Happy Saturday friends! Absolutely crazy day for macro… crypto seems to have shrugged off the insanity so far but will be an interesting weekend!
Stats/alerts/etc at top and news/events/links at bottom as always!
Market Update
Crypto:
Gold: $1,644.40
Oil (WTI): $79.43
Stocks:
Biggest Price Movers
(From @coingecko top 500)
Up:
-Dejitaru Tsuka $TSUKA +25.4%
-Barnbridge $BOND +23.2%
-Freeway $FWT +17.1%
Down:
-cUSDT $CUSDT -54.5%
-Sweatcoin - Sweat Economy $SWEAT -24.8%
-Decimal $DEL -16.2%
Biggest TVL Movers
Chains are pretty mixed on the day. Only 5 of the top 30 chains are green on the monthly. These are Arbitrum (#7), DeFiChain (#10), Kava (#14), Algorand (#16), and Osmosis (#17).
Protocols are slightly greener than chains today. On the monthly, 25 of the top 100 protocols are green. The top 5 of these by performance are: Wombat (#74) at +507%, Sablier Finance (#18) at +445%, DeFiChain Loans (#56) at +203%, Ankr (#54) at +56%, and Folks Finance (#84) at +31%.
Here’s The Top 12 Chains By TVL (from @defillama):
Here’s The Top 12 Protocols By TVL (from @defillama):
Chart Of The Day
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$BNB yearly chart is one of the least awful ones among major coins:
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!)
-A newish BSC protocol called @WinerySwap has been added to @defillama. Description reads “An explosive innovation of all-in-one decentralized exchange”. TVL currently listed at $1M.
-Something called @Dooarofficial has been added to @defillama. Description reads “DOOAR is a multi-chain DEX built by Find Satoshi Lab for STEPN users and beyond.” TVL currently listed at $0.7M.
-A new dex on Avalanche has been added to @defillama called @ApexFoundation_. Twitter bio states “The Apex Foundation improves the Efficiency and Management of the entire Apex Ecosystem…” TVL currently listed at $0.1M.
-@DeBankDefi has added functionality for Dogechain.
-New on-chain app built upon @lensprotocol called @orbwagmi:
-Something called @tproofio. Twitter bio states “Decentralized Proof of Timestamp service. Open, Trustless, simple. Built on @Ethereum , @0xPolygon , @ChainLink and @ArweaveTeam Currently in public beta phase…”
-New stablecoin coming to Eth Mainnet called @DYADstable. Twitter bio states “Hard pegged, immutable and governance-free stablecoin backed by ETH. Decentralized stablecoin monetary policy across 10,000 dNFT's.”
Rug Pulls/Exploits/De-Peggings/Liquidation Alerts
-@certiKAlert released an alert regarding a Discord hack of @spooktaculars; and a flash-crash warning on $SSPF.
-@certiKAlert also released the following alert:
Top Stablecoin Yields
(note: these are the top Stablecoin Yields, sourced from @defillama ($1M+ TVL and no-IL and single-exposure only) and @stable_fish - note: these lists are just raw data, make sure to always DYOR before interacting with any/all protocols)
Other News And Analysis
(key news, twitter threads, articles, videos, etc from last 24 hours)
-The implosion of global bond markets dominated news in the investing world today:
-Stocks got hammered today:
-Canto/Synapse alfa:
-Adoption:
-@LiquityProtocol has added a new bond product:
-$EUR down to $0.97:
-Interesting exchange between two of the brightest macro gigabrains on Twitter:
-On-chain options platform @lyrafinance has been surging in price:
-Another good thread on @berachain was released, by @Riley_gmi:
-@noahseidman released an excellent live video on the current macro collapse and its relevance to crypto:
-@realvision released a live video with @RaoulGMI on the day’s market insanity:
-@OlimpioCrypto released a thread on how to maximize chances re: the next round of Optimism airdrops:
Conclusion
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