@BitDAO_Official invests across Web3 and has a treasury of more than $1.5B in liquid assets, including $ETH, $USDC, $USDT, $FTT, and $xSUSHI.
We broke down their relationship with @Bybit_Official and how they plan to support the growth of Web3.
1/ BitDAO’s core strategy involves funding Web3 through a process they call “fractal expansion”.
This is where BitDAO uses treasury assets to fund and spin-off Autonomous Entities (AEs) that operate within different sectors and partner with other entities through token swaps.
2/ For example, BitDAO allocated $200M to fund zkDAO, an AE dedicated to growing the zkSync ecosystem.
BitDAO also encourages AEs to spin off their own sub-AEs. Ideally, when the AEs mature, they will begin to send funds back to the BitDAO treasury.
3/ BitDAO has a large treasury, consisting primarily of $ETH.
In order to maintain cash flow into the treasury while investments have time to play out, ByBit has pledged to contribute 2.5 bps of futures trading volume to BitDAO, which is roughly 35% of their futures revenue.
4/ Since the pledge began on July 15th, 2021, ByBit has contributed around $760M to the BitDAO treasury, averaging $2.4M per day.
In return for this cash flow, BitDAO allocated 60% of the $BIT token supply to ByBit.
5/ What potential pitfalls lie ahead, and what do current cash flows mean for the valuation of $BIT?
0/ What caused a huge spike in total ETH Gas spent on L2 settlement?
In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined @optimismPBC’s token launch, upcoming NFT launches, and @bitDAO_officals’ treasury.
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1/ With @OptimismPBC’s $OP token launch, the L2’s activity has spiked to new highs. This pushed the total ETH Gas spent on L2 settlement to the highest it has ever been.
On June 1st, Optimism took up the largest share of gas spending, representing 68% of total L2 gas spending.
2/ A narrative that received some traction last year was that ‘blue-chip’ NFTs could be a hedge for ETH prices and that they would hold their value in USD terms.
Both BAYC floor prices and ETH prices have been trending in only one direction in May – downwards.
In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined the growth of @DFXFinance, Vesta Finance’s yield, and a podcast about @friktion_labs.
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1/ @DFXFinance is an AMM designed for forex swaps between multiple fiat-backed stablecoins.
DFX has seen its growth ramp up in 2022, especially in April and May, as yields on stablecoins became dry and capital-efficient money found its way to DFX.
2/ Vesta Finance is a Layer 2-first lending protocol that allows users to obtain maximum liquidity against their collateral without paying interest.
Users can lock up collateral and issue Vesta’s stablecoin $VST to their own Ethereum address.
@Crypt0___F1sh looked at the $OP airdrop and how @optimismPBC drew inspiration from Vitalik's soulbound tokens report when designing their tokenomics and governance model.
Optimism will be one of the first applications of SBTs on a large scale.
1/ The announcement of the $OP airdrop sparked an increase of activity within the Optimism ecosystem, with daily transactions, active users, and fee revenue spiking.
Perpetual Protocol led the way in number of daily transactions despite relatively low daily average user numbers.
2/ $OP launched with an initial total supply of 4.3B tokens inflating at 2%/year.
1.3B tokens (~30% of the supply) will be unlocked initially and consist of:
0/ What happened to Curve volume during UST depeg?
In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined @arrakisfinance’s TVL growth, Wolf Game NFTs, and DEX liquidity in the face of volatility.
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1/ @ArrakisFinance, previously Sorbet Finance, is a Uni-V3 Automated Liquidity Management protocol that aims to deploy active Uni-V3 strategies to manage liquidity and maximize yield.
Arrakis Finance has amassed ~$800M TVL even as DeFi TVL has suffered over the past month.
2/ This week’s NFT Insights report covered Wolf Game and the various types of NFTs associated with the game.
“Some say that Wolf Game single-handedly sparked off a meta-narrative around on-chain Play-to-Earn games, leading to tens of forks launching on every chain”
0/ Who's winning the battle for second behind OpenSea?
In today’s Delphi Daily, we examined the NFT Marketplace competition, Celer cBridge’s yield, and episode two of NFT COLLECTOOOR.
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1/ @the_X2Y2 is another NFT Marketplace that launched a few weeks after @LooksRareNFT. Both platforms aim to obtain market share from the market leader: @OpenSea.
Since integrating with @Gemxyz, both X2Y2 and LooksRare have benefitted as volume continues to grow.
2/ Celer cBridge is a cross-chain token bridging experience with deep liquidity for users, highly efficient and easy-to-use liquidity management for both cBridge node operators and Liquidity Providers.