The recent crypto market plunge, followed by some tokens’ quick bounce, helped MN Trading founder Michaël van de Poppe spot a clear new trend forming.
“If the markets didn’t have a narrative, then it has presented a new narrative, which is DeFi, I think in terms of investment perspective,” van de Poppe tells Hall of Flame.
“A net positive strategy to allocate toward ETH and DeFi — I think both will surge in the coming months,” he claims.
Van de Poppe cites Aave (AAVE), Maker (MKR), Ethereum Name Service (ENS), Bittensor (TAO), Celestia (TIA) and Rocket Pool (RPL) as tokens to watch. These projects bounced back fast and some didn’t even get hit by the dip, he explains.
“If an asset is bouncing back this strong, it shows the conviction that investors have to it,” he says.
Spotting trends and devising strategies is van de Poppe’s day-in, day-out routine as the founder of MN Trading, where he advises high-net-worth individuals on trades to make in the crypto market.
Michaël van de Poppe is not your standard crypto bro
He definitely doesn’t seem like your typical crypto bro, though. The well-known crypto analyst has 722,200 X followers but still seems like a really down-to-earth guy.
When we first start the video call, he spends a few minutes spinning around his webcam to show off the new office and surrounds for his company, MN Trading, in Amsterdam, where he’s based.
He already passed the crypto bro test, no Lamborghini in sight.
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Van de Poppe got into crypto back in February 2017, when Bitcoin was trading around $1,500.
“I was studying economics at the University of Amsterdam, and two important events happened in the same week,” he says.
First, a guy with a “heavy hangover” started talking about Bitcoin and crypto, but van de Poppe quickly forgot about it. But two days later, another friend brought it up again.
“I went…
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