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moo900 opened issue #1469: Cuprate Meeting #124 - Tuesday, 2026-10-13, UTC 18:00

> monero-project/meta #1469

Rucknium opened issue #1470: Monero Research Lab Meeting - Wed 06 October 2026, 17:00 UTC

> monero-project/meta #1470

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> mrelay.p2pool.observer/m/matrix.org/TgiSgGWpMciQAtZyUJDGZAkY.png (xmrhedge1.png)

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> Hi all. I’m new here. Over the last few months I’ve helped build Ballast, a privacy first perps trading terminal on Hyperliquid. No account, no kyc, and no trail back to you. Everything goes over Tor, it’s fully built into the app (no VPN needed). Posting here because we are Monero ogs, we built Ballast for Monero specifically.

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> How it works: XMR goes through a permissionless swap into a fresh Hyperliquid account that exists for one cycle and is never reused. You trade every market on Hype from a professional trading desk that we coded from scratch (chart and tools that are better than Hyperliquid’s), then cash back out to privacy through an address [... too long, see mrelay.p2pool.observer/e/1snR5rELLXdJek45 ]

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> The image is the part most people here will care about, and it is the whole ethos behind why we even built Ballast in the first place: hedging without selling. Your own personal delta-neutral style, privacy XMR stablecoin if you will.

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> You open a short against your stack with a small amount of XMR, or with ETH or BTC as margin so you don’t have to sell any XMR. If the price falls, the green line is flat: the short earns what the stack loses, it’s directionally neutral to the downside. If the price rises, the short closes at its stop and the stack rides u [... too long, see mrelay.p2pool.observer/e/4_PT5rELZm1iQnRf ]

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> Where the open beta stands: the Monero route runs through THORChain, and its XMR pool is not yet open. The app is built for it and will switch on when the pool does; nothing to wait for on our side. Until then the live roads are ZEC, ETH and BTC, so anyone holding those can use it today.

<ballastfirstmate:matrix.org> What it is not: it is a beta, it has not had a third party audit yet, and it is not a dark pool. Positions are visible on the venue like any perp; what is hidden is who is behind them and where the money came from. [... more lines follow, see mrelay.p2pool.observer/e/4_PT5rELZm1iQnRf ]