Let's talk about the high-level mechanics of Saffron Uniswap Vaults (release date TBD). ♨️Vaults transform Uniswap yield into fixed income ♨️LPs on the fixed side are paid up-front ♨️Variable side depositors earn multiplied yield on single-asset deposits Read more below:

Little known fact is that this freedom-inspiring economic zone has its roots in early bitcoin history. In 2013 I read a post on the bitcointalk forums by @EdanYago talking about how this could be possible in Honduras... It was one of the original reasons I knew the bitcoin and cypherpunk movement was so powerful and net positive for humanity. reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comment… Exactly 10 years later, when I learned it was actually happening, I visited this place. and what I saw was the dream of dreamers coming to life in front of my own eyes I wish them the best of luck and continued success in this experiment, which against all odds, continues to thrive and motivate others

Using options in DeFi isn't a new idea, and many options protocols and designs have been tried before. More than that, options protocols are thriving - look at Uni v3 LPing side. Vitalik's idea relies on "slow oracles", but DeFi can be run without oracles at all. 3 years ago, @smykjain shared a design for an oracle-less lending protocol on top of Uni v4 with 99% LTVs, Transient Liquidations (if the price of collateral goes down temporarily, but returns to its original price, the position will return to its original value), boosted returns for LPs, etc. There are also limitations to this design - users can not borrow more than there is liquidity on the DEX, and under certain conditions, DEX LPs will not be able to withdraw liquidity until the debt is repaid (although LPs will be receiving even higher returns in this case. Given that the Lending markets have a much higher TVL and borrowing demand than DEXes can realistically accommodate, this design has not entered into production, but can act as an inspiration for other innovative ideas.

ICOs are back on Ethereum.

Panoptic v2 is live!

Eyeball arbitrage

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Following up on this

Looks like the options thing is happening already! See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or github.com/lfglabs-dev/verit… folks ( @Fricoben) can help! (Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles) firefly.social/post/x/206494…

This is directionally correct. Hyperliquid is also a good example of "AllFi". Value for clients the right infrastructure = scale.

The rare and elusive chart going up and to the right

I can see more and more of these deals happening as RWAs gain traction and tokenization becomes more common. "Kiavi is expected to contribute $7 billion in annual volume, including over $100 million of monthly flow on Democratized Prime." x.com/DefiLlama/status/19501…

Founder's experience: Week 1: "Damn. This is probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do." Week 5: "Damn, now THIS is the hardest thing I've ever had to do." Week 17: "Damn, ..."

Liquidity is not defined by where assets sit. It’s about whether execution can reach them and make them productive

Feeling bullish as we are wrapping up the angel round and >75% of the angels use Proton Mail emails

For every headline name there are 100 platforms you have never heard of. 1,250 names to be exact. There is a way to uncover unknown, up-and-coming accounts using your Grok key. Everyone reading this should have a Grok key. I'll explain why. My agent has been scouring the social graph on X by using the new X-search agent skill. New accounts try to get noticed by the algorithm. But the algorithm is cooked. Instead, this skill locates them with a powerful vibe detector. X-search not only allows you to search by exact keyword match, similar to the way the legacy X API key works. It also allows you to run a semantic search, which is a new feature I endearingly describe as "vibe search". My vibe search loop is simple. It has a rotating list of key words and phrases it cycles through every 15 minutes. Because I know what people are posting about in the RWA space, I add all new trending phrases to this list, and my agent finds all posts by new accounts (or ones I haven't found yet that are new to the discussion) because it's relevant to the vibe of the search term. I've been accumulating for about 10 days. I think in 100 days I'll have 1,000 more. And in 1 year it may even be 10,000 more.

Liquidity mining 👌 Epochs 👌

Finally set up my @aboutcircles profile. Apparently I'm printing money now? app.gnosis.io/p/0x45c810547B…

Execution Reverted: Loop too deep

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

Daily Saffron yield spike 🔼 $HYPE on @Optimism: volume down 31%, yet daily APR >200%. ~$2m TVL pool. 𐁉