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DIRTY BUBBLE MEDIA: BARRY!

DIRTY BUBBLE MEDIA: BARRY!
@MikeBurgersburg

Nov 25, 2022
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🚨Someone is working very hard to protect the Tether peg on Curve. One address has bought some $1.3 billion USDT on Curve with USDC over the last month, sending it all to Bitfinex... and given the tiny spread there is no way this is a profitable trade.🧵👇

Over the last month, 0x561f551... pulls $1.27 Bil USDC from Circle via 0xad6eaa735... It then buys USDT on Curve and sends nearly all of the USDT to Kraken via 0xd4d9163... Kraken then sends the USDT to Bitfinex via 0x97dd9563... (2/n)
Note that roughly $800 million of these transactions have occurred over the last week. (3/n)
This is interesting because over the last weeks Kraken is seeing its highest Tether transfer volumes since the collapse of Luna, another moment when the Tether peg slipped. However, last time the stress quickly resolved after May 12. This time, it appears to be persisting: (4/n)
These are not economically worthwhile trades; the current USDT/USDC exchange rate on Curve is 0.9995. So who has the motivation to take massive amounts of USDC, buy USDT, and send it to Bitfinex? 🤔 (5/5)
Nearly all of the activity in the swapping wallet started in early November and has been ramping up since. What happened in early November again? (6/6)
Someone has spent $1.27 billion USDC in the last month buying Tether on Curve; $800 mil of that in last week. Protecting the Peg? @Bitfinex’ed 🔥🐧 Alldafuda Research @Doomberg @Patrick McKenzie @Jacob Silverman @Ben McKenzie @@BennettTomlin@mstdn.social @Cas Piancey @Dylan LeClair 🟠 @Nate Anderson @Marc Cohodes @🇺🇸Kyle Bass🇺🇦
DIRTY BUBBLE MEDIA: BARRY!
Popping dirty bubbles, one Ponzi at a time. Long USD. Short $COIN, $CVNA, $TSLA, $SBNY. I don't own/trade crypto. RT =/= agree.
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