The
#DeFi
Protocol Guidelines, governing eligibility for the Collective's support, are out!
It specifies how the Collective evaluates the decentralization of protocols, which are ordered in three categories, from worst to best:
Onchain CeDeFi
Monitoring
Genuine DeFi
Read on 👇
Ants, the time is now!
#DeFi
suffers from an inherent tension between delivering on its core values and the compromises some think are needed for growth and adoption.
Solving this tension by harnessing any relevant means is The DeFi Collective's reason to be.
How? Read on 👇
The $GHO Liquidity Committee harnesses novel liquidity strategies, including directional liquidity on
@mavprotocol
to repeg GHO.
Launched about a month ago, it's time to report on its activities:
@TokenBrice
explicit them:
Read & share 👉
Hello world
Picture us as a
#DeFi
expert agency: top-notch profiles w crucial expertise incl. tokenomics, liquidity shaping, security & legal
Except that we're not for hire
The only way to recruit us is to ship the highest quality of protocols to mainnet
More info 🔜
(🐜;🐜)
#GHOtopeg
update
A new $GHO / $LUSD Boosted Pool has been supplied with incentives on
@mavprotocol
- BP
#63
There are plenty of opportunities to earn on your stable and contribute to the repeg on Maverick:
Static pool ranges change often
Want set&forget? => Both mode
The October TDC report is out!
It explains & contextualizes our activities and our accounting principles.
The ants generated a net revenue of $18,410 in October while supporting
#DeFi
public goods.
Wonder how? Read the post below 👇
The December report is out: another killer month!
- Total Value of Assets: $1.632M (⬆️17.21% month/month)
- Total Revenues: $35 565 (⬆️7.87%)
- Earnings: $30 641 (⬆️45%)
Notable events: minting
@0xDYAD
$DYAD & support extended to
@PoolTogether_
$POOL on Optimism
The Collective is supporting
@protocol_fx
with the launch of the LUSD/fETH pool () on
@VelodromeFi
.
Aka large bribes are in.
You know what this means: large bribes > more votes > more rewards for LPs next epoch (starting tomorrow).
The
@smoldapp
team is one of absolute Chads, delivering a critical service to the space with MultiSafe (=>same safe address on many chains)
- Also uber reactive and helpful whenever support is needed
@safe
you granted those guys yet? If not, you must. If yes, grant them more 🙏
“I’m not going to jail for meme coin traders”
Real talk by
@0xp0ssum
in yesterday's Space.
Here's the link with the recording if you missed it live. Find out why
@Possum_labs
are building an immutable protocol.
The Collective is looking to hire 2 contributors who will work hand in hand to help raise its profile & strengthen its ties with the broader
#DeFi
community:
1. A Community Manager
2. A Content Strategist
You'll find the job desc. & how to apply below
PTBR-16 has passed on the
@PoolTogether_
DAO
This proposal allocates 244k $POOL token and 25k PTaUSDC to be donated to the Collective, as well as 10k PTaUSDC to become delegate-able
It strengthens the Ants x PT collaboration & will help grow $POOL liquidity
How? Read on👇
Our first Ant of the Month has been appointed:
@stengarl
More like the ant of the last 6 months: he's been contributing tons to our Discord thanks to his handy recaps of various content and calls
=> He gets a $10k USDC
@PoolTogether_
delegation for one month at least!
The pitch is simple: using
#DeFi
to better DeFi.
The Collective harnesses all kinds of protocols to generate revenues to support "mission-critical" ones - built to last, a growing group incl.
@PoolTogether_
,
@LiquityProtocol
,
@0xDYAD
,
@catinaboxfi
& more
The ants are thrilled to open the ball of the
@letsgethai
governance with the very first full-fledged external proposal now live
It suggests several optimizations of the $HAI & $KITE liquidity strategy to reduce incentivization costs & grow volume
A new pool launched by the Collective on
@VelodromeFi
- with $VELO rewards that started this morning has already attracted $800k TVL: $LUSD / $USDC (native).
The APR is still flirting with the 3 digits, ant in anon, LUSD / $ETH and $GRAI pools are not too shabby either!
Ants, listen up!
The DeFi Collective is launching a 30-day incentive program to help boost the liquidity and volume of the LUSD/USDC pairs on Uniswap and Maverick
To help us in that endeavor, we are proud to collaborate with
@Kaskade_Finance
and take their tech for a test run.
GM ants
We start the week with great news: the monthly report for March is out, and the figures are encouraging:
- Net Worth: $4.4M, up 78% month/month
- Monthly Revenues: $86.6k, up 130%m/m
The public good 🎡 is unstoppable
There's more, read on 👇
The ants have spent the whole summer patiently building, preparing the colony for its grand debut.
