Introduction Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in...the interest rate derivatives space as a whole....Interest rate swaps in particular are a huge deal in legacy finance....Voltz Voltz is a non-custodial interest rate swap protocol on Ethereum and Arbitrum.

Rate Hike Expectations Increase on Powell’s Renomination US Treasury Yields have been soaring over...Markets seem to have reacted to the renomination with greater expectations of a rate hike over the next...With the interest rate expected to rise, macro markets have seen a pullback as the cost of capital is...

Delphi Labs is proud to present a Dynamic Interest Rate Model based on Control Theory....Lending protocols within DeFi predominantly use fixed interest rate models to price loans....If you’re a DeFi builder or part of a protocol and are interested in experimenting with this model, please...

Delphi Labs is proud to present a Dynamic Interest Rate Model based on Control Theory....Lending protocols within DeFi predominantly use fixed interest rate models to price loans....If you’re a DeFi builder or part of a protocol and are interested in experimenting with this model, please...

📊 BTC Hash Rate Hits All-Time High While ETH Hash Rate Plummets Yesterday, Bitcoin network’s hash...rate reached a new all-time high of 232m TH/s, just as Ethereum’s hash rate declined to 859 TH/s....Bitcoin’s hash rate previously recorded an all-time high on June 12th....Hash rates represent a network’s processing power.

📊 ETH Borrow Rate On Aave Rises As Users Position For The Merge On August 14, the variable interest...rate for borrowing ETH from Aave v2 climbed up to reach 2.90%, the highest rate since February 2021....utilization rate was 2%....(after COMP incentives) with only 3% utilization rate.

This week, we watched the Fed fulfill its prophecy as it kicked off a fresh rate hike cycle....Fed officials unanimously voted for at least a 25 bps increase in the target Fed funds rate (the only...In theory, higher rates should weigh on risk assets....Looking at the last several rate hike cycles, dating back to 1987, we typically see equities perform...

One of the largest crypto market makers was hacked for $160m, ETH funding rates revert to neutral, and...📊 ETH Funding Rate Reverts to Neutral After Successful Merge On Sept 14 – one day before the Merge...– ETH traders in perpetual futures markets, or perps, were paying a whopping -0.263% in funding rates...

OpenSea Volume Lags NFT Search Interest Worldwide Google searches for “NFT” hit new highs in November...The continued rise in search interest suggests NFTs are far from dead and may even be an early indication...Dollar Jumps as Rate Hike Expectations Pulled Forward The dollar has been rallying versus most major...

Chart of The Day: BTC Miners Send Hash Rate Soaring Hash rate is defined as the total combined computational...Last year, we saw BTC’s hash rate dropped significantly from 200M TH/s to 61M TH/s after China implemented...As a result of the ban, USA now holds the largest share of BTC’s global hash rate at 35.4% as of August...

📊 Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish Funding rates for perpetual futures...Funding rates are periodic payments made to/by long or short traders based on the difference between...When rates are positive, long traders pay short traders....On the other hand, negative rates imply that traders are generally bearish.

Chart of The Day: Element Finance, The Fixed Rate Protocol Element Finance is a protocol that allows...users to access fixed-rate yields in a volatile yield market....Chart of The Day: Element Finance, The Fixed Rate Protocol Element Finance is a protocol that allows...

🚨 In Case You Missed It US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by 75 bps for second consecutive month...Algorand CEO Steven Kokinos steps down “to pursue other interests.”...🚨 In Case You Missed It US Federal Reserve hikes interest rates by 75 bps for second consecutive month...

Ethereum Mean Hash Rate at ATH Ethereum’s hash rate grew to an all-time high of 611 TH/s, last seen...

...facilitates nearly $100 billion of spot trades Ethereum DEXes record over $10 billion in volume Funding rates...Key Takeaways While many market participants believe a concrete bottom has been established, funding rates...In healthy markets, funding rates should converge quite closely.

Global M2 grew at an average annual rate of ~5% in the prior decade pre-COVID....cut cycles versus rate hike cycles....This is reflected in the CNY’s real exchange rate — adjusted for differences in inflation rates — which...Fed rate cuts could help strengthen the CNY’s real exchange rate — something US leaders would want to...rates high.

Hashrate concentration in the largest pools continues to drop, but hash rate decentralization improves...Hashrate Exodus From Larger Mining Pools Ever since China started clamping down on Bitcoin mining, hash rate...This is a short-term negative short-term, as it caused the total network hash rate to decline....Can we expect hash rate recovery soon?

Source: Dune Analytics As demand for borrowing rises, interest rates get pushed up along with it....A few days ago, members of the Maker community analyzed the interest rates they were currently charging...the competitive average rate they could be charging....rates across many of the top vaults, particularly ETH and BTC.

The hash rate in 2023 was a surprise....Because of Bitcoin’s relatively poor price performance in 2022, we were surprised to see the hash rate...Since the beginning of 2022, Bitcoin’s hash rate has doubled....Bitcoin’s hash rate is important to watch for two reasons: 1....If mining were not profitable or soon to be, we would expect to see the hash rate decline.

The main objective of Anchor is to offer depositors stable interest rates and, ultimately, to become...the “reference interest rate across the universe of blockchains”....rates....The platform is going to offer a fixed interest rate, called the Anchor rate, to depositors of Terra...Anchor rate.