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Dynamic Interest Rate Model Based On Control Theory
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...
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Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2021
Boba TVL Grows, CRO Outperforms, & Interest Rate Woes
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...
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Layer 1 / L1
Nov 2021
Dynamic Interest Rate Model Based On Control Theory
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...
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DeFi
Jun 2021
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
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.
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Derivatives
May 2023
Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations.... Again
...strong, corporate earnings surprising to the upside, and inflation still at unacceptable levels, a June rate...The above is a screenshot from May 10th, indicating a >90% of no rate hike at the upcoming June FOMC...Well, this was discussed in last week’s activity feed post titled, Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations...
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Macro & Markets
May 2023
Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations Post CPI
...strong, corporate earnings surprising to the upside, and inflation still at unacceptable levels, a June rate...It is worth revisiting the market expectations around future rate hikes at the time of these CPI prints...Last week the market was pricing in a 90%+ chance of a pause (no rate hike) at the June FOMC meeting.
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Macro & Markets
May 2023
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in all of crypto...Interest rate projects have struggled mightily to attract liquidity, and seemed forgotten about towards...Voltz and IPOR have emerged to bring interest rate swaps to DeFi and are replenishing the momentum for...
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Derivatives
May 2023
BTC Hash Rate Surges While ETH Hash Rate Plummets
📊 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....Users executing this trade hope to profit by selling the ETH-PoW tokens to cover the interest paid for...
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Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2022
Spot Volume, Funding Rates, and BSC Exploits
...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.
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DeFi
May 2021
ETH Borrow Rate On Aave Rises As Users Position For The Merge
📊 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.
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Money Markets
Aug 2022
Ripping Off The Rate Hike Band-Aid
This week, we watched the Fed fulfill its prophecy as it kicked off a fresh rate hike cycle....In theory, higher rates should weigh on risk assets....poorly on average in the weeks leading up to, and immediately following, the first Fed rate hike....This indicates decent bid interest (and support) in this price range.
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2022
Tether Grows, Whales Dump, and ETH Hash Rate at ATHs
Ethereum Mean Hash Rate at ATH Ethereum’s hash rate grew to an all-time high of 611 TH/s, last seen...
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DeFi
Aug 2021
As Aave Soars, Maker Eyes Rate Hike
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....Will a newly proposed rate hike help MKR catch up?
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DeFi
Feb 2021
Anchoring The Market To A New Reference Rate
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...
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Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2021
Hash Rate Rises As Bitmain Falls
This is the third model part of their 19 Series and the T19 comes with a listed Hash Rate of ~84 TH/S...worthy of its own Delphi Daily post, but for now I suggest you read this write up by Coindesk if you’re interested...Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow tweeted that Bitmain customers have a 20-30% failure rate...
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Block Production
Jun 2020
Hash Rate Soars, New Yield Farms, & Crypto Security Tips
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...
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DeFi
Feb 2022
China FUD Piles Up, Hash Rate Exodus, And Miners Selling
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?
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Infrastructure
Jun 2021
NFT Interest Grows as Volumes Lag, Bitcoin Hovers as Dollar Jumps
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...
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NFTs
Nov 2021
ETH Funding Rate Reverts to Neutral After Successful Merge
One of the largest crypto market makers was hacked for $160m, ETH funding rates revert to neutral, and...– ETH traders in perpetual futures markets, or perps, were paying a whopping -0.263% in funding rates...Funding rates change based on the difference in prices between spot and perp markets.
4 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2022
Fixed-Rate Yield, ASTO Auction, & Agora Tooling
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...
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NFTs
Mar 2022