1/ dForce’s revenue from USX perpetual trading already outpaced those from lending & stablecoin.
Dropped a medium and here would thread through the powerful combo of USX + perpetual trading, the 1st decentralized stableocin tapping into the market. medium.com/dforcenet/how-…
2/ For starters, those not familiar with dForce, USX is the first pool-based, decentralized, over-collateralized USD stablecoin built on top of dForce’s lending pool and other designated pools (permissioned pools, liquid staking assets, real-world-assets etc).
3/ Unlike Maker, which is CDP or single-vault-based, USX is a pool-based, USX has several improvements over Maker’s model: 1) high cap efficiency (collaterals are yield-carrying); 2) multi-collateral & cross-margin; 3) fully compatible to CDP model (spring up CDP-like vaults).
1/ DeFi layering is a better analytical framework for DeFi protocol v.s the fancy x.0 gimmick.
DeFi Layer 1 features protocols with strongest liquidity stickiness, ability to penetrate vertically and horizontally, these are asset layers (stablecoin, pegged-asset, yield-tokens)
2/ layer2 are functional protocols (lending, dex, swap) and layer 3, applications (aggregators, AMM optimizers, investment DAO etc).
DeFi L1 has the benefit of NOT segregating its liquidity while expanding across chains/layers, easy to launch into functional protocols
3/ Most value will sink into DeFi L1, very likely, a DeFi L1 can be sprang up into its own SC layer 1.
SC platforms command huge premium by extracting monetary velocity from dapp built upon it, DeFi L1 also has the advantage of extracting such velocity from DeFi L2/L3 protocols