$18 million cap filled 🍊 After the anchor liquidity from @yield_network & others, the ctUSD pre-deposit vault opened for public deposits. The first public phase filled in seconds, so the cap was increased. The new cap extension of $3 Million filled under 5 minutes 🧵

The @pharos_network Alpha Vault on Ember has reached $50M in deposits, filling its full capacity in just 8 days since launch. We thank everyone for the support and for participating! It has been exciting to see the momentum carry through each phase.

Y10k Capital is an actively managed onchain vehicle providing access to curated yield mandates: pre-deposits, genesis launches, and lending markets. Risk operations by @Rockaway_X. Distribution by @yield_network y10k.capital

Not another RWA talk. A real discussion about what's actually working. Behind the Asset EP2: RealFi Uncovered - Building the Future of Onchain Finance 📆 March 19, 11AM EST 🔗 x.com/i/spaces/1oKMvRQjVAeGQ… Featuring: - @Alchemy - @glennonchain (Glenn Rothwell, Business Development) - @AquaFluxPro (Jackie, Head of Strategy) - @Dune - @filippoarman (Filippo, Research Lead) - @yield_network - @maxyamp (Max Yamp, Founder & CEO) Hosted by @michellek_web3 (Michelle Kang, CMO) Tokenization ≠ usable asset. Infrastructure is everything else. Set a reminder 👇

Ink is co-hosting Proof of Liquidity with @yield_network & @FundersVC on March 30. The dedicated venue for institutional deal flow at @EthCC - a curated floor for capital and protocol alignment. Capacity is capped. If you’re deploying or raising capital, this is your room 👇

Yield Network x @inkonchain, Kraken's chain Proof of Liquidity returns to @EthCC. We are hosting the premier LP & Capital Formation summit in Cannes. No panels. No noise. Just the sharpest allocators and DeFi infrastructure in the same room. Apply 👇 luma.com/yc8j7c70

Over the years, TVL has become easier and easier to manipulate. There are many ways to inflate numbers in DeFi protocols. It’s simpler than you might think, and it’s happening across chains on a wide scale. All you need is a lending pool and an aggregator/strategy/stablecoin: 1. User mints $1M worth of Stablecoin A (could also be a vault, strategy, etc.). 2. Issuer takes that $1M backing and mints $1M of Stablecoin B (e.g., USDC/USDT). 3. Issuer deposits Stablecoin B into a lending pool. 4. User deposits Stablecoin A as collateral in the same lending pool. 5. User borrows Stablecoin B against their Stablecoin A. 6. User swaps borrowed Stablecoin B to mint more Stablecoin A. 7. Issuer uses this new capital to mint more Stablecoin B and deposits it back in the lending pool. 8. Repeat. Each loop inflates TVL. With high Liquidation LTVs, you could easily manufacture $10B to $100B in TVL. If you look onchain, past the headline number, you will usually find a handful of addresses driving most of the activity, with very little genuine user demand underneath. Also, when retail investors make decisions based on widely advertised TVL metrics, it raises serious ethical concerns. Let’s build for users and real economic activity, not for dashboards.

Your 100% APR is a hidden trap. The @berachain "basis trade" is a perfect example of how DeFi rewards can turn into a trap. On paper, it looks like a dream: you buy iBGT (the yield-bearing wrapper), short $BERA to stay delta-neutral, and harvest a 113% APY. The real danger is the funding rate. When $BERA pumped 40% recently, short funding rates on some venues hit an impressive 1,000% APR. Farmers who thought they were "risk-free" suddenly found their yields being incinerated by the cost of their own hedge. To make things worse, the iBGT pool is super thin; just $100k in selling pressure was enough to cause a massive depeg. We could see this same "extractive" pattern in other models: > @pendle_fi ($sPENDLE): With the new 14-day lock, I fear farmers will simply short $PENDLE rather than using the protocol's actual yield tools (PTs), creating a cycle of sell pressure. I am convinced that the @nomad_ V3 proposal could be the solution. Decoupling price volatility from the reward mechanics, we stop the "short-and-farm" game. Having a token that generates yield is great, but if it forces every trader to bet against you while the spot market stays dead, the protocol is just a slow-motion exit for extractive capital. We need to move toward models that reward actual loyalty, not just the ability to manage a hedge.

The Prediction Market Economy is now investable. 🔮 We are proud to partner with @EmberProtocol and @BluefinApp to syndicate the first-ever onchain vault powered by @Polymarket. The Strategy: Active management of prediction market positions by veteran traders (@DeFiSquared, @Gold_Mansack). The Role: Yield Network is acting as the Syndication Layer, opening access to this institutional-grade strategy to our Yield Syndicate - the deepest network of onchain allocators. 🌊 Allocations open now: app.yieldnetwork.io/launch/p…

$40M Orchestrated for @InkOnchain 🦑 Yield Network has finalized the deployment of $40M (USDT0, ETH, kBTC) to scale the Ink ecosystem We focused on Capital Coordination - sourcing and routing deep liquidity to bootstrap lending markets on @tydrohq (Aave)

Proof of Liquidity touches down in Abu Dhabi 🇦🇪 The premier gathering for Institutional LPs, Yield Architects & Builders Co-Hosts: @NexusMutual @DogeOS @Berachain @FundersVC Partners: @upshift_fi @coinchangeio @PeanutTrade Media: @Cointelegraph RSVP 👇 luma.com/g9ganq3x