future of Crypto

I just got back from ETHTokyo and ETHTaipei, which were amazing events. I waa blown away by the amount of talented technical professionals I met during this time. As someone who likes to get into the weeds of the technical changes crypto seeks to advance, without a doubt the conversations

Rapture #277: Brazilian Bank to Issue Stablecoin, Warmer Embrace of Crypto in Japan, and Thai Political Party Promises Crypto to Citizens

While I just got back from visiting family in Dallas, I am now gearing up to go to ETHGlobal Tokyo in the coming weeks and then ETHTaipei. Let me know if you will be there, as I would love to connect in person. This past week, the market lost all

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Rapture #276: Market commentary, Coinbase wells notice, CFTC sues Binance and Chinese banks embrace crypto

Rapture #275: All in

Over the past couple weeks, I decided to redeploy all of my cash back into crypto. My largest position by far is ETH, though I did pick a handful of altcoins that I think will dramatically outperform once the crypto bull picks up steam. I could always be wrong, but

Rapture #274: Macro Commentary and How USDC was Affected by SVB Failing

Before I get into the meat of why USDC price was affected by the failure of SVB, want to quickly comment on market price action. The past week of price action has truly been wild. After the fed decided to come in and backstop depositors of SVB, BTC and risk

Rapture #273: Bigly Banking Issues

The market significantly broke down over the past few days, with BTC currently standing at approximately $20,500 (around 20% down from local highs) and ETH priced at around $1,470. BTC for a brief moment fell below $20,000 while ETH dropped to below $1,400. Long liquidations hit

Rapture #272: EigenLayer White Paper Release

No major update on market activity in terms of breaking out one way or another. That being said, LIT has been doing exceptionally recently, even in this rangebound market. While I am not extremely confident in this stance, I am leaning more towards the market breaking upwards. Still, I remain

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Rapture #271: More Geopolitical Action in Crypto

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Rapture #270: Market Commentary and New Data Product in Crypto

Rapture #269: It's Lit Part 2

Seems like upwards momentum has stalled out for the moment. At least the market is not downside correlated with US equities...for now. The market overall is not pricing in the potential for no rate cuts this year and even more significant rate hikes if inflation picks up. We are

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Rapture #268: It's Lit Part 1

Rapture #267: Yield Speculation with Pendle

As I mentioned in Rapture #265, now that I am far less confident that the bear market continues, I have deployed a bit of capital into select altcoins in addition to ETH, which I am staking. I already discussed my rationale behind investing in DESO, but today I wanted to

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Rapture #266: Crypto is a Geopolitical Battlefield

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Rapture #265: Initial Deployment Engaged