Crypto's murky market making practices are finally getting sunlight.
We sit down with Coinwatch co-founders Matt Jobbe and Brian Tubergen to uncover how market makers have been quietly influencing token prices, the call-option structures enabling extraction, and how shady tactics have hurt retail.
Then, we explore how Coinwatch Track is bringing real-time transparency to the space using trusted execution environments (TEEs), giving projects verifiable insights into what market makers are really doing with their tokens—and why this might just restore trust and open the door for more liquid capital to enter crypto.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:30 Market Makers 101
7:25 Why the Bad Reputation?
14:25 TradFi Market Makers
16:34 Market Making Business Model
21:34 The Positive Case
23:22 Market Making Cabals
33:36 Matt & Brian Backgrounds
40:03 Coinwatch 101
46:33 Why Coinwatch?
51:31 The Bull Case
56:51 Call to Action
57:38 Closing & Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Coinwatch
https://coinwatch.co/
Coinwatch on X
https://x.com/coinwatchdotco
Matt Jobbe Duval
https://x.com/mattjob1
Brian Tubergen
https://x.com/tubergen
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