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Sep 17, 2020 11 tweets 3 min read Read on X
DeFi moves fast. Yearn moves faster.

As if launching a $1bn asset management platform in 8 weeks wasn’t enough, Yearn is now entering new markets rapidly.

The latest being AMMs, lending, and stablecoins through a potentially disruptive new protocol called StableCredit.

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In a nutshell StableCredit is MakerDAO + Aave + Bancor combined, but with minimal governance and no token ($YFI is not involved).

The latter two points hint at StableCredit’s ambition to be truly decentralized infrastructure that requires minimal human interaction to run. Image
StableCredit allows users to deposit an asset and then receive a credit line that allows them to borrow up to 75% of the collateral they provided.
In the internal StableCredit economy when a user deposits an asset the protocol mints an equivalent amount of StableCredit USD (a new stablecoin) using an oracle to determine price, then supplies the deposited asset and StableCredit USD into a Uniswap pool.
The protocol then calculates a system utilization ratio (what the percentage contribution of the pool you added to the entire ecosystem worth) up to a maximum of 75%, then mints the utilization ratio value of the deposited asset as StableCredit USD.
StableCredit USD is like a “lending credit” that allows users to borrow any of the other assets supplied to StableCredit.

To borrow an asset you “sell” your StableCredit USD for it.
To repay your debt you “sell” the borrowed asset back for StableCredit USD, which you can use to repay your debt and receive your collateral back.
Below is a great visual overview from @finematics of how this works using ETH and LINK as an example. Image
So that’s how StableCredit works in a nutshell.

But what does it mean for the rest of DeFi and why does it matter for Yearn?
In my latest piece I cover:

1. How StableCredit could disrupt the DEX, lending, and stablecoin verticals

2. How StableCredit helps scale Yearn’s vaults by orders of magnitude (and what it means for )

Why DeFi investors should pay attention.

messari.io/article/stable…
Appendix (yea we’re doing that on tweet storms now).

There’s a lot of moving parts here and a lot of interesting stuff going on that this thread doesn’t fully capture.

Highly recommend reading the piece.

You can start a free 7-day trial here.

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Yet $SOL trades at just 33% the valuation of $ETH.

Our Solana Thesis Part II: The Data-Driven Case for $SOL.

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In Q4’23 Syncracy released a Solana thesis arguing that SOL was severely mispriced at 13% of Ethereum’s valuation.

Today we explore how the thesis has progressed, unpack Solana’s growing network effects, and make the case for parity with ETH.

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This is becoming evident in the data which shows Solana rivaling Ethereum in value creation. Image
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Applications on Ethereum and Solana are on the verge of flipping their underlying infrastructure in revenue.

What does this mean for the future of value capture in the cryptoeconomy? Image
Contrary to popular belief, the age of the applications is upon us.

There are now plenty of apps generating 8-9 figures in revenue.

Still, apps continue to trade at huge discounts to infrastructure, which on average trade at ~300x higher multiples.

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We at Syncracy believe that apps capturing a greater share of the global blockchain fee pool and outearning most infrastructure is likely an inflection point for the reckoning that’s to come. Image
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The era of brain dead private → public token arbitrage is coming to an end.

We simply don’t need more useless infra + tokens while there’s clear secular winners emerging across the cryptoeconomy.

In time the market structure will shift to reflect this.

The frontier is liquid.
Venture strategies will still thrive, but returns will be harder won.

The dispersion of returns between the best and worst will likely increase from here.
Similarly early stage infrastructure investments could still perform well, but will likely require more selectiveness on the part of managers.

You can no longer buy random L1/L2s at 9 figure valuations and expect to dump on retail.

Perhaps applications are next up.
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We believe Maker could command a $40+ billion valuation this cycle given its vital role in financing Ethereum’s economy — a multi-billion dollar fee opportunity.

Our thesis on Maker in the Endgame Era.

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Maker is the leading decentralized bank in the cryptoeconomy.

At ~2x 2025E revenue, we believe Maker is one of the best risk / reward opportunities today given its industry leading earnings, best-in-class unit economics, and growing market dominance. 

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Memecoin mania is the closest thing we’ve seen to the 2017 ICO bubble.

Difference is no one is even pretending they’re launching or buying anything valuable — bar is as low as it’s ever been.

Memecoins are the purest expression of greed and entertainment crypto’s ever created.
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Most memecoins are micro / small caps, yet are reported on as if they’re actually indicative of what’s going on in the broader cryptoeconomy.
The most obvious winner of all this is SOL as it’s the base pair for the majority of memecoins retail is trading nowadays.

Just like how ETH was required to participate in ICOs, SOL today has the same flywheel.
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The opportunity Solana offers is rare – a truly differentiated technical architecture that has the potential to become foundational alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Our thesis on Solana and the future of the cryptoeconomy.

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Despite extreme power law dynamics in the smart contract platform market, this reality creates a large opportunity for Solana.

Solana can eat Ethereum's dominance through offering a highly differentiated integrated solution.

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Trade-offs create path dependence.

We believe Solana’s integrated design offers a structurally simpler and more cost-efficient development environment compared to modular stacks, positioning Solana to win a larger share of the cryptoeconomy’s developer base in the coming years. Image
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