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 Up to 22% APY on Stablecoins, 12-21% on ETH and BTC

DeFi Alpha is a weekly newsletter published for our premium subscribers every Friday, contributed by Defiant Advisor and DeFi investor at 

. It aims to educate traders, investors, and newcomers about investment opportunities in decentralized finance, as well as provide primers and guides about its emerging platforms.

Two years ago, DeFi investors could easily name every yield farming opportunity without much effort. It was a simpler time, when only a handful of teams had launched with any liquidity to trade, lend, borrow, provide liquidity, or even demonstrate new primitives such as no-loss savings by PoolTogether.

But times have changed! Before the current bear market took hold, DeFi liquidity had grown to hundreds of billions of dollars across Ethereum with new burgeoning DeFi economies taking shape on EVM-compatible chains such as Polygon and Avalanche and non-EVM chains such as Cosmos and Solana. Any given day, a new DeFi or NFT project is launched.

So, after writing and creating countless DeFi guides and tutorials since 2019, we at The Defiant agreed it’s time we publish a more detailed weekly guide on all you need to know to keep up with new opportunities.

Any information covered in DeFi Alpha should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Any mention of a token or protocol should not be considered a recommendation or endorsement.

 is the most comprehensive dashboard for Liquity protocol with unique automated liquidation protection features. Now, with full support for the newly launched 

Each week we will provide options to earn yield on ETH, WBTC, stablecoins, and other major tokens.

This yield is accrued in 6.8% APY in USDC + 15.2% APY in SPOOL.

To participate, one must deposit into the 

 – 12.7% APR with wETH/sETH LP staked in Velodrome on Optimism

To participate, one must deposit and stake in 

 – Earn 21.3% projected vAPR with the Curve pBTC LP staked in Convex

This yield is accrued in CRV, CVX, and trading fees.

To participate, one must first deposit pBTC, renBTC, sBTC and/or WBTC into this 

 – 8.71% APR with AVAX in Vesper Grow Pools 

This yield is issued in 8.14% AVAX + 1.38% VSP.

To participate, one must deposit into the AVAXpool 

There is a 0.6% fee on withdrawal from Vesper Grow pools and a 15% platform fee on yield generated by the deposited assets.

 – 12.82% APY lending stSOL on Tulip Protocol 

This yield is backed by 5.85% APY paid by borrowers on Tulip + 6.97% APY in staking rewards thanks to Lido.

To participate, one must deposit stSOL in the 

To obtain stSOL, one can trade on a Solana DEX or mint it 

 – 24.33% APY with 50/50 MaticX-WMATIC LP on MeshSwap 

The yield is backed by validator rewards using the MaticX liquid staking derivative + MeshSwap trading fees + MESH rewards + SD rewards.

 – 19.88% APR staking ATOM with Keplr Wallet on Cosmos Hub 

rank by APR, choose a validator, and click 

Then, I specify how many ATOMs and follow the prompts to 

 – 4.7% APY staking sFTMx liquid staking derivative by Stader

The yield is issued in FTM rewards, as sFTMX is earning FTM via validator rewards to support Fantom’s PoS network.

To participate, one must deposit FTM to receive sFTMX 

 – 10.36% APY staking with HBARX liquid staking derivative by Stader

The yield is issued in HBAR rewards, as HBARX is earning validator rewards.

To participate, one must deposit HBAR to receive HBARX 

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Unlocking the power of your DeFi portfolio

We all know that managing a DeFi portfolio can be a significant challenge.

Especially during times of market turbulence, keeping your portfolio efficiently balanced can turn into a full-time job. Crypto is a 24/7 market that requires 24/7 monitoring of positions in order to be a competitive investor in the market.

Until now, the tooling needed to monitor your portfolio and ensure that your positions are allocated efficiently has been kept private. Mainly being used by institutional investors who can sit back and relax while their portfolios are maintained for them.

 is bringing professional DeFi tooling and automated liquidity management to every DeFi user. Through Mero, users can easily automate their liquidity to react to market conditions and ensure that it is always allocated where it should be.

The Defiant readers have the opportunity to become an early LP on Mero before its suite of portfolio automation products is released. Start earning yield using 

RTFKT’s ‘Phygital’ Luggage Flies Off The Shelf

Earn Passive Stablecoin Yield with OUSD + Curve

Since 2020, a common issue DeFi farmers face is finding the necessary time, effort, and knowledge to continually seek out sustainable stablecoin yields. One of a few passive yield-bearing stablecoins is 

With OUSD, one can passively hold an ERC20 token that represents a stake in one of many automated stablecoin yield-earning strategies. The OUSD smart contract deploys one’s underlying capital to a diversified set of yield-earning strategies, rebalancing over time to achieve optimal yields while diversifying risk.

Even better, the earnings automatically accrue in your wallet and continuously compound vs having to claim yield and manually compound it yourself.

OUSD generates yields across major DeFi protocols and amplifies the rewards returned to OUSD holders through a number of clever ways, including exit fees being returned to the pool, rewarding long-term holders and “smart strategies” balancing risk and reward more effectively than deploying capital in any single protocol.

Today, I’ll show how I can passively earn a 2.71% trailing APY (based on the past 7 days) + another maximum APY of 12.956% APY as an LP in the OUSD 3CRV pool.

Before we get started, please be aware of these risks.

Smart contract risk in Origin Dollar, Curve, Yearn, Aave, Compound, Convex and other future integrated protocols with Origin’s OUSD strategies

Front-end spoof attack on the Curve website or the OUSD swap

Governance attacks or admin key compromise

Pegged assets like stablecoins can potentially de-peg

First, if I prefer to acquire OUSD or simply hold it to earn passive yield with OUSD, I can go 

 to the OUSD dApp, connect my Ethereum wallet, and swap/mint OUSD 1:1 with DAI, USDC, or USDT.

Then, whether I have OUSD or not and assuming I have at least DAI, USDC, or USDT, I need to go to the 

tab, I can then opt to deposit any combination of OUSD, DAI, USDC, and USDT to become a Curve LP. I follow the prompts then to 

to start earning Curve trading fees + Curve rewards.

Yields: Up to 22% APY on Stablecoins, 12-21% on ETH and BTC





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