Desk · crypto
Crypto Desk — On-chain flow before price moves.
The EMI crypto desk fuses spot, perpetual futures, on-chain flow and prediction-market signals — alerts you when whales move, supply tightens, or a moonshot breaks structure. Liquidity-aware sizing, scam-screened tickers, asset-aware stop bands.
- Spot + perps on one alert
- 8% stop warn
- 12% hard cap
- Moonshot discovery lane
What the desk watches
Three flavors of edge.
Crypto edge is rarely about price action alone. EMI looks at three independent layers — and only fires when at least two converge.
- Macro / event lane. ETF flows, exchange listings, regulatory shifts, halving math, BTC dominance regime.
- On-chain lane. Whale net-flow, exchange-balance shifts, stablecoin float, supply concentration.
- Moonshot discovery lane. Liquidity-proxy gated, hard-vs-soft scam keyword split, two-hop whitepaper crawler. Moonshot dispatch lives on its own Slack lane so it never pollutes the primary feed.
Risk model
Crypto stops are wider — for a reason.
Crypto trades 24/7 with multi-percent intraday wicks. EMI's 8% warn / 12% hard cap band is sized to the volatility BTC and majors actually trade at. Sub-$1 microcaps run through the moonshot lane with extra liquidity gating instead of a forced equity-style geometry.
The 50bp breakout tolerance is asset-aware — wide enough that a 1% overnight wick doesn't fire a false breakout, tight enough that a clean breakout still counts. Crypto integrity is scoped to the right asset class, so a BTC-mention article in an ETH casefile doesn't hard-block the package.