Devin Baker

Right now, equities and crypto seem correlated, with many claiming both are risk-on assets driven by global liquidity. That’s wrong. Equities are a risk-on asset within the carry trade, fueled by global liquidity; Bitcoin, however, isn’t part of anyone’s carry trade—yet. And for good reason.

At its core, Bitcoin is the anti-carry trade asset. Its n... See more

A “40%” allocation within this construct can include investment expressions like AI or culture assets, poker/sports gambling income, biotech IP: these assets transform energy-intensive labor into income without leverage, and high payouts.

What you find here is that at a high level, highly resistant assets are by definition likely to share attributes of being decentralized, scarce, and timeless. This is the radical way we must imagine portfolio theory. We must live our lives within institutions for the most part (60%), but we also need to live our private lives away from such institu... See more

• If you own GLD (Gold ETF), that’s compliance - 60% bucket. If you own physical gold bars, that’s resistance - 40% bucket


• If you hang valuable art on your walls at your home, that’s compliance - 60% bucket. If you own the same art held in tax-free freeports, that’s resistance - 40% bucket


• If you own your primary residence, that’s compliance - 60% buck

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The Radical Portfolio’s core thesis is 60% Compliance / 40% Resistance.

Only once you are outside of this box, the appreciation for true optionality increases dramatically, where one can consider 60/40 approach in characteristics such as below:

In this framework, it becomes clear that the traditional 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds is no longer relevant. In that scenario, you’ve already failed, as you're holding 100% centrally planned assets whose custody and value is manipulated by cross-border flows that influence global liquidity, disconnected from real economic productivity.

1. We believe the world is becoming more centrally managed than ever before, yet with growing unease and fragility in its interconnectedness alongside the meteoric rise of HPC-driven autonomous decision models - in money, but also in fundamental human rights. Therefore we must hedge against this artificial centralization by seeking a custody model out

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1. First, we must accept that there is no absolute truth in social sciences like economics. We believe the opposite of misinformation is not truth, but rather state-controlled information - where narratives are crafted to align with authority, rather than being inherently true or false. One person’s martyr is another’s terrorist; one person's coloniza

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To thrive in a hyper-financialized world, investors must rethink their approach, moving beyond risk-on/risk-off mentalities toward a portfolio that embraces both compliance with the status quo and resistance against systemic fragility.