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State of the trenches with Robert Chang


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Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Robert Chang, crypto trader and prolific Twitter shitposter, joins us to talk about his wild ride through crypto's highs and lows - from being a Luna lunatic to losing everything on Hyperliquid, navigating AI agent metas, getting rugged by VCs stealing his ideas, and why internet capital markets might just be elaborate poker chips with better marketing.

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• Luna looping strategy led to total account loss

• Hyperliquid refunded liquidation due to oracle issues  

• AI agent tokens hit incredible market caps in 2024

• Worm project went from idea to 4M market cap

• A16Z agent reached peak before January market top

• Most crypto VCs are "incredibly stupid" mercenaries

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

00:24 Robert's background

01:20 Working in crypto

05:11 Lately

07:07 Traders vs users

11:07 Hyperliquid early days

13:10 Markets recently

15:05 Bigger names enter market

16:27 Current market

20:50 AI agents

22:48 WORM

26:12 WORM goes to zero

28:47 Elipsis Labs

29:48 VCs sniping ideas

32:43 ICM

36:08 ICM (this time is different)

44:05 AI16z value proposition?

47:15 Base

50:05 The future

54:15 Bullish VC coins?

58:28 Alliance DAO

1:01:28 Bullish on what?

1:04:32 Ryan Park

1:07:28 ETH (don't call it a comeback)

1:08:23 BTC is mid

1:09:16 Wrap up

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