The founder of LD Capital responds to the selling of part of their ETH: Borrowing leverage during a bull run Fomo, holding Spot for new opportunities.

GateUser-6433627c · 2025-07-16T00:03:57+00:00

Jack Yi, the founder of LD Capital, spoke out regarding the Trend Research deposit of ETH, suggesting to use borrowed leverage to hold Spot during a bull run. Trend Research purchased ETH with 2x leverage, with a combined cost of about $2250, and the unrealized gains have now reached $160 million.

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2025-07-16 00:03:57

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On July 16, Jack Yi, the founder of LD Capital, responded on social media to the incident where “Trend Research deposited 17,289 ETH into CEX, worth nearly 53 million dollars.” He stated, “During a bull run FOMO, it’s best to borrow leverage to hold Spot and wait for new opportunities.” Previously, the ETH acquired by Trend Research under LD Capital had 2x leverage: they borrowed about 270 million dollars from Aave to purchase ETH. Their comprehensive cost for ETH was around 2250 dollars, and now with the ETH price at 3127 dollars, their unrealized gains on 182,000 ETH have reached 160 million dollars.

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