Rodeo Finance is a decentralized Arbitrum yield protocol that offers users the ability to take undercollateralized leveraged positions in yield strategies on both Rodeo and external protocols.
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It offers multiple strategies, the Farms, with yield up to 10x leverage. Users can also deposit major assets into a lending pool to earn high-interest APY.
Assets in lending pools are isolated to the strategies in which they are deployed, protecting user and protocol funds.
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Rodeo's approach to Leveraged Yield Farming (LYF) is simplified through an intuitive user interface and trust is established through multiple layers of security.
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The implementation of a layered security approach ensures that funds deposited from all users (yield farmers, degens, whales and institutions alike) are safe.
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Rodeo is live in beta on Arbitrum mainnet with a TVL of $900k and over 1,000 users.
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2⃣ Protocol architecture
Rodeo has two sides: passive liquidity providers earning high, yet safe APR by providing single assets for use by leverage farmers, and leverage farmers who borrow up to 10x to farm.
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🔹Farmers
To farm on Rodeo, users deposit USDC into any of the strategies and borrow via leverage to increase potential APY earned.
Leverage can be added sliding the leverage bar to the desired amount.
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The Core Rodeo Farms allow users to to maximize their position in any DeFi narrative.
GLP and GLP derivatives account for a bigshare of real yield products, leveraging into plvGLP allows users to earn high rewards on GLP + $PLS rewards.
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Opening a position is pretty easy and intuitive.
First, when you click on the farm you can see some details on the strategy implementation and assets
exposure:
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You can then set the desired leverage using a slider. You’ll see all the relevant information regarding your position, position health, net APR and daily APR.
Camelot is a powerhouse on Arbitrum, integration of Camelot Farms allows users to take advantage of boosted Camelot pools and concentrated liquidity for higher, more efficient yields.
Current net APY on ETH/USDC at 5x leverage is 59%.
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🔹Lenders
When a user deposits USDC in a Lending pool, he receives ribAssets, interest-earning tokens whose balance is directly proportional to the stake they have in the lending pool, including accrued interest.
Like other ERC-20s, they are tradeable and transferable.
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The interest rate (APR) earned by USDC lenders is calculated based on the utilization of the lending pool.
Lenders can further boost their APR by locking their ribAssets for a fixed amount of time to receive a % of the Rodeo platform fees (earning from real yield).
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🔹ribAssets
Each lending pool has its own ribAsset; for example, if a user lends USDC to the protocol, they will receive a corresponding balance of ribUSDC.
ribAssets have incentivized liquidity pools, ribAsset/Asset.
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The ratio of ribAsset/Asset is determined by Rodeo Vault performance over time, which can always be viewed in the vault UI.
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🔹Security
Security is currently number 1 issue in DeFi, according to me.
It looks like Rodeo Finance prioritize risk and security:
▪️Rodeo Finance is already audited by Kalos.
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▪️Rodeo uses a variety of proven oracles, including Chainlink for most asset prices.
For assets not available on chainlink, Rodeo utilizes TWAPs as a preferred method when available.
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▪️Rodeo has implemented a Protocol Insurance Fund, whose is to compensate lenders in the event of an exploit or bad debt event. medium.com/@Rodeo_Finance…
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I highly recommend this small thread to understand how the Rodeo money market is implemented and why it will avoid the most common exploit for these type of protocols.
Rodeo has a stunning roadmap, with 3 scheduled versions of the platform, each one introducing new features and products. I will outline the most significative. For a full overview, read this thread by the Rodeo team:
Insitutional inflows are fundamental for the sustainability of crypto market.
But are crypto adding value to multiassets portfolios?
Researchers from Fidelity Digital Assets use a novel AI-based approach to answer the question!
(link to the paper at the end of the thread).
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Content of the thread:
1⃣ Overview of the problem and the proposed solution
2⃣ Historical analysis
3⃣ AI approach to portfolio modeling
4⃣ The Return-Loss efficient frontier
5⃣ AI-simulated portfolio allocation
6⃣ Conclusion
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1⃣ Overview of the problem and the proposed solution
Investors interested in adding bitcoin to their portfolio face the challenge of managing their exposure and understanding its impact.
On April 5, 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102, which confiscated Americans' private gold.
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The order required all American citizens to turn over all gold in their possession to the government in exchange for dollars. This action was taken as part of the government's effort to increase liquidity and support Roosevelt's economic policy.
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Thanks to his online activities, it has emerged that Satoshi Nakamoto specifically chose April 5 (of 1975) as his birthday.
I expected the market cap of $TUSD will go heavily up very soon.
What does it mean for $TRU?
Let’s find out in this thread!
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Content of the thread:
1⃣ Introduction to @TrueFiDAO, $TUSD and $TRU
2⃣ Tokenomics of TRU
3⃣ The big catalyst
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1⃣ Intro to TrueFi, TRU and TUSD
TrueFi protocol is a decentralized lending platform built on the Ethereum blockchain.
It is designed to provide unsecured loans to borrowers with a reputation for being trustworthy and to provide lenders with returns on their investments.