[EPOCH 7 RECAP]We enter 2025 💦 with another positive epoch for TVL growth and we've almost hit $20M. Blue-chip $ETH and $FNX pools continue with a steady increase, providing further weight to Fenix as the central trading and liquidity hub for @blast. Partner Pools$weETH (@ether_fi) - APR has risen to 21% alongside a TVL increase of 800k. $ezETH (@RenzoProtocol) - APR has risen to 24% alongside a TVL increase of 400k. $USDz (@AnzenFinance) - APR has risen to 94% alongside a TVL increase of 50k.Congrats to @SekaiGlory who have increased $GLORY pool TVL by ~25k and with a strong APR of 311% We will support TVL increase without APR dilution (as best we can). Feel confident that as a team we are here to ensure the best blue-chip yields on @blast. Voting Rewards$veFNX voters in the "veFNX BULL" strategy saw a return of 112%. Just over $65,000 of rewards were distributed to voters on Fenix. We also crossed $500,000 of total fee and voting incentives rewards distributed since launch 🔥Emissions UpdateEpoch 8 marks the last epoch that emissions will increase by 1.5%. It's encouraging to see that $FNX has increased its' liquidity strength during this time which has provided a robust platform to drive LP yields and $veFNX value. From the next epoch, emissions will enter a weekly decay of 1% to ensure high yields and inflation reduction. During RISE 1 (November) Fenix had a 101% lock rate over emissions, powered by users locking and our innovative native yield buyback system.Summary With a unique MetaDEX model powered by native yield, we're excited to continue the capital efficiency to which Fenix can generate liquidity and rewards in 2025 🔥

BLUE Token LP is now live on NAVI Protocol Navigators, following the recent TGE, NAVI has integrated @bluefinapp ’s BLUE token in its liquidity pools. Initial Pool Parameters: 🔹 Can be collateral ✅🔹 Max LTV 40%🔹 Liquidation Threshold 45%You can now supply, borrow, and collateralize BLUE to maximize your capital efficiency across the entire #Sui DeFi ecosystem.

Are you trying to raise funds for your project but don’t know where to start? 🤔Fundraising in Web3 can feel overwhelming when you’re doing it alone. Complex processes, limited knowledge, and a lack of support can make it tough to get started.But, have you heard of ApeBond? 🧵1️⃣ ApeBond Helps You Raise MoneyFundraising doesn’t have to be complicated. ApeBond's Reserve Bonds let projects use their native tokens to raise stablecoins or bluechip assets.How It Works:Projects offer Reserve Bonds, exchanging tokens for blue-chip assets or stablecoins. Users buy Bonds as NFTs at a discount, receiving linearly vested tokens (usually over 30-45 days).This method ensures fundraising without devaluing the token and promoting sustainable growth. Raising funds through Reserve Bonds helps align incentives in order to build long-term growth and community engagement—essential pillars for any project's success.2️⃣ Bonds Can Also Raise LiquidityInstead of relying on short-term incentives like in farms or liquidity mining, projects can use ApeBond's Liquidity Bonds—similar to Reserve Bonds—to raise liquidity.How It Works:Users trade LP tokens to acquire Liquidity Bonds of their favorite project, allowing them to get discounted tokens that vest over time.These LP tokens increase the project’s liquidity pool, going directly to their control as Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) and reducing dependency on external liquidity providers.Our Liquidity Health Dashboard (LHD) provides real-time insights into liquidity health, helping projects maintain a stable liquidity environment.3️⃣ Engage Your Community With BondsTraditional fundraising often involves private VC deals out of public view. ApeBond builds trust by including the community in fundraising.Community Benefits:• Bonds encourage long-term holding, preventing quick sell-offs.• Fundraisers become community-backed movements, generating loyal holders who believe in the project's future.• Integrating your community in fundraising aligns incentives and drives genuine engagement.4️⃣ Unlock New Marketing OpportunitiesPartnering with ApeBond not only unlocks capital and liquidity but also provides co-marketing opportunities.How ApeBond Supports Your Project:• We collaborate closely with your team to boost reach and performance.• Gain exposure through our vast array of partners and strategic campaigns, including social integrations and networking.• Partnering with ApeBond means a double opportunity: raise funds and engage your community.5️⃣ Constantly EvolvingApeBond leads the way among DeFi bonding protocols, continuously evolving to provide cutting-edge technology since our launch in early 2022.Recently, we introduced an update allowing projects to set their preferred minimum, maximum, and target discounts! ⬇️https://t.co/sIug390gCFReady To Start Raising?With Bonds, you have everything to gain—funds, liquidity, and growth potential. Connect with us today and become a partner!https://t.co/av3y5Pz7nr👉 Together, we are stronger.

