DeFi
A Yunt Capital Outlook on DeFi
Despite the fact that real DeFi applications handled the crash gracefully and remained insulated from centralized lender contagion, naysayers will use this bear market as an opportunity to feed into negative sentiment, and even former believers may find themselves questioning whether or not DeFi assets will ever recover.
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Harvesting Interest Rate Spreads
Is Aave really that much less risky than wstETH or rETH? Why accept the lower returns? Is this going to self-correct over time when staking withdrawals are here?
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WTF is…Element Finance?
Pepe loves his fixed rate income! If you’ve ever been on the lookout for fixed income in crypto you may already know of Element Finance. The DeFi primitive, which launched their testnet in May and on the Ethereum mainnet in July, has become the leading fixed rate marketplace. While fixed rates might not seem as sexy as a 10x lever on some shitcoin they are sort of the oil in the engine for mature financial markets. In the normie world the interest rate swap market does trillions of dollars in volume annually as institutions look to lock in a fixed rates to hedge risk, or speculate on variable rates to turn a profit. IRL, this massive market transacts pretty much entirely via exclusionary Over The Counter (OTC) trading. Conversely, Element’s primitive introduces a trustless and permission-less marketplace for a number of assets. How does Element work and what is it bringing to the DeFi space? Down the rabbit hole we go, anon.
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The CVX Arms Race
Progress in DeFi continues to be made at a breakneck pace, and a new wave of 2nd generation of DeFi projects have been quietly creating opportunities for those that are paying attention.
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WTF is…Popsicle Finance?
Popsicle.Finance is aiming to be a fully decentralized platform that manages all of your yield farming opportunities across multiple chains such as Ethereum, Fantom, Binance, Matic, and others.
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WTF is…Convex Finance?
If you have ever tried to use Curve but been turned off by the horrible UI/UX then Convex might be the droid you’re looking for.
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Alchemix In Depth - Part 3
The only remaining piece of Alchemix infrastructure to talk about is the Transmuter. Once you understand the Transmuter, you will truly understand the intricacies of the system and how the value of Alchemix can be maximized for its users and governance participants.
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Alchemix In Depth - Part 2
This article will expand on that use case, detailing all of yield farming activities that ALCX incentivizes, and breaking down the percentage allocation of ALCX rewards for each. Each activity plays a key role in maintaining the health of the system, but some are more important than others.
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Alchemix In Depth - Part 1
Get your yield upfront! Unsure of what Alchemix is or does? Sit down and let Butler take you through the ins and outs of the Alchemix protocol.
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