Seeing a lot of lazy criticisms about algo stablecoins recently.

It’s the easy take to have after seeing all the Ponzi games.

But if you think that’s all there is to to the sector, you’re missing out on a handful of promising projects like Terra, Frax, RAI, and Olympus DAO

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Terra in particular, is beyond promising - its real.

Its UST stablecoin is one of if not the most widely adopted decentralized stablecoins in circulation with real world use.
We’ve had a ton of our community analysts cover these projects recently.

Terra
messari.io/article/terra-…
Frax (part of a larger deep dive I did).

messari.io/article/the-ar…
RAI (part of a larger deep dive I did)

messari.io/article/the-ar…
More important than any of the individual projects is what we’re witnessing when we zoom out.

We’re seeing hundreds of central banking experiments play out in real time.

No more theorizing about the best monetary policy anymore. We can now test it all out.

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15 Jun
We live in a multichain world.

Today there are 10 blockchains storing more than $10 billion in assets, as well as several ecosystems with meaningful development and activity.

THORChain is vying to sit at the center of this world as infrastructure for cross-chain finance.

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For nearly a decade people have speculated about the potential for decentralized exchange between blockchains with some conceptualizing it as the “holy grail”.

Today it’s still largely an unsolved problem at scale. Image
THORChain is an attempt at fulfilling this vision.

It is a cross-chain liquidity protocol built using the Cosmos SDK that aims to provide a variety of cross-chain financial services including exchange, lending and borrowing, and synthetic assets.

messari.io/article/thorch…
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26 May
In hindsight it will look obvious that the winning digital store of value was the asset that was used as money rather than meme’d as money.

$ETH
Wait you mean use as money actually matters? 👩‍🚀🔫
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19 May
In just two weeks Uniswap V3 has become the largest DEX on Ethereum next to Uniswap V2.

At its current pace of growth it will likely surpass V2 in volume by end of month.

And the most impressive part about it, is V3 is doing so with a fraction of the capital.

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Yesterday Uniswap V3 reached 81% of the volume as Uniswap V2.

This is all without liquidity incentives, passive LP managers, or even its soon to come layer-2 deployment.
Uniswap V3 marks a new age of capital efficiency in DeFi.

V3 is facilitating nearly as much volume as V2 with < 15% of the TVL.

It is the only AMM that turns over its TVL more than 100% on a daily basis - more than 5x Uniswap V2 which currently sits at number two.
Read 7 tweets
17 May
Token distribution is critical in determining the distribution of power in blockchains.

Concentrated insider ownership may permanently impair projects’ ability to become credibly neutral public infrastructure.

Oligarchy is the system we’re suppose to be disrupting.

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Blockchains promote a fundamentally new economic system.

Users opt-in to these systems, which makes it likely that the most trustworthy blockchains will gain the most adoption.

Trust attracts capital.

messari.io/article/power-…
Blockchains with concentrated insider ownership may be able to grow out of their initial distribution.

But we also may find their eventual shortfalls were predestined from launch.

h/t @cburniske
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13 May
While many people cite that 76% of Bitcoin miners use renewable energy, that’s not entirely correct.

Yes 76% of miners use renewables as part of their energy mix, but only 39% of mining comes from renewable sources.

In any case however this criticism still misses the point.

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This criticism is often birthed from the belief that what Bitcoin mining goes towards isn’t valuable.

“If Bitcoin is a useless technology, then why are we burning all this energy?”
There’s two pushbacks I have here.

1. What is the value of a fixed supply digital commodity money that cannot be seized, censored, or corrupted and can be trivially verified and transferred around the world in seconds?

What if everyone in the world had access to this asset?
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23 Apr
In Q1 2021 stablecoins facilitated $1 trillion in transaction volume - more than the previous four quarters combined.

A thread on the incredible quarter below.

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In Q1 2021 the stablecoin monetary base reached over $65 billion and continues to rise at an accelerating pace.
Stablecoins continue to be adopted for a number of reasons:

✅ easy to accept as payments given all you need is a public blockchain address

✅ run on global public infrastructure that operates 24/7/365 which makes them incredibly available and reliable

niccarter.info/wp-content/upl…
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