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May 12 10 tweets 4 min read Read on X
BEST BITCOIN OPPORTUNITIES ISSUE #2

BTC is at $102K and there's so much to do with it.

Let's make your orange coin grow🧵👇Image
1) @SolvProtocol 🤝 @InfraredFinance

APR: 4.22% + Points
► Infrared Points
► Solv S2 PointsImage
2) @OG_RogerTennis 🤝 @protocol_fx

This was a strategy thought up by my strategist friend, Roger, and it's quite clever.

TL;DR: 9.6% APR on BTC

The idea is simple:
Have the notional value of your long be exactly 1 principal's worth more than the notional value of your short.

The math, however, gets sticky, but I built a tool for it.

Example: $10,000 Starting Capital
► Long Leverage: 3x
► Short Leverage: 2x

Using these starting conditions, you get
► Long Margin: $6,000
► Short Margin: $4,000

► Your Long Notional Exposure is $18,000
► Your Short Notional Exposure is $8,000
So your NET LONG exposure is $10,000

I.E., you keep 100% of your long exposure, but now you're farming the funding on the short.

AND, you don't pay interest on the long because you're using @protocol_fx

Do mind your entries and exits.

Someone should build a vault for this.Image
3) @SolvProtocol 🤝 @VelodromeFi

This is on @soneium, but the APR is nice.

Granted, 15% does imply a +/- 0.01% tick range, which is TIGHT.

But even at +/- 0.03%, you're still squeezing out 6%, which is good for a BTC yield.Image
4) @eulerfinance has LOOPS

Here, you can farm rEUL up to 20% APR for looping cbBTC against LBTC.

And, there's $30M in liquidity to do so.

AS A REMINDER, you do need to vest rEUL (or take a haircut) to realize those emissions entirely, but EUL has held up VERY strongly this cycle.Image
5) @MorphoLabs has @pendle_fi Loops

PT-eBTC: 2% Fixed / 0.23% Borrow Cost
PT-LBTC: 2% Fixed / 0.17% Borrow Cost

At 10X Leverage:
PT-eBTC: 17.93% APR
PT-LBTC: 18.47% APR

And, there $5.4M to borrow from each market. Image
6) @ether_fi lets you spend money against yieldy BTC.

You can use EtherFi's Cash Card to spend dollars (currently interest free) against your LiquidBTC holdings.

► 1.46% APR on the BTC
► 3% Cashback on the spend

It's a neat way to go perma-long BTC while being able to pay your bills.

Use this reflink to get $50 back after the first $1K spent: ether.fi/refer/defidojoImage
7) @0xfluid

Fluid has had some incredible BTC smart collateral looping opportunities recently.

Here's another one:

cbBTC/LBTC Smart Collateral: 3.43% APR
WBTC Debt: 1.63% APR
Leverage: 10x

Math:
3.43%*10 - 1.63%*9
= 19.63% APRImage
8) If you're ever unsure what to do @Contango_xyz has your back

TL;DR: 10%-23% APRs on BTC with one-click leverage.

Great place for people who love capital efficiency and easy entrants / exits.Image
Bitcoin yields are still somewhat hard to find.

BUT, they do exist. Let's hope BTCfi makes another resurgence soon.

Ambassadors mentioned:
- Pendle
- Euler
- f(x)
- Solv
- EtherFi
- Contango

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More from @phtevenstrong

May 1
A Tale of Two PTs

TL;DR
► 36% PT-wstUSR on Ethereum
► 27% PT-USR on Base

Let's talk about @ResolvLabs & @gauntlet_xyz

...and @MorphoLabs's "Public Allocator"
...and @pendle_fi AMM oracles
🧵👇Image
The interesting thing about these markets, is that they have more available liquidity than the "Total Supply."

Here's how that works:

Liquidity can be reallocated into the market "just-in-time" via the "public allocator contract" which allows liquidity from other markets to flow into these ad-hoc.

I.E., so long as the interest rate is compelling for @gauntlet_xyz vaults, liquidity from other markets will be re-directed from their other markets to these.

Borrowers can therefore access liquidity outside of what is immediately provited.

NEAT! Now let's look at the yields.Image
1) PT-wstUSR on Ethereum

► Fixed Rate: 8.15%
► Borrow Cost: 5.02%
► Liquidity: $1.83M
► Leverage: 10x
► Oracle: Pendle AMM

APR at 10X Leverage: 36%
Current Leverageable Principal: $203K Image
Read 7 tweets
Mar 28
A few incredible new stablecoin strategies came online recently, so...

Mini-thread🧵👇 Image
1) @Dolomite_io HAS E-MODE

This is a bigger deal than you can probably imagine, given that they also have $400M of sticky BOYCO liquidity.

There are a few opportunities here worth noting.

