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 Up to 63% APY on Stablecoins, 21% APY on ETH

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. It is meant to be highly actionable and shareable.

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.

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.

Arbitrum To Airdrop Long-Awaited ARB Token On March 23

Daily Layer 2 Transaction Count Soars To Record 1.54M

Lobbying Group Hunts For Proof That Feds Are Targeting Crypto

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

: 20.4% 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 the Curve LP under the 

: 4.49% APR 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 into this 

: 8.27% net APY with 50/50 MaticX-WMATIC LP on QuickSwap 

The yield is backed by validator rewards using the MaticX LSD (5.76% APY) + QuickSwap trading fees + QUICK rewards.

To participate on Polygon, one may use the 

: 23% 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 

: 26% APY with 50/50 BNB/BNBx Ellipsis LP in a Beefy Finance vault 

This yield is issued in SD, BNB staking yield (thanks to BNBx), and trading fees.

 on Ellipsis and stake the BNB/BNBx Ellipsis LP 

: 7.24% APY staking AVAX with ankrAVAX by Ankr

To participate, one must deposit AVAX for ankrAVAX 

: 6.8% APY staking SOL with stSOL by Lido

: 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 for sFTMX 

: 63% APR with the DOLA/USDC LP staked in Ramses on Arbitrum

To participate, one must deposit and stake in this 

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.

How To Buy ETH at a 12% Discount and Other Tokens on Pendle Finance

At times, I feel like I have pushed harder than most on the narrative that DeFi fixed income can become an enormous sector.

However, as of today, I’ve been nothing but tragically wrong about this. A common protocol design in the DeFi fixed income sector used by APWine, 88mph, Sense Finance, Element, and Pendle is known as a stripping protocol, where you tokenize the principal vs yield of a yield-bearing asset. The strategies and concepts behind these stripping protocols have always been promising for sophisticated DeFi degens but also a bit complex.

Until now! I believe there is a promising new product design deployed by the 

 team during the depths of this bear market. Because protocols like Pendle remove the yield from the principal of an asset, it allows the principal asset to be purchased at a discount, in the form of PT (Principal Token) under the 

Pendle now offers this simplified offering of longing “discounted tokens” for different maturity dates, which is really just reframing the idea of earning a fixed interest rate to something that’s more universally relatable–buying tokens at a lower price than what’s in the market!

It’s stupidly easy to use: just pick out which asset(s) to go long and consider how big or small the discount is, as well as the maturity date. They’ve taken their complex underlying protocol and made it dummy-proof for DeFi users to do the most obvious thing–buy tokens at a discount compared to what’s the market price.

Today, I’ll show how I can long discounted ETH and other tokens depending on my willingness to wait for the position to fully mature.

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

Smart contract risk in Aura, Balancer, Ankr, KyberSwap, Pendle (or any protocol associated with the underlying)

Featured Yields: Up to 63% APY on Stablecoins, 21% APY 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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