They made many friends along the way, and look forward to revealing more about their plan to push
#DeFi
toward higher standards.
Stay tuned, the wait is almost over!
🐜🐜🐜
Ants like their frontend like they like their colonies: local, protected & tailored to their needs.
Are you ready for the lApps, anon? Read the thread & blog post, get ready for the space next Tuesday, and join the 🐜 Discord: it's time to take back control over the gateways
1/3 🧵
Making DeFi frontends great again through lApps
What if we told you that you could run your own private
@uniswap
frontend locally and benefit from:
- Stronger security 💪
- More control 🎮
- Lightning-fast loading ⚡
- and zero frontend fees 💸👀
Enter lApps! ⬇️
GM
The ants concluded their second weekly harvest, with a net revenue on a steady rise
More details on the Discord, and the first treasury ops reporting is to be expected mid-Nov: 4 weeks delay to save the alpha 👀
The self-reinforcing public good support flywheel is spinning!
Do you know what's even better than aping into a pool supported by the ants?
Aping into a pool supported by the ants, auto compounded by
@beefyfinance
& play
@PoolTogether_
with your LP tokens
Now live for
@VelodromeFi
$POOL / $ETH LPs
The report for February is out with new records set, as ants do every month
Highlights for degens in a hurry:
- Net-worth ATH, increased 26.3% month/month
- Main exposure = stablecoin
Dive in & find the full report on our blog linked at the end of the thread 👇
The Treasury Management Policy is now live - this document governs how the Collective treasuries are managed to maximize the support provided to mission-critical protocols while minimizing the risks incurred
🧵A quick overview thread + link to the entire document a the end 👇
Apes profit-maxing supporting low-quality multisig-powered projects
Ants impact-maxing supporting the top tier
#DeFi
projects maximizing resilience
& generates more revenue than the apes doing so
You're not ready for the 1st Collective treasury report, anon
See u next week
The ants will extend their presence and activity to two new layers starting this week:
@0xMantle
, harnessing
@CleopatraDEX
@0xPolygonDeFi
, 🙏
@zero_zkevm
Mission-critical tokens will be supported to grow their footprint on both chains
Stay tuned, threads coming up on each!
Unveiling Gravita Protocol on
@Optimism
We are now live on Optimism with full support for $rETH and $wstETH, allowing users to borrow GRAI at 0% APR.
Launch your Vessel now at !
Facts few realize yet:
Over its first quarter of existence, the Collective generated $87k of revenues, roughly $3k/day.
If the Collective was a protocol, it would already be in the top 50 by revenues
The trend is up only for our second quarter
Context:
The ants are coming to
@0xMantle
this week!
The rollup has grown quickly since its launch in mid-July, with over $250M of assets on the network.
It harnesses the
@Optimism
OVM architecture & will ultimately leverage
@eigenlayer
DA &
@SpecularL2
fraud proofs (under dev)
🧵[1/5]
The DeFi Collective is here to nudge the whole
#DeFi
space towards more resilience, autonomy, and trustlessness.
How? Simple: by supporting the projects upholding these standards by all relevant means: liquidity engineering, governance, research, legal, networking & more
The Collective is 2 months old, 500 ants strong on Discord, packing 7 figures-worth of assets able to direct north of 8 figures of liquidity.
Our adventure is only beginning: let's snowball the colony! See you in a year, with one added figure to each number by then 👀
Only a handful of stablecoins remain truly bankless, freed from RWA exposure
@BanklessHQ
Let's hear about the various models they harness in our upcoming space: $crvUSD, $GRAI, $fETH & $LUSD
📍Thursday 26, 5PM GMT+2 👇
Epoch flip means new opportunities, and this week is ripe with them- 5 new pools are supported by the Collective:
-
@VelodromeFi
LUSD/USDC, LUSD/USDT & LUSD/ETH (slipstream)
-
@RamsesExchange
LUSD/USDC sAMM & LUSD/GRAI CL
+ Aero_POOL/LUSD & Ram_POOL/ETH launched last week
The stablecoin rating agency
@bluechip_org
is a key resource for
#DeFi
They deliver a standardized economic rating helping users to navigate the stablecoin landscape & provide great coverage of stable-related news
Like their work as much as we do? Consider donating:
Bluechip is excited to be a part of
@gitcoin
Grants, the biggest quadratic funding event in Web3!
#GG19
Bluechip is a nonprofit, public good. Our donors ensure that you have free access to unbiased stablecoin ratings and research.
You can donate here:
Welcome to the bank of
#Ethereum
, where users set the interest rate they pay.
Sounds too fancy for you, anon? No worries, you can delