Happy Saturday friends! Q2 has officially started!
Stats/alerts/etc at top and tweets/news/links/videos/etc at bottom as always!
Market Update
Crypto:
Gold: $1,969.70
Oil (WTI): $75.67
Stocks:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000)
Spotlight
We’ve been helping raise awareness about a very cool project called @zkxprotocol - the first decentralized self-custody perpetual futures exchange on Starknet!
They are back with Season 2 of ZKX Yakuza (gamified Community Incentives Program) and…. have just released their Public Testnet!
So, you can now get ahead of the game and ape into Starknet with ZKX Public Testnet and score exclusive Yakuza NFTs and future $ZKX tokens!
Here’s the announcement thread on their public testnet launch below:
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are mostly green today. Biggest winners on the monthly are Cardano (#18) at +23.12% and Rootstock (#27) at +22.94%. Biggest losers are Canto (#23) at -52.13% and Near (#30) at -36.95%.
Protocols are very green today. Top 100 protocols up at least 40% on the monthly include ParaSpace (#47), Camelot (#67), Conic Finance (#84), OKC Liquid Staking (#87), Ondo Finance (#92), and IZUMI Finance (#100).
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Chains By TVL On The Weekly (from @DefiLlama - note: no minimum TVL):
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Protocols By TVL On The Weekly (from @DefiLlama - note: minimum $1M TVL):
Other Data Points
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
Ethereum Fear And Greed Index
(from @EthereumFear):
Crypto Volatility Index
(from @CVIdaily)
Fees:
(from cryptofees(dot)info)
New Protocols
(note: this includes new protocols we find through combing Twitter each day, and we also include every (newly launched) protocol added by @defillama and @debank (excluding Tomb forks/reflection tokens/etc) - hence disclaimer: these are not pre-vetted by us so make sure to DYOR!)
-New protocol called @stratumexchange. Twitter bio states “Native liquidity layer on @zksync”.
-New Arbitrum protocol called @ZionSwap. Twitter bio states “🌐 The People's DEX 💶 Earn 100% of Protocol fees in Bluechip assets 💸 Double Farm rewards”.
-New protocol called @zdx_exchange. Twitter bio states “ZDX Exchange | Smart DEX AI ( SDA ) & Decentralised Perpetual Exchange on Arbitrum & BNB Chain.”
-New project called @velocorexyz added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “🌟The first ve(3,3) DEX on @zkSync , and more! Join VELOCORE's Ecosystem Expansion on zkSync Era 🚀🔄💎 Be the Core!”
-New project called @sharpe_ai added to @DefiLlama. Description reads “Sharpe Magnum is a leveraged staking layer that is built on top of Aave, Lido, Balancer, and Aura. Magnum functions as a staking optimizer, enhancing the capital efficiency of staking pools by leveraging staked assets via lending protocols and flashloans”.
-New Avalanche protocol called @Glacier_Fi. Twitter bio states “🔺Powered by Avalanche🔺 🔺Community Driven🔺 🔺 ve(3,3) Tokenomics🔺 🔺 Built to last native token: $GLCR🔺”. Tweet below c/o @yieldyak_:
Security Alerts
-March exploit summary from @PeckShieldAlert:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (minimum $1M+ TVL, single-exposure, no-IL only) and @stable_fish - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Other News And Analysis
(key news, twitter threads, articles, videos, etc from last 24 hours)
-US government sale of Silk Road $BTC generating intense discussion:
-PCE inflation data:
-Current stuff to be looking at, from @_tolks:
-@BittrexExchange to close down US operations, h/t @lnn_headlines:
-Interesting $ETH stats c/o @smyyguy:
-Excellent new article from @JLabsJanitor:
-Granary Finance raises $5M $USDC:
-@DefiLlama adds unlocks data:
-Interesting article, h/t @BiancoResearch:
-Related stats re: office vacancies:
-Interesting macro/etc chart:
-New livestream from @noahseidman:
-Interesting video from @theempirepod, featuring @JasonYanowitz and @santiagoroel talking with Ben Forman:
-New Real Vision livestream with natural resources investing legend Rick Rule:
-Parting sentiments from @danblocmates:
Conclusion
Have a great Saturday degens and don’t forget to touch some grass!
And please RT/follow/etc if you found this valuable! :)
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