This is a good post and I agree with some of it for Lighter. I think that there's still going to be a fair amount of outside $$ coming to buy it on TGE because it's 'the next HyperLiquid'. Sometimes these things can get willed into existence (see ASTER) but more often they end up like $LIBRA (the 'next trump'). But retail and CT might want to buy this because they view it as having a similar potential outcome. I think it's probably quite a bit different than $HYPE though. HL didn't have any VCs and the only way to really get exposure was for firms like Paradigm to buy it on the open market. While obviously there are still going to be VCs/funds that want exposure here; Lighter still took outside $$ and there are also funds that already have allo, which should theoretically lower the buy pressure on TGE. Furthermore, price discovery is much more known here with the premarket OTC points for Lighter. Not saying that's good or bad, but I really didn't know too many people buying HyperLiquid OTC points before TGE (s/o to my good friend @wsbmod ). Similar to premarket listings that we see now with pump/XPL/etc, this may take some of the element of price discovery out of the equation. I'm not saying Lighter is going to dump or that it's a bad project. It's clearly 1 of the best dexes and I should have farmed it harder (only have like 1200 points or something). But TGE is going to be a very interesting event nonetheless. I think that given all of the crazy moves we've seen with perp dexes attention lately, Lighter probably eventually reaches 10 bil fdv+. Don't really know what the opening price action is going to be but should be very interesting and I'll be playing it.
I hate talking explicitly about price action, but I don’t see why Lighter won’t trace the double zero chart post-initial pump. I understand the market opportunity of a DEX with zero fees and grabbing retail traders. I think good product + team, etc., but good product != good token. Seems that revenue numbers are obfuscated at the moment, and the narrative tailwind is that the ETH community will bid a L2 + privacy + hyperliquid beta. I think it competes for an exhausted pool of buyers that bought Optimism, Arbitrum, StarkNet, so on and so forth, and anyone suggesting Aster FDV as a comp is a fool. Sure, fee generation -> buybacks; I’m sure there will be some amount of burn. You’re still looking at sizable unlocks, no early allocation to public markets, and what seems to be a fairly small community of points farmers who, in my opinion, are psyoping to pump OTC price, as the past few weeks have shown the liquid market has gotten wise to these types of tokens and exhausted by their overvaluations. Token can be underpinned by its fundamentals (I’m sure there will be growth multiples thrown on revenue numbers when they finally come out), but there’s not enough liquid funds willing to baghold someone else’s 100x, and it’s extremely difficult to create a beloved token; people have to like you to buy your token. I hope it does well (WAGMI), and I bet that Lighter opens above $2B FDV with a smaller position on above $4B FDV, but I don’t see it holding its price for an extended period of time. The case made that it’s an acquisition target is somewhat reasonable, but I see this as a minimum of nine months in the future, so you can just take a position after the price drops. A few months of sustained organic retail traction are needed given the high density of mercenary airdrop farmers before confidence is established; even then, the token might not trade well. My read is up and then down.
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