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Demystifying Crypto 'Dark Pools'

Will dark pools make crypto trading safer or just sideline retail investors?
Demystifying Crypto 'Dark Pools'
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Last week, degen James Wynn lost $100 million in liquidations on Hyperliquid. 

The losses — 949 BTC ($99.3M) and 982.5M kPEPE ($11.6M) — came as Bitcoin dropped below $105K, triggering his 40x leveraged positions. But here's where it gets interesting: Wynn claims he wasn't just unlucky. He believes he was hunted.

"One thing for sure is that I have exposed just how corrupt these markets are," Wynn posted, claiming that market participants orchestrated a "liquidation hunt" to blow out his visible positions, pushing prices just low enough to trigger his liquidations before letting them recover.

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David Christopher

Written by David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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