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i believe that on-chain trading hierarchy exists and for me these are their levels:

level 0 – holders base tier. passive participants who accumulate tokens and wait. no active trading; purely long-term conviction or inaction. if their token performs, they move up. if not, they may exit or stay frozen.

favorite activity: "say they're in the trenches", asking what's the CA on socials, looking manually on X what to buy or direct posting for advice, draw cute lines on charts and fight over the internet defending "the best performing asset of the month/week/year", and spam discord servers asking for roles "to be elegible for airdrops"

level 1 – spot traders entry-level active traders. buy low, sell high. they operate on centralized or decentralized exchanges with low risk exposure. if they mistime a trade and hold in loss, they risk sliding back to level 0.

favorite activity: draw even more cute weird lines on charts, get basic suscription to services like coingecko, trading view and similars, create content for x token paid or free as service to "pump their bags", talk about lot about "decentralization" and how the world needs this, they spam harder on server asking for airdrops because they "did massive volume" on the protocol/token/dapp/whatever and they are entitled for airdrops, says: "you are my exit liquidity" when someone publish what they just bought on socials

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level 2 – defi goons they chase yield. engage in staking, lending, and yield farming. often use collateral to borrow against positions, exposing them to dao governance risks, smart contract risks, and price volatility. can face liquidation if they mismanage leverage.

favorite activity: jump into thousands of servers and groups but never saying a word, if they post something 99% of the times is asking for support because their yield or the protocol went bust, they recommend you to get stable coins and have passive income than trading, they are just interested into huge APY rates, favorite phrase includes "it was 100000% 10 min ago and now is 6.4% APY and the lockdown is 6 months, can dev do something? i need to unlock to pay my mortgage/school/food/whatever goes in here"

level 3 – leverage traders they wield margin. operating on platforms like gmx, hyperliquid, dydx, or cexs with leverage. massive gains or losses. a miscalculation or black swan event sends them straight to liquidation or back to spot trading.

favorite activity: buying pro plans from trading view, coingecko, arkham intelligence, and every service that provides "pro insights", they love to draw geometric weird figures on charts that looks like architecture planes and call them "deep analysis", ex-"insert bank/institution name here" trader, if the trading season is going bad they may sell courses or access to private groups, sleeps 3 hrs a day, the rest they are under caffeine and other legal and ilegal substances depending on their margin calls and leverage level

level 4 – lp degens liquidity providers. they seed volatile token pairs for high rewards (sometimes 1000000% apy in shitcoin farms). they're exposed to impermanent loss, rug pulls, smart contract risks, and timing failures. high risk, high reward.

favorite activity: provide and subtract liquidity from pairs even for just some minutes, they don't discriminate assets either they just want the LP where they invested is traded a lot for them to make huge profits on trading fees, if they join a server or a group is just watching for the perfect moment to add or or remove their position on the LP, holds hundreds or thousands in dust tokens from a lot of weird assets that were rug pulled when their position was added

level 5 – flashlooners the elite quantitative class. masters of smart contracts, arbitrage, and timing. they borrow millions via flash loans, perform atomic multi-step trades, and repay instantly for fractions in fees. everything is automated. requires deep dev skill, private rpcs, mempool monitoring, and ai-based decision trees.

favorite activity: audit every byte of the mempool faster than your wi-fi loads memes, set up dozens of bots running on custom rust contracts, "i did a simulation on hardhat last night", late night talks in dark private tg channels about exploitable yield loops, constantly reroute between private rpcs like they’re switching vapes, say “it’s free money if you’re smart enough” while sleeping next to a custom dashboard monitoring mev, sandwiched txs, and arbitrage between 8 dexs no one uses, their hero is jarredfromsubway.eth, "does the dex have api?"

level 6 – liquidators they prey on mistakes. their bots watch for unhealthy positions across defi protocols and liquidate them with precision, often using flash loans. they extract collateral with surgical timing. to operate here, one must understand all lower levels and have battlefield-tested infrastructure.

favorite activity: stare into liquidation queues on their terminal 24/7, unleash killbots the second health factor drops, collect badges on protocols like pokemons, brag about extracting 40 dollars from a dude who aped into a fork of a fork of aave that wasn't updated since 2021, "use my dappnode code to get a node too", run custom infra that detects your panic before you even hit repay, say “nothing personal, just liquidation” on every forum post they reply to, they auto liquidate themselves and post it to socials as the maximum award they may access to

level 7 – oracle manipulators the apex tier. they influence price feeds to trigger liquidations, distort lp values, or exploit vulnerabilities in twaps and off-chain feeds. they lend, borrow, swap, lp, arbitrage all in one orchestrated attack. this level treads the ethical line. while technically brilliant, some strategies here cross into protocol devastation. these actors can drain protocols or manipulate entire chains in seconds, the true god mode.

favorite activity: bribe low-liquidity lps with millions, casually wreck ecosystems in seconds and post “wasn’t me lol/maybe was an accident” while withdrawing to tornado, host governance proposals that look legit but are disguised traps, sit in calls with whitehats pretending be concerned, "it was a norcorean hacker not me", favorite line: “if the protocol allowed it, then it’s not a hack, it’s a feature that no one was using”, "i have 10 nodes on that network but i need more, just ordered 3 last night from dappnode they arrive next week"