1 way that will help gain an edge is to follow whales/smart money and check what they're up to.
Here's a list of the top 10 + 1 wallets on @DeBankDeFi to see what they're up to!
Some of the key findings:
▶️Some are taking part in APE staking.
▶️Common farms include Convex, Beefy, GMX.
▶️Majority of funds still on Ethereum.
▶️1 is net short USDT, another is net short VST.
▶️2 wallets have SUDO-ETH positions.
▶️Some are in liquid staking derivative farms (stMatic, beFTM, wstETH)
▶️1 is active in TreasureDAO ecosystem.
▶️1 has been in Canto since the beginning, compounding.
Total $ Value combined = $136M
80% of it is on ETH, 7% on Arbitrum. The anomaly is Canto due to a large whale having majority of funds there.
Do keep in mind, I'm pretty sure they have other wallets as well so this is just scratching the surface.
▶️Shorting small position of ETH on GMX.
▶️Claiming and sending APE from APEstaking to Binance (to dump ig)
▶️Farming and dumping on Thena, Concentrator, Velodrome, Wombat, Vector, Gearbox.
▶️Claiming, dumping/sending to CEX to dump.
▶️Entered Dopex wstETH SSOV
▶️Deposited alot of ETH into BendDAO.
▶️Majority in stables, recently sending alot of USD to Binance (max bidding maybe).
▶️Deposited USDC, borrowed USDT and swapped to USDC and sent to Binance.
▶️Farming on Convex, Frax Staking, Liquity, Vesta and JPEG, JonesDAO and Synthetix.
▶️Recently entered cvxFXS-FXS farms
▶️Claiming and dumping most farm assets to ETH and USDC.
Looks like net short VST, borrowed VST against gOHM/DPX and swapped to USDC.
▶️Farming mostly in StakeDAO, Aura and Convex. Recently exited Gearbox.
▶️Recently bought some SDT.
▶️Actively trading NFTs such as DigiDaigaku, Moonbirds, Otherdeeds, big BLUR user.
▶️Has assets in Moonbeam but was affected by the nomad hack.
Has a ton of $LIDO he accumulated back in mid-late 2022, has not sold a single token but still at a loss.
▶️Mainly staking ETH with Lido, farming on Convex, has a SUDO-ETH LP position.
▶️Farm rewards are all converted into ETH.
▶️Converted some ETH into cbETH
▶️Sold some CloneX and Azukis.
▶️Main farms are Lido ETH staking and Matic-stMATIC on Beefy.
▶️Also has some MAGIC staked in TreasureDAO.
▶️Actively trading NFTs such as Pudgy Penguins, BAKC, Magic NFTs, Pixels.
@SoldmanGachs@DrSoldmanGachs ▶️Big MAGIC believer, participating in APE staking as well and compounding it.
▶️Actively interacting with games on TreasureDAO ecosystem.
▶️Been scooping alot of OnChainChimps and shilling on his Twitter.
▶️Has been farming on Canto and compounding since the early days.
▶️Main farms are Jpeg, Convex and of course on Canto.
▶️Recently entered clevCVX-CVX pool on Clever.
▶️Staking some MEOW on Gumball.
That's a wrap! Hope you gain some insight, whale watching will help you find golden opportunities you might have never heard of.
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2022 is ending. This is the time where many VC’s / institutions come up with a YoY reviews or insights on what they’re looking at in the space for 2023.
If you want to know what they’re looking at, I summarized some reports from key players in the industry.
All eyes right now are on something building on top of GMX, be it a yield aggregator, or a pseudo-delta-neutral vault.
Instead, lets take a look at another upcoming market
👉 Undercollateralized Lending and something new that's building on top of it.
A 🧵 below:
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Pretty sure everyone has seen uncollateralized lending platforms pop up (most recently @dammfinance). Then you have the big guys such as @maplefinance and @clearpool.
@Delphi_Digital wrote a report back in October which you can read for a better understanding.
1 of the biggest issues with loaning your funds to these protocols is the fact that institutions/funds taking out a loan are not 100% guaranteed to repay their loans as we’ve seen happen despite numerous claims of KYC and risk assessments by the team.
A thread on the recent rise of "Alpha" groups/DAOs
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Many groups/communities deem themselves as "Alpha" seekers or hunters when its actually just a cash grab of founders recycling the same calls/analysis/research and spitting them out into the multiple groups they are in.
(2/16)
People believe in these groups where some actually pay for them (NFT/Token gated communities) that they are able to extract information which leads to profit generating results, be it flipping NFTs, trading, strategies etc.
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Won't comment much on the #NFT scene as I'm more #Defi-focused, but I've been in my share of groups both public and private and a ton of them die off after 2-4 weeks due to the same regurgitative garbage shared everywhere, inactive communities, ineffective tools/bots.