Happy Monday friends! Start of another big week!
Let’s dive in!
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 @CryptoBubbles24):
Gold: $2160.70
Oil (WTI): $81.73
US 10Y Treasury: 4.308%
Stocks ($SPY as proxy): N/A
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 1000, by 24 hour change)
Spotlight
Our friends at @silentdao_ keep working diligently behind the scenes to develop a truly revolutionary solution to the issue of on-chain privacy…
Our editor @rektdiomedes has been helping bang the drum about what @silentdao_ have been building, and the architecture being developed is intended to permanently change the defi landscape.
Once again, Silent is a middleware privacy/encryption project designed to facilitate composable privacy solutions within the EVM itself... Make sure to follow the official @silentdao_ Twitter account so you don’t miss any important updates!
Biggest TVL Movers + Else
Chains are mostly green today. Top 50 chains up at least 20% on the weekly include Solana (#4), Blast (#9), Starknet (#19), and Mode (#36).
Protocols are quite green today. Top 100 protocols up at least 30% on the weekend include etherfi (#11), Marinade (#18), Jito (#20), Kamino (#29), Raydium (#53), Orbit Protocol (#55), Drift (#62), Ring Protocol (#73), Kinza Finance (#92), and Nostra (#93).
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 Entities By 24 Hour Revenue Generation (from @DefiLlama):
Here’s The Top 12 Solana Protocols By TVL (from @DefiLlama):
Top Trending Tokens (24 hour timeframe - from @dexscreener):
Bitcoin Fear/Greed Index:
(from @BitcoinFear)
Ethereum Fear And Greed Index
(from @EthereumFear):
New Projects
(note: this includes new projects we find through combing Twitter each day, and we also include every (newly launched) protocol added by @DefiLlama - hence disclaimer: these are not pre-vetted by us so make sure to DYOR!)
-Something new called @skillissuexyz. Twitter bio states “Skill Issue is an Onchain Livestream Lootbox App. Unbox. Stream. Win Every Time. 📦”. Followed by 3 of our mutuals. h/t @AresLabs_xyz:
-Something new called @zero_computing. Twitter bio states “Cloud service for zero-knowledge proof generation. 🛠️ Building…” Followed by 3 of our mutuals. h/t @AresLabs_xyz:
-New lending protocol on Arbitrum called @CopraFi has been added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “Unlocking credit for protocols, earn fixed yields on your ETH, WBTC and USDC”. Followed by 9 of our mutuals.
-New ETH Mainnet + Blast protocol in ‘Services’ category called @Frontrun_market has been added to @DefiLlama. Twitter bio states “Trade Points, Airdrops, Pre-Market tokens and Whitelists... now live on @Blast_L2 & Ethereum”. Followed by 13 of our mutuals.
Security Alerts
-Daily Reminder: Twitter (and other social media) is being absolutely inundated with scams and links to fake versions of popular defi protocols - please make sure to be EXTREMELY hyper-vigilant and triple-check before interacting with anything!
-Update on Remilia situation from @CharlotteFang77:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (all types, $10M+ TVL) and @stable_fish - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Important News And Analysis
(key news, twitter threads, articles, videos, etc from last 24 hours)
-$SLERF saga currently dominating attention within the crypto markets:
-@krugermacro on the above:
-Solana hits $200, h/t @Cointelegraph:
-Macro schedule for the week ahead, c/o @KobeissiLetter:
-Interesting story re: crypto investing legend GCR apparently buying an NFT of the original $WIF image for $4.3M:
-Dex volumes approaching levels not seen since the peak of the last bull market, h/t @Dynamo_Patrick:
-@PolyhedraZK airdrop going live on Tuesday, March 19th at 900 am UTC time, h/t @OxTochi:
-More airdrop info c/o @CC2Ventures:
-Narrative/ticker alfa c/o @TheDeFinvestor:
-’Runestones’ generating lots of attention, h/t @DegenerateNews:
-US real estate discussion/summary from @JackFarley96 re: his recent interview with @NickHalaris:
-$PRIME continues to generate lots of attention, good short thread below from @defi_monk:
-Update on the $MSTR/$BTC pair trade c/o @JLabsJanitor:
-New video on AI tokens from @NewsAsset:
-Newest macro video from ‘Dollar Milkshake’ originator Brent Johnson and co:
-Aptos airdrop guide from @KryptoCove:
-Newest update on Cosmos ecosystem from @Cryptocito:
-Parting wisdom c/o @resdegen via @QuotableCrypto:
Conclusion
Happy Monday friends let’s get after it!
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