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Our featured pool this week is Notional BTC Market Making. This opportunity works well for investors who want long exposure to BTC while earning yield. Risks include exposure to a centralized asset, WBTC, and bad debt risk. The current yield (~6% APY) consists of interest payments from lending out WBTC, as well as Notional protocol incentives.
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Notional V3 - a protocol that facilitates both fixed-rate, fixed-term and variable-rate lending and borrowing through an innovative financial instrument called fCash.
What does the future hold for the Bitcoin ecosystem?
In the latest #DegenResponsibly episode, we chatted with Willem, founder of @BotanixLabs, about how they are building the first EVM Layer 2 network on Bitcoin, the security and decentralization benefits of this approach, and how they achieve this with their innovative Spiderchain technology. 🕷️
You can find all our episodes, along with transcripts, on our featured page: degenresponsibly.com
Weekly DeFi alpha 🧠
- Aave sees early success in restoring its GHO stablecoin to peg with incentive mechanisms
- Wormhole secures $225M in funding at a $2.5B valuation after being spun off from Jump Trading
- dYdX launches trading program on its new Cosmos-based appchain that will reward active traders $20M over six months
- NEAR chain sees uptick in on-chain activity fueled by games and payment apps
- Layer 2 network, Metis, launches decentralized sequencer pool to improve security
Major exploits 🚨
- Popular DEXs, Aerodrome and Velodrome, experience front-ends attacks with investigations underway
- KyberSwap exploiter sends on-chain message to outline a treaty for the potential return of funds
Other news 🌎
- Google Cloud joins 65 other node operators as participant in EigenLayer’s testnet
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