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.
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.
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 )
The most reliable thesis for compounding capital this cycle has been to own fast-growing projects that people actually use.
Everything else is a game of musical chairs, with the dominant narrative changing every couple months, and Burj Khalifa charts that rarely bounce back.
This supposed shift to fundamentals everyone is talking about isn’t coming… it’s already here, but it can only be observed over the course of many quarters and years in the assets that actually compound.
The fast-growing part is key here.
Plenty of value traps in the cryptoeconomy or projects whose fundamentals are solid but don’t support the valuations.
Often times the strongest fundamental names tap into speculative activity for growth which many write off as “not real”
Have fallen prey to some of these situations before as we all have.
Takes introspection to realize you’re being too prescriptive about what should be driving growth rather than accepting what is.
Regardless of whether the Trump coin is real or not, at $9 billion in 3 hours, it is already the largest onchain wealth creation event in the history crypto.
Goes without saying what this means for Solana if real
Will say though, I have mixed feelings about this.
Simultaneously a potential mass onboarding event and a huge risk that it makes the entire industry look like a scam.
Solana’s growing ecosystem of assets, applications, businesses, and users is becoming a compounding superstructure, positioning Solana to be a secular winner of the cryptoeconomy.
This is becoming evident in the data which shows Solana rivaling Ethereum in value creation.
Will infrastructure multiples compress over time and app multiples rise?
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.
Over the past year Syncracy accumulated a large position in MKR.
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.
Maker is a leviathan amongst the leaders, capturing nearly 40% of all DeFi profits on Ethereum.
Its competitive advantage is centered around its currency Dai —the most widely used decentralized stablecoin in the industry with its deep liquidity, integrations, and track record.