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The 1010 Exploit and other broken market structures
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Lucas & Hersch from World Markets joins us to break down why crypto trading infrastructure is fundamentally broken: how fully onchain order books, unified risk engines, and capital-efficient design could reshape perps trading.
Chapters:
0:02 Intro & guest background
1:28 From exchanges to hedge funds
3:26 Monad vs MegaETH decision
5:00 Why L2s beat L1s for trading
6:49 DeFi security flaws explained
10:29 How onchain traders find alpha
18:01 What World Markets actually is
21:59 1010 Crash explained
28:13 Why centralized exchanges fail
47:48 The 50% basis trade example
53:00 Hersch finally gets to speak
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