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19 Nov, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Wanted to bump this thread due to the Saffron Finance craze.

What I said about BarnBridge applies to Saffron - they're fundamentally similar projects with similar goals.

Saffron just launched first.

Here's a brief explanation of why $SFI is rallying so hard (up 400% today).
Tranches in finance are when a financial product/vehicle is split up into separate baskets to divvy up risk and yields to appeal to different investors.

There are junior tranches, which carry the most risk. If there is a default/crash, junior tranche holders take most losses.
To acquire Saffron Finance's governance token, SFI, users must deposit ETH-SFI Uniswap LP tokens or deposit into the two supported tranches, the "S" (senior) tranche and the "A" (junior) tranche.

- S tranche gets 71.25% of emissions
- A tranche gets 3.75%
- Uniswap LPs get 25%
To deposit in the S tranche, all you need is DAI. You deposit DAI and get paid in interest from Compound and SFI.

To deposit in the A tranche, you need DAI *AND* SFI at a 1,000:1 ratio. The A tranche is yielding over 10x what the S tranche is yielding in Compound interest alone.
As the A tranche has a higher barrier to entry, the amount of capital in the pool is minimal, far below that of the S tranche.

It's at a point where someone depositing DAI into the A tranche will get 4x the SFI rewards they would depositing that same DAI in the S tranche.
The A tranche is becoming increasingly attractive as the price of SFI rises, meaning that those that want in must buy SFI on Uniswap.

Couple that with limited liquidity and the SFI pump is becoming recursive upward.
@MrGavinLow did a great job running the exact numbers for SFI farming in this thread.

Check it out:



But in my opinion, I think SFI is temporarily overvalued. The market doesn't know how to react to this unique tokenomics decision.
Per his numbers, a $10,000 DAI deposit will yield approximately 17.5 SFI at the end of the epoch in 10 days. That SFI currently has a value of $12,250.

It's unwise to assume SFI will hold these levels, but assuming a 50% drop, that's still $6k in SFI + interest in two weeks.
Disclosure: I don't hold SFI.

Also, since they're an anon team and the contracts are unaudited, please keep your head up with Saffron.

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21 Nov
Back by popular demand. Again, with everything on DeFi being on-chain, we can see connect firms & addresses.

A breakdown of some of the known Ethereum addresses of a16z, Celsius, Nexo. Also, a look at addresses *likely* operated by firms like Alameda, Struck Capital, & more.

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a16z's (1/2) interesting because it became the first "mainstream" VC to go big on DeFi tokens.

They have $26m in MKR, $2m in SNX, and $1.5m in REP.

Of note, they're up $11m in their MKR. Image
a16z (2/2)

What I really remember about this address is others in the space eyeing it last year:

Someone deposited $250k of SNX into the address.

We still don't know if it was a16z.

Not much else to say though - I guess Pool 2 yield farming isn't in their mandate.
Read 16 tweets
19 Nov
Hands down one of the coolest DeFi products I've seen in recent months is Alpha Homora by @AlphaFinanceLab.

The product has seen a lot of attention over recent days as investors seek higher yields on Ethereum yield farming and liquidity mining.

Let's take a closer look.

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To put it simply, Alpha Homora allows users to obtain leverage on Ethereum yield farming.

It also automates the yield farming process, even if the user does not want to take leverage.

This is similar to what the @zapper_fi team did in its early days with Zaps.
When you want to LP one ETH into ETH/WBTC on Uniswap, you swap 0.5 ETH into WBTC, then supply both to the pool. Cool.

But let's say you want to collect more in trading fees or in UNI (if rewards are voted back in), you can take leverage of up to 2.5x (used to be like 3x).
Read 13 tweets
18 Nov
What's beautiful (and kind of scary) about DeFi is that we can see everything that happens on-chain and connect addresses to identities and firms.

Here's a breakdown of the known Ethereum addresses of Three Arrows Capital, Polychain Capital, and Jump Trading.

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Three Arrows Capital (1/2):

One of the biggest Compound suppliers, with $100m in WBTC, $50m in ETH, and $6m in DAI.

3AC is also supplying 275 YFI and $13m in LINK to Aave and is farming SUSHI with 1.5m *recently-acquired* SUSHI.

3AC acquired 351k LINK during recent dip.
3AC (2/2):

With the collateral, 3AC is withdrawing stables and sending them to FTX. We've seen millions upon millions sent to an FTX address.

It is unclear what happens to the funds once they're there but 3AC is often on the profit + volume leaderboards on FTX.
Read 11 tweets
17 Nov
Since UNI rewards ended yesterday, Uniswap's TVL has dropped by 40% to $1.9 billion. The bleeding shows no signs of abating yet.

Let's take a quick look at a few large liquidity providers (at random) and what they are doing with their freed-up capital. 👇
0xe0e withdrew $1.7m worth of liquidity from Uniswap's ETH-DAI pair.

They deposited all of that capital immediately into cAssets, cDAI and cETH.
0x975 withdrew $2.8m worth of liq from ETH-DAI.

They deposited all that capital back into Binance without converting the ETH into DAI or vice-versa.

They made this addy with the sole purpose of farming UNI, meaning they're probs looking to re-allocate to DeFi or BTC (UOA).
Read 10 tweets
17 Nov
Another one bites the dust: Origin Dollar (OUSD) exploited for $2.25m in DAI and $1m in Ethereum.

Flash loan attacker/exploiter is already washing the funds via RenBTC.
This is the fifth flash loan attack of the past three weeks alone.

Harvest, Akropolis, Value, and CheeseBank were all hit for millions in stables.
I believe he stole even more ETH than I first thought. Trying to figure it out.
Read 12 tweets
15 Nov
~$1 billion of $ETH is likely to be deployed into DeFi and the market in the coming days as Unsiwap's first UNI yield farming scheme comes to an end.

Let's look over a few places where you could put that Ethereum to work and their risks.👇

1/ ETH 2.0

If the bare minimum ETH gets staked in the Beacon Chain, validators will get paid 22% APR.

Risks:

- ETH2 will b untradable
- Slashing if you don't run your validator properly
- Extreme opportunity cost; can't bring ETH back from Beacon Chain
2/ Alpha Homora Pools

Alpha Homora allows ETH holders to easily farm yield farming pools (SushiSwap, Uniswap, Index, Mstable, etc.) and LP on AMMs with leverage.

Yields are quite high (15-100%+) due to IL.

Risks:
- Impermanent loss. IL risk is magnified if you take on leverage
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