Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 29 - Dec 6
Contagion came for Maple Finance this week. $31M this time. On an absolute dollar basis it's not so bad relative to recent blowups, but this one hurt because it would appear to invalidate one of the last, if not THE last, remaining example of "CeFi lending done
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 22 - Nov 29
I have two things to talk about this week - the CeFi lending apocalypse and surging ETH rates on Notional. We'll start with CeFi. The death of the CeFi lender A few weeks ago around the time of the FTX revelations I said in this newsletter that there
Leveraged Vaults are Live in Beta
We are excited to announce that leveraged vaults are now live in public beta! * Deposit your ETH and create your first leveraged vault position here [https://beta.notional.finance/vaults]. * Find user tutorials here [https://docs.notional.finance/notional-v2/leveraged-vaults/user-tutorials]. Leveraged vaults are a huge step forward for Notional
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 8 - Nov 15
It's been a rough week in crypto. Every time you thought the SBF/Alameda scandal was over, he found another way to shock and infuriate. But I already spent last week's newsletter talking about that, so this week let's focus on DeFi rates instead.
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Nov 1 - Nov 8
This is the craziest day I've ever seen in crypto. I still can't get my head around what happened. In less than a week, deca-billionaire SBF went from crypto's warrior king and DC golden boy to... God knows what he is now. Criminal? Pauper?
Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️ October 2022
*Leveraged Vaults beta starts this week* Welcome to the latest edition of the Notional Monthly Update! Follow the latest news on Twitter [https://www.twitter.com/notionalfinance] or join the Notional community on Discord [https://discord.notional.finance/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🗒 Summary Notes -wstETH/ETH Leveraged Vault Beta Begins! -LP Opportunity With
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Oct 25 - Nov 1
ETH rates stayed pretty stable across DeFi. The Lido stETH rate is still sitting steady at ~5.5%. Interestingly, this now puts the ETH/stETH Curve/Convex stake rate solidly below the native stETH rate at only ~5%. That Convex pool hasn't seen a marked increase in TVL,
Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Oct 18 - Oct 25
The story of the past week has been regulation. SBF made waves with two particularly controversial assertions: 1. OFAC compliance should be enforced at the application layer through the use of blacklists. 2. Any UI that allows users to access DeFi should be made to register as a broker/dealer.