A. @reservoir_xyz srUSD/HONEY
7% Collateral Yield
2.55% Borrow Cost
10x Leverage = 47% + Points on Notional

B. @ethena_labs sUSDe/USDC
6.22% Collateral Yield
2.55% Borrow Cost
10x Leverage = 40% + Sats on Notional

Reservoir uses NAV oracles AFAIK

I'm personally farming this.Image
2) @syrupfi on @Contango_xyz

I mentioned this yesterday, but here's my whole thesis.

► SyrupUSDC has a ~7% organic APR
► I can lock for 6mo for max $SYRUP emissions (+5%)
► I don't mind doing this because there's an LP to exit through if need be
► Gauntlet is curating on Morpho, so there should be consistent liquidity

So what do we get?

30% APR plus 5% in $Syrup times leverage.

That's 50% additional APR or 80% total.

You bet your butt I'm in this as well.Image
Read 10 tweets
Mar 17
You've made your choice, time for me to deliver

🚨BEST BTC YIELDS/OPPORTUNITIES ISSUE #2🚨

As always, bookmark this so you don't lose itImage
1) @build_on_bob🤝@eulerfinance

TL;DR
⇒ 34-67% APR Organic (+Points)
⇒ >100% APR w/ Incentives

BOB is a BTC-centric EVM superchain. More importantly, they're running an incentives campaign.

You can find most of the incentives on @merkl_xyz.

Anywho, RIGHT NOW you can loop BTC derivates for over 100% APR.

BUT THERE ARE A FEW IMPORTANT POINTS TO MAKE:

1) Slippage matters. I do NOT recommend auto-leveraging through illiquid markets. You can get rekt.

2) Some of the incentives are in rEUL which has a vesting mechanism.

3) Unwinding can also wreck you if you do it automatically, I recommend manually doing it.

FINALLY, the LBTC markets, with over $12,000,000 BTC to borrow are 34% APR and 67% APR respectively.

PLUS POINTS. These are the best @Lombard_Finance opportunities out there, hands down.Image
2) @SolvProtocol solv.BTC.BNB

Solv has a new BTC derivative that allows you to participate in Binance Launchpad opportunities or staking yield with you BTC.

On top of that, you get points:
► @lista_dao
► @AstherusHub
► @kernel_dao
► @SolvProtocol (s2)

This allows for a 5-10% native yield on a BTC derivative, and a speculative play on the underlying protocol points.

I hope it also gets some composability!Image
Read 7 tweets
Mar 13
🚨BEST STABLECOIN YIELDS, ISSUE #2🚨

BOOKMARK THIS THREAD

I'll be doing just my Top 10, since believe it or not, stablecoin yields are boomin' and I can't write forever.
This week we've seen a continuation of what I formerly called catastrophic price action.

But, thank God, humans experience this little thing called "the hedonic treadmill" where we emotionally normalize to whatever highs or lows we're pushed to so that no matter where we end up, after the initial shock, we re-regulate.

Nevertheless, the yields👇Image
1) @protocol_fx Stability Pool (12%, but some alpha)

Last week, I accidentally left out fxUSD's stability pool, so in honor of that, I've decided to make them first.

Also, f(x) will soon™ launch fxSAVE which will be a liquid-wrapped version of the stability pool. That's a big deal.

Why? Because the fxUSD stability pool boasts roughly 12% in $wstETH yield. Imagine getting that as intrinsic yield on an interest-bearing stablecoin.

12% might not knock your socks off, but once we have composability, it'll be one of the best yields in town as far as collateral stable yields go.Image
Read 14 tweets
Mar 7
Best $SOL Yields, Issue #1

Believe it or not, @solana is DeFi.Image
Like many KOLs, I spend most of my days in meetings, in the telegram trenches, on Discord, and in Twitter DMs scraping for alpha, getting updates, asking questions about protocols, and trying to get a sense of the direction of all this stuff.

And there's a growing sentiment that Solana will become a serious competitor for institutional capital in the not-too-distant future.

I'm hopeful. I also think it has a good shot at cornering a lot of the RWA market, to my own surprise.

ANYWHO, let's dive into the yields👇
Fixed Rate / Fixed Date (Plus Points)

@RateX_Dex allows you to get a fixed rate return on fragSOL at 17% APR WHILE ALSO getting Rate-X points.

This is a highly competitive fixed rate yield and it lasts for the next half year.Image
Read 11 tweets
Mar 6
BEST BITCOIN YIELDS, ISSUE #1Image
Historically, $BTC has been hard to get yields on.

Restaking and Vaults, however, have unlocked BTCfi for us this cycle so now we can expect ~5% APR or more if we're clever.

And, imo, this is just the beginning.

Let's dive in👇
@SolvProtocol runs BTC-Neutral strategies for you.

The thesis is simple (and it's what we did last cycle to get yield on BTC), collateralize BTC, borrow something yieldy, and then get yield on that while you're long BTC.

Solv has a bunch of products, but most notably:

Solv.BTC.jup with 12% APR (though KYC required)
Solv.BTC.BNB with 5-10% APR plus various airdrops:

► Astherus Points
► Solv S2 Points
► Lista Tokens
► Kernal PointsImage
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