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Feb 25, 2023 19 tweets 11 min read Read on X
What's the big deal about IPOR?

How does bringing a $450 trillion TradFi market to DeFi help the industry as a whole mature, bring liquidity, and build long-term utility?

The importance of benchmarks, the IRD market, and protocol growth
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First, the interest rate derivatives market is comically large. We're talking over 400X larger than the entire market cap of all cryptos.
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In DeFi everyone knows perps such as GMX and dYdX. These are derivatives of the crypto assets, where around 1/2 of all assets are locked in DEXes.

But what about the other half of the TVL? What about the credit markets? What about derivatives for credit markets?
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The Interest Rate Derivatives market in DeFi is completely untapped.

IRDs bring predictability and stability for lenders and borrowers. This ultimately leads to liquidity. More capital can flow into DeFi credit markets with a liquid IRD market

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So what is IPOR?

A benchmark rate
Interest rate derivatives DEXES
A platform on which to build composable credit for DeFi

Think of it as the base lego on which to build structured products
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IPOR is currently the #5 derivative protocol by TVL according to @DefiLlama
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The protocol saw exponential growth thanks to the Power Token launch.

There have also been over $3.6 billion in notional value traded

What's the big deal? Read on for a thread by the fearless IPOR Intern
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Long story short, as an IPOR LP the pools currently have the highest single-sided stablecoin yield in DeFi

There's no IL, and income is derived from multiple yield sources
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The base APR comes from protocol fees, SOAP (net PnL), and Asset management. The stablecoin on stablecoin yield has averaged over 7% since inception across USDC, USDT, and DAI pools
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Now the Power Token yield is a different beast. Master pwIPOR, optimize your LP

pwIPOR levels the playing field between whales, minnows, and all sizes in between.

If you check out the leaderboard, there are many whales
app.ipor.io/leaderboard
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But the highest boost is being achieved by smaller players who know how the power token dynamic works
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LPs who have found the right balance between providing liquidity and powering up by delegating pwIPOR have achieved 2-3X multiples on APR by understanding how the boost mechanism works
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In fact the pwIPOR LM curve was updated even more in favor of those delegating pwIPOR

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An unforeseen added benefit to pwIPOR is the 50% unstaking fee. If you want to unstake pwIPOR for IPOR you can start a 14 day cooldown, or pay a 50% immediate unstake fee which returns to those who are still staking.
This is now known as 💎👐 bonus, currently 40% APR extra
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So what about the TVL? LPs underwrite IRDs, which allow fixed-income players to manage their rate risk. With mature credit markets and proper risk management tools this will allow larger players to enter the markets, meaning more liquidity in DeFi
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So what's the big deal about IPOR?

Derivatives in DeFi credit markets bring stability and help the market mature. This will benefit the entire industry. Different instruments can be built on top of the Index and IRDs. IPOR is the base of the DeFi credit markets
For the latest about IPOR make sure to follow:

@ipor_io
@ipor_rates
@DimitarDinev7
@ipor_intern

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Mar 11, 2023
What are we seeing in the DeFi #IPORates market?

In a situation like this we can't expect anything but outsized volatility

Both AAVE and Compound maxxed out with both at 99% utilization for USDT borrows

IPOR USDT currently sits at 59.29%

IPOR Index: app.ipor.io/ipor-index-sta…
The actual borrow rate is above 100% annualized, remember IPOR is a mid-market rate

From the IPOR Index screener we can see little change in the USDT pool compositions, only the borrow rate has increased.

There are several whales playing the USDC re-peg

Borrow USDT buy discounted USDC betting on a re-pegging event, payoff loan
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Right now is a good time to be level headed and think several steps into the future. What we know is that two US banks have failed- Silvergate and SIVB. Silvergate hurts crypto markets, SIVB hurts everybody.

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First let's look at the exposure to SIVB in USDC. Circle has posted that it has $3.3 billion in cash at SIVB backing USDC. That's 8.2% of the cash reserve so in case of a total loss that would mark USDC down to $0.918.
We're seeing this play out in the markets and directly following a news event you will see the highest reactivity to the event, highest slippage, information asymmetry, and fragmented liquidity. What does that mean?
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Imagine you printed $25 trillion since then to stimulate economies, also giving contrarians a reason to search for alternatives
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