Yield
Dive
Balancer Shakes Off Rivals' Shadow With Novel Strategy
Aura Finance Casts Spotlight on Exchange Amid LSD Rally
Byte
Startup Adapts Credit Default Swap Model to Unsecured Crypto Loans
Carapace Raises $2.5M in Round Led by NFX
Dive
Liquity Breaks DeFi Doldrums With 'Chicken Bonds' Offering
New Mechanism Quickly Amasses More than $5M in Deposits
Dive
Yearn Finance Struggles to Find its Footing as Rates Rise
The Yield Aggregator Trailblazer is Lagging Other DeFi Stalwarts and Ether
DeFi News
Anchor’s TVL Surges to All Time High of $11.7B After Luna Foundation Refills Reserves
Anchor's TVL surged to $11.7B after its reserves were topped up.
DeFi News
New Entrants Follow Compound’s Lead to Offer Fiat Savers Juicier Yields
A new wave of DeFi players are trying to entice traditional savers with juicy yields.
DeFi First Looks
Get Paid to Be a Loser with Dopex Rebates
Dopex is a maximum liquidity and minimal exposure options protocol
DeFi Tutorials
Maximum Yield for Stablecoins: Degenbox by Abracadabra Money
Degenbox is a strategic program created by Abracadabra Money to solve the issue of accepting non-interest-bearing tokens. In this tutorial we run through the steps of creating a looping yield mechanism through $UST and $MIM.
DeFi First Looks
Basis Trading Using Perps, Stables and a Whole Lotta Lemma
Lemma uses a market neutral derivatives position to issue a stablecoin and generate sustainable yield
Ape Diaries
Ape Diaries: Gasless Yield Farming on Aurora, NEAR’s EVM-Compatible Blockchain
This primer explores yield farming on Aurora.
DeFi First Looks
Cross-Asset Yield Folding for 4x Gains? How is this Possible?
Fodl enables traders to utilize leverage for their trades without paying a funding rate. This leverage is derived from existing DeFi building blocks, such as Compound and Aave.
DeFi Podcasts
Scoopy Trooples of Alchemix: "Liquidity Mining is Like a Drug; You Have to Wean Yourself Off Over Time"
In this week’s episode I speak with Scoopy Trooples, co-founder of Alchemix, a protocol that offers self-paying loans without the risk of liquidations. Think about that; here’s a DeFi application that promises to automatically pay users’ collateralized loans, and on top of that, guarantee they won’t be liquidated. Scoopy explains how something like that can work and…
DeFi First Looks
No Liquidation!? Has Nexus Solved Anchor’s Biggest Headache?
Nexus removes the complexity of advanced yield farming strategies to deliver optimized, sustainable yield for users.
DeFi Tutorials
Beat the DROPS with Barnbridge's SMART Alpha
SMART Alpha allows users to calibrate their exposure to the performance of an underlying asset. It does so by regularly redistributing an aggregated pool of the underlying asset between two groups of users: a senior side, and a junior side. When price goes up, seniors give up some of their assets to the juniors, and…
DeFi Tutorials
How to Earn Fixed Rate of Interest on 88MPH
88MPH is a non-custodial, fully on-chain protocol acting as an intermediary between you and third-party variable yield rate protocols to offer the best fixed yield rate on your capital.
DeFi 101
What Is Leveraged Yield Farming and How Can It Bring Higher Returns?
In DeFi, while it’s not necessarily true that bigger is always better, the beauty of a high APY never fails to turn heads. And regardless of how much higher DeFi yields are compared to traditional finance, there’s no shortage of DeFi users eager to maximize their profits, chasing higher yields from platform to platform and…
DeFi 101
Crypto Day Trading: Leveraged Yield Farming Strategies
Does leveraged yield farming sound intimidating? It’s understandable that some would feel that way. After all, leverage and yield strategies are tools that professional investors have been known to utilize, their inner workings esoteric to the every-day investor. Yet, with the growth of decentralized finance, that’s no longer the case. Easy-to-use platforms now exist to…
DeFi First Looks
Deposit Money & Spend Yields with Pylon Protocol
Pylon aligns the interests of both users and creators involved in long-term value exchanges via simple user deposits and stable yield payouts over time. Pylon’s products build on low-volatile yield-bearing protocols in order to unlock a new suite of options for payments and savings.
DeFi First Looks
The Tranchess Strategy
Fresh on the block, this week for our First Look we are unboxing a brand new tokenized asset management and derivatives trading protocol, Tranchess. Tranches, named after chess pieces… good move. Not built on Ethereum, Solana or Polkadot, this is a Binance smartchain protocol. So let’s check this out and see what it’s all about.
DeFi First Looks
Sushiswap Trident
Trident was first developed with the core focus of capital efficiency and cryptocurrency volatility protection using powerful, yet intuitive and easy-to-use, tools to provide DeFi with its new protocol standard. Our goal was to reinvent the wheel, without sacrificing user familiarity with Sushi’s newly revamped and consolidated interface.
DeFi Videos
$YFI at One. Remembering One Hell of a Year.
YFI launched in 2020 as one of the most memorable DeFi protocols ever with its fair launch, tiny token supply and reluctant anti-hero Andre Cronje as a pivotal figure in just doing things differently. Since then $YFI has suffered hacks, merged, purged, grown, shrunk but above all endured as a genuinely decentralized home for those…
DeFi Tutorials
Defiant Degens: How to Farm Up to 152% APR in Balancer Polygon Pools
This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities in yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to The Defiant and Head of Marketing and Portfolio Support at Fourth Revolution Capital. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers to new DeFi applications and their associated liquidity mining programs. Disclaimer: All…
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DeFi First Looks
BasketDAO's Brand New BMI Stablecoin Product Aims to Revolutionise Treasury Management
BMI is an index of stablecoin yield farms from BasketDAO. It's automatically rebalanced monthly to ensure that yields are high and risk is diversified.
Byte
Meowshi Boosts Yields for SUSHI Stakers In Run-up to V3
It’s shaping up to be a big month for Sushiswap. The decentralized automated market maker (AMM) is slated to release its much-anticipated V3 upgrade, codenamed MIRIN, on July 20. A host of new features are expected including limit orders, improved support for multi-token yield farming, MEV protection, and an upgraded user interface. xSUSHI Boost A…