Hay, I am one of the authors of the paper. If you have any questions about the paper or Raphtory (the tool we build for this type of analysis) ask away.
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Or, when it does include wrapped tokens on Ethereum, What promoted you to look at this angle
I dont find TerraLuna to be that interesting, we all had the choice of not trading it and some institutional firms had borrowings that caused contagion in the crypto space up till the FTX collapse. Given these choices and the issue of leverage, what makes trading activity to be that interesting?
If you want to study some kind of event, you study the events you have.
Whether their focus subjects were interesting to trade for you is beside the point. People traded them.