CFTC Sees ‘Significant Risks’ From Digital Assets 

Rocket Pool Launches rETH On zkSync Era

 Up to 106% APR on Stablecoins, 87% APR on ETH

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Before we get started, here are the top headline-grabbing events from this week that every savvy DeFi investor ought to keep on their radar.

Gensler Refuses To Call Ether A Security At Congressional Hearing

Synthetix Volume Surges on Optimism Incentive Program

KyberSwap Discovers Critical Bug In ‘Elastic’ AMM

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

: Up to 86.7% APR looping ETH 4X on Radiant Capital on Arbitrum  

This yield is accrued in ETH borrowing interest and mostly RDNT rewards.

To participate, it requires a leveraged ETH/ETH position with 5% of the value of the looped position in the 80/20 RDNT/ETH Balancer LP.

The RDNT LP must be staked for 12 months to achieve 86.7%.

 + zap into an LP staked for 1-12 months (1 month = 4% net APR vs 12 months = 81.6% net APR).

Caution: This is a leveraged ETH position that could get liquidated if borrowers do not maintain a health factor > 1. This is higher risk than lending or staking.

: Up to 49.6% APR looping WBTC 4X on Radiant Capital on Arbitrum  

This yield is accrued in WBTC borrowing interest and mostly RDNT rewards.

To participate, it requires a leveraged WBTC/WBTC position with 5% of the value of the looped position in the 80/20 RDNT/ETH Balancer LP.

The RDNT LP must be staked for 12 months to achieve 49.6%.

 + zap into an LP staked for 1-12 months.

Caution: This is a leveraged WBTC position that could get liquidated if borrowers do not maintain a health factor > 1. This is higher risk than lending or staking.

: 13.4% APY with a MaticX/MATIC leveraged staking position in Cian

The yield is backed by validator rewards using MaticX as collateral, and looping borrowed MATIC against the MaticX.

To participate on Polygon, one can follow the prompts to deposit into the 

: 20.75% 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 

This yield is issued in BNB staking yield, WOM, and trading fees.

 on Wombat’s single-sided deposit and opt to 

: 39.35% APY with sAVAX/AVAX leveraged staking position in Cian

The yield is backed by validator rewards using sAVAX as collateral, and looping borrowed AVAX with Aave.

To participate on Avalanche, one can follow the prompts to deposit into the 

: 6.77% APY staking SOL with stSOL by Lido

: 6.2% APR staking FTM via a Beefy Finance vault

: Up to 106% APR looping DAI 4X on Radiant Capital on Arbitrum  

This yield is accrued in DAI borrowing interest and mostly RDNT rewards.

To participate, it requires a leveraged DAI/DAI position with 5% of the value of the looped position in the 80/20 RDNT/ETH Balancer LP.

The RDNT LP must be staked for 12 months to achieve 106% APR.

Caution: This is a leveraged DAI position that could get liquidated if borrowers do not maintain a health factor > 1. This is higher risk than lending or staking.

Please be aware we do not always report the highest yield rates because some high yields may be less sustainable due to high inflation token rewards or fewer LPs participating.

Earn Up to 19.5% APY Looping Staked ETH with Metronome Smart Farming

 is a new DeFi multi-collateral and multi-synthetic protocol backed by reputable long-term builders in the space.

With Metronome, users can deposit collateral in the form of stablecoins such as FRAX, or more productive assets earning yield in Vesper Finance such as rETH, stETH, or cbETH. These collaterals are used to mint popular crypto synthetics, including msUSD, msBTC, and msETH, which can be used in slippage-free trading or yield farming.

Metronome protocol is new, but the team behind the protocol is not! They are a team of OG DeFi builders. Being a sister protocol to Vesper, most of the Metronome team has deep roots building in crypto as early as 2015, with expertise specifically building in DeFi since the last crypto bear market between 2018-2020. Since 2020, Vesper Finance has been known for its easy-to-use DeFi vaults, which compete with automated strategy protocols such as Yearn. Vesper’s Grow Pools allow anyone to passively earn by depositing single tokens, which are then routed through DeFi’s leading yield sources.

With Metronome, users can deposit the premier collateral tokens such as ETH, WBTC, DAI, USDC, FRAX, and sfrxETH as well as more productive collateral tokens representing those deposits passively earning these respective yields in Vesper Grow Pools:

Featured Yields: Up to 106% APR on Stablecoins, 87% APR on ETH

DeFi Alpha is a weekly newsletter published for our premium subscribers every Friday, contributed by Defiant Advisor and DeFi investor at 4RC, DeFi Dad, and our Degen in Chief yyctrader.

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DeFi Alpha: Looping Staked ETH with Metronome Smart Farming