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How QiDAO Can Use Its Qi Gauge System For Protocol Revenue & Long-Term Sustainability
ProposalChange the emission model of QiDao into a LP based gauge system instead of incentivising borrowers of MAI.Current Scenario:The current system is being manipulated by whales who own a large enough share of the outstanding MAI debt for a particular vault and as a result, makes it profitable to bribe using $Qi as they will always make a profit as the $Qi emissions to their vault is much higher than the bribe amount. As a result, these whales do not even have to LP with the borrowed MAI (...
How QiDAO Can Use Its Qi Gauge System For Protocol Revenue & Long-Term Sustainability
ProposalChange the emission model of QiDao into a LP based gauge system instead of incentivising borrowers of MAI.Current Scenario:The current system is being manipulated by whales who own a large enough share of the outstanding MAI debt for a particular vault and as a result, makes it profitable to bribe using $Qi as they will always make a profit as the $Qi emissions to their vault is much higher than the bribe amount. As a result, these whales do not even have to LP with the borrowed MAI (...
How To Hedge Against Declining Interest Rates Using Uniswap v3
Institutional finance players are not SIMP’s for degen plays to earn passive income and are mainly limited to LPing in the usual, i.e., Curve, Convex, Aave, and Compound.An Example of 3CRV Interest Rate Cash-Covered Call OptionsThere are several fixed-income solutions to hedge the fluctuating returns of curve LP positions like APWine, etc, that offer fixed income products for risk-averse investors to earn a fixed income and risk-tolerant investors to speculate on the CRV interest rates. This ...
How To Hedge Against Declining Interest Rates Using Uniswap v3
Institutional finance players are not SIMP’s for degen plays to earn passive income and are mainly limited to LPing in the usual, i.e., Curve, Convex, Aave, and Compound.An Example of 3CRV Interest Rate Cash-Covered Call OptionsThere are several fixed-income solutions to hedge the fluctuating returns of curve LP positions like APWine, etc, that offer fixed income products for risk-averse investors to earn a fixed income and risk-tolerant investors to speculate on the CRV interest rates. This ...
How Polygon DAO Can Outmaneuver Other Chains With Their veDYST From Dystopia
Dystopia is a novel ve(3,3) dex on Polygon which has improved both protocol and technical mechanics to create the greatest ve(3,3) dex possible. Apart from fixing every known and also several unknown bugs that existed in the original Solidly codebase, the brilliant team behind Dystopia has also added new features like an analytics page and also an inbuilt router which would make it compatible with dex aggregators like 1inch, Paraswap, Bogged Finance and more. This will ensure that the Polygon...
How Polygon DAO Can Outmaneuver Other Chains With Their veDYST From Dystopia
Dystopia is a novel ve(3,3) dex on Polygon which has improved both protocol and technical mechanics to create the greatest ve(3,3) dex possible. Apart from fixing every known and also several unknown bugs that existed in the original Solidly codebase, the brilliant team behind Dystopia has also added new features like an analytics page and also an inbuilt router which would make it compatible with dex aggregators like 1inch, Paraswap, Bogged Finance and more. This will ensure that the Polygon...
How To Buidl A Self-Sustaining Stablecoin Flywheel With Reserve Currency Protocols
This article is “Chapter 2” of the untapped potential of reserve currencies series and attempts to demonstrate how any reserve currency can create and sustain their own stablecoin with a self-sustaining flywheel, using VESQ, a reserve currency on the Polygon PoS chain, as a case study.Do read Chapter 1 about maximizing the benefits of existing staking and bonding mechanics.More Stablecoins?Although the markets are still suffering from $UST — $LUNA PTSD, we cannot ignore the key role stablecoi...
How To Buidl A Self-Sustaining Stablecoin Flywheel With Reserve Currency Protocols
This article is “Chapter 2” of the untapped potential of reserve currencies series and attempts to demonstrate how any reserve currency can create and sustain their own stablecoin with a self-sustaining flywheel, using VESQ, a reserve currency on the Polygon PoS chain, as a case study.Do read Chapter 1 about maximizing the benefits of existing staking and bonding mechanics.More Stablecoins?Although the markets are still suffering from $UST — $LUNA PTSD, we cannot ignore the key role stablecoi...
How To Unleash The Hidden Potential Of OlympusDAO & Other Reserve Currencies
OlympusDAO was definitely the dApp of the year in 2021, offering its users astronomical yield and building a decentralized treasury while doing so. At its peak, $OHM was valued at ~$1,400 and its market capitalization hit an all-time high of $4.4B in November. Olympus was the torchbearer for the adoption of protocol-owned liquidity (POL) and was the flag bearer of the glorious “DeFi 2.0” movement. Despite the ~90% fall in price and negative sentiment around rebasing reserve currencies, they s...
How To Unleash The Hidden Potential Of OlympusDAO & Other Reserve Currencies
OlympusDAO was definitely the dApp of the year in 2021, offering its users astronomical yield and building a decentralized treasury while doing so. At its peak, $OHM was valued at ~$1,400 and its market capitalization hit an all-time high of $4.4B in November. Olympus was the torchbearer for the adoption of protocol-owned liquidity (POL) and was the flag bearer of the glorious “DeFi 2.0” movement. Despite the ~90% fall in price and negative sentiment around rebasing reserve currencies, they s...
