Competition is fierce, but @yaxis_project has plans to take yield farming to the next level starting with their "Era 1" which includes
+ Strategy vaults (multi-strategy “Metavaults”)
+ Governance token, $YAXIS
+ Liquidity pools to allow for token purchases.
yAxis offers users 2-click access to its v2 MetaVault, where users deposit stablecoins such as $DAI, $USDC, $USDT – in exchange for $3CRV tokens, with are then deposited in return for a MetaVault Token (MVLT).
$MVLT tokens can be staked to earn $YAXIS rewards.
yAxis' token, $YAXIS, can be used to
+ Incentivize staking tokens for governance and strategy development
+ Incentivize liquidity providers on Uniswap
+ Boost APY to attract early users to the new protocol & grow TVL
+ Compensate strategists and community participants
@yaxis_project's roadmap is ambitious and, if successful, yAxis will be able to provide a valuable service to newly arriving DeFi users.
Cumulative performance across sectors sunk as much as 30% by mid-week but quickly bounced back.
Web3 and DEXs finished the week with a 28% return while Smart Contract Platforms ended with a 23% return.
All sector portfolios saw a spike in volatility starting mid-May as the market declined. After the crash, the DEX portfolio experienced the highest increase in volatility from 6% to 12.5% over the past two weeks. DEX portfolio includes
Macro update: Crypto investors should focus on token dynamics, global macro, equities, and credit markets to understand the direction of cross-asset flows.
Recent cryptoassets correlation to Bitcoin among tokens has increased to greater than 60%, with some reaching highs of 80%.
Bitcoin increasingly correlates to global macro factors. After the Fed announced that they shouldn't raise interest rates until 2023, both store-of-value/risk-on assets rose.
The short term correlation between gold and Bitcoin made institutional investors pay attention.
Since the Fed’s initial announcements, various data points signal the economy overheating. But is tapering a real concern?
Not for broad markets but arguably for Bitcoin considering how fiat-based institutional investors are at the far end of the risk spectrum.
Issuing and managing social tokens is complex. Platforms have emerged to handle the issuance process, distribution, and transactions including
+ @rally_io
+ @tryrollhq
+ @fyoozapp
+ @ourZORA
Since social tokens are still relatively new, the language and definitions are not entirely agreed upon. However, social tokens are generally divided into a few categories:
+ Personal Tokens
+ Community Tokens
+ Social Platform Tokens
Some social tokens have already amassed significant valuations.
Several personal tokens possess circulating market caps of several million dollars.
@AlphaFinanceLab was off to a strong start after its launch in 2020. Then it suffered a flash-loan exploit, derailing momentum.
With the re-launch of Alpha Homora v2 on the horizon, we revisit Alpha's brief history and look into the future.
@AlphaFinanceLab is a research-based DeFi incubator. Alpha Homora products feature:
+ Leveraged yield farming protocol
+ Stablecoin lending market for us on Ethereum
+ Leveraged yield farming concept to Binance Smart Chains
Upon launch, Alpha Homora was an immediate success, with TVL that grew from $190m in Jan to $1.26b as of February 12, a 6.7x growth in a span of two and a half months.
@dfinity is focused on building the “Internet Computer”, a blockchain network aiming to expand the functionality of the internet.
It aims to build a decentralized, scalable cloud-like platform that can store data, perform computation, and support community-driven governance.
The Internet Computer (IC) is focused on building an open-access internet.
Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) takes the TCP/IP concept one step further via a public compute platform so devs, enterprises, gov agencies can deploy software/services directly to the public internet.
The @dfinity Foundation currently has nearly 100,000 academic citations and 200 patents.
+ Dfinity is one of crypto’s most well-funded and publicized projects
+ Mainnet launched May 7, token is slated to launch May 10
+ It has raised the most non-frozen funds at $160m to date
In lieu of the BSC boom in Q1, PancakeSwap grew its market share from 2% to 37% in the quarter.
Q1 also saw new DEX expansion...
+ @PancakeSwap becomes one of the largest DEXs by vol
+ @SushiSwap reached peak of 24% market share
+ @Bancor resurgence with V2.1 launch
+ @THORChain cross-chain liquidity protocol goes live