Fixed supply of shares is a really dumb concept for pseudo-equity. Projects need to be able to mint more shares if they want to invest in growth, as well as buy back shares if they think they are underpriced.
That said, it's not necessarily the right thing to do for Yearn. As I've said many times before, my biggest problem with the project (and reason I sold) is that I don't see enough urgency to build vaults and strategies that users actually want.
Diluting existing equity holders would likely exacerbate the problem as it makes generating cashflows even less urgent.
Instead, Yearn should stop all side battles and finally get to a stage where anyone can create new strategies in a permissionless way, and get paid a share of the profits in return. Strategists then whitelist good strategies and switch between them.
That way, Yearn can finally realize the long-term vision of becoming a two-sided marketplace for capital and investment strategies.
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2) Lots of people were speculating what it means for two protocols (such as Yearn X Cream) to "merge"/partner with each other. This is an unexpected advantage as Yearn vaults will be able to borrow for free.
3) Being whitelisted is a big advantage so maybe to qualify and align incentives future candidates will have to hold CREAM tokens in their treasury.
This is gonna be my last comment on ETH2 staking. Since many ppl have attacked me after projecting a position that I never actually argued for (incl. some nasty PMs - tyvm) I will clarify what I do and don't think:
1) I *don't* think locking ETH in the deposit contract necessarily constitutes a sale. I won‘t be shocked if the IRS argues that it does. But I sure as hell would first try to convince them of the opposite
2) There will be two versions of ETH on most exchanges (ETH + stakedETH, ETH2, beaconETH, whatever you want to call it). There will be many versions of ETH in the market as a whole.
3) If you receive such a liquid staking token, that is most likely a tax event.
Here we go. Coinbase doing exactly what I predicted:
* Users can mint BETH by staking ETH via Coinbase
* they can trade BETH against ETH and other coins on Coinbase
* get staking rewards AND liquidity at the same time
This is very attractive. Other exchanges will follow.
crazy to think that BTC opened 2019 at $3,693 and ETH opened at $131. both have done extremely well obviously (+403% and +351% respectively). crypto is a game of network effects where you want to bet on the category leader. I expect these two to continue to do well together.
BTC and ETH performance over various timeframes
people tend to forget that anyone who bought ETH after 2017 had to endure a very, very rough 2-3 years. but now their strong hands are paying off. BTC has recovered much faster, as it both saw a smaller peak to trough and already was the world's best perfoming asset in 2019.
My @coinbase dashboard hasn't loaded for days, saying "This JWT token doesn't support required scopes". I have some funds there that it doesn't display. Anyone had this before? There's no support email and nothing remotely close at help.coinbase.com/en/contact-us.
Never had a problem with Coinbase myself before so I couldn't confirm it, but I'm starting to realize why so many people say their customer support is basically non-existent
yup, if I log in with a different browser or incognito it tells me my ID isn't verified (it is verified). when I upload new documents it tells me the info on them doesn't match my uploaded data (it does match it).
BTC just outperformed ETH on the day the ETH2 launch was announced. Without news of its own or heightened volume. I'm still very new to trading, but that feels like the market sending a message about the immediate future.
And my interpretation of these events is that even very bullish in-cryto events can currently not hold water to the passive macro backdrop BTC finds itself in.
This is btw one of my favorite tools so far. Interpreting how the market reacts to good and bad information and especially the absence of new information. Markets that feast on hope are crushed by the absence of new info - you can see that everywhere in Defi right now.