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Notes from the desk

Operations, post-mortems, market microstructure — written by the people who run the book. No marketing copy. No moonshots.

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What we look for in the first 60 minutes of a token launch.

An operational post-mortem from 9 launches in Q1. The minute-by-minute checklist we run, which signals predict a clean go-live, and which ones you can't fix once trading starts.

2026-04-1214 min
Microstructure9 min

Why spread captured beats volume painted, every quarter.

The painted-volume era is ending. CEXes, regulators, and CFOs all want the same thing now: a number that ties to a P&L. Here's the math.

2026-04-059 min
Compliance12 min

Anatomy of a Binance ST flag exit.

What triggered it, what we changed, what the listing manager actually reads. A 47-day timeline, redacted.

2026-03-2812 min
Microstructure8 min

Iceberg orders without iceberg type — five tactics that work.

When the venue doesn't expose iceberg as a primitive, you build it. Five execution tactics ranked by slippage cost.

2026-03-198 min
Deep dives11 min

The weekly P&L report a CFO will actually read.

After 14 client-CFO interviews, we rebuilt the report from the bottom-left corner up. What stayed, what got cut, what surprised us.

2026-03-1111 min
Listings7 min

Pre-launch market structure checklist (2026 edition).

12 pages, distilled. The questions to answer before TGE, the venues to coordinate, the metrics to baseline.

2026-02-287 min
Post-mortems15 min

Post-mortem: a meme token, two CEX listings, zero ST flags.

Volatility 4×, retail concentration extreme, comms team in 3 timezones. How we kept the book defensible.

2026-02-1915 min

Once a month. No spam.

One desk-side memo per month. Microstructure observations, post-mortems, a handful of charts.