Could be a trading counterparty sitting on large unrealized negative pnl? so large the platform does not have enough liquid assets to meet withdrawals?
We need to wait for more details to find it out.
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Here is how I made 6’400 USDC in the last 30 days by trading on @mangomarkets 🥭 with no directional risk.
I will explain you how to do this trade that market makers do not want you to know about 🤫
Time for a thread (or trade?) 🧵
The trade is called “funding arbitrage”, take out your notebook and follow me in the rabbit hole 🐇
First some definitions you need to understand the trade..
1⃣ Spot trade: a trade that result in the immediate delivery of the underlying. I pay USD, I receive SOL. Also the opposite, I sell SOL and I receive USD. No derivatives.
2⃣ Swap trade: a financial derivative where the underlying asset is not exchanged between the parties..
Let me show you why you should never trust the UI. Most of the time you will see nice green APR but does that mean you are making money?
I deposited 50k USDC on @friktion to test it, see the results below 🧵
I deposited on the Cash Secured Put vault 50k USDC on the 4th of January and left it there for 4 epochs (1 month) for testing purposes.
What is a cash secured put?
It’s an option strategy where you sell (write) an OTM put option and set aside the cash in case you are assigned
This strategy makes money as soon as the underlying is above the Strike Price at the expiration. It has a capped upside (the premium collected) and unlimited downside
Current risk management systems tend to be either capital inefficient or altogether ineffective. Hacks happens everyday and they undermine the credibility of the overall system and prevents capital from flowing in.
How do we solve this? 🧵
We are building @VyperProtocol to bring tranching - a tradFi risk management concept - to DeFi
How does it work?✍️
Alice and Bob both deposit $50 to a lending protocol. Alice gives up part of the interest generated but Bob’s capital is impacted first if any hack/default happens
We would refer to Alice as having a senior tranche (less risk, less yield), and to Bob as having a junior tranche (more risk, more yield). This simple yet effective concept is at the base of a $10tn market in tradFi.
@ApricotFinance has a nice UI which allows for a full breakdown of interests, both paid and received.
My position in SOL-USDT LP returned 6.11$ since yesterday, my mSOL deposited returned 0.06$, my borrowing cost for SOL is 2.73$ and for USDT circs 2.56$
For a final net profit of.. 0.89$ 🤑🤑
Very simplistic but - keeping everything else constant, assuming yields do not change and no IL - this is a nice 32.5% APR.