A thread compiling some of the most cost-inefficient Ethereum transactions seen on chain.
Aside from these transactions being a silly way to spend precious $ETH, high gas fees + continual usage may be a sign of strong PMF, as @santiagoroel said in his recent @UpOnlyTV show.
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0x74e spent $42.05 worth of gas to deposit approximately $160 into Uniswap.
The pool is currently yielding 26% in fees per Uniswap. It will take one year, assuming no IL and consistent fees, for this user to recuperate his transaction fee.
0x55c spent $19.42 worth of gas to deposit $18 worth of ETH into Polygon.
It'll be around $40-50 on the way out if this user decides to withdraw from Polygon at a later date.
0x30a spent $6 on a failed swap of $18 worth of ETH into another token.
The gas limit was set at 174,204, so assuming it was a normal Uniswap swap, it would have cost more than the swap amount.
The point on how cost-inefficiency in smaller txes may show PMF aside, there's a lot to get excited about when it comes to layer-two solutions.
Existing sidechains have seen a parabolic explosion in liquidity and usage while there are a number of rollup solutions inbound.
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Spent some time this evening thinking through Uniswap v3 a bit more.
Wanted to break down the basics of this upgrade and some effects it may have on the rest of the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem space.
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Fees (1/4):
v2 popularized the model whereby 0.3% of each transaction accrues to liquidity providers.
v2 also has a fee switch where UNI holders are entitled to 0.05% of each transaction—or 16.6% of transaction fees.
Fees (2/4):
v3 introduces three "fee tiers" of 0.05%, 0.3%, and 1%. 1:1 assets may trade in the lowest category while high vol assets may sit in the highest category.
v3 also makes it so governance can set the % (10-25) of LP fees that accrue to protocol on a per-pool basis.
So @santiagoroel and I have been scrapping for followers over the past few weeks. I'm still 3k ahead.
To keep it that way, I'm hijacking his @UpOnlyTV fame by sharing 9 key points about DeFi and crypto he made during his interview with @CryptoCobain & @ledgerstatus.
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1. Ethereum struggled for a while with product-market fit until Maker, then the other money legos that we now call "DeFi" today.
I did a thread in the past on this subject about how much has changed since crypto was last in this range.
- 252,803 addresses entitled to a claim
- Average airdrop amount is 593.3 UNI ($~6,800)
- Median is 400 UNI (~$4,600)
- Biggest claimer got 2,103,516 UNI (Over $20m)
- 55,224 addresses entitled to a claim
- Average airdrop amount is 1,629.76 1INCH (~$4,000)
- Median is 627.35 1INCH (~$1,570)
- Biggest claimer got 9,749,686 1INCH (~$25m)
This is pretty fascinating. @0x_b1 is attempting to purchase votes on a controversial Compound proposal.
DeFi is totally permissionless, so this is totally within what is "allowed."
For those that want more context on what exactly is going on here, here's a quick thread.
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In November, the price of DAI on Coinbase spiked to around $1.30.
As Compound uses Coinbase as a pair for its oracle, users borrowing DAI and with low health ratios (often leveraged COMP farmers) saw their positions go underwater.
In total, 85,220,000 DAI was repaid.
0xb1, in particular, was repaid 17,520,100 DAI.
The 8% liquidation penalty meant that 0xb1 "lost" around $1.4 million from their original deposit.
Prop 32 suggested that those affected by this liquidation event (some argue it was erroneous) should be compensated with COMP.