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State of the trenches with Robert Chang

State of the trenches with Robert Chang

Update: 2025-07-06
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Welcome back to The Gwart Show! Today, Robert Chang, crypto trader and prolific Twitter shitposter, joins us to talk about his wild ride through crypto's highs and lows - from being a Luna lunatic to losing everything on Hyperliquid, navigating AI agent metas, getting rugged by VCs stealing his ideas, and why internet capital markets might just be elaborate poker chips with better marketing.


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• Luna looping strategy led to total account loss


• Hyperliquid refunded liquidation due to oracle issues  


• AI agent tokens hit incredible market caps in 2024


• Worm project went from idea to 4M market cap


• A16Z agent reached peak before January market top


• Most crypto VCs are "incredibly stupid" mercenaries


Timestamps:


00:00 Start


00:24 Robert's background


01:20 Working in crypto


05:11 Lately


07:07 Traders vs users


11:07 Hyperliquid early days


13:10 Markets recently


15:05 Bigger names enter market


16:27 Current market


20:50 AI agents


22:48 WORM


26:12 WORM goes to zero


28:47 Elipsis Labs


29:48 VCs sniping ideas


32:43 ICM


36:08 ICM (this time is different)


44:05 AI16z value proposition?


47:15 Base


50:05 The future


54:15 Bullish VC coins?


58:28 Alliance DAO


1:01:28 Bullish on what?


1:04:32 Ryan Park


1:07:28 ETH (don't call it a comeback)


1:08:23 BTC is mid


1:09:16 Wrap up


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State of the trenches with Robert Chang

State of the trenches with Robert Chang

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