The Stock Can't Trade Yet. Something Is Already Pricing It.
Four synthetic markets priced companies before their shares could trade. Then the cash market arrived—and changed what those prices meant.
Four synthetic markets priced companies before their shares could trade. Then the cash market arrived—and changed what those prices meant.
Two market events, one identification problem, and a block-Hawkes experiment.
First came risk transfer. Then exposure grew—mostly among traders already there.
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Five Solana wrappers on one company, one issuer-designated conversion route, and nine weeks of swap-level flow through it. Public data only, no position take...