James Wynn saga as Hyperliquid marketing and the dark pools debate
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Frames the James Wynn gambling storyline as possibly the greatest marketing event in CT history, giving every audience a role. Notes it triggered the dark pools vs transparent execution debate that played into Hyperliquid's positioning.
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The saga drove thousands of posts and millions of views
It sparked the dark pools vs transparent execution conversation
While everyone is talking about the value of attention and mindshare, we might just have witnessed the greatest marketing strategy in the history of CT.
Thousands of posts, millions of views and the almost perfect storyline of a controversial (anti)hero fighting for "the cause", with money "he earned scamming", gambling away 6 figures in front of everyone's eyes.
Something in there for everyone:
- Some hate the scammer
- Some love the gambler
- Some want to see him lose
- Some want to see him win
- Some feel better about their own roundtrips
- Some feel inspired to enter the casino too
- ...
The whole saga even baited @cz_binance to kickstart the dark pools vs transparent execution convo that @chameleon_jeff has been dominating with great takes on Hyperliquid's positioning (which happened to have been served to him on a silver platter given the @JamesWynnReal situation).
Discuss.
lol meant 9 figures not six*
QUOTING @HeiroCapital
there's no way james wynn was not delta neutral all this time the more I look at this the more i'm convinced no he is NOT THAT RETARDED brilliant marketing campaign by HL and jeff
there's no way james wynn was not delta neutral all this time the more I look at this the more i'm convinced no he is NOT THAT RETARDED brilliant marketing campaign by HL and jeff
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