🌊 DeFi 2.0 Wave of New Projects Test Liquidity Mining Alternatives

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News

• Emerging DeFi 2.0 Players Pursue New Ways to Mine Liquidity
• Shell Protocol Jumps into ‘Concentrated Liquidity’ Just Like Uniswap and Curve

Video

• First Look: Solving the Liquidity Problem: How does TOKEMAK work?

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Links

• Crypto startup deal with ViacomCBS could lead to SpongeBob and South Park NFTs: The Block
• A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches: Paradigm
• An Agenda for the Future of the Internet: a16z
• Over 1M people have signed up for Coinbase NFT since we launched yesterday: Coinbase
• Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008: CoinDesk
• US overtakes China as biggest bitcoin mining hub after Beijing ban: The Financial Times
• Our 1st Birthday #NFT has been rescheduled to this Friday, Oct 15th: SushiSwap

Most Read on The Defiant

• Investors to Reap $2M in Rewards as Curve Launches on Harmony Blockchain
• MakerDAO Ponders the Unthinkable as Members Debate Incorporation and Paying Taxes
• Axie Infinity is Up 223x This Year: Here’s the Skinny on What’s Propelling AXS

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• Balancer, one of the leading DeFi automated market makers (AMM) for multiple tokens. Dive into their pools at this link.
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• Aave, an open-source and non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.

DeFi 2.0

🧐 Emerging DeFi 2.0 Players Pursue New Ways to Mine Liquidity

TLDR Things aren’t getting easier for those struggling to stay current with the lightning quick DeFi space. Just when you think you’re up to speed with the latest token or protocol along comes something new. Brace yourselves because here comes DeFi 2.0. What that term actually means is still in flux.

EXPERIMENTING While DeFi 2.0’s meaning is still congealing, a core component of DeFi’s next evolution includes alternatives to a mainstay of DeFi 1.0: liquidity mining. Projects like OlympusDAO, Fei Protocol, and Alchemix, are all experimenting with new ways of capturing users with the new challenge of getting them to stay.

MINING REWARDS The new crop of DeFi projects centers around the idea called protocol controlled liquidity (PCV). This entails projects acquiring funds to support their financial applications, rather than tapping users’ funds by enticing them with liquidity mining rewards.

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DeFi AMMs

🐚 Shell Protocol Jumps into ‘Concentrated Liquidity’ Just Like Uniswap and Curve

DISTANT MEMORY When decentralized exchanges started to take off in 2019, the designs were very simple, but simplicity in these marketplaces might soon be a distant memory.

STABLECOIN TRADES The most successful category of decentralized exchanges are the automated market makers (AMMs), such as Uniswap and Curve. The Cowri Labs team, builders of the Shell Protocol, a small AMM that has thus far focused on stablecoin trades, are the latest to bring more nuance to the AMM design with a new whitepaper released today.

MULTIPLE DEFI USES This continues down the road Uniswap began when it introduced concentrated liquidity in March, after which Uniswap added $5B to its total value locked. This kicked off a streak of innovation as other AMMs sought to keep up. Curve followed with its dynamic peg design and SushiSwap answered by announcing Trident, which would use its pools for multiple DeFi uses at once.

CONCENTRATED LIQUIDITY Now upstart Shell Protocol looks to enter the fray by giving market makers even more control, which — based on the response to concentrated liquidity — liquidity providers appreciate.

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Video

First Look: Solving the Liquidity Problem: How does TOKEMAK work?

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Links

🔗 Crypto startup deal with ViacomCBS could lead to SpongeBob and South Park NFTs: The Block

RECUR — the NFT company backed by billionaire hedge funder Steve Cohen — announced Wednesday plans with media giant ViacomCBS to create a platform for trading NFTs tied to the firm's brands and franchises.

🔗 A Guide to Designing Effective NFT Launches: Paradigm

Blockchains revolutionized fundraising for open-source software, but not everything worked right from the start. In fact, ICOs of the 2016-2018 era were often horribly broken mechanisms that allowed founders to cash out before delivering any products.

🔗 An Agenda for the Future of the Internet: a16z

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of How to Win the Future, a policy agenda for the third generation of the internet.

Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrongOver 1M people have signed up for Coinbase NFT since we launched yesterday 🤯 coinbase.com/nft/announce5:41 AM ∙ Oct 14, 20212,830Likes368Retweets

🔗 Bank of England Says Crypto Has Grown to Twice the Size of Subprime Debt in 2008: CoinDesk

Crypto assets have grown rapidly from just $16 billion five years ago to about $2.3 trillion today, and thus could pose a systemic risk to the global financial system, the Bank of England said on Wednesday.

🔗 US overtakes China as biggest bitcoin mining hub after Beijing ban: The Financial Times

The US overtook China as the world’s biggest source of bitcoin mining two months after Beijing banned crypto mining this year, new data have revealed.

SushiChef @SushiSwap🍣 Claim your piece of Sushi history 🎨 (For real this time!) Our 1st Birthday #NFT has been rescheduled to this Friday, Oct 15th (16:00 UTC), only on miso.sushi.com 👩‍🎨 Put on your party hats and get your wallets ready to party 🥳

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Most Read on The Defiant

• Investors to Reap $2M in Rewards as Curve Launches on Harmony BlockchainCurve, the decentralized exchange known for specializing in tokens that should have roughly the same price, has launched on the sharding blockchain Harmony. There are rewards available for those who help it find a footing.
• MakerDAO Ponders the Unthinkable as Members Debate Incorporation and Paying TaxesShould DAOs pay taxes? And, if so: Where? There’s a conversation underway in MakerDAO about how it should relate to the governments of the world, which has implications for the whole DeFi industry.
• Axie Infinity is Up 223x This Year: Here’s the Skinny on What’s Propelling AXSSince our last in-depth analysis of Axie Infinity almost two months ago the price of their AXS token has increased over 100% within a few weeks.

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