1) Getting Alpha on your $alpha. Why it's my biggest gamble.

Many may think that the product @AlphaFinanceLab = Alpha Homora, but that would be akin to saying Adobe Photoshop is Adobe.

2) Alpha aims to be a suite of #DeFi products that looks for market opportunities in DeFi by solving its problems. They will identify a problem and then build quick to be the first mover.
3) Alpha Homora (leveraged yield farming) happens to be the first. Heck Homora could very well turn out to be its Adobe Prelude and we haven't even gotten to its flagship Photoshop yet.
4) In this thread I will focus on it's upcoming project AlphaX (beta testnet round2), because people are already familiar with Alpha Homora.
5) Here are 2 great threads if you want to look into Alpha Homora more in depth:

V2 overview - https://t.co/srsWaDoCyH

Ironbank (capital efficient lending) integration with @creamdotfinance $cream - https://t.co/j7gzAc8CTE
6) Before I delve into AlphaX a disclaimer that this is after preliminary research and if I am mistaken about anything, please correct me.

AlphaX is a decentralized, non-orderbook perpetual swap trading market. Quite a mouthful.
7) Decentralized (you own your keys) non-orderbook (you're not interacting with a buyer when you're selling and vice versa) perpetual (this contract doesn't have an expiration date, it lasts forever) trading market (trading market).
8) To keep things simple, unlike other futures (puts and calls), which have settlement dates, a perpetual contract -- as the name suggests -- lasts forever. So they are very much like buying SPOT. However you do not hold the underlying token.
9) Perps keep pegged to the underlying asset through a funding rate. At reg intervals either the LONG/SHORT side of the trade pays the other (the less popular side) a premium (grows the further away its from SPOT) to give incentive for the less popular side to be more popular.
10) So over time if you're on the popular side, you'll be paying quite a bit the longer you stay in and the more popular the side you're on is.
11) AlphaX's 1st unique selling point:

It doesn't matter how long you hold it for -- even if you're on the popular side -- there is no funding rate.
12) Instead it's baked into the buy and sell price. So it only matters WHEN you buy or sell. The premium or discount at the buy and sell price provides the incentive/disincentive to bring the price closer to the asset's spot price.
13) This makes for much easier simplification and a lot less babysitting. You only need to pay attention to WHEN you buy and sell instead of every 8 hours or every day (or whatever the funding payment occurs for the exchange you're on)
14) The second advantage of AlphaX and I believe more exciting is tokenizing the perp as an ERC-20 token. You don't have to open it on AlphaX. After anyone does, they can trade it on any secondary market (@UniswapProtocol @SushiSwap).
15) So u can hold a leveraged perpetual token OF a token, not have to worry or think about funding rates & trade in & out of it on popular DEXES & only look at its current price to make your decision. Imagine buying a baked in leveraged token of $btc easily on uniswap.
16) Keep in mind the increased risk, b/c unlike spot, there is a price where your token is liquidated & becomes worthless.

That liquidation price is clearly written in the token name and it's closer and closer to current SPOT price the higher you choose to leverage.
17) AlphaX's products will reach more people because it leverages @ethereum's money legos.

You don't need to log into AlphaX or Perpetual Protocol or Injective protocol. The Total Available Market or demand for the product is tapped into the DEX market size.
18) I always mess up writing these threads. here's the last two parts.

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THREAD: Who are the rising stars of Chinese elite politics in the central Party-State bureaucracy?

For @MacroPoloChina I analyzed last year's ministerial-level promotions to posts in Beijing

TLDR: Ties to Xi Jinping—or a Xi ally—are very helpful! (1/14)

https://t.co/kO2A0Efyq2


Seven politicians were promoted to ministerial-level positions in central Party agencies last year

All are likely to feature on the next Central Committee selected at the 2022 Party Congress

Some could make the CCP's elite 25-person Politburo (2/14)

https://t.co/kO2A0Efyq2


Likeliest for the Politburo is Meng Xiangfeng, new Executive Deputy Director of the CCP General Office

He would replace Xi ally Ding Xuexiang as CCP chief-of-staff if Ding is promoted further in 2022

Meng worked under Xi allies Cai Qi in Hangzhou and Chen Xi in Liaoning (3/14)


Less likely for the Politburo but still important is Jiang Jinquan, new Director of the CCP Policy Research Office

He replaces 5th-ranked leader Wang Huning who led the Party's brains trust for 18 years

Wang remains prominent and will be <68 in 2022, so he'll stay around (4/14)


Other notable central Party promotions include Li Shulei and Liang Yanshun, who both assisted Xi when he led the Central Party School from 2007-2012

Li is a political conservative who is said to be quite close with Xi, even drafting his 2014 speech on culture and art (5/14)

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In the Spring of 2017, after a deep dive into the Fake News phenomena, the security team wanted to publish an update that covered what we had learned. At this point, we didn’t have any advertising content or the big IRA cluster, but we did know about the GRU model.

This report when through dozens of edits as different equities were represented. I did not have any meetings with Sheryl on the paper, but I can’t speak to whether she was in the loop with my higher-ups.

In the end, the difficult question of attribution was settled by us pointing to the DNI report instead of saying Russia or GRU directly. In my pre-briefs with members of Congress, I made it clear that we believed this action was GRU.