Episode Details
| Title | E113: CryptoBanterGroup: How I Lost $100M in 4 Days (what it taught me about Crypto) |
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| Date | 3/22/2025 |
| Podcast | When Shift Happens Podcast ↗ |
Key Insights
Bullish:
- 🟢 $BARBELL - Ran advocates for a barbell portfolio strategy in crypto: allocate 80% to safer assets (L1s and trading infrastructure) and a smaller percentage to high-risk projects, expecting most to fail.
- “What is blockchain? Blockchain is the creation of digital value, which we can trade. Right? So then you got three layers. You've got creation of value, trading of value, actual value. Right? Creation of value happens in the layer one. Trading of value happens on the exchange and the perpetuals exchange, and the value itself is the individual project. Be 80% in the L1 and the DEX. And I say the DEX meaning DEX and trading infrastructure. And be 20% in the actual projects, which is counterintuitive because that means that you're going to be 80% in Solana, Raydium, Jupiter, and Drift, which is the the the trading ecosystem, and then 20% in the project. Now why that's counterintuitive is because there's way more projects than there are DEXs in layer ones. But it's actually put, not like, not giving people advice, but put 80% into SOL and the different trading infrastructures and put 1% into 20 projects underneath and then lie back and chill. And know that the 1% of the projects underneath are all gonna go to zero, but there's one that's gonna do a 1000X. And that one that does a 1000X will save your entire portfolio. And that's how I invest. And that's how I tell people around me to invest.” - Ran (1:49:10)
- “The first learning is obviously the basic one of always no matter how much you believe in something, diversify your portfolio. Doesn't matter how much you believe in something.” - Ran (1:56:45)
- 🟢 $SOL - 🔒
- 🟢 $BTC - 🔒
Bearish:
- 🔻 $ETH - 🔒
- 🔻 $MEME - 🔒
- 🔻 $XRP - 🔒
- 🔻 $EOS - 🔒