Art Gobblers, Coinbase Savings, Chicken Bonds, JPMorgan in DeFi, Instagram NFTs
Weekly Recap
Investors Plow $28M Into LUSD Chicken Bonds
Coinbase’s 1.5% APY is Half the Savings Rate Offered by Banks
Art Gobblers Spikes to 5,000 ETH in Volume as NFT Collectors Pile In
JPMorgan Dives into DeFi After CEO Trashed Crypto as ‘Ponzi’
Polygon Scores Deal with Instagram to Support NFT Creators
Liquid Staking Derivatives! LSDs. What are they, how can we use them to generate returns, and WHY!? are they becoming so popular, so quickly? We’re going to address all of these burning questions right here, right now. So strap in.
Two years ago, researchers at crypto venture firm Paradigm argued that staking derivatives would have a “major impact on the entire ethereum ecosystem.” They even suggested that stETH could eventually replace ETH in many use cases, and potentially even replace ETH altogether.”
Given the rapid growth in ETH staking through platforms such as LIDO, we have to wonder whether we’re in the beginning stage of that transition. Yes, tokens issued by protocols like Lido and Rocket Pool are hot right now, but the importance of LSDs goes even deeper.
Slowly but surely, liquid staking derivatives are seeing a level of adoption that suggests they’ll eventually dethrone ETH as the most important asset in DeFi. So let’s quickly remind ourselves of the key concepts at play here before diving deeper into this promising new DeFi instrument.
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EigenLayer is an Ethereum restaking protocol with $15 billion TVL. In this clip from Crypto with Cami, Camila delves deeper than the recent airdrop controversy to highlight a critical, often-missed aspect of the EigenLayer Protocol.
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The recent introduction of "Frames" on Warpcast, a popular application on the Farcaster decentralized social networking platform, has led to a dramatic increase in user engagement. This feature allows for the integration of interactive mini-apps within social posts, enabling users to engage in various activities such as minting NFTs, playing games, and making transactions directly from their feed.
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Interview with Marguerite deCourcelle (aka Coin Artist) and Cooper Turley in full length, from "Social Tokens: plague or paradigm shift? " episode (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0k9oN2buA8)
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Web3 startup Spatial Labs has raised $10 million in a seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Jay-Z’s VC firm Marcy Venture Partners.
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In this week’s episode I speak with Mariano Conti, the former head of smart contracts at MakerDAO. Mariano knows the value of having permissionless and uncensorable currencies first hand —he started earning in Bitcoin in 2014 in Argentina because pesos would instantly lose value and it was hard to get dollars. When he learned about Ethereum he went all in and started working at Makerdao before DeFi was even a thing in 2016. When Dai was created, he was one of the first to take out a collateralized loan against his ETH and used that loan to buy a car. It must have been the first DeFi loan used to buy an actual physical thing.
The crypto space has come a long way since with an entire financial system built out of money legos and this week with a huge milestone of El Salvador becoming the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.
Mariano talks about this historical moment and why it’s significant that it was a Latin American country to take this step. But he’s also cautious about what’s next, saying that he doesn’t expect many countries to follow suit as El Salvador had some very specific characteristics which made it easier for it to adopt Bitcoin, which other countries don’t have —namely, the fact that it was already dollarized. He also wonders whether it would have been better to adopt a stablecoin instead of Bitcoin.
Still, to Mariano, that doesn’t really matter as it will be the people of Latin America and elsewhere who will adopt crypto -- regardless of what governments say.
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Today we’re going to tackle a hot topic – Bitcoin ETFs, and the race to file for these financial products among Wall Street titans. While TradFi giants smell money, the SEC continues to evaluate whether or not to approve ETFs that own Bitcoin directly.
Some of the largest names in asset management, like Fidelity, and BlackRock are jumping into the race, and the SEC has even approved the first leveraged Bitcoin futures ETF. So let’s quickly recap what Bitcoin ETFs are, who the major players are, and explore what all of this really means.
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In this week's episode, we interview Raoul Pal, who retired from the hedge fund world at 36 years old and has run financial media company Real Vision for seven years since.
He predicted the housing bubble, he was early to call the devastating effect the pandemic would have on the economy, and now he gives us his thoughts on what he sees is coming up in the next few months. Raoul believes the second half of 2021 will be worse than expected, but that the decline will be short-lived thanks to even more stimulus to be added to the global economy.
This will cause risk assets to continue their climb, including crypto. And for that he's well-positioned: he says 100% of his liquid net worth is in cryptocurrencies but if he had to own just one asset over the next 12 months, that would be ETH.
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Bitcoin had its best January since 2013 and markets are responding positively to Jerome Powell’s FOMC announcement. The cryptocurrency market cap has grown from $795bn on January 1st to just over $1tn over a month, and both majors and alt coins have seen considerable recoveries in the past two weeks. So what could all of this mean looking forward, and where can we begin looking for DeFi opportunities??
As you’ve likely heard, Layer 2’s have been gaining significant traction lately. So today, as part of our quest to bring you up to date on Layer 2 developments, we’re diving into the biggest L2 player Arbitrum’s DeFi ecosystem.
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