Crypto investors experience mind-boggling gains in very short periods of time. Here’re some of my favourite bits from Howard Marks’ latest memo, “Selling Out”, where he provides a simple framework on when to sell.
1. "When you find an investment with the potential to compound over a long period, one of the hardest things is to be patient … When you look at something that’s gone [Up Only] for 20 years, think about all the times a holder would have had to convince himself not to sell."
2. "Two main reasons for excessive short-term trading is [simply] because they’re up and because they’re down."
Price alone shouldn't dictate whether you sell or not.
It’s been slightly over a month since BitDAO raised almost $400M via a public sale (Dutch auction) of its BIT token on MISO. Today, BIT trades at $16.5bn FDV.
Here’s a quick comparison between BIT and FTT which currently trades at $23bn FDV. 🧵1/x
Their value propositions are similar: the tokens benefits from some form of fee-sharing with a centralized exchange.
I chose to exclude BNB here because it’s tricky to isolate BNB’s value due to BSC vs its fee-sharing mechanism with Binance.
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As part of the Bybit Pledge, 2.5bps of futures trading volume on Bybit goes to BitDAO's treasury. (50% of nominal fees on the exchange; maker/taker of -2.5bps/7.5bps)
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Alchemix is a platform to create synthetic assets backed by yield
In simple terms, the borrower gives up yield on his assets to borrow a certain amount of money today (on Alchemix, you can borrow up to 50% of your collateral value)
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For example:
If I deposit 1000 DAI today, I can borrow up to 500 alUSD
At today's yields, ~38.5% APY coming from
- Yearn yDAI Vault: 10.9% APY
- Boosted Alchemix Yield: 27.6% APY
Summary: mint & Burn DAI in exchange for aDAI to stay within the Target Max Variable borrow rate of DAI in Aave Liquidity Pools
Benefits to Aave:
- More DAI for Aave borrowers (yay!)
- Lower borrow rates for Aave users
- Partnership with dominant decentralized stablecoin protocol
Given stablecoins pools are the most utilized pools on borrow/lend platforms, this will help Aave compete with Compound!
Benefits to Maker:
- Generate cash flows from interest earned on Aave
- DAI gains natural access to any L2/chains that Aave expands into
In short, it is a proposal which lays out a new way users bid for blockspace in Ethereum.
A summary 👇
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For those new to crypto, like me, EIP-1559 stands for "Ethereum Improvement Proposal #1559"
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Benefits of EIP-1559: 1. Better UX by making fee estimation easier 2. Elastic block size, with limit on long-term average block size 3. Better security 4. Ensures $ETH preserves its monetary premium