September 1, 2022: Whales are Accumulating?ππ³
Why Unusual On-Chain Activity May be Institutions Stashing $CRV curve.substack.com/p/sept-1-2022-β¦
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Lately @0xroborosCap and @DefiMoon have noted unusual activity.
Whale wallets accumulating large amounts of $CRV in what is speculated to be institutional hoarding.
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Specifically, at least a dozen wallets follow this same pattern:
Over the course of hours, sometimes days, a rapid succession of 5 figure withdrawals of $CRV from Coinbase to a previously empty wallet.
Once the wallet hits high 6 to low 7 figures, it sits idle.
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@0xroborosCap suggests this pattern has the classic signature of institutional behavior, structured as to fall below the radar of on-chain analysts.
He suspects they are trying to front-run $crvUSD.
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Coinciding with the $CRV emissions reduction, major exchanges may be running out.
This past month was the largest net outflow of $CRV from exchanges in the token's history.
Large withdrawals from Binance and FTX are constraining supply.
Sept. 4, 2024: Make DeFi Great Again π΄π
What's next after World Liberty Financial embraces @Aave?
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We'll confess, when we first heard about @worldlibertyfi, we were among the losers and haters who dismissed it as a joke.
A memecoin platform, or at best a real estate trading platform, we figured.
Then they fired the first shot that caused us to reconsider...
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Their first announcement:
If youβre unfamiliar, all you need to know is @CoreyCaplan3's IQ stands out as exceptional even in an industry already teeming with gigabrains. He plays with financial topics the way Mozart handles a piano.
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At present, $1 in incentives buys a whopping $1.98 in emissions.
Explained in the tooltip on
Don't panic about use of the vernacular "bribers" -- it's an unbawdlerized term for "incentive providers" used when we don't think TradFi is watching...llama.airforce
π Curve @LlamaLend Titanoboa Tutorial π
Lesson 5: Soft Liquidation
This unit shows off how to perform soft liquidations by executing basic trades into and out of the AMM.
We also show off some basic Matplotlib plotting and boa's anchor command.
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Before tackling this lesson, recommended to review lessons 1-4!
The `` file squashes together of all the code from prior units, skipping everything from setting up boa to launching the necessary @llamalend infrastructure.