
Eric
Co-authored EIP-1559, quit Ethereum in 2025, and turned up as the largest holder of a coin called BONER.
- Est. PnL
- ~$40M
- Location
- United States
- Got into the 2014 Ethereum ICO at 30 cents and sat on it all the way to $3,000 without selling a coin, then turned on it and swapped a big chunk for HYPE
- Bought a memecoin called BONER, paired to erection-pill stock HIMS, and rode it to a $2M bag; even the company's CEO started following the coin
- Found CryptoPunks on Reddit while they were still free in 2017, claimed a handful with his wife, helped set up the Punks Discord, and still holds all of them
- Co-wrote EIP-1559 with Vitalik, the upgrade that burns ETH on every transaction, then quit Ethereum in a 2025 thread calling its Foundation a leftist driven, anti-winning swamp
- Discovered Bitcoin scrolling Reddit at his bank job in 2013 and bought a few days later at $200, furious he had missed it at $1
- Welcomed the ETH whales to the Robinhood trenches with: `Move over broccoli haired streamers, your unc is back in town`
Notable trades
ETH
2014
Size undisclosed
Bought in the 2014 crowdsale at about $0.30 and held through the 2018 bear to above $3,000 without selling; he passed on selling at $13. Size never published.
HYPE
Early 2025
Open
Swapped a large share of his ETH into HYPE in early 2025, the first big sale of the stack. Took constant abuse for it until HYPE ran. Units undisclosed.
LIT
2026
~4x, open
Long Lighter since about $1, near $4 by September 2026. Picked it over HYPE and BONER as the one to hold for five years, citing the tech and Robinhood Chain running on it.
BONER
2026
~$1.7M unreal.
Trading style
Early, concentrated, and held. He gets into a new category before it has a crowd, adds as the thesis works, and does not take profit; his answer on selling a winner too early is never sell. He will sit through a 90% drawdown on a position he believes in.
He rotates rarely and in size: when a thesis changes, he moves a large block of a long-held position into the next one rather than trimming. Between two competing bets he favours the smaller one with more room to catch up in market cap. Missing a move he later believes in bothers him, and he names that as the reason he learns each new sector early.
Ideas come from a small circle he has known for years and from what top traders are publicly sizing into. In memecoins he keeps about 75% in the most-held coins, reads holder lists for early bundles, and treats fresh launches as 99% rug. He came to markets through a bank treasury desk and calls himself a numbers guy.
Quotes
“I'm willing to diamond hand anything.”
“The endgame for finance is the memification of everything.”
Interviews
- In the Trenches Ep 75: BONER size, 30-cent ETH, never sellingFOMO · Sep 2026
- Why the coin instead of the stock, and the $132 weekend printHims House · Sep 2026
- Layer Zero: the early days of EthereumBankless · Aug 2021
- Bear Market War Stories with DCinvestorBankless · Jun 2022
- Luna demise, bear survival, bullish ETH merge, with Anthony SassanoBankless · May 2022
- The Bull Case for EthereumBankless 44 · Dec 2020
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