Some observations and thoughts on ZILSwap: What went well, its impact on the $ZIL ecosystem and where we need to improve with some concrete plans that are being worked on. A thread:

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1/ ZILSwap was launched by @SwitcheoNetwork on Oct 5, 2020 (~2 months old). Soon after, we noticed for the first time, a flurry of ZRC-2 tokens (equiv. of ERC20s on $ZIL) getting launched on the network (even though the fungible token standard had been around for a while).
2/ The ability to provide a marketplace for people to exchange tokens was the trigger for deveopers to start issuing tokens and developing a token economy. In fact, there was a token for which, the entire supply was put on a ZILSwap pool w/o any team withholding.
3/ This was an extreme example of why a DEX was needed and the role it played in bootstrapping several tokens and respective token economies. Over 25 tokens are available on ZILSwap in the form of liquidity pools. The total pool size across all tokens is over USD 1 million.
4/ ZILSwap also made it possible for the first time for anyone to get access to $XSGD (the Singapore Dollar Stablecoin issued by @xfers). In fact $XSGD and $gZIL contribute the greatest proportion of the total pool.
5/ As $XSGD and $gZIL were only available on ZILSwap initially ( $gZIL is also on @cex_io now), both have undergone significant growth over the last few months since their launch in October. ZILSwap recorded a cumulative trading volume of $1.3M for $gZIL and $750.9K for $XSGD.
6/ ZILSwap is also the address holding the largest number of $gZIL (2.67% of the total circulating supply) and the third largest holder of $XSGD (18.50% of the total circulating supply). This clearly highlights the central role of ZILSwap for these two tokens in particular.
7/ I do see two issues with ZILSwap though. The first one is around incentive. Despite the fact that ZILSwap has some incentive baked for liquidity providers (0.03% of trading fees), it is imperative to boost the incentive a bit further.
8/ More incentive will attract more liquidity providers and therefore a more liquid market for token issuers and token holders. We are extremely cognizant of this and a solution is in works.
9/ The second one is about bringing more assets that the community would like to interact with. This is where $ZIL - $ETH and potentially $ZIL - $BTC bridge will come into play. Bridging Zilliqa with other chains will bring assets from an external chain on the Zilliqa platform.
10/ The bridge would allow the $ZIL community who hold other assets such as $ETH, $BTC or ERC20s to move them on Zilliqa and be able to transfer them around without congestion or trade them at cheaper costs and that too with just a few clicks.
11/ Cross-chain bridges may also bring different communities together and allow dapp developers to target a wider userbase. However, liquidity will still remain important. The bridge and the assets will only be a step towards the goal as users will need liquidity on ZILSwap.
12/ And therefore the community contribution towards liquidity provisioning will be crucial which again makes the underlying incentive mechanism important. Furthermore, we need to understand that there is much more to be unlocked once the cross-chain assets cross over.
13/ We have to go beyond enabling people to be able to trade ETH-based assets and think of providing applications that can use those assets. Pillar for example could take those cross-chain assets as collateral.

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Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.

Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen

1. Keeps following volatility super closely.

Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.

Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.


3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result

He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.


4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega

Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
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From today, we will memorize the names of 27 Nakshatras in Vedic Jyotish to never forget in life.

I will write 4 names. Repeat them in SAME sequence twice in morning, noon, evening. Each day, revise new names + recall all previously learnt names.

Pls RT if you are in.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

1. Ashwini - अश्विनी

2. Bharani - भरणी

3. Krittika - कृत्तिका

4. Rohini - रोहिणी

Ashwini - अश्विनी is the FIRST Nakshatra.

Repeat these names TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon and evening. Like this tweet if you have revised 8 times as told.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

5. Mrigashira - मृगशिरा

6. Ardra - आर्द्रा

7. Punarvasu - पुनर्वसु

8. Pushya - पुष्य

First recall previously learnt Nakshatras twice. Then recite these TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet only after doing so.

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Today's Nakshatras are:-

9. Ashlesha - अश्लेषा

10. Magha - मघा

11. Purvaphalguni - पूर्वाफाल्गुनी

12. Uttaraphalguni - उत्तराफाल्गुनी

Purva means that comes before (P se Purva, P se pehele), and Uttara comes later.

Read next tweet too.

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Purva, Uttara prefixes come in other Nakshatras too. Purva= pehele wala. Remember.

First recall previously learnt 8 Nakshatras twice. Then recite those in Tweet #4 TWICE now, tomorrow morning, noon & evening in SAME order. Like this tweet if you have read Tweets #4 & 5, both.