⚔️ Call to Reduce Yield Payouts to Save Anchor Protocol Roils Terra Community

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• Call to Reduce Yield Payouts to Save Anchor Protocol Roils Terra Community
• Messari Data Shows Flipping Airdrops is Twice as Profitable as Holding
• Polygon Suffers Latest Multi-Hour Outage After Node Halts

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• Exclusive DappRadar Report: How Russia’s War and the West’s Response is Impacting Crypto

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• Former ENS director of operations remains at foundation after voting against his own removal: CoinTelegraph
• Crypto firms under attack for sticking with Russia: Politico
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DeFi Disputes

⚔️ Call to Reduce Yield Payouts to Save Anchor Protocol Roils Terra Community

By Samuel Haig

DIVIDED The Terra community is again divided on the future of the network’s leading protocol, Anchor. And the question of how it can maintain high yield payouts is at the heart of the matter.

YIELD Anchor is a decentralized yield protocol allowing users to earn a fixed annual percentage yield of about 20% on deposits in Terra’s native stablecoin, UST. The protocol ran into trouble in early February when a governance proposal called on the Luna Foundation Guard to inject $450M into the Anchor Yield Reserve in order to maintain the high yields.

RESERVE The proposal’s author warned that without the funds, Anchor’s reserve would only be able to support its high yields for roughly two weeks, but predicted that protocol revenues and its forthcoming v2 iteration will render the Anchor self-sufficient from November. The Luna Foundation Guard obliged, and Terra’s LUNA token resumed rallying toward new all-time highs. But questions regarding the sustainability of Anchor continue to linger.

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Market Action

🧐 Messari Data Shows Flipping Airdrops is Twice as Profitable as Holding

By Owen Fernau

PROFIT It appears that profit-seeking web3 users would have been better off selling their airdrops rather than holding them. A new dashboard developed by Messari data scientist, Yule Andrade, has revealed that selling each of the 10 most significant Ethereum airdrops a week after receiving them would be twice as profitable — or 112.5%, to be precise — as holding them.

DASHBOARD The 10 airdrops included dYdX, Uniswap, LooksRare, Gitcoin, and Ethereum Name Service. Specifically, a user who received the median number of tokens for each airdrop and sold them would have earned $108,393, according to Andrade’s dashboard.

A portfolio that sold each airdrop a week later. Source: Messari

10 AIRDROPS A user who held the 10 airdrops until Mar. 10, would have a portfolio worth $30,349. A user who held the 10 airdrops until Mar. 10, would have a portfolio worth $30,349.

Portfolio that held the airdrops. Source: Messari

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Blockchain Snafus

⚡️ Polygon Suffers Latest Multi-Hour Outage After Node Halts

By Samuel Haig

OUTAGE Polygon, a leading sidechain-based scaling solution for Ethereum, is suffering a multi-hour outage resulting from an issue with one of its nodes.

EIGHT HOURS On March 10, Polygon announced that its network had been experiencing downtime since 5:50pm UTC as a result of its Heimdall node halting. The last transaction successfully processed by the network occurred over eight hours ago as of 2am UTC on March 11.

Source: polygonscan.com

LAYERS The Polygon team said the Heimdall node is used by one of the two layers of its Proof-of-Stake (PoS) chain for transactions relating to validators and bridging. Polygon is tentatively attributing the node’s outage to an earlier minor upgrade to the network’s state bridging module.

BUG “We suspect there may have been a bug in the upgrade which affected consensus, and caused different Heimdall validators to be on different versions of the chain, thereby not reaching 2/3 consensus,” Polygon said. They added that the Heimdall node will halt by design when consensus is not reached.

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Research

🇺🇦 Exclusive DappRadar Report: How Russia’s War and the West’s Response is Impacting Crypto

DappRadar analyzes the global economic impact of Russia’s military aggression, and what it means for blockchain technologies.

SANCTIONS When Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, its neighbor and trading partner, the world reacted in horror and anger. The West, led by the U.S. and the E.U., immediately imposed severe sanctions on President Vladimir Putin’s regime, including barring its access to foreign reserves. The global economy has been impacted with soaring energy and commodities prices, and capital markets are grappling with the uncertainty and long-term effects of Putin’s aggression and the worst military tragedy on the European continent since World War II.

UTILITY The cryptocurrency community, too, has been roiled by this tragedy. Due to blockchain technology’s peer-to-peer nature, there are a number of questions about the utility of Bitcoin and other digital assets in the war zone, and in Russia itself, where ordinary citizens have lost purchasing power as the rouble craters and access to financial infrastructure such as the Swift system.

MACROECONOMIC In this report, we unpack the macroeconomic forces at work and analyze how blockchain-based solutions may come to play an important role as the war continues.

VALUE In a way not seen before, blockchain and web3 are demonstrating their value in contributing to the humanitarian effort to bring aid to Ukrainian refugees, and to providing support to Ukrainian citizens defending their country against the Russian military.

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Links

🔗 Former ENS director of operations remains at foundation after voting against his own removal: CoinTelegraph

Brantly Millegan will be staying on as the director of the Ethereum Name Service Foundation after casting more than 363,300 votes against a decentralized autonomous organization proposal to remove him.

🔗 Crypto firms under attack for sticking with Russia: Politico

As more banks and payment systems cut off service to ordinary Russians in response to the conflict, digital asset firms are being forced to navigate the same reputational minefields as traditional financial institutions.

🔗 Venture Forward gift launches initiative on blockchain and decentralization of power: Princeton

Princeton University is launching an initiative on blockchain and its potential to disrupt and redistribute power in society.

🔗 EBay Shows Investors Digital Wallet as It Explores Crypto and Other Payment Options: Decrypt

The CEO of online marketplace eBay, Jamie Iannone, has been toying with the idea of adding cryptocurrency payment options to the ecommerce site for a while.

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