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Feb 5, 2023 β€’ 9 tweets β€’ 4 min read β€’ Read on X
Musing on valuation frameworks and why the duration of cash flow matters 🧡 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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

...
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 Image
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 Image
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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Apr 3
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 Image
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 Image
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Feb 2
1) Quick thread on @eigenlayer and LRTs

Why they exist, and what are their risks 🧡 πŸ‘‡ Image
2) First, remember that Eigenlayer is not a DeFi protocol, it is a platform to bootstrap new proof of stake (PoS) systems – with associated staking rewards (positive incentive) and slashing (negative incentive). Image
3) Through Eigenlayer you cannot engage in financial activities such as swapping, lending…

...but you can build services on top of it

These are called AVSs, and they are external to the core Eigenlayer contracts Image
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Dec 26, 2023
@0xPolygon might be being overlooked

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 πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡ Image
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 Image
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.

Read 16 tweets
Jul 3, 2023
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
Read 12 tweets
Jun 23, 2023
So, what does smart money do when there is $USDT FUD?
> Intern goes to bed to forget the pain
> Wakes up, checks price
Read 25 tweets
Jun 21, 2023
Writing a thread on frxETH v2 so you don't have to zoom in the image below🧡 ✊
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
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