Crypto is a game of liquidity flow, the flow of liquidity decides the future of your favorite protocol and whether it will perform well or not.

after the Arbitrum airdrop, there’s a significant flow of liquidity to other ecosystems, and due to this the TVL of the Starknet has increased from $7mm to $21mm in the last 30 days and imo will continue to do so, though Starknet is still in a very early stage, the chain gets congested on overload, so use it carefully

and due to its early stage not many quality projects are there, but Tempus is quite good IMO

So what is Tempus?

Tempus is a community of Builders, Creators, and Connectors led by Tempus Labs to build DeFi products.

Tempus is governed by $TEMP token holders, and $TEMP token holders capture value from all products built by Tempus.

Why is this important?

there are a few reasons why $TEMP has a good value capture

• Tempus finance is one of the earliest builders on Starknet, and Starknet foundation will grant token allocation to early builders to engage in network operations through staking and voting.

  https://twitter.com/StarknetFndn/status/1638555707048972289?s=20

and there is almost 100% certainty that the projects made by Tempus will receive the token grant.

• $TEMP allows you to gain exposure to all the projects developed by Tempus finance.

This implies that if they ever decide to do tokens for these individual projects then the $TEMP holder will have a part in it, and TBH these projects are good and a couple of them are approaching their mainnet. I have tried Nostra finance and it's safe to say that it met my expectation.

$TEMP tokenomics

• Total supply: 1 billion

• Circulating: 110 million

• FDV: $30 million

• 29% of Token sold to investors

• 26% reserved for the team

• 45% Treasury & Liquidity incentive

The good thing is the Mcap is not liquid enough for the team and investors to exit, so they have to create value, and IMO they are and are on the right path.

and Tempus Finance is also supported by some respectable names in the industry.

As of now, there are two products available by Tempus

Nostra finance

Nostra aims to be the Liquidity Layer of Starknet. They are building

• Nostra Money Market: alpha version live

• UNO stablecoin: coming in Q2

• Nostra Swap: coming in Q2

here's their roadmap

and the project is also supported by some respectable names in the industry.

Raft

Raft is an immutable, decentralized lending protocol that allows people to take out stablecoin loans against capital-efficient collateral. Raft's first stablecoin is called R, and is backed by $stETH.

R takes its inspiration from the Liquity protocol

More on R:

https://twitter.com/raft_fi/status/1637827396576645120?s=20