i sincerely believe $NDX might be the most undervalued project in DeFi at this point

we're talking about a project with $33m AUM a market cap of $9m and a FDV of $26m

that's lower than the pre-seed valuations some projects without any product or traction raise at!!
but @ndxfi is far from not having any traction

it's consistently at the second spot of protocols in the index sector which, if you're bullish on DeFi, should grow a lot

some of it's competitors have valuations of over $200m with less assets under management..
@d1ll0nk is a genius builder that consistently ships products that differentiate indexed from it's competition

his latest product: Nirn, a yield aggregator that dynamically shifts assets to whichever lending protocol pays the best interest rate

soon assets in DEFI5, CC10 etc. will be placed in Nirn to provide additional yield to index holders

this will contribute to their performance and make these indices the best way for users to get passive exposure to DeFi

"buy one token and get exposure to the price appreciation of blue-chip tokens AND get the highest yield accross DEFI on those assets at the same time"

not a bad value proposition imo

+ 0 management fees
+ best performance

atm @d1ll0nk is working on the next feature: $NDX staking

$NDX holders will be able to stake their tokens and earn revenue of the protocol.. in $ETH

revenue = burn fees when index tokens are redeemed for underlying (mostly arbitrageurs) + performance fees collected by Nirn
recently @ndxfi has entered a partnership with @BalancerLabs which has been impressed by the success of indexed.finance

- NDX received a grant of $150k
- Balancer to deploy $NDX pools and others on @arbitrum
- Indexed migrates to Balancer V2

- $BAL + $NDX liquidity mining on indices
- Balancer helped @ndxfi get an audit by @CertoraInc for Nirn
- joint research projects (below)

& a lot more but tldr; the balancer team are chads and they have realized that there are huge synergies between the two projects
Also coming end of September: an integration into @argentHQ's new L2 @zksync account

200k people on the waitlist will be able to buy DEFI5 with almost 0 gas fees and at lightspeed

@ndxfi is the only index project chosen by Argent

btw @laurence_e_day is just as important to the project being the mastermind behind all the research, project management and community management

he has a PhD in theoretical computer science and worked in tradfi + intel but he calls himself the janitor 😂
i also can't wait to see how they will integrate structured products into the protocol

imagine buying DEFI5 and automatically buying puts that protect your downside 🤯

oh yeah and best liquidity for $NDX is on @Bancor

coingecko.com/en/coins/index…
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meant to link an argent tweet ofc

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9 Sep
$100 swaps > $5 swaps > $0.1 swaps

L1 > ORU > ZKRU

I do think Ethereum will get there but it will take time.

As Ethereum becomes cheaper, the use cases and user groups it can cater to will expand massively.
i encourage people to zoom out when they think ethereum is doomed because of gas fees

L2's still have their training wheels on but already have TVL's in the range of many ethereum killers

wait until the defi blue chips roll out liquidity mining on L2 and this chart will go nuts
people are worried about UX and liquidity fragmentation but have you seen the process of depositing to @dydxprotocol?

it's a simple deposit transfer from L1 similar to depositing to a centralized exchange

most people on dydx don't even realize they are on an ethereum L2
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After we released this mainnet demo video, we’ve been asked my many people:

“How is this possible?” “This must be centralized”

No it’s not. It’s Hop. It’s magic and it’s been developed by 3 of the biggest giga-brains I know, for more than a year now.

1/ Before we jump into it, let’s first establish what problem Hop solves.

Every rollup or sidechain has a bridge to facilitate transfers of assets to and from Ethereum.

The speed at which data can be passed from L2 to Ethereum and be considered final is known as its ”exit time”
2/ Needless to explain that this is a major barrier to L2 adoptions.

Exit times create borders between scaling solutions and fragment the DeFi space.

If only there was a way to bring back composability and let users transfer assets instantly between L2 networks..

Enter Hop. 🐰
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Indexed.finance is a protocol to build indices similar to @indexcoop and @PieDAO_DeFi

However, it is different in a couple of regards 👇 Image
1) The underlying assets are not just stored in a smart contract and sit idle

They are in a multi-token @BalancerLabs pool, with each token having a weight representing the proportion of the pool value held in that token
By using an AMM as the holding mechanism for liquidity, index pools can generate returns beyond the price appreciation of the underlying tokens

The Balancer pool has a 2.5% fee, which accrues to token holders

ndxfi.medium.com/introducing-in…
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2 Dec 20
In light of @API3DAO's ongoing token distribution on @mesa_eth , I want to share my thoughts on why I think the project has serious potential in the oracle space

Actually, “oracle” might not even be the right word here as API3 doesn’t rly see itself as an oracle provider..
1/ What's an oracle?

Simply put, an oracle is a piece of software that takes information which lives outside of the blockchain and delivers it onto the blockchain

Effectively acting as a bridge between off-chain and on-chain worlds 🔁
2/ *First party oracles vs. Third party oracles*

First party oracles are operated by the owners/API providers themselves

For a price feed that could e.g be @kraken or @coinbase running an oracle on-chain
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1 Dec 20
Excellent debate between @ercwl and Udi Wertheimer on whether Lightning is the right technology for scalable bitcoin payments

I was surprised to see that Udi is less of a troll in podcasts than on Twitter.

Highly recommend 👏🏻

link.tospotify.com/rGLyRxv4Rbb
Eric argues that using rollups such as @zksync on Ethereum in combination with trustless bitcoin derivatives such as $tBTC are best suited for that purpose

Mainly bc Lightning has too many UX quirks (channel mgmt etc.)

And Ethereum L2’s having more eyeballs and dev mindshare
A bit sad that Udi made his side of the argument too simple by saying that there is no demand for crypto payments

Not even for stablecoins according to him 🤷‍♂️

Good job @stephanlivera for playing the neutral host 👍🏻
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1/ I received lots of thankful DM's from people for my thread on @sushiswap so I am going to provide the same for $YFI

Btw, I am still mad at myself for sticking to my principle of not throwing money at unaudited projects and not buying $YFI.

Instead I bought in at $10k…
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Instead of chasing yields by yourself (which is hard), give it to @iearnfinance, which will allocate it across various DeFi lending protocols to get you the BEST return.

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