Rapture: Mattison Asher's Crypto Takes

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Rapture #264: Move to Premium and Market Commentary

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Rapture #263: China Opening up to Crypto and Binance Faces Scrutiny

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Rapture #262: Market Commentary and Increased DOJ Involvement

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Rapture #261: Barry vs. the Winkelvii

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Rapture #260: Polygon is Killing the Game

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Rapture #259: The Donald Does it Again

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Rapture #258: Heat Continues to Rise for Offshore Crypto

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Rapture #257: Looks like more Corruption in Crypto

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Rapture #256: Potential Further Contagion

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Rapture #255: Market Musings

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Rapture #254: The Cypherpunk Era is Over

Rapture #253: FTX Looks Like it was a Criminal Organization

In Rapture #252, I was really still trying to give SBF the benefit of the doubt in terms of not being a likely felon, despite consistently pointing to his questionable business practices, referenced in Rapture #234 and Rapture #236. The allegations that have come out over the past few days,

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Rapture #252: FTX Goes Down

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Rapture #251: JPY, EURO, and GBP are Donezo Part 2

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Rapture #250: JPY, EURO, and GBP are Donezo

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Rapture #249: Market Update and News Commentary

Rapture #248: Market Update and Various News Items

Not much has changed price wise for the market since early June. BTC has traded incredibly tightly in a range of approximately $19,000 to $24,500. Recently, the volatility of BTC has even dropped below the S&P 500. This low volatility, low volume market is driving traders

Rapture #247: Changes to Rapture

There will be some upcoming changes to Rapture. These changes mirror my personal career changes, which I will share soon. History of Rapture Rapture has been an incredible success. I love writing this newsletter. Rapture has become a vital step in my investment research process. The newsletter plays an integral

Rapture #246: Trading Update and GoldenTree Invests in SushiSwap

Markets overall have been pretty slow, so no real change there. Many of my favorite crypto traders think we have either bottomed macro wise and are about to initiate a new bull trend or at the very least are in the early stags of another bear market rally. I am

Rapture #245: US Government Related Updates

Lots of movement in terms of regulatory and legislative action recently. Specifically, the CFTC made moves on a derivatives exchange and a DAO. Furthermore, a leading US Senator proposed an incredibly friend crypto bill. Finally, the SEC charged Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting a crypto security. Let's dive

Rapture #244: Crisis

I took another hiatus in order to travel, as the market is offering little opportunity for profit. It's bad I don't know what else to say besides the macro environment has continued to worsen. I sound like a broken record at this point. I recently finished

Rapture #243: White House Framework for Digital Assets and SEC Claims all Activity on Ethereum is Under their Jurisdiction

Two big items related to how the US government views crypto came out this week. The first was the White House releasing their framework for responsible development of digital assets. The second was SEC announcing lawsuit against Ian Balina. Let's dive into each. SEC wants purview over all

Rapture #242: Bear Market Punt

While I wait for the market to show its hand regarding its next big move (which I think will be down), I decided to try my second bear market punt. I discussed how I wanted to develop this skillset further in a previous Rapture. My first was in ORCA, which

Rapture #241: Technical Differences Between Solana and Ethereum

Coinbase recently came out with an excellent post explaining some of the technical details of how Solana works. After reading this post, I came away with a much deeper understanding of the technical underpinnings of Solana. Since Solana and Ethereum are often viewed as competitors, I thought I would take

Rapture #240: Market Update, Tradfi News, and Solana NFT Boom

Boy o boy, did the inflation miss to the upside knock this market back to reality. While I had seen many bullish narratives proliferate these past few weeks (inflation had peaked, Germany had solved their energy crisis, the Russian war was dying down, the Ethereum merge would pull the entire