Happy Monday friends! Gonna be a heck of a week!
Stats/alerts/etc at top and tweets/news/links/videos/etc at bottom as always!
Market Update
Crypto:
Gold: $1,790.60
Oil (WTI): $71.63
Stocks: N/A
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000)
Spotlight
If you are a fan of $CRV, $CVX, $BAL, $AURA or even just defi in general, you need to check out @paladin_vote!
Paladin has built an incredible platform which allows individual degens as well as protocols to maximize the efficiency with which they navigate the governance wars which have become such a big part of defi.
They've done this by creating a very accessible system (complete with cool stuff like 'Quests' and 'Warden'!) which lets token holders delegate their voting power to earn bribes (ie yield) in the easiest and most profitable manner possible, and helps protocols incentivize voting just as easily and efficiently.
If you haven't done so already, make sure to check out their website, which provides a solid breakdown of all the ways you can benefit from the above-mentioned features, as well as their weekly Substack- which is extremely valuable reading for any and all defi participants regardless of what tokens you hold (is somewhat similar to @CurveCap’s newsletter if you’re a fan of it).
And make sure to follow them at @paladin_vote - as well as their gigabrained @Pal_intern_ too (see below!).
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are mixed today. Among top 50 chains the following are all up at least 10% on the monthly: Arbitrum (#4), Celo (#21), Thorchain (#22), EOS (#23), and Aptos (#35).
Protocols are mostly red today. Top 100 protocols up at least 20% on the monthly include: Convex Finance (#6), Frax Finance (#12), Stargate (#34), Morpho (#39), Euler (#47), KyberSwap (#62), DxSale (#66), Geist Finance (#67), Wombex Finance (#68), Ribbon Finance (#75), Velodrome (#78), Across (#79), BendDAO (#82), B.Protocol (#83), and LUSD ChickenBonds (#89).
Here’s The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Protocols By TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Dex’s By 24 Hour Volume (from @DefiLlama):
Other Data Points
Bitcoin Fear And Greed Index
(from @BitcoinFear):
Ethereum Fear And Greed Index
(from @EthereumFear):
Crypto Volatility Index
(note: this is a cool new data measurement we are going to start including, make sure to follow them at @CVIdaily, and their main account at @official_CVI!)
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 Arbitrum protocol called @Neutrafinance. Twitter bio states “Delivering risk-hedged, sustainable investment strategies easily accessible for anyone, anywhere. Just sit back & relax… Coming soon on #Arbitrum”. h/t @0xstdio!
-Newish protocol called @icecream_swap has been added to @DeBankDefi. Twitter bio states “Multi chain DeFi ecosystem with Swap, Bridge and LaunchPad on Bitgert, BSC, Dogechain, Doken and Fuse.”
-New (potential?) protocol on Canto called @Leverage_Canto. Twitter bio states “Decentralized Lending Market allowing depositing LPtokens on @CantoPublic”. h/t @theCOH_:
-Something called @Sandbags_io “…incubated… by @BinanceLabs”. Twitter bio states “Web3 Security Cornerstone and the New Contract Security Defense Paradigm.”
Security Alerts
-@CertiKAlert with additional analysis of @LodestarFinance exploit:
-@PeckShieldAlert released the following alert:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (all types, minimum $5M+ TVL) 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)
-Roadmap for the week ahead:
-Lots of speculation today on China reopening:
-Paxful CEO encouraging users to move their $BTC to self-custody:
-Nasty winter weather bringing European energy crisis back into the spotlight:
-@nansen_intern with the on-chain alfa:
-Informative macro chart:
-Excellent thread on @redactedcartel from @kindahangry:
-Extremely well-done thread on @berachain from @eli5_defi:
-Good summary re: conversation about @arrakisfinance from @ReveloIntel:
-Excellent video courtesy of @thebellcurvepod from a couple days ago:
@Prof_Crypto_B released a new interview with Byte Masons founder @0xBebis_:
-For our macro fans, an interesting interview from @1MarkMoss with @GeorgeGammon:
-Good article from @DegenSensei:
-Parting wisdom c/o @CryptoKaleo:
Conclusion
Have a great Monday degens! Let’s get after it this week!
And please RT/follow/etc if you found this helpful! :)
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Spotlight
Our official sponsor for the month of December is @NestedFi- a new Social Trading protocol- which lets users create portfolios (and copy-trade other portfolios) on all the main EVM chains.
@NestedFi will be doing an airdrop for early users, so consider trying it out and creating a portfolio yourself and copying some other portfolios you like!
You can also use it for easy dca’ing as well as non-kyc fiat onboarding via their integration with Mt Pelerin!
Here’s an example portfolio from @alpha_pls: