The Wall Street Veteran Who Went All In on Bitcoin (And How He Makes It Grow)
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Adil Abdulali discusses disciplined financial strategies using Bitcoin as collateral in hedge funds.
Most people think generating a return on Bitcoin means taking on reckless risk or selling your stack. Adil Abdulali, Chief Strategy Officer at Amitis Capital, says the real opportunity is treating Bitcoin as pristine collateral and building disciplined financial strategies around it without ever parting with your sats. Wyatt sits down with Adil to unpack what it actually looks like to run a Bitcoin-denominated hedge fund in a market where institutional adoption is still crawling, distribution networks haven't caught up, and the most sophisticated strategies are only just becoming accessible to serious investors. Adil walks through his career from the ground up. From trading derivatives on Wall Street in the nineties, to seeding early hedge funds at Protege Partners, to getting introduced to Bitcoin through MIT's Media Lab in 2015, and ultimately going full-time Bitcoin in 2019. He breaks down how Amitis Capital uses Bitcoin as collateral to fund market-neutral trading strategies, why the basis trade opportunity has compressed as institutional capital flooded in, and where the next frontier lies as real-world assets get tokenized onto Bitcoin rails. They get into the Meanwhile…
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