Musing on valuation frameworks and why the duration of cash flow matters π§΅
As the industry matures, the supply of stablecoins is kind of a big deal for crypto.
The market turns against you and interest rates drop as a result of the increased float of stablecoins in the market
As expected,
- Borrowers become more sensitive to interest rates
- Lenders become more sensitive to their rate of return
All of a sudden, risk management is kind of a big deal and we need to go back and rethink the fundamental values of the most dominant protocols
Liquidity begets liquidity
That's the reason why, as an industry, #DeFi needs a base layer for credit markets
This invisible layer is the largest derivates market (interest rates derivatives) in #TradFi and underpins the debt upon which a yield curve is constructed
But there is more to it.
These markets run 24/7 and are auditable and transparent.
There are many ways to skin a cat, but there is a series of tradeoffs that will make that instrument more or less useful, specially for the fixed income market participants
You can split yield-bearing assets into a principal and a yield portion and trade them on an AMM
You can also come up with a vAMM construct that will allow for fixed-takers and variable-takers to interact with each other
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But what's the issue here?
Liquidity fragmentation and exposure to the actual interest rates that drive market forces
A base layer for credit markets cannot be built on isolation, hence the value of capturing a benchmark rate into a single metric, like the @ipor_io index
This single metric is a public good and, at the same time, the center piece of a puzzle built upon money legos
Credit is a catalyst for growth, but what's the value proposition for the next wave of innovation in #DeFi?
Composability and venues to exchange of cash flows
You can't expect institutions to enter the markets with "fugazzi" financial acrobatics
Fixed income players call for stability, predictability, and liquidity
And this is the triad that everyone is overlooking
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Intern the AVSSenger presents "The Restaking Games and The Sins of LRTs"
All you need to know about restaking, AVSs, LRTs... yield, risk, rewards, and how not to get Eigenrekt
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Let's start off from first principles:
- Ethereum provides TRUST as a service to PROTOCOLS/APPs
- @eigenlayer extends this TRUST to OFF-CHAIN SERVICES
This creates an open marketplace for decentralized trust and permissionless innovation
With EigenLayer you can build systems that cannot be deployed on top of Ethereum as smart contracts but that are economical secured by $ETH rather than solely by the issuance of their own native tokens
Why they exist, and what are their risks 𧡠π
2) First, remember that Eigenlayer is not a DeFi protocol, it is a platform to bootstrap new proof of stake (PoS) systems β with associated staking rewards (positive incentive) and slashing (negative incentive).
3) Through Eigenlayer you cannot engage in financial activities such as swapping, lendingβ¦
...but you can build services on top of it
These are called AVSs, and they are external to the core Eigenlayer contracts
It is a DeFi and infrastructure powerhouse, not just another PoS L1 with good BD
It is the leader in ZK tech and offers bespoke solutions to on-chain identity, on-chain privacy, gaming, NFTs, and other solutions to drive mass adoption π§΅π
A while ago it announced the token migration from $MATIC to $POL at a 1:1 ratio. This is required to ensure the transition to the Polygon zkEVM
But besides the zkEVM, there is also Polygon Supernets, the Polygon CDK, and the upcoming Polygon Miden
It will also benefit from EIP-4844, with potential cost reductions of up to 16 times or a staggering 90% lower than current gas expenses.
Don't freak out about interest rates on $crvUSD anon.
Here is how it works: you borrow $crvUSD against a collateral asset supported by @CurveFinance to create a CDP
So far so good, but what happens next?
1) Your position is loaded into the LLAMMA market making algorithm, which will assign the specific price bands at which the collateral will be swapped back and forth
2) As a borrower you now need to pay interest on your loan.
This can be confusing at first, since the interest payment is not set based on utilization rates.
Instead, it is dependent on the market price of $crvUSD
Writing a thread on frxETH v2 so you don't have to zoom in the image below𧡠β
1) It will be permissionless: any validator will be able to borrow $ETH to run the validator and earn staking rewards
2) In order to borrow, the node operator posts a minimum collateral of 4 $ETH 3) What you borrow can only be staked in validator nodes that set their withdrawal address to the Frax lending market. You can't run away with it ma fren