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....Users executing this trade hope to profit by selling the ETH-PoW tokens to cover the interest paid for...

📊 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....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.

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.

...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.

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

📊 Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish Funding rates for perpetual futures...When rates are positive, long traders pay short traders....On the other hand, negative rates imply that traders are generally bearish....Perpetual futures open interest is also rising since the June capitulation, peaking at $6.8 billion on...

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...

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...

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?

The Fed is expected to deliver its first rate cut of the cycle in September, and BTC’s history around...The Fed slashed rates twice in rapid succession, first by 50 bps on March 3 and then by 100 bps on March...15, taking the policy rate effectively back to zero.

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?

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...

DeFi Rates Tied to DeFi Prices? There’s been a lot of talk about DeFi yields off late....Once the music stopped, rates fell at a dramatic pace....Therefore, we can expect DeFi rates to continue moving alongside price....BTC speculators are capitulating on spot holdings, DeFi rates follow DeFi prices, USDC expands its market...

Futures Market May Not Be Bearish Yet Bitcoin futures open interest is back at the same level it was...Open interest continues to track price, contracting with price and expanding during short periods of...The fact that open interest is at its lows as price continues to decline is a positive sign for Bitcoin...