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Market Liquidity, Core CPI Construction, and Yield Curve Inversion
Join us for a conversation discussing liquidity, how core CPI is constructed, the recent yield curve...Liquidity (00:39) Shifting public commentary from the Fed (05:48) Jeremy Siegel on core CPI (09:56) Yield...curve inversion (12:57) ...
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Macro & Markets
Oct 2022
Beware The Steeper Yield Curve - The Fed's Dilemma
The historic drop in US 2-year Treasury yields has many cheering for a Fed pivot, but be careful what...pull a quote from our Markets Year Ahead report, “equities tend to suffer painful drawdowns when the yield...curve starts to re-steepen, as that’s when the market starts pricing in lower rates in response to weakening...
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2023
UMA’s Yield Farming Yield Dollar
UMA, the decentralized financial contract platform, released its third synthetic token – the yield dollar...Let’s break down this product. y-USD-SEP20 Without going into too much detail, the yield dollar is a...At the time of expiry, the yield dollar is directly redeemable for $1 worth of collateral.
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DeFi
Jul 2020
Restaking Games: Chasing for Yield
Introduction Apps need users, and users seek yield....leverage restaked assets, either natively staked ETH or Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs), for additional yield...They are defined better as a marketplace connecting restakers (users seeking extra yield on staked assets...LSTs are straightforward: they validate the underlying consensus and pass the yield directly to their...
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Staking
Nov 2024
Yield Farming
We take a dive into yield farming which is serving as rocket fuel for the current growth cycle in DeFi...In this report, we dig in to the yield farming frenzy in DeFi.
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Vaults
Aug 2020
Yield Farming Recap
Two weeks ago, Curve’s volume hit an impressive $54.5 million, which was primarily driven by COMP yield...BAT is now a productive asset as a fertilizer for COMP yield....Others Curve, Futureswp, and mStable are other protocols that exhibited and/or are currently exhibiting...
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DeFi
Jun 2020
Alchemix: The Yield-Derivative Primitive
Alchemix, a “future-yield-backed synthetic asset platform,” went live this weekend and has already absorbed...to receive an advance on future yield....The effective yield received by Alchemix post-Yearn fees is 16% (from 22%). ...build out their own yield-strategy protocol themselves?
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Debt-Backed (CDP) Stablecoins
Mar 2021
The Emergence of Principal-Protected Yield in DeFi
Users have been forced to venture further out on the risk curve to generate worthwhile returns....Brahma Similarly to Vovo, Brahma provides liquidity on Curve with user funds....Vovo appears to be making better use of Curve yields than Brahma....However, they still carry peg risk for any stablecoin in their Curve pools.
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Structured Products
Oct 2022
Another Protocol for Yield Farmers - Enter mStable
Our past Daily’s on Balancer and Compound highlight the memetic power of “yield farming” and “liquidity...Uniswap vs mStable (constant price) vs Curve Takeaways: All pooled...It may be cheaper to swap on mStable rather than Curve even when fees are higher on mStable, because...
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Stablecoins
Jun 2020
Curve: Hypergrowth Stablecoin Exchange
Quick Background Curve is an exchange liquidity pool built on Ethereum to handle extremely efficient...Yield Farming The viral yield farming sensation (which drove hundreds of millions of dollars to Compound...and Balancer) is live on Curve....be used to manage the Curve DAO (decide on burn percentages, asset additions, changes etc).
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DeFi
Jul 2020
Curve: Crypto’s Forex Leader
In our Yearn and Curve report (please read this for an overview on Curve’s design), we postured the question..., “Curve has done over $14bn in volume YTD....With much higher yield opportunities elsewhere, pure veCRV yield is unlikely to drive significant CRV...Rather than LPs solely depositing an asset in a pool to receive yield.
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DeFi
Feb 2021
Aptos: The Stablecoin Capital’s Yield Playbook
Kofi’s yield comes from Aptos’ base staking APR of 7% plus “proprietary boosted yields” that enhance...Advanced Yield Strategies: Multi-Protocol Compositions We’ve covered individual yield opportunities across...Aave’s more mature risk parameters and potentially different interest rate curves could create additional...
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Infrastructure
Aug 2025
Yearn & Curve Research Report
...we’re going to cover two of the most important, yet complex, projects in the DeFi sector – Yearn and Curve...Yearn, we soon realized that we couldn’t fully explain its story without incorporating analysis on Curve...This will serve as part 1 of our series on Yearn and Curve, with additional content, modeling and tooling...
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AMM
Oct 2020
Uniswap vs Curve: Which Is the Best DEX?
Uniswap v3 vs Curve v2: The Current Score Uniswap and Curve are two of the largest exchanges within all...Curve v2 also relies on concentrated liquidity....of the curve (during pool imbalances)....Curve v2 is slowly gaining traction....Curve does the exact opposite....Uniswap and Curve are two of the largest exchanges within all of crypto.
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AMM
Jul 2022
Yield Farming Is Musical Chairs At 100MPH
...in the manic phase of crypto, where it’s too hard to keep up with the latest DeFi liquidity mining (yield...Compound started this hurricane of interest, followed by a plethora of others including Balancer, Curve...Yield farming slowly calms down....farming returns from governance token issuance itself (say COMP or Curve tokens granted, outside of...
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DeFi
Jul 2020
Splinterlands and the Emergence of Yield Guild's SubDAOs
Yield Guild Games continues to position itself as a major stakeholder in the ever expanding play-to-earn...Splinterlands is the game at the centre of Yield Guild’s new SubDAO....Finally, 10% of YGGSPL tokens will be transferred to the Yield Guild Treasury....The Yield Guild treasury will own a percentage of each YGG SubDAO’s token supply.
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Gaming
Jan 2022
Announcing Delphi Digital's Investment In Yield Guild
We are very excited to announce that Delphi has led Yield Guild’s seed round....We believe that the Yield Guild vision of becoming the largest virtual world economy ever observed is...In doing so, the guild will optimize yields on investments of both time and money....Due to Yield Guild’s unique position at the heart of the ecosystem, we expect them to have unparalleled...
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NFTs & Gaming
Mar 2021
Nexus Mutual Bonding Curve Model v1.1
Version History: Version 1.1: Corrected Supply, Updated Historical Data Nexus-Mutual-Bonding-Curve-Model-v1.1...
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Insurers
Aug 2020
DeFi Update: Users, Yields, and Establishing Resilience
Real DeFi Yield, Powered by Options DeFi yields are currently shrinking, in part for reasons mentioned...re-balancing into stablecoins and increasing the supply side on stablecoin money markets and DEXes like Curve...Ribbon is an exception to this, with strong yields that are actually sustainable....than Aave or Compound yields.
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DeFi
Jun 2021
Curve Finds Firm Footing in an Evolving Market
Curve Breaks All-Time High Fee Revenue Curve’s monthly revenue reached its 18-month high of $78.5 million...Delphi first reported on Curve in our Yearn & Curve Research Report in 2020....How does Curve’s StableSwap Invariant Work?...The Base vAPY visible on the Curve UI is a combination of Curve native yields and other venues.
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Spot Exchange
Jul 2022