3/21
2022 saw a significant rise in stablecoin hodlers
When the total crypto market cap dropped, the stablecoin market cap is bound to drop. But stablecoin dominance paints a different story:
4/21
This rise in stablecoin hodlers is attributed to people selling off/unstaking and parking funds in the form of stablecoins.
This dry powder sitting on the sidelines can be redeployed when investor confidence returns. But when is that?
5/21
Liquid-staking derivatives like stETH or mSOL have also gained in popularity and so have yield-bearing token-backed stables like DAI. (Partly attributable to UST's collapse)
Crypto-backed stablecoin dominance:
6/21
After UST's depeg sent stETH to the ground, investor confidence in pegged assets in general took a huge hit.
16/21
Fee distribution:
5% fee on hedge vault deposits, and risk vault if a depeg occurs
- 70% of the 5% goes to treasury and 30% is redistributed back to lockers.
0.25% fee from premiums & collateral - 70% of it goes to lockers and 30% is redistributed back to the protocol
17/21
My concern regarding Y2K lies in its token distribution and the $SQUID token jr-looking chart. It seems 94% still sits in the treasury?
18/21
My thesis:
As a network effect-reliant project, it needs both hedgooors and riskooors for this "insurance program" to work. Y2K could have the power to reignite investor confidence once its incentives are more attractive.
19/21
FWIW tho, $Y2K doesn't seem to be a rug token despite the ol' saying "if utility = governance, run"
1/31 Telegram's $TON has been outperforming $ETH yet nobody on CT is talking about it... So here you go!
Telegram has been quietly developing the @ton_blockchain ecosystem💎
🧵Here's a DEEP DIVE on Telegram's positioning in Defi and what I think their strategy is ->
2/31
Messaging apps are a part of people's daily lives and many are now looking to integrate with payment solutions to offer more convenience, becoming superapps
Superapps provide multiple services for personal and commercial use - think a swiss-army knife.
3/31
Particularly in Asia, superapps are dominating the tech space - WeChat, Line, Gojek, Kakao...
However, regulations overseeing superapps are very strict, especially when payment data is involved
(US: Federal Reserve, EU: PSD2, APAC: PS Act)