Happy Monday friends! New week is here and we appear to be in the middle of a rally!
Data/alerts/new protocols/etc at top and lots of interesting news/articles/etc at bottom as always!
Market Update
Overall crypto market cap: +4.2% to $1.06T
$BTC: +3.6% to $22,166.20 and a market cap of $423.3B.
$ETH: +9.1% to $1,478.27, and a market cap of $177.0B.
For tradfi:
S&P 500: N/A
Dow Jones: N/A
Nasdaq 100: N/A
Gold: $1,712.20
Oil (WTI): $98.54
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-RSK Infrastructure Framework $RIF +138.7%
-GXChain $GXC +78.2%
-Crono.tech $TIME +44.8%
Down:
-Blox $CDT -16.2%
-LeverFi $LEVER -13.3%
-Ramp [OLD] $RAMP -12.1%
Biggest TVL Movers
For chains, lots of green today. 49 of the top 50 are green on the daily. Only ones not green on the weekly are Fantom, Aurora, Icon, Astar, and Hoo.
Protocols were up 4.07% today in aggregate. LidoDAO (staked ETH protocol) is now in spot #2 with $6.44B in TVL. Arrakis Finance (Uniswap optimizer) has jumped into spot #11 with $1.45B TVL. Liquity (ETH-stablecoin protocol) is now in spot #24 with $547M TVL. Opyn (options protocol) has jumped considerably, to spot #84, with $111M TVL.
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 Cosmos SDK staking derivatives protocol called @StaFiHub_ is getting ready to launch in the next couple weeks.
-@SaucerSwapLabs- a Hedera dex- is getting ready to launch:
-@nex_market, a “Next Generation Perpetual Exchange” on Aurora, is getting ready to launch:
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert released hacking alerts re: Discords of @DerbyPunkz, @Maximalist_NFT, and @KanpaiPandas.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ TVL, no-IL, and single-exposure only) and @stable_fish)
Other News And Analysis
(key news, twitter threads, articles, videos, etc from last 24 hours)
-Energy crisis in Europe/stuff with Russia escalating:
-$ETH and its liquid staking protocols and also Defi 1.0 tokens are all currently outperforming:
-$OHM is working on an interesting strategy re: being an high-quality LP pair asset that minimizes Impermanent Loss (if I am understanding correctly):
-@FraxFinance is getting ready to debut their new Fraxlend product soon:
-$BTC approaching 200-week moving average:
-A new episode of Bankless featuring @lukegromen has just been uploaded:
-Some potential airdrops are on the horizon:
Conclusion
Here’s to a great week fellow degens!
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