Happy Saturday friends - another week in the books! And lots of interesting stuff going on as usual!
Stats/alerts/etc at top and tweets/news/links/videos/etc at bottom as always!
Market Update
Crypto:
Gold: $1,811.20
Oil (WTI): $76.32
Stocks:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000)
Spotlight
Our friend @Subli_Defi has started an extremely high-quality Substack covering the Optimism ecosystem!
Called The Optimistic Newsletter, it provides an in-depth breakdown of all the news related to Optimism and its top protocols.
Make sure to check out the latest issue via the tweet below!
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are mostly red today. Only top 30 chains green on the weekly are Arbitrum (#4), Optimism (#7), Solana (#12), and Klaytn (#14).
Protocols are very red today. Only top 70 protocols green on all three timelines (daily, weekly, monthly) are Stargate (#22), Beefy (#28), Velodrome (#29), Thena (#53), and Blur (#69).
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 And Greed Index
(from @EthereumFear):
Crypto Volatility Index
(from @CVIdaily)
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 @asgardx_world on Arbitrum. Twitter bio states “An Ecosystem Focused On #RealYield Earning Through Decentralized Exchange, Launchpad and #AI Farming. #Arbitrum #BSC”. h/t @LandfSmile:
-New project called @BackedFi. Twitter bio states “Fully backed, tokenized real-world assets.”
-New project on Arbitrum called @BoredBorderland. Twitter bio states “Combining mind game and luck! Join the unforgiving world of Borderland! Only on #Arbitrum…”
-Something called @Arbi_Swap has been added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “Native Liquidity Layer on #Arbitrum | First total decentralized exchange run,controlled & governed by $ARBI”. $4.7M TVL so far on it.
-Something called @VelocimeterDEX on Canto has been added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “Liquidity lab coming out of stealth mode early Q1”.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (minimum $1M+ TVL, single-exposure, and no-IL filters) 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)
-PCE inflation data came in hot:
-Rough week in stonks:
-Big change in rate sentiment over last month:
-Interesting data c/o @OuroborosCap8:
-Story that is generating a lot of discussion on Twitter. h/t @tony_intern and @Blockworks_ and @statelayer:
-Interesting story c/o @RyanSAdams:
-US real estate stats:
-NFT news h/t @Blockanalia:
-Good thread from @Chinchilla_:
-New thread on @SmileeFinance from @ipor_intern:
-Interesting macro interview from Wealthion with Jesse Felder:
-Excellent week in review video from @BanklessHQ covering several dozen of the top stories in crypto right now:
-New video from @noahseidman on what new protocols are catching his interest:
-Parting sentiments from @DegenSpartan:
Conclusion
Have a great Saturday friends and don’t forget to touch some grass this weekend!
And please RT/follow/etc if you found this valuable! :)
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Note
@NestedFi is our official sponsor for the month of February! They are a new Social Trading protocol which lets users create portfolios and copy-trade other portfolios on ETH Mainnet, Arbitrum, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimism, and BSC…
Nested allows for non-KYC fiat-onboarding through their integration with Mt Pelerin, as well as easy automatic dca’ing.
Here’s a cool recent thread from them: