The Daily Degen - August 20th, 2022
Happy Saturday good frogs! Are you slurping the dipperino or waiting for lower lows? Either way lots of interesting stuff going on :)
Stats/alerts/etc at top and news/events/links at bottom as always!
Market Update
Overall crypto market cap: -1.9% to $1.07T.
$BTC: -0.4% to $21,280.65, and a market cap of $407.0B.
$ETH: -3.9% to $1,637.64, and a market cap of $196.9B.
Gold: $1,760.30
Oil (WTI): $89.95
Stocks:
More Crypto:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-Wing Finance $WING +38.2%
-Tribe $TRIBE +16.5%
-Manifold Finance $FOLD +14.5%
Down:
-BoringDAO [OLD] $BOR -23.8%
-Santos FC Fan Token $SANTOS -23.6%
-XMON $XMON -17.4%
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are super red today. Arbitrum (#8 by TVL) is only top 25 chain green on the daily. Canto appears to have just been added, and is showing a daily gain of 1,223%, a ranking of #41, and TVL of $39.4M.
Protocols are relatively mixed. Big movers on daily are Stargate (#20) at +27%, Euler (#47) at -8%, and Bancor (#66) at -38%.
Hereβs The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @defillama):
Hereβs The Top 12 Protocols By TVL (from @defillama):
Other Data Points
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
Ethereum Fear/Greed Index:
(from @EthereumFear)
New Protocols
(note: this is checked via a variety of sources (listed below when used) and general Twitter research - note: this excludes Tomb forks and reflection tokens and tries to only include at least semi-legitimate defi-oriented stuff, but DYOR)
-A newish protocol called @MorphoLabs has been added to @defillama. Am not sure if this is totally new or not (appears to be pretty new) but it is followed by a bunch of gigabrain mutuals so wanted to include it. Description reads βMorpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees.β
-New BSC protocol called @Wolfeye_io. Twitter bio states βDecentralized Trading Platform with Integrated On-Chain Analytic Tools.β
-Dogechain dexβs including @DogMoneySwap (70k TVL), @kibbleswap (700k TVL) added to @defillama.
-New dex on fetch-ai network called @starfleit.
-New protocol called @RetroDexIO launching this quarter on @AcalaNetwork. Twitter bio states βAcala based decentralized exchange. Going live in Q3. Swap, yield, stake, lend, borrow.β
-New Solana protocol:
-Something called @AlveyChain:
-New protocol called @WowmaxExchange. Twitter bio states βWOWmax is the next generation DEX aggregation protocol that uses slippage as an additional source of optimization.β
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert issued alerts regarding flash-crashes on $NCTR and $UNDAO and $ARUN, and a Discord hack of @HameerHideout, and some type of internal exploit and/or protocol discontinuation of @pragma_money.
-$HUSD has repegged:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ tvl and 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)
-3 of the top 6 coins by market cap are now stablecoins:
-Tribe proposal re: future of protocol + restitution to hack victims is drawing intense debate on Twitter:
-Equity positioning still very short:
-Previously-mentioned zkSync protocol @1kxprotocol aidrop to be aware of:
-Arthur and Raoul remain bullish:
-@Rocket_Pool governance alfa:
-@UmamiFinance update:
-Thread on potential zkSync airdrops:
-New @FTMAlerts livestream - with news that they are re-branding to a non Fantom-specific channel:
Conclusion
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