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Forwarded from Ouroboros Capital
Ouroboros Research Daily (3 Aug'23)
Presented by Menya Research

Go to our highlights channel for easy access to all past Research Daily as well as alpha highlights from Ouroboros' Narratives chat.

Curve Liquidation Arc
- Another 21.5m CRV ($8.6m) was OTCed today, bringing the total amount of CRV OTCed to 63.5m ($25.4m). New counterparties include Yearn, StakeDAO, and 3 more unidentified wallets
- Abracadabra proposal to raise interest rates on CRV cauldrons which could result in interest rates rising to 1000%-2000%. This proposal was later (more reasonably) amended to bring down proposed rates to 150-165% and to consider the liquidity of CRV/ETH
- Inverse Finance proposal to reduce collateral factor for its CRV market from 75% -> 65% and 50%->48% for cvxCRV, st-yCRV, cvxFXS markets . Liquidation incentives for cvxCRV, st-yCRV, cvxFXS markets will also be increased from 10% to 12%.
- Aave proposal to set CRV LTV to 0 has garnered 100% yes votes so far. This will precent further borrowing against CRV collateral
- Yearn has joined the OTC
- ZachXBT has asked MichaelRazum to reach out to the JPEG'd team given his address' connection to the Curve pool exploit

Project updates
- Y2K Finance launches "Touch" vaults for non-pegged assets, allowing users to trade one-touch options. The first asset to launch is CRV with a $0.40 strike price
- Quantum Wealth Network (a project that is spiritually OHM and accelerates wealth), launches its token
- Yuga Labs say HV-MTL Forge has double the retention rate (42%) of Dookey Dash
- Offchain Labs / Arbitrum teases an announcement tomorrow
- Unibot planning to launch DEX aggregator
- Rollbit founder responds to FUD and teases major release next week
- unshETH's Project Sentience goes live, open sourcing LSDs and allowing users to configure their own LSDs
- Rage Trade is sunsetting v1 to prepare for its v2 launch
- Sui launches liquid staking for its native token
- DegenHive is launching a Curve v2 style concentrated liquidity DEX on SUI
- KTX Finance is launching on Mantle

Onchain
- Sui sees ATH daily transactions driven by Ethos Wallet's game, SUI 8192
- FTX is bridging out its remaining assets on Solana to Ethereum using Wormhole
- Velodrome swap fees reach ATH
- Mantle TVL rises from $15m on 31 Jul'23 to $39m currently, large contributed by Agni Finance and iZiSwap

Regulatory / Macro
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Sources tell Blockworks that The SEC is ready to consider ETH futures ETFs
- Overall, 7 ETH Futures ETF were filed from 6 issuers - deadline to watch: 16 Oct'23, ETF experts raise likelihood of spot BTC ETF approval from 50% to 65%
- Proshares and Direxion LETFs file for dual Bitcoin/Ether ETFs
- US DOJ are considering fraud charges against Binance but are concerned it could cause a bank run similar to FTX ,and are considering a compromise
- OKX adds account abstraction features to its wallet
- China continues to Binance's largest market with $90b in volume
- Worldcoin suspended in Kenya, one of its biggest markets

Opinions / Analysis
-
francesco's thread on Frax Finance's FraxFerry
- DCF GOD's view on the Curve situation
- thiccythot's thread on CRV OTC sales
- Frax Finance's Drake Evans view on lending project changing loan terms
- slapjakke's thread on Lyra v2
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CRV OTC Update
Total CRV Sold: 76M CRV @ $0.4 for $30.4M

Counterparties
1. 0x23f7 - 17.5M CRV
2. Justin Sun - 5M CRV
3. 0x4d3e - 2.5M CRV
4. DCF God - 4.25M CRV (split their CRV between two wallets and deposited and staked on Convex - Wallet 1 | Wallet 2)
5. 0xcb5a - 1.25M CRV
6. Cream Finance - 2.5M CRV (Locked 2M for 6 months, rest staked in Convex)
7. DWF Labs - 12.5M CRV
8. machibigbrother.eth - 3.75M CRV (Locked for 6 months)
9. 0x9dbf - 250K CRV
10. erwwer - 2.5M CRV
11. c2tp.eth - 2.5M CRV (Staked in Convex)
12. Yearn - 3.75M CRV (Staked in Yearn)
13. StakeDAO - 1.25M CRV (Staked in StakeDAO)
14. 0x5Aae - 2.5M CRV (Staked in Convex)
15. 0x0030 - 10M CRV (The Block reported this as Huobi's Jun Du, who has locked it for 1 year, but onchain shows that it is yet to be locked)
16. 0x73F8A - 4M CRV


Michael Egorov Outstanding Debt
1. Aave v2 | $49.2M | Health Rate 1.71
2. Abracadabra Loan 1 | $9.9M | 1.71
3. Abracadabra Loan 2 | $2M | 1.86
4. Fraxlend | $9.2M | 1.87
5. Inverse Loan 1 | $7.6M | 1.69
6. Inverse Loan 2 | $1.67M | 1.52
7. Silo | $733K | 1.90
8. crvUSD Loan 1| $1.4M | 1.09
9. crvUSD Loan 2 | $531K | 1.12

Total Debt = $82.2M


Other CRV Alfa
- Aave are now proposing to purchase 5M CRV via OTC at $0.4
- Dune Dashboard
- If you want to track CRV OTC wallets in real-time, try @EVMTrackerBot (not sponsored). I've found Arkham to be unreliable.
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Incoming demand for OTC CRV
Spiral DAO: $500k-$1m
Aave: $2m
Frax: amount not decided


https://twitter.com/0xRamenUmai/status/1687284243448414208
https://twitter.com/0xRamenUmai/status/1687284248179560448
Trader Joe launches on Ethereum

1. Available markets
- USDC/USDT - base fee 0.005%
- DAI/USDT - base fee 0.0005%

2. Auto-Pools allow users to automate liquidity (similar to automated LP management on uni v3)

3. Onchain Limit Orders

4. JOE is now an omnichain fungible token (OFT), coming to Ethereum soon

5. sJOE staking on Ethereum coming soon

Source


Thoughts
- launching stable pools first seems timely given the exodus of TVL from Curve
- Trader Joe’s v2.1 (comparable to Uni v3 and forks) has the highest fee/tvl ratio (efficiency) of all its competitors - data sourced from Artemis
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Frax Gov Proposal to Onboard RWA Partner

IanGPT Summary:
- FinresPBC, a public benefit corporation, aims to assist the Frax Protocol by managing cash-equivalent assets without seeking profit, as part of Frax V3 RWA strategy.

- The company's role is limited to holding reserves and issuing tokens representing these reserves for Frax Protocol.

- FinresPBC partners with Lead Bank and plans to expand its crypto-friendly financial partnerships.

- The proposal suggests adopting FinresPBC as the offchain partner for FRAX v3, promising transparency with monthly public reports.

Source
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Evgeny (Wintermute) says their CRV OTC purchases are related to Wildcat Finance, a lending protocol under development.

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Forwarded from Wu Blockchain News
Breaking: PayPal said it will launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), issued by Paxos Trust Co. Backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term Treasury bills, and cash equivalents. PYUSD will gradually become available to PayPal's U.S.-based customers. BBG
Wu Blockchain News
Breaking: PayPal said it will launch a U.S. dollar stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), issued by Paxos Trust Co. Backed by U.S. dollar deposits, short-term Treasury bills, and cash equivalents. PYUSD will gradually become available to PayPal's U.S.-based customers.…
PayPal's $pyUSD has freeze and wipe functions.
https://twitter.com/ChainLinkGod/status/1688683031345917952

Ian's thoughts:
- great step towards mainstream adoption of crypto, likely see more pySTABLES moving forward
- centralized functions are necessary for regulators to approve - USDC, USDT, etc all have centralized functions but is used widely in DeFi
- regulation is inevitable and vital for adoption
- decentralized finance won't die, will see inflow from centralized users as UX gets better
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Mantle Network
Seeing some questions about Mantle so here's some info.

$MNT contract address on Ethereum: 0x3c3a81e81dc49a522a592e7622a7e711c06bf354

Bridges
- bridge.mantle.xyz
- orbiter.finance

OR

Buy MNT on Bybit and send directly to your Mantle address (cheapest route)
- Bybit ref link


Things you can do on Mantle:

Trade & LP
- FusionX: stake LP to earn $RSFX
- Agni
- iZUMi Finance

Lend & Borrow
- Lendle: lend or borrow to earn $LEND rewards
- Reax: lend or borrow to earn $veREAX

Other Protocols
https://defillama.com/chain/Mantle


The above list is for information purposes only and is not an endorsement on my part. NFA, DYOR.
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