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The Gwart Show | Bitcoin Tech & Culture

A Market Update With Jordi

Jan 19, 2025
43:45

Happy Sunday and welcome back to The Gwart Show. Today we are joined by Jordi Alexander, founder of Selini Capital, discusses HyperLiquid's success, the future of AI in crypto, market making strategies, and shares insights on Ethereum's potential changes and Solana's surprising performance.


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00:00 Start

00:56 Jordi intro

01:23 Selini Capital

03:11 Prop shop vs VC money

04:35 What is HFT?

05:38 Which DeFi protocols for Selini Capital?

06:35 Volume of Hyperliquid

07:59 Marketmaking CeFi vs DeFi?

09:02 Why no Wall Steert marker makers?

10:19 How good is Hyperliquid?

13:30 Will Hyperliquid survive?

16:18 Small validator set

18:59 Hype token

21:30 ETH vibes these days?

23:06 Does the Ethereum Foundation even matter?

25:00 Does SOL flip ETH?

27:17 AI agents

30:08 Agents vs Bots

33:08 AI tokens

34:46 AI for endless promotion

36:43 Pigeon dox

40:31 DeSci



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