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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.

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

: 45% APY with pETH/ETH Curve LP staked in Convex via Concentrator 

This yield is accrued in aCRV + trading fees compounded in the LP.

Then, one must stake/deposit the Curve LP under the 

Caution: pETH is an ETH derivative minted when a user borrows against their NFT and burned when they decide to repay their loan. pETH has a risk of depegging.

: 5.47% projected vAPR with the Curve HBTC+WBTC LP staked in Convex

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

To participate, one must first deposit HBTC and/or WBTC into this 

: 32.25% projected vAPR with the DOLA+FRAXBP LP on Convex

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

To participate, one must deposit USDC, DOLA, and/or FRAX into 

: 7% APR lending AVAX to the sAVAX/AVAX pool on Platypus via Vector 

This yield is issued in VTX, PTP, QI, and AVAX.

To participate, one must deposit into the AVAX 

Depending on the pool’s coverage ratio there may be a deposit or withdrawal fee.

: 8.44% APY staking SOL with stSOL by Lido

This is backed only by Solana staking yield.

: 16.88% 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.

: 21.4% 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 

: 9.6% 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 

Please be aware we intentionally do not report the highest yield rates because often, those yields are less sustainable and in some instances, artificially elevated due to high inflation tokens or fewer LPs participating.

With Oasis.app you can multiply up to 3x your exposure, using the 

Turn your ultrasound ETH up a notch with Lido stETH and AAVE in Oasis.app: with 1 click you can turn your ETH into stETH, deposit it into AAVE, borrow more ETH and repeat getting multiples of the normal staking yield. Also, you can measure your risk and adjust your positions with easy-to-monitor tools.

 you get more yield on StETH compared to simply holding StETH and much more than just normal ETH.

Easy to manage, perfect for monitoring and analysis, Oasis Earn gets the job done for you. Get more out of your capital with the right strategies.

Enter/Exit DeFi LPs in 1-Click with Portals

If you were there during the heart of DeFi Summer, you probably remember one of the barriers to entry for yield farming was the ability to create a liquidity provider (LP) position. During this time, Zaps quickly became a saving grace for both new and advanced DeFi users because they allowed anyone to easily bundle multiple transactions for splitting tokens into specific ratios (ie 50/50) to form an LP.

 was launched to further advance a mission of “one-click access to all of DeFi.” The project is led by the former Head of Smart Contracts and co-founder of Zapper, 

Portals solves some major pain points for DeFi users who still need help:

Identifying yields, including LPs, based on one’s preferred tokens and protocols

How to easily swap and prep the necessary tokens to earn a yield

How to be more capital efficient bundling multiple transactions (ie swaps, approvals, deposits, staking)

With a few lines of code thanks to a simple, unified API, developers can easily bundle multi-step actions for LPs, farms, and staking with 1-click access points (aka Portals).

Portals currently supports Ethereum Mainnet, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, BSC, Fantom, and Avalanche, and has plans to add other EVM chains and L2s as well as Cosmos chains. Portals offers its own web app to easily enter/exit LPs, farms, and staked yields across Uniswap, Curve, Balancer, Yearn, Convex, and 

Today, I’ll show how I can easily deposit/withdraw from staked LPs with Portals, and save on gas and transactions!

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

Smart contract risk in Portals and any DeFi protocols involved in a Portal

Front-end spoof attack on the Portals app website

Exploits in economic design of any protocol

Yields: Up to 32% APY on Stablecoins, 5-45% APY on ETH and BTC

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