Weekly Interest Rate Roundup: Dec 6 - Dec 13
We are entering bear market apathy. SBF has been arrested and charged with fraud and all sorts of other heinous crimes. CZ has faced a mini bank run and been hit with $5+ Billion in withdrawals in 48 hours. And I don't think I was alone when I
Notional Fixed Rate Update 🗓️ November 2022
*Leveraged Vault Beta RESULTS* 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 -Leveraged Vault Private and Public Beta Results -Playlist: Youtube [https://youtube.
Notional Partner Spotlight: Balancer + Aura
Notional is focused on building highly efficient, secure, and scalable fixed rate tools for decentralized financial markets. Deep liquidity and asset flexibility is a crucial part of our long-term vision. Balancer [https://balancer.fi/] is a leading AMM provider with unique trading tools, governance characteristics, and other features that support
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?
