Happy Wednesday friends! Let’s get after it!
As always… stats/alerts/etc at top and tweets/news/links/videos/etc at bottom… and all tweets are hyperlinked so just click on them to pull them up on Twitter!
Market Update
Crypto (from @CryptoBubbles):
Total Crypto Market Cap: $3.62T
Gold: $2704.60
Oil (WTI): $79.45
US 10Y Treasury: 4.667%
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000, by 24 hour change)
Spotlight
APR’s keep surging good anons!
$VRTX-stakers on @vertex_protocol are continuing to earn hearty double-digit yields, with APR’s currently coming in at 38.1%!
This is all from ‘RealYield’ distributed as $USDC, and in addition, $VRTX-stakers also benefit from the $VRTX-buyback-and-burn program as well!
And… with new deployments on Sonic and Botanix and an extension of the Vertex omnichain liquidity infrastructure coming via the BroTrade deployment on Berachain, things are only looking more bullish in this regard!
Get started yield-maxxing now as well as trading 60+ perps and spot markets at app.vertexprotocol.com and make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates!
Biggest TVL Movers + Else
Chains are mostly green today. Only top 50 chains green on all three timelines (daily, weekly, monthly) are ZKsync Era (#34), Hedera (#38), Sonic (#43), and Stacks (#45).
Protocols are mostly green today as well. Top 50 protocols green on all three timelines (daily, weekly, monthly) include Avalon Labs (#24), Lombard Finance (#27), Fluid (#46), and StakeStone (#47).
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Chains By TVL On The Monthly With At Least $20M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Fastest-Growing Protocols By TVL On The Monthly With At Least $20M TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top Entities By 24 Hour Token-Holders’ Revenue (from @DefiLlama):
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
New Projects
(note: this includes new projects we find through combing Twitter each day, and we also include or re-include every newly launched protocol added by @DefiLlama that has at least some TVL or is followed by at least some of our mutuals - hence disclaimer: these are not pre-vetted by us so make sure to DYOR!)
-Something new called @hyperflyai. Twitter bio states “The home of DeFAI on @HyperliquidX ...” Followed by 15 of our mutuals. h/t @AresLabs_xyz:
-Something new called @seeds_ai. Twitter bio states “The building blocks of the agentic network state. 🌱 Launching soon.” Followed by 4 of our mutuals. h/t @AresLabs_xyz:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (all types, $20M+ TVL) - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Security Alerts
-No security alerts today.
Important News And Analysis
-CPI (inflation) numbers came in this morning, h/t @fejau_inc:
-More analysis of the inflation numbers, h/t @WarrenPies:
-Much excitement over headlines coming out of incoming Trump admin re: crypto, h/t @0xMert_:
-Trump’s WorldLibertyFi is also buying more ETH, h/t @dunleavy89:
-Morning headline curation from @Tyler_Did_It:
-Recap of last ten days, h/t @thedefivillain:
-Stablecoin supply growing fast on Solana, h/t @Dynamo_Patrick:
-Suffering continues in UK bonds, h/t @zerohedge:
-There are now 1200 AI Agent coins worth a combined $20B, h/t @dunleavy89:
-Continued focus on earning ‘Yaps’ via @_kaitoai in anticipation of their prospective airdrop, h/t @fiyalkin:
-Portfolio composition thoughts from @DaanCrypto:
-New interview with macro gigabrain @WarrenPies from @Blockworks_:
-New episode of TAO Talk from @blocmatesdotcom:
-New interview with Binance CEO Richard Teng from @santiagoroel and @JasonYanowitz:
-Parting thoughts from @cryptoklotz:
Conclusion
Have a great Wednesday friends and stay alert out there!
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Note
The team at @silentdao_ continues building hard to create the premier middleware privacy infrastructure for defi!
To quote their new article:
“Our vision is to enable a secure, anonymous, computational access layer.
And this is made up of two components:
-A secure value transfer layer
-An architecture that enables us to interact with an application privately”
Learn more from their new article by clicking below and make sure to follow them on Twitter for more updates!
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