Introducing tradingFloor: A Thesis-Driven Livestream for Solana’s Onchain Traders

Solana has become an unstoppable force of Internet Capital Markets. 

Performance is no longer a limitation. The NFT mints and memecoin launches of yesteryear have battle-tested Solana’s infrastructure to a point where global-scale market events that wreak havoc across CEXs, (see 10/10, the $SPCX IPO, and the $PUMP ICO) are executed seamlessly onchain.

Onchain asset diversity has never been wider. Solana’s RWA explosion has brought stocks, commodities, and exotic collectibles to a worldwide onchain economy. Prediction markets are reinventing the financialization of the living world, and Conditional Markets are pricing the impact of these events.

Tokenization and blockchain rails are enabling new financial paradigms every year, and Solana remains the most fertile ground for innovative, experimental ideas that push the boundaries of what markets know to be possible. 

The promise of bringing efficient, self-custodial global markets to anyone with an internet connection has finally been realized. 

Solana is the Everything Exchange - but that arguably asks more questions than it answers:

Just because you can trade anything, at any time, from anywhere in the world, doesn’t necessarily mean you should.

So what’s the trade?

The Problem with Today’s Trading Shows

𝕏 is a noisy place. The watercooler of the new financial world, 𝕏 suffers from a relentless inundation of content. Bloomberg analysts and trillion-dollar asset managers share the floor with crypto’s degens and memecoin traders, while quantum researchers and chip technicians argue with a guy who read something on Substack and “heard rumours about an Anthropic deal”. 

Despite their various backgrounds and credentials, one thing unites all the commentators - everyone has a thesis, an opinion, and ultimately, an asset they want you to buy.

Trading shows have become a common outlet for market participants to pitch their theses. Traders, industry experts, or people with large followings, go live, outline a trade, and the host confirms their bias with some supporting commentary about how it’s a "good take", or "makes sense". 

Then nothing happens. No trades are taken, no thesis is challenged, no record is kept and no responsibility is taken for trades that go badly.

I think Solana’s traders deserve better.

What is tradingFloor?

tradingFloor blends the speculative thrill of markets with the objective, skeptical eye that has made SolanaFloor one of crypto’s most-trusted news outlets and media companies.

Every week, a curated group of elite traders, analysts, and founders step onto the tradingFloor to pitch a trade. Anything is permissible, as long as it is tradable on Solana, the Everything Exchange.

After the guest pitches their trade, SolanaFloor hosts dissect and challenge the thesis. We’ll poke holes in the trade, question the catalysts, consider the threats, and compare the asset against its competitors. At the end of the show, our hosts will either accept the trade and take a position via JTX, or reject the thesis.

Guided by the theses of industry and market experts, the tradingFloor hosts will manage an onchain portfolio. Regardless of each host’s decision, every trade will be tracked on perp.so, tracking the performance of all tickers and guests mentioned on tradingFloor.

Instead of adding blind bullish optimism to every ticker called out on 𝕏, tradingFloor encourages traders to take a step back, and view every pitch from an objective point of view. Trades should be intentional, discerning, and calculated, rather than apocalyptic YOLO-plays derived from shills on the timeline.

Want to Get Involved?

If you’re a value investor who’s researched an undervalued stock, an elite trader who’s spotted a high-probability setup, a bear foreseeing the end of a bubble, or any kind of market participant with a thesis, contact SolanaFloor, or tradingFloor hosts Finn and Thomas Bahamas to book an invite to the show.

Have a thesis, but feeling camera-shy? Submit your trade on perp.so, and our hosts will review it live on stream. Submissions are historically recorded with entries and exits, tracking every trades from the tradingFloor viewership.

tradingFloor Season 1 begins 11AM ET, Wednesday 22nd July.

So, what’s the trade?

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