Let's check in with our fund friends: 3 Arrows Capital, Polychain, and Jump Trading.
How did they react to the strong dip in BTC and ETH? Did they buy anything? Sell anything?
Let's take a look 👇
3AC (1/5):
3AC made sure their Aave and Compound loans were healthy.
Through their main address, Three Chads deposited over $20m in stables (some from sales of WBTC) into Aave to maintain the health ratios of their account.
3AC's Aave health factor = 2.06 - pretty safe!
3AC (2/5):
3AC deposited over $40m into Compound over the past day, paying back an outstanding stables loan.
3AC proceeded to withdraw a large amount of ETH ($66,000,000), WBTC, AAVE, and LINK to a secondary address.
3AC (3/5):
Some WBTC was sent back to 3AC's WBTC merchant deposit address, suggesting a withdrawal.
I tracked at least $6m worth of LINK to an empty address.
Another $10m worth of USDC was sent to another empty address.
Lots of coins scattered all over the place.
3AC (4/5):
More recently (past 12 hrs), a large chunk of alts (1m LINK, 20,000 AAVE, 43m USDT, & more) was sent from Three Arrows addresses to Binance.
3AC (5/5):
3AC may or may not own over 1,000 YFI.
3AC currently has 350 YFI in one address that is 99% them, then has over 650 YFI (520 in Aave) in addresses 3AC sent YFI to via a proxy address.
Is this the Chief Psyops Officer playing tricks on me?
Send help.
Jump Trading (1/1):
It appears Jump is in BTFD mode. As the market began its descent, Jump traded hundreds of thousands in USDT to Bittrex, Binance, and Huobi.
This picked up dramatically over the past day. I tally $5m sent to exchanges over past day.
$11m in USDT remains.
Polychain (1/1):
Polychain seems to be sticking with its guns: no transactions made since it received 100 YFI two weeks ago.
Its YFI position is now valued at $13,800,000 — approximately double the acquisition cost.
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Two hours ago, a suspicious transaction was seen involving Pickle's new pDAI jar.
$20m worth of DAI was withdrawn to an EOA, which funded the attack with 10 ETH from Tornado (mixer).
No flash loan was involved as first believed.
At this moment, the attack vector seems to be related to a function in the Pickle controller (v4), which can swap coins from one strategy to another.
Rumor has it that there was no check on the Jar Swap function. Pickle was audited but seemingly before this function was added.
Affected users are already contacting the attacker.
The first image here shows someone, a purported "nurse," asking for $100,000 back from the attacker. The use of the nurse bit was popularized last week with the Value attack, where the attacker returned $50k to a "nurse"
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.
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.
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%
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).