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 Up to 72% APR on Stablecoins, 78% APR 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.

Ether Surges To 11-Month High Despite $2B In Pending Withdrawals

Ethereum Researcher Predicts Solo Stakers May Get Airdrops

Sushi Plans To Reimburse Victims Of $3.4M Exploit

Liquid Staking Platform Ether.Fi Deposits Surge Ahead Of Launch

Voltz’s Growth Shows You May Need Speculators For Fixed Rates to Work in DeFi

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

: Up to 78% 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 81.6%.

 + 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 48% 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 51%.

 + 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 

: 21.3% 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 SD, BNB staking yield, EPX, and trading fees.

: 42% 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 

: 6.8% APY staking SOL with stSOL by Lido

: 5.76% APR staking FTM via a Beefy Finance vault

: Up to 72% 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 78% 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 29% APR with a Maverick Intelligent Stablecoin LP

For anyone who has ever provided liquidity to an AMM, you know the pain of impermanent loss (IL). IL can be thought of as the loss incurred holding a balance of tokens in an LP versus having just held those same tokens without the LP.

Although Uniswap V3 was a major innovation in AMM capital efficiency, allowing LPs to place liquidity within specified price ranges, the added efficiency comes at a price–subjecting LPs to potentially more IL when deposited into tighter price bands.

 claims to have a solution to maximize capital efficiency by also automating the concentration of liquidity as price moves. Maverick is self-described as the first Dynamic Distribution AMM capable of automating liquidity strategies.

TLDR: Maverick provides an AMM with built-in liquidity strategies to move the LP’s liquidity as the price of tokens change, in order to keep the liquidity actively in range earning fees, as well as reduce IL.

Maverick helps LPs to avoid high gas fees required to adjust positions themselves. Instead LPs can choose to follow the price of an asset in a single direction, effectively betting on where the price of a token might go.

Check out the example in the gif above showing a liquidity strategy ideal for a bull market, where LPs are betting on the price of a token moving up over time. This liquidity strategy uses a dynamic range order that follows the price in a pool if and when it moves to the right on the liquidity graph. This 

 strategy helps to avoid LPs having to continually move LPs back in range after a token rises above a price band during a bull run.

With Maverick, there are multiple liquidity modes to choose from:

Mode Right – single-sided deposit, for bull markets

Mode Both – two-token deposit, for ranging markets, higher risk of IL, less capital efficient

Mode Static – for ranging markets, similar to a Uniswap V2 or V3 LPs, likely less capital efficient

Mode Static allows LPs to add liquidity without using Maverick AMM’s liquidity shifting mechanisms. This means when an LP adds liquidity to a bin or range of bins, that liquidity stays in those bins regardless of price movement.

Similar to liquidity strategies on Trader Joe, Mode Static provides for 3 types of distributions:

: starts with a concentration of liquidity around the current pool price and spreads the rest of your liquidity in exponentially decreasing amounts across the bins to the left and right

 distributes liquidity evenly across a range of bins, centered around current pool price, similar to a 50/50 Uniswap V2 LP

Featured Yields: Up to 72% APR on Stablecoins, 78% 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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