Copy Trading is dead. or at least in the way we knew it (little alpha at the end). copy trading in crypto has always sounded good. join your favorite KOLs telegram -> wait for buy/sell calls -> profit. this is the dream, but in reality, things are quite different. • lot's of manual setup required. • there's no measurement of KOL performance. • highly subject to emotions. and honestly lots more. this is why @almanak is building "Vaults" with vaults, you get an automated system that takes trades for you 24/7 (not like I think you need to be taking trades all day though lol) here's how it works: 1. your favorite KOL (called a curator) uses the almanak AI agents to automate their strategy (let's say an $XPL buy/sell strat) 2. that strategy gets packaged into a vault. 3. you (the liquidity provider) can then deposits into that vault and let it run. 4. whenever the code's criteria is fulfilled, everyone in that vault buys or sells XPL automatically. the major benefit to this is you're plugging into a system. the entry, exit, "what to do when..." are all defined before the vault was created. to make this even better, there's upside for strategy builders, the top performing builders get token emissions as rewards. so, more incentives and skin in the game = more reason to want to create better strategies. this tech isn't out in the current version of almanak but I expect it to be a game changing one when it does come out. the major disadvantage i'd say for now is that fundamental traders and those who trade with smart money concepts won't be able to create vaults based on the available strategies but maybe the team can come out with something over time. nonetheless, this is something i'll definitely be playing with when it comes out. it would make a lot of sense to position yourself as a top curator during the early stages. rewards will be worth it. that's a wrap. (p.s I tried my best to write this post similarly to @PixOnChain's style. lol)

One of the side benefits of “infofi” is that you get to learn a lot. Since I started talking about @almanak , I’ve learnt more about Defi and defi strategies than all my time here combined. This is because to create good content around a project, you need some level of knowledge about the project, narrative, competitors and even challenges. Want to yap about an RWA project = Learn about RWAs. Learn —> Create —> Earn (potentially lol) To make this even better, the knowledge gained from yapping/snapping/quacking about one project can help you when talking about others. Compound this over a while and you can have a deep understanding of a narrative or even multiple ones. Unfortunately, you lose this benefit if you’re just focused on AI slopping your way to leaderboards. So, keep learning cool shit.

The top points holder on @almanak has already made over $125,000. This is based on current price calculations and little guess-timation. Here's the math: The current rank 1 in points has a total of 1.3m points. The last almanak sale was at $90m FDV with a price of $0.09. Considering 1 point ~ 1 almanak token and if almanak launches at a $90m FDV, The top holder would have (at today's figures) 1,395,788 almanak tokens at a minimum price of $0.09 = $125,620. Considering the new 1.25x points increase from the curve LP and the pendle pool, I expect these figures to only climb from here -- Might be worth $300,000 at launch. How did this person achieve this? -- Early + Size and maybe some size referrals as well I've been on this from the early days and I've only been able to gather 1000 points (yes I'm poor). For now, except you're coming in with some big size, I think it's net positive to focus more on the cSnapper side of things.

. @almanak recently announced their pendle integration and they've already hit $10m in volume. If you've never used pendle before, but want to earn that extra 1.25x on almanak points, here's a short guide for you. @pendle_fi is a platform that allows for the tokenization of yield. In short, it allows you to trade the yield of crypto tokens (remember how I've previously said we are always looking for the next thing to trade). The two main things here are: • PT - Principal token. • YT - Yield token. The principal token offers a fixed yield on your asset. When you buy PT, you get the exact APY at time of purchase when maturation time ends. Currently, aiUSD has a fixed yield of 21.01% You buy this when you want a fixed asset return or believe the yield could fall and want to lock in the current fixed yield. Note: Fixed yield changes with time as people buy/sell PT. When and how you make money from PT? You make money from PT more people are buying PT and there is a higher likelihood of this happening when the underlying APY falls below the fixed APY. Other traders will see this and want to lock in that higher fixed APY gotten from PT. If you can predict this to happen, then bet on PT. You can sell your tokens before the maturation date for profit. On the other side, you have YT. Owning 1 of this would allow you to earn the yield reward of 1 of your liquidity token but at a cheaper price. Using aiUSD as an example, 1 aiUSD currently trades for 45 YT-aiUSD. 1 YT-aiUSD will, however, give you the same yield as if you invested 1 aiUSD into the almanak vault. This means you'd get 45x the amount of yield if you held YT-aiUSD instead. In almanak's current case, you are getting 45x higher returns (split between points and yield). With YT, you want to pay attention to the implied APY because that is basically the price of YT. These yield tokens are a way of betting on the implied APY going higher (which is the price of YT) and this happens when more people are buying YT due to belief that the APY rewards would be worth it. So you want to buy YT if you believe people love the almanak yield returns and the implied APY/YT price will keep going higher. This is why you'd notice there are more rewards tied to the YT side of things. (1.25x almanak points). More incentives. The last aspect would be the LP section and here's a good post that covers everything about that. xitter.cf/Prasetyo_HK/status/196… That's a wrap. This took a long time to write and learn about so would appreciate a like.

One core benefit of having a platform like @almanak is that it makes it possible to create a one-man hedge fund. (For anyone who doesn't know, a hedge fund is simply a company that manages investment funds for people, usually wealthy, using their in-house strategies) Prior to almanak's existence, this wasn't possible. One would need to learn how to code as well as hire multiple experts from various financial and analytical fields to create "profitable" financial strategies that would handle investors funds. With almanak though, this barrier to entry no longer exists. • No need for prior coding knowledge - You can vibe code your strategy with AI. • No need to hire a team of quants - You have 18 almanak AI agents that can handle every aspect of your fund's strategy. From strategy research, backtesting to deployment (they build the code, you press "deploy"). • Way cheaper to run. What makes this even better is that users aren't just getting an easier entry into the realm of hedge funds, but a faster one that never sleeps. It's time to have your own personal quant. This is good tek.

I just deposited into the @almanak aIUSD/USDC pool on curve finance. If you're already a cSnapper, you should try it too. Comes with some benefits: • Gain more almanak points • Earn a share of the LP fees. Total pool is already over $46000. I do wonder if we'd get double points for using our aIUSD here. Points from depositing in vault and then double points from using all our aIUSD from the vault to get LP tokens on curve. @cwmdota @0xTink3r any answers? or should I just experiment? lol