Happy Monday friends! And happy Bitcoin-birthday day as well! (and Halloween!)
Stats/alerts/etc at top and news/events/links at bottom as always!
Market Update
Crypto:
Gold: $1,641.20
Oil (WTI): $87.47
Stocks: N/A
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-BoringDAO [OLD] $BOR +20.1%
-Nexus $NXS +17.4%
-Covalent $CQT +16.2%
Down:
-HUSD $HUSD -62.3%
-Dogelon Mars $ELON -14.5%
-Uquid Coin $UQC -14.1%
Spotlight
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Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are mixed today. Chains in the top 30 that are red on all three timelines (daily, weekly, monthly) include Avalanche (#4), Waves (#18), and Gnosis (#19).
Protocols are mostly red today. Top 100 protocols red on all three timelines (daily, weekly, month) include Frax Finance (#13), Team Finance (#63), and Ref Finance (#81).
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
(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 frens!)
-Something new called @Pulse_Bitcoin has been added to @DeBankDeFi. Twitter bio states “The Official Twitter for PulseBitcoin… The Faster, More Secure, Ecofriendly, Highly Scalable, DeFi Compatible; Bitcoin!” Appears to be on ETH Mainnet.
-Something new called @CalimeroNetwork. Twitter bio states “We let you deploy a customisable, easy to use private shard with built-in privacy features and confidential native WASM or EVM smart contracts.”
-Something on Polygon called @FactorLaunch. Twitter bio states “The building blocks of DeFi | Polygon beta soon…”
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-Stablecoin $HUSD is extremely de-pegged. Background info is hard to gather from TL on Twitter, so make sure to DYOR on the situation.
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @DefiLlama (minimum $5M+ TVL, no-IL, and single-exposure 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)
-14 years since Satoshi published the Bitcoin whitepaper:
-Dogecoin update:
-Some upcoming catalysts to keep in mind, from @yashcrypto21:
-ETH/BTC chart from resident $ETH permabull @RaoulGMI:
-Some macro things (in US) to keep an eye on:
-Prices as of one year ago:
-@noahseidman on Liquity Protocol and their ‘Chicken Bonds’:
-@alpha_pls released an extremely interesting written interview with @lemiscate all about the future of defi and specifically AAVE:
-@matt_levine’s 40k word Bloomberg article on crypto- that generated lots of discussion last week- appears to no longer be behind a paywall:
-Above-mentioned @RaoulGMI was interviewed by Robert Breedlove about the last 100 years of macroeconomic history and what got us to the point we’re at today, and what he believes may happen going forward:
-@blockbytescom released a new ‘Across The Chains’ roundtable, discussing all sorts of defi + macro topics (embedding video below as well as first tweet in an excellent summary from @ReveloIntel):
-@Blockworks_ released an interesting new video with @AndreasSteno and @JackFarley96 discussing the current macro situation and European energy situation:
Conclusion
Have a great day friends! Big week ahead of us!
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