Alright, listen up. 'Forgot to live' here. When I blew that $600 on ADA, DOGE, SOL with wild leverage, I thought liquidation was the only enemy. Nope. Something else was quietly eating my portfolio alive: trading fees.
Imagine a tiny leak in your boat. Each drop is nothing, right? But after hours, days of ignoring it, you realize your boat's half-full of water. That's fees. You might see 0.05% or 0.1% per trade and think it's peanuts. But when I was scalping with $1000 and 100x leverage, those ...
Ask yourself where your margin sits when you’re not in a trade.
On most exchanges, the answer is: nowhere. It just waits. Zero return, zero purpose, until you open a position again.
@Aevoxyz asked a different question. Why should collateral be dead weight? That’s how aeUSD came about, a yield-bearing version of your stablecoin collateral, wrapped through sDAI/Spark, earning the whole time it’s sitting in your account backing trades.
Two years live. Not a new experiment, not untested code. Ae...