Throughout 2023, @fraxfinance maintained peg stability and bootstrapped a widely successful liquid staking product.
What's next for the innovative protocol?
Our resident fraximalist @0xpibblez breaks it down 🧵
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frxETH comprises 2.4% ($435M) of all liquid staked ETH, and has provided 30D avg staking rewards of 5%
Its next stop? Maybe flipping Rocket Pool 👀
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Frax benefits by charging a 10% fee on all staking rewards, divided as outlined below.
At 2.4% market share, Frax is raking in ~$2M to its treasury annually, but as frxETH grows, this revenue figure can go much higher.
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FXS will benefit from protocol revenue via token buybacks.
However, since the USDC depeg in March, the protocol is currently redirecting all profits towards the collateral ratio (CR) for its FRAX stablecoin, with a goal to raise it to 100%.
The CR currently sits at 94.5%.
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Earlier this month, Frax revealed details about frxETH V2, which aims to prioritize performant node runners, enhance capital efficiency, and boost decentralization.
Node operators will be able to collateralize with as little as 4 ETH to borrow 28 ETH and spin up a validator.
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Further, the protocol unveiled its upcoming rollup, which will utilize frxETH for gas, and burn frxETH and distribute it to veFXS holders as the network grows.
It is still early to judge the merit of a Frax-specific L2, but sequencer revenue could be substantial.
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To safeguard the protocol, Frax will soon release its new governance module, frxGov.
It will utilize a dual contract model to completely decentralize the protocol, with checks and balances to safeguard operations and the treasury.
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Frax continues to focus on cash flow, and a path for value accrual is clear.
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@purplepill3m dives into where @Uniswap V4 stands among the competition.
1/ V4 is Uniswap’s next major upgrade of the protocol.
A slew of new features were announced, including a redesigned architecture that uses a single smart contract and hooks to enable LP and swap customizability.
2/ With Uniswap V4, the protocol will now implement a “singleton” model, meaning that all pools will be managed within a single contract.
This reduces the gas costs of deploying a liquidity pool by 99%.
.@dydx V4 is posed to shake up the perps landscape.
The application-specific blockchain is expected to launch as early as September.
Learn all the latest details you might have missed with @MattFiebach 🧵⬇️
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dYdX’s move into the Cosmos resulted in serious concerns about losing Ethereum-based users due to a lack of native USDC, bridging trust assumptions/UX, and required Cosmos tooling.
Circle announced both CCTP and USDC native to the Cosmos, providing solutions for dYdX chain.
The entire Cosmos experience will be abstracted away. Bridging will involve only one signature from any wallet with USDC, and users will be able to trade seamlessly. No new wallet is required.
The dYdX team is addressing all concerns around user retention due to the move.
Rollups are becoming increasingly important for Ethereum to reach mass adoption.
To further accelerate rollup scalability on the L1, Proto-Danksharding is tentatively set to be implemented in Q4 2023.
An overview of Proto-Danksharding by @0x___Brick 👇🏼
1/ Rollups
Generally speaking, when a rollup fully utilizes Ethereum, it relies on the L1 for data availability ("DA"), transaction settlement, and consensus.
In this context, data availability refers to a rollup storing batches of transaction data on Ethereum.
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Settlement on Ethereum simply means that valid transaction batches are verified on the L1, while consensus refers to the process of including the data within Ethereum blocks.
1/ Marinade Finance is Solana’s leading liquid staking protocol with a 75% market share.
However, only 2.15% of SOL is liquid staked vs 42.67% for ETH.
This is likely due to a few reasons, such as ETH starting as a PoW network and original SOL investors being risk-averse.
2/ Marinade has launched a slew of upgrades to increase the adoption of its LST, mSOL.
A newly launched incentive program, Open Doors, will distribute up to 160M MNDE to any protocol, wallet, individual, or validator who grows mSOL adoption for a period of one year.