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
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
Notional Finance Quarterly Report: Q3 2022
Q3 2022 was another challenging quarter for crypto markets, but Notional put in a strong showing despite the pessimistic backdrop. The protocol processed $84M in loan volume over the quarter and generated $172k in revenue while keeping TVL roughly flat at $82M. These figures are down from Q2, but reflect
