Happy Friday fellow degens! Lots of fascinating stuff going on!
Updates/stats/alerts/etc on top as always and lots of interesting alfa/tweets/videos/etc at bottom!
Market Update
Overall crypto market cap: +2.0% to $1.13T.
$BTC: +1.4% to $23,190.61, and a market cap of $443.2B.
$ETH: +3.4% to $1,671.05, and a market cap of $200.3B.
Gold: $1,802.50
Oil (WTI): $88.30
Stocks:
More Crypto:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-Flow $FLOW +56.2%
-CateCoin $CATE +29.0%
-BoneShibaSwap $BONE +28.5%
Down:
-Green Satoshi Token on ETH $GST-ETH -20.8%
-Blox $CDT -17.7%
-Multichain $MULTI -13.7%
Biggest TVL Movers
For chains, Optimism has surged upward, up over 60% on the daily, to move past Arbitrum into the #8 spot by TVL. On the opposite end, Parallel has dropped over 22% on the daily, down to spot #13.
For protocols, there’s lots of green on the daily. On the monthly, 43 of the top 50 protocols are green.
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 newish protocol on Algorand called @lofty_ai has been added to @defillama. Description reads “Fractionalized real estate on Algorand.”.
-A newish yield farming protocol called @BaryonNetwork has been added to @defillama. Description reads “Baryon Network is a BNB Chain-based Premier Suite of DeFi Products containing three fundamental building blocks: BaryonSwap (AMM), BaryonFarm, and BaryonStake.”
-A new protocol called @tangibleDAO plans on launching next week. Twitter bio states “Fractionalized real estate. Build wealth, earn yield. Home of the first real estate backed stablecoin $USDR”:
-A new protocol called @PhreeChain has launched. Twitter bio states “Phree is a new decentralized and compliant liquidity ecosystem for the underbanked SMEs and retail consumers.”:
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert issued an alert regarding Discord hacks of @thedogecapital and @FearlessBulls and @fukboisnft.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ tvl 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)
-Institutional adoption?
-Rewards on Aave-Optimism have launched, generating attention on Twitter:
-Inflation worsening in UK:
-A CoinDesk article generated intense discussion on Twitter:
-@0xsifu is building:
-@kaiynne released his quarterly thoughts on Synthetix and defi in general, in an article that is chock-full of valuable alpha:
-Voyager customers may be getting some of their funds back:
-Previously-mentioned NFT AMM @sudoswap’s TVL is shooting upwards:
-@phtevenstrong The Calculator Guy released an excellent video on the subject of bridge hacks:
-Arthur Hayes @cryptohayes released a new article expressing great bullishness:
-@TaikiMaeda2 appeared on @flywheelpod to discuss his thoughts on Frax Finance and the broader crypto market:
Conclusion
Get after it my good frogs!
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