2026-01-02 08:20:58

The coins you bought and the coins held by institutional armies are fundamentally not the same thing.

They may look shiny and are all mainstream currencies, right? Yours is called "retail chips." theirs are called "financial assets." That really hits hard.

You’re full of anticipation, saving up for a long time to finally buy, then rushing to the exchange to cash out and arbitrage, thinking you can make a fortune. But what’s the result? Institutional-level users don’t even lift their eyelids: "Not certified through institutional verification, no cold wallet address marked, not using our settlement channels."

You get anxious and ask, "Can we just give a discount at the current price?" The other side laughs. Sure, they’ll transfer first, but the fee will be charged at the highest tier, and slippage will eat up another 2-3%. After a series of punches, the coin price clearly skyrocketed, but when you do the math, guess what? You end up losing money.

So who really makes money? They hold large positions with exclusive codes, approved through institutional review, like a unique ID card. When they clear out, they don’t need to look at retail traders’ faces. They directly deposit into the exchange’s cold wallet settlement vault, with no deduction, T+0 on the same day, and can even directly conduct OTC bulk trades.

See clearly? You’re not playing the same game as them. They’re playing financial protocols, while you’re just playing "I think it will go up." The market doesn’t care about your costs; it only recognizes one thing: liquidity and standardization. Assets that can be directly called upon by institutions, funds, and ecosystem applications are real hard currency. Those chips you hold that need "verification, withdrawal, risk control review" are, in the eyes of professionals, no different from trash.

So stop foolishly getting excited over K-line charts. If you’ve chosen the wrong direction, no matter how high it rises, it has nothing to do with you. What you bought isn’t a pass, just a lottery ticket that looks like a ticket.

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GovernancePretender

· 6h ago

Damn, it hits right at the core—retail investors are indeed just the prepared harvest for the leek farmers. With just a casual combo of moves by institutions, deducting fees and slippage, the gains are gone. The game rules have been unfair from the very beginning. Looks like I need to change my approach; just looking at the K-line isn't enough.

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BoredApeResistance

· 6h ago

Wow, really, retail investors are just the prey for institutions.

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ProposalManiac

· 6h ago

This is the real truth. The stuff that retail investors hold doesn't have standardized pricing power at all; mechanism design determines the outcome. Wait, this logic can be flipped—those "exclusive codes" for large positions are also artificial power structures, aren't they just another form of monopoly? I just want to ask, if that's the case, should we just go all in on stablecoins? Or do we need to come up with a truly decentralized liquidity solution? To be honest, the problem isn't what the coin is, but that the market hasn't established a properly incentive-compatible game-theoretic equilibrium. It's the same old tune, sung during the ICO era, and now we're just repeating this tragic script.

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BearMarketBro

· 6h ago

Damn, that's why I cleared my position early. Retail investors are just a bunch of leeks.

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0xSunnyDay

· 7h ago

Isn't this the standard process of getting chopped? Retail investors and institutions are treated like two completely different worlds.

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