In addition to ETH and SOL, what other tokens are closely tied to Jump?

Original title: "Countdown to the Black Swan? An article to review the major tokens most closely tied to Jump"

Original author: Azuma, Odaily Planet Daily

The crypto industry has once again ushered in the "darkest moment". From last night to this morning, the cryptocurrency market accelerated its plunge, and BTC once fell below $49,000, with a single-day drop of nearly 20%.

Investigating the reasons for the plunge, in addition to macroeconomic influences such as recession expectations and the situation in the Middle East, Jump's potential black swan may also be seen as a driving factor in the market's decline. This morning, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes posted a message saying that a "big guy" was disposed of and was selling all crypto assets, and the community generally speculated that the "big guy" he referred to was Jump.

As one of the major service providers and most active investment institutions in the industry, if Jump collapses, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the market, and projects that directly invest and work with the institution may be the first to bear the brunt.

In the following, Odaily Planet Daily will combine public market data to sort out the major tokens that are most closely tied to Jump.

Ethereum (ETH)

ETH has always been Jump's main holding. In this round of plunge, Jump's crazy selling is also one of the main sources of ETH selling pressure.

Lookonchain monitoring shows that since July 24, Jump has sold 83,000 wstETH (about $377 million), and there are 37,604 wstETH (104 million US dollars) left to sell. These nearly 120,000 wstETH (481 million US dollars) are the stolen funds that Jump has successfully fought against Wormhole attackers and recovered.

For the specific details of Jump's ETH sell-off, please refer to "The "culprit" of the currency circle collapse has appeared, and the top market maker Jump has become the target of public criticism? ".

Solana (SOL)

Solana, Ethereum’s biggest competitor, is also a project in which Jump is deeply involved. In addition to direct holdings and market making, Jump has also invested in or incubated multiple projects within the Solana ecosystem (such as Wormhole, Serum, Sanctum), and has even directly participated in the development of the Solana network’s own infrastructure.

It is worth mentioning that the Firedancer client, the most important infrastructure upgrade of the Solana ecosystem in the past two years, was developed by Jump Crypto (Jump's cryptocurrency department). If Jump fails, it may affect the final delivery of Firedancer.

Wormhole (W)

The most mainstream cross-chain protocol in the Solana ecosystem, Wormhole, was originally founded by Jump Crypto, but it has now been spun off and runs independently.

In February 2022, Wormhole was hacked and 120,000 ETH was stolen, which was worth about 325 million US dollars at the time. It was one of the largest hacking incidents in the industry. When Wormhole was facing a desperate situation, it was Jump Crypto that first deposited 120,000 ETH into the Wormhole protocol to make up for the losses. This part of the stolen money was subsequently recovered in February 2023 (the 120,000 wstETH mentioned above).

Monad (not yet issued)

The founding team of Monad, a popular project in the parallel EVM track, also came from Jump. Its founder is Keone Hon, the former head of research at Jump.

Previously, when Wormhole airdropped W tokens, it gave the Monad community a large share free of charge, which was also interpreted by the market as "internal binding" between Jump projects.

It is worth mentioning that Jump did not participate in Monad's two rounds of financing, so there is some room for discussion on the exact relationship between the two parties at present.

Leading investment projects: APT, SUI, INJ, ALT…

In addition to the above projects, Jump has also been active in the investment front line of cryptocurrencies and has participated in key rounds of financing for many projects. The following are some of the mainstream tokens led by Jump:

In 2022, Aptos announced the completion of a $150 million financing round led by FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto (what a magical combination…);

In 2022, Sui completed a $300 million Series B financing round led by Jump and a16z;

In 2022, Injective announced the completion of US$40 million in financing, led by Jump Crypto;

In 2022, AltLayer completed a US$7.2 million seed round of financing, led by Polychain Capital, Jump Crypto and Breyer Capital;

For more details on Jump's investment and market making, please refer to the following database (data taken from Crypto Fundraising and CoinMarketCap).

·  Jump Capital investment records (70 transactions);

·  Jump Crypto investment records (78 transactions);

·  Jump Trading investment records (9 transactions);

· Jump's partial holdings and market making list.

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