Community Q/A: How is $WISE like concentrated ETH? WISE has a price floor in ETH which gives it a baseline value. It's concentrated because our revenue streams will add ETH to the WISE/ETH LP which makes the value of WISE go up vs ETH. Q: How is there an ETH price floor? A: The TGE for WISE raised 55,900 ETH which was used to create a WISE/ETH LP on Uniswap (50% of tokens auctioned to the public during TGE and 50% paired on Uniswap with the ETH raised). The ownership for this liquidity was destroyed by burning the LP tokens, making the pool permanent and unruggable. The ETH price floor is the Uniswap WISE/ETH price if all WISE were sold back into the pair. Q: What revenue streams? A: Recently launched @Wise_Lending was built specifically to be a revenue stream for the Wise Ecosystem. It was 100% bootstrapped and will use 90% of protocol fees to buy-and-burn WISE off Uniswap. Transaction fees in our WISE/ETH pair also act as a revenue stream, since they seamlessly add more ETH to the pair and are not claimable because the LP is ownerless. Q: Wen Moon? A: We are almost done rolling out two programs that will aid in our success. 1) Integrating points farming to attract farmers looking for Etherfi points, Satoshi points, and Wise points for depositing on Wise Lending, and 2) a robust open-source referral system that will allow anyone to earn ~1% APR on the TVL of their entire referral network. One of the primary focuses of our platform is capital efficiency and optimizing for the best and safest yields available for blue chip cryptos, so this will make it very easy to build a network of referrals who deposit ETH and stables on Wise Lending.

Thrilled to reveal @DeltaPrimeDefi as one of the first projects to fundraise via @Colonylab's Early-Stage Feature for its Seed round! 🔥 Here's why DeltaPrime stands out: • Avalanche’s native undercollateralized borrowing protocol, boasting a $36M TVL and unlocking over $19M in liquidity. It has facilitated over $1.5B in swaps. • DeltaPrime offers users cross-margin leverage on a wide variety of blue-chip DeFi protocols on #Avalanche and #Arbitrum, such as @GMX_IO, @TraderJoe_xyz , @yieldyak_ , @GoGoPool_. • With DeltaPrime, users can borrow up to 5x their collateral, maximizing portfolio potential and capital efficiency. With a Prime Account, users can craft personalized DeFi portfolios using both collateral and borrowed funds, leveraging a diverse array of strategies unlocked by the platform. • Currently, most loans require overcollateralization, where borrowers must deposit more than the borrowed amount into a protocol. This results in billions of dollars of liquidity trapped as collateral. DeltaPrime's mission is to unlock this trapped liquidity, fostering a more efficient and interconnected DeFi ecosystem. • DeltaPrime is backed by @AvaLabs' Blizzard Fund, and other respected Web3 investors. • $PRIME is DeltaPrime's utility token, required for crafting $sPRIME, a revenue-generating LP token combining and another token (e.g., AVAX-PRIME). sPRIME serves as DeltaPrime's primary payment method, unlocks special features, and more 👀. Additionally, combining sPRIME and DeltaPrime usage accrues voting power over two years.

