Crypto Market Is Structurally Rigged, Warns Wintermute CEO
A fresh bout of soul-searching has gripped the crypto derivatives industry as leading market participants argue that the market’s structure is fundamentally flawed – not just unlucky. Wintermute founder and CEO Evgeny Gaevoy set the tone on X, arguing that the core problem is not perpetual futures themselves but the way key venues are architected. […]
Related News
What to Know: Wintermute warns the AI sector’s massive capital needs could drain liquidity from assets like Bitcoin. This capital rotation threatens crypto market health, risking higher volatility and wider spreads. SUBBD Token presents a different model, using AI as a value-creation tool for the $85B creator economy. Crypto’s future may belong to projects that create their own internal economies instead of competing with Big Tech for capital. A stark warning from market maker Wintermute is sending ripples through crypto: the voracious appetite of the AI sector could literally....
Crypto pundit Butcher has suggested that Binance and market maker Wintermute may be responsible for the Bitcoin and Ethereum price crashes. The pundit also alluded to the October 10 crypto market crash and how both firms contributed to the crash. Pundit Blames Binance and Wintermute For Bitcoin and Ethereum Price Crashes In an X post, […]
Crypto trading platform Wintermute has just lost $160 million in a hack which concerns its decentralised finance (DeFi) operation. This news was confirmed through a tweet from the company’s founder and CEO, Evgeny Gaevoy. This makes Wintermute the latest firm within the industry to have suffered a hack. A series of tweets by Gaevoy has […]
Wintermute said Bitcoin’s latest rally has failed its first major macro test, arguing that the move was driven more by leverage and short covering than by durable spot demand. In its May 18 market update, the trading firm pointed to hot inflation, rising Treasury yields, ETF outflows and renewed rate-hike pricing as the backdrop behind a sharp reversal across digital assets. “Last week we said we’d find out fast what kind of rally this was. We found out,” Wintermute wrote. “BTC failed at the 200-day on the first real macro shock, which tells you it was the squeeze driving it all....
A Kenyan communications strategist, Mwotia Ciugu, has told African investors to be wary of investing in bitcoin which he claims is worth zero.
Bitcoin Structurally Incapable of Delivering on Its Promise
In an op-ed published by The Elephant, Ciugu insists bitcoin (BTC) is structurally incapable of delivering on its promise of becoming an alternative store of value or a hedge against inflation. In addition, the strategist also claims bitcoin fails both as a currency and an investment.
Although he concedes that Africa has one of the highest cryptocurrency adoption....