Why @AaveAave will be an essential piece to the Web 3.0 Puzzle. [Thread]
A couple weeks ago @StaniKulechov hinted at building a decentralized social network. That got us thinking about how that might work. Here's what we think.
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The current problem with the current social media landscape is that the centralized entities hold too much power. The goal of these entities is not to maximize user value but rather shareholder value, creating unaligned incentives.
What would a decentralized social media look like? We imagine it will be wallet-based. Given users a non-KYC identity that they can build through their on-chain activity. Whether it be metaverse, DeFi or gaming, your wallet will be your sign-in.
Similar to how Web 2.0 entities try and control the entire stack. Web 3.0 will try and do the same except allowing for infinitely more possibilities as users will be able to interact with the metaverse, DeFi and so many other aspects of the crypto ecosystem.
The user's activity on the social media platform will help them build a reputation score. This can be combined with other on-chain activities which can then be used to evaluate the user for loans on the @AaveAave money market and other services across the ecosystem.
This has some pretty interesting possibilities in DeFi. It can open up the possibility for undercollateralized lending pools. Users with a high enough social score will be able to leverage their reputation rather than their capital and get access to undercollateralized loans.
As more users move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, the instantaneous nature of decentralized finance will
bring up new use-cases never seen before in the traditional world. The combination of
digital money and the social economy will be intertwined tightly.
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Centrifuge aims to bring real-world assets (RWA) to DeFi allowing small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), consumers and every aspect of our economy access to an open, competitive, liquid and free market for financing. /2
The Problem:
In current traditional financing practices, intermediaries have controlled the costs of debt/financing creating a barrier for SMEs.
Centrifuge's goal is to make interest on debt a free-market operation with fewer financial middlemen. /3
A “macro” framework to projecting short-term price sentiment for the major coins ($BTC and $ETH): [Thread]
Firstly, major coins are defined as coins that facilitate the greatest volume currently in the market. These three are $BTC, $ETH and $USDT. References for these coins will be in terms of BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT.
A macro-outlook can also be used for alts but the relationships that will be mentioned are weaker for these pairs due to their nature (low liquidity, smaller caps, greater manipulation).
Within the past few months, the Terra ecosystem has expanded significantly. This will only grow with the Columbus-5 update as there are countless protocols waiting to deploy on Terra.
$LUNA token offers several value propositions. Let's take a look.
1. Every time $UST is minted, an equivalent $ amount of $LUNA is burned
This means that as demand for $UST grows within the ecosystem and cryptoverse, more and more $LUNA will be burned.
2. Core Protocols built on top of Terra will further the demand for $UST (Thus burning more and more $LUNA)
As #DEX trading volumes consider to surge as users begin to embrace #DeFi, we have seen a variety of different automated market makers forms which have been a significant improvement to the original constant product model. Let's take a look at them.
Constant Product (x*y=k)
This is the original AMM model that allowed for a breakthrough in decentralized trading. It requires the LP to deposit an equal amount of both assets. It works by making k a constant and changing x (asset 1) and y (asset 2) which gives a price for both
Hybrid Pools
Using the constant product AMM to trade fully correlated assets (stablecoins, WETH/ETH) proved to not be the most capitally efficient. The hybrid AMM concentrates liquidity in order to reduce slippage and improve capital efficiency. This is the model used by $CRV
With the upcoming release of the AMM Trident and NFT marketplace Shoyu, @SushiSwap is poised to capture increased DEX market share as well as build out its moat, all while becoming the most complete DeFi ecosystem.
Increased optionality = decreased capital elasticity
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Sushiswap's native NFT marketplace is also releasing soon, and this should bring plenty of new and incumbent users. $SUSHI is also trying to make NFTs more interactive by building a metaverse display, and allowing for creators to experiment with 'social tokens'.