Loomdart
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| handle | @_loomdart |
|---|---|
| role | trader, investor |
| known for | eGirl Capital, market commentary, anonymous cartoon VC culture |
Loomdart is a pseudonymous trader and eGirl Capital member whose shitposting, market takes, and anti corporate ethos helped define the anonymous trader culture the trenches inherited.
Loomdart is a pseudonymous trader, investor, and long running Crypto Twitter personality, best known as a member of eGirl Capital, the anonymous investment collective profiled by Decrypt as a fund staffed and run almost entirely by cartoon characters. Posting as loomdart.eth with an ever rotating cast of avatars, he built a following on a mix of genuine market insight and absurdist shitposting, becoming one of the recognizable elders of the anonymous trader scene alongside collaborators like CL.
eGirl Capital
Cointelegraph's feature on eGirl Capital quotes Loomdart articulating the group's thesis: that eGirl Capital was the natural product of a world where traditional limits were breaking down, and that "you don't really need to suit up and boot up to be taken seriously." The collective invested its own money, required unanimous decisions, and backed projects including Alchemix and Radicle while treating meme assets as seriously as protocols. That posture, anonymous, irony soaked, but financially real, prefigured the culture of the trenches, where pseudonymous accounts move markets and the joke and the trade are the same object.
Market commentary
Loomdart's takes have periodically crossed into crypto media. In a 2021 interview with The Block he argued that the market would not see a 2018 style prolonged bear because the structure of participants had changed, a representative example of his contrarian macro posting. He was also a recurring guest presence in the orbit of Cobie's UpOnly podcast, appearing in its eGirl Capital episode, and his commentary on NFTs, DeFi, and trader psychology circulated widely during the 2021 cycle.
Influence
Loomdart matters to trench culture less for specific calls than as a template. He demonstrated that an anonymous account with a cartoon avatar could be simultaneously a credible investor, a comedian, and a community institution, the exact archetype later mass produced by the KOL era, usually with less charm. Veterans cite the eGirl period as the bridge between old Crypto Twitter and the memecoin trenches, and Loomdart as one of its architects.
References
- https://cointelegraph.com/news/egirls-in-the-c-suite-the-simposium-storming-crypto-venture-capital
- https://decrypt.co/87581/would-you-trust-a-cartoon-cat-with-your-money
- https://www.theblock.co/post/127080/this-isnt-2017-loomdart-explains-why-crypto-markets-wont-see-a-big-bear-market
- https://uponly.tv/cobies-back-state-of-the-market-with-egirl-capital/
- https://x.com/_loomdart
