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The best of the best. These pools have no major red flags, offer a competitive yield, and are at the top of the class – earning an A or B risk rating. Our champs are holding steady this week. 💪
- APR ~10%
- Exponential Risk Rating: B
- Yield source: Trading fees from cbETH-ETH volume and Ethereum validator rewards
- APR ~7%
- Exponential Risk Rating: B
- Yield source: Interest earned for lending DAI, trading fees from cDAI-fDAI, and NOTE rewards
- APR ~5%
- Exponential Risk Rating: A
- Yield source: Ethereum validator rewards
- APR ~42%
- Exponential Risk Rating: B
- Yield source: Curve fee sharing and re-invested CRV rewards
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New kid on the blockchain. We review thousands of DeFi investments to find the most attractive pools for you. Don’t dive into these pools before checking the risk rating. 🤝
- APR ~9%
- Exponential Risk Rating: D
- APR ~30%
- Exponential Risk Rating: B
- APR ~28%
- Exponential Risk Rating: C
- APR ~32%
- Exponential Risk Rating: B
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Don’t degen too close to the sun. These pools have major red flags at the chain, protocol, or asset level, with a high likelihood of being exploited or failing. Stay safe out there. 😰
- Exponential Risk Rating: D
- Exponential Risk Rating: F
- Exponential Risk Rating: F
- Exponential Risk Rating: F
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New protocol reports
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- Tangible - offers the first-of-its-kind stablecoin that is backed by yield-generating, tokenized real estate
- Level - a native perpetuals exchange on BNB Chain with risk tranching for liquidity providers
Coinbase’s new rollup is all about that base. Top US crypto exchange, Coinbase, announced it is building a Layer 2 blockchain on Ethereum to provide its retail users with easy access to faster and cheaper transactions. The new rollup, Base, is an optimistic rollup based on Optimism’s code (“OP Stack”). Coinbase plans to become an active contributor to the OP Stack and donate a percentage of transaction fees to an Optimism-run grants program. Base is currently available for developers to start testing applications, with major DeFi players like Aave already actively building.
Fed cracks down on decentralized Ponzis. The US Department of Justice charged the four founders of Forsage, a decentralized crypto platform, for coding and deploying smart contracts that systematically carried out a Ponzi pyramid scheme on Ethereum, BNB, and Tron blockchains. Using blockchain data, prosecutors found that over 80% of investors on Ethereum received less ETH back than they invested, while over 50% never received a single payout. The case marks a significant development in the US government's crackdown on the cryptocurrency industry and underscores the need for regulatory actions in the DeFi space.
Endgame for DeFi is the tokenization of all assets. Swarm, a Berlin-based regulated exchange, is set to release the “first tradable stocks and bonds on DeFi” this week, which will allow retail and institutional investors to purchase and borrow crypto against tokenized stocks and bond ETFs, including tokenized Apple and Tesla stock and a pair of tokenized bond ETFs representing US treasuries. This move will stabilize an industry prone to boom and bust cycles by offsetting the high correlation of most crypto assets. However, regulators in the US are yet to provide clear guidelines for tokenized securities, which has hindered their availability.
Coming soon – investing on Exponential
Accredited investors will soon be able to invest in DeFi liquidity pools across major chains directly on our custodial platform.