🧵 The Essence of #Revest, Simplified.The original Revest Protocol laid the groundwork, pioneering the first self-service platform for creating non-fungible derivatives. Our main goal was to create a secure system for storing, managing, and transferring locked positions. Essentially, we utilized the newer ERC1155 standard token for its improved functionalities to effectively store the rights to a locked ERC20 position - known as FNFTs. These FNFTs could be locked to addresses to prevent theft and reduce web risks, such as visiting phishing sites. Most importantly, FNFTs enabled seamless management of locked positions through the interactive FNFT UI without disrupting the underlying assets and liquidity. FNFTs also offered the flexibility to lock liquidity for extended periods while retaining access when needed, benefiting both protocols and users. This access could take the form of selling FNFTs over-the-counter on any supported marketplace or taking out a loan against the FNFT as collateral.Following the introduction of FNFTs, we developed several products: Cashflow Management, NFT Locker, and Transferrable Trust. While all useful, FNFTs demanded a higher velocity use case. Enter Resonate.DeFi had long sought a solution to effectively separate interest and principal. While ERC20 models attempted this, they encountered systemic issues. FNFTs, on the other hand, provided a simple solution: for every yield-bearing position, two FNFTs could be created – an interest FNFT and a principal FNFT. This approach enabled the separation of a position's yield without compromising custody of the underlying asset, ensuring liquidity and tradability. Expanding on this model, users could lease out their locked assets' earning power for an upfront fee, while others could buy the rights to that future yield at a discount of the current variable rate. One party receives a fixed return on a larger sum, while the other has uncapped upside from an advantageous position. It operates as a decentralized marketplace for future yield, utilizing a system more akin to a traditional order book to remove the possibility of slippage, as seen with modern AMMs.Let’s consider a practical scenario where you're assessing the anticipated yield of your preferred blue-chip protocol. When network activity is robust, the protocol typically generates higher yield, while lower activity results in decreased yield. Anticipating a period of low trading volume, you foresee a decline in revenue generation and yield distribution. In response, you employ a strategy: selling your future yield for an upfront rate on Resonate to secure guaranteed returns for the forthcoming period. Importantly, you retain ownership of your principal, albeit locked for the duration of the yield sale, while the purchaser receives an FNFT, directing your future yield to them. As events unfold, your foresight proves accurate; market activity diminishes, and yield decreases. By locking in a favorable rate at the opportune moment, you not only safeguard your returns but also possess the flexibility to bolster your position, hedge against risk, or diversify your portfolio.In the subsequent period, your favorite protocol appears strong - the macro lines up, volume is growing, technical analysis is ideal, and morale is rising. You've checked DefiLlama, Nansen, CoinTerminal, and all your favorite resources - you like what you see. So, how can you profit off this? You could simply farm the yield, sure. But, you want more value. Besides, why buy your own principal to farm trading fees when you can pay less to rent significantly more of someone else's? So, you create a pool on Resonate offering users the opportunity to buy their future yield for the coming period at an upfront rate today. You’ve just gone long on yield in a highly levered fashion with no risk of slippage or liquidations (levered because the position you leased is many times larger than your initial capital). If the protocol hits the forecasted yield, you’ve made great money as you bought it at a discount. If the protocol exceeds expectations, you’ve made incredible money. If it doesn’t meet expectations, then you have the original discount you bought it for as a buffer; below that is fair game. However, yield is very unlikely to be 0. The benefit here is that returns are extremely outsized when timed correctly.This concept is also applicable to real-world assets (#RWAs) such as tokenized US treasuries, which will continue to be rolled out in the future.However, the one currently closest to our hearts is #Redux. Instead of relying on users to discover the most effective methods for leveraging our systems to generate profit, we decided to package it as a finished product. We aimed to provide users with a secure avenue to utilize their guaranteed returns as an Issuer into an automated and highly profitable set of trading strategies. Redux, our AI-powered trading algorithm(s), operate within a vault-based system tailored to maximize trading outcomes by harnessing extensive real-time market data and employing machine learning techniques. The ultimate objective of Redux is to provide access to high-return investment opportunities while entirely safeguarding user principal.In conclusion, Revest stands as a beacon of innovation within the DeFi landscape, offering a suite of tools and protocols that empower users to navigate the complexities of decentralized finance with confidence. From pioneering FNFTs to the decentralized marketplace of Resonate and the AI-driven trading strategies of Redux, Revest continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of decentralized finance. As the ecosystem evolves and expands, Revest remains committed to providing secure, accessible, and highly profitable solutions for users worldwide. Join us as we continue to shape the future of finance, one innovative solution at a time.

An upcoming Executive Vote will introduce key parameter changes to @sparkdotfi’s DAI liquidity deployment on Morpho Blue. The proposal aims to increase the Direct Deposit Module debt ceiling to 1 billion DAI, with an initial allocation of 600 million DAI, as recommended by the @BlockAnalitica team considering potential risks and market conditions. If this Executive Vote passes, the following changes will take place within the Maker Protocol: 📈 Debt Ceiling increase • Increase the Direct Deposit Module's debt ceiling for sUSDe and USDe/DAI markets on Morpho Blue to 1 billion DAI to enhance liquidity. Recommended Vault DAI allocations: • Total allocation across all pools: 600 million DAI (+500 million DAI) • Specific allocations to various LTV pools as detailed in the proposal. 📊 Performance and pool selection adjustments: • Prioritize allocations towards USDe pools over sUSDe, reflecting user preferences and risk considerations. • Focus future allocations into the 86% and 91.5% LLTV pools for USDe, aligning with demand trends and liquidity risk assessments. 📊 Vault parameter adjustments • DDM DC-IAM Parameters: Line: 1 billion DAI Gap: 100 million DAI TTL: 24 hours • MetaMorpho Vault Parameters: Market Caps: • USDe 77% LLTV pool cap: 1 billion DAI • USDe 86% LLTV pool cap: 500 million DAI • USDe 91.5% LLTV pool cap: 200 million DAI • USDe 94.5% LLTV pool cap: 10 million DAI • sUSDe 77% LLTV pool cap: 1 billion DAI • sUSDe 86% LLTV pool cap: 200 million DAI • sUSDe 91.5% LLTV pool cap: 50 million DAI • sUSDe 94.5% LLTV pool cap: 10 million DAI Risk Management Highlights • Cautious allocation: Initial allocation is strategically capped at 600 million DAI, based on comprehensive risk considerations including market exposure limits. • Ensuring stability: A focus on risk minimization and ensuring returns are in line with anticipated risks and capital costs. • Future flexibility: The 1 billion DAI debt ceiling prepares for gradual, risk-informed adjustments to market changes and growth opportunities. • Efficiency and data-driven adjustments: Enhancing liquidity pool efficiency and adjusting allocations based on market performance and the Ethena points program. Impact of the proposal The successful implementation of these changes will not only enhance the liquidity and efficiency of Spark’s DAI MetaMorpho Vault but also refine the risk profile of the vault's operations. By aligning the vault's parameters with the current market dynamics and user preferences, we can ensure a more robust and responsive liquidity framework within the Maker ecosystem.

In the last 24 hours, Thalaswap processed more than $19 million; here are some insights and alpha👇 Top 5 Pools [24H volume]: → APT/thAPT [~$8 Million] → APT/zUSDC [~$3 Million] → THL/MOD [~$2 Million] → MOD/zUSDC [~$2 million] → zUSDC/zUSDT [~$1.3 million] Why does volume matter? Higher volumes indicate significantly increased trading activity on Aptos, a healthy sign for the ecosystem. For liquidity providers (LPs), higher volumes correspond to higher fees, which in turn lead to higher APRs i.e. yields, aside from THL and APT-based emissions. While we have been powering significant volumes, most of it has been through blue-chip assets like APT, thAPT, zUSDC, zUSDT, MOD, and THL. However, the permissioned nature of the DEX has been a bottleneck, particularly for memecoins. What's next? Going forward, our focus will be on increasing capital efficiency (i.e., achieving higher volumes for a given TVL). One of the first steps in this direction will be to make the DEX permissionless, enabling anyone to create their own liquidity pools. For instance, one could launch their memecoin, create the liquidity pool, add some liquidity, and it would be tradeable on Thalaswap. This would enable more volumes from a long tail of assets like memecoins, RWAs, LSTs, stablecoins, project tokens, and so on, thereby higher DeFi activity throughout the ecosystem. Stay tuned for more updates on permissionless pools!🔜

What is the best way to determine appropriate risk tolerance in DeFi lending markets? Paternalism Or The Invisible Hand? In this blog post we explore the complexities and trade-offs associated with different models of lending protocol risk management. We dive into three major design classifications: Global Paternalism, the Invisible Hand, and Local Paternalism. Each comes with unique trade-offs, each of which has helped shape the lending protocol landscape we see today. Global Paternalism via DAO Governance This model has been used by monolithic lending protocols like Euler v1, Compound v2, and Aave v3, each of which employs governance to manage risk parameters globally. We highlight how capital efficiency is a major benefit of this approach, but also how it has centralising tendencies and limits user choice and flexibility when it comes to risk/reward preferences. The Invisible Hand via Immutable Isolated Pools This free-market approach has been embraced by protocols like Kashi, Silo, Morpho Blue, and Compound v3. We uncover the benefits of flexibility and user-defined risk/reward tolerance, but also identify potential drawbacks in capital efficiency. Local Paternalism via Pool Aggregators This model has been used by lending aggregators such as Yearn, Idle, and Metamorpho, and relies on opinionated aggregators dynamically allocating assets into different lower-level isolated pools. As a kind of middle-ground between the two aforementioned models, we discuss how this approach blends some of those costs and benefits. True freedom is not about choosing between paternalism vs the invisible hand; it is about being able to switch seamlessly between whichever kind of model you prefer at any time you want. This motivates the need for a lending platform with modularity at its core. Euler v2, our soon-to-launch modular platform, aims to bridge the gap by providing users with customizable lending vaults designed to unlock unparalleled flexibility and composability for lending in DeFi. Watch this space.

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Artifact Labs, a subsidiary of the South China Morning Post, has completed a $2 million Pre-Seed round of financing with IOSG Ventures leading the investment.