Happy Thursday Chads and Chadettes!
Updates/stats/alerts/etc on top as always and lots of interesting alfa/tweets/articles at bottom!
Market Update
Overall crypto market cap: -1.4% to $1.11T.
$BTC: -2.1% to $22,962.47, and a market cap of $438.9B.
$ETH: -2.6% to $1,623.33, and a market cap of $194.7B.
Gold: $1,798.20
Oil (WTI): $91.37
Stocks:
More Crypto:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-MrWeb Finance $AMA +38,565.8%
-Flex Coin $FLEX +178.5%
-Manifold Finance $FOLD +43.4%
Down:
-Nexus $NXS -37.2%
-Alpaca Finance $ALPACA -14.3%
-RSK Infrastructure Framework $RIF -9.8%
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are mixed today. Optimism (#10) is leading on the daily and the weekly among the top TVL chains, up over 26% on the latter. Waves (#15) is down 54% on the weekly.
Protocols are mostly red on the daily. Instadapp (#10) is leading among the top protocols, up 17% on the weekly. Stargate (#28) is down 15% on the weekly. Currently the biggest category of protocol within the top 100 is dex’s, occupying 28 of the top 100 protocols by TVL list.
Here’s The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @defillama):
Here’s 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/Yield Farms
(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 new protocol called @HyksosFi has launched. Twitter bio states “The first self-repaying platform connecting yield-bearing NFT owners (Borrowers) and ERC-20 providers (Lenders). Scalable NFT financial P2P agreement protocol.”
-A new protocol called @PhononDAO launched on testnet yesterday. Twitter bio states “The World’s Most Advanced Payments Protocol. Open-Sourced. Native to Web3”.
-A new protocol called @AmplifiDeFi is launching tomorrow, August 5th:
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert issued an alert regarding Discord hack of @shinsekaicorp.
-@PeckShieldAlert issued an alert re: @TheSandboxGame’s Instagram being hacked and having a malicious link posted.
-@ZBexchange was hacked for several million:
-@Wallet_Guard issued a good reminder/alert re: not using Google to access protocols:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ tvl and no-Il and single exposure 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)
-Some funds are being returned after the Nomad hack:
-Situation with China continues to be heated:
-More info on losses from Luna collapse:
-@synthetix_io protocol revenue vs price ratio is showing heavy inflection over the last several months:
-Fed President Mary Daly’s statement on inflation is getting a lot of attention:
-@foldfinance is getting a lot of attention on Twitter. Here’s an excellent thread on it from @BillyBobBaghold:
-European power prices are 12-15x higher than they were in 2015:
-@CurveCap released an excllent new article:
Conclusion
Have a great Thursday fellow degens!
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Spotlight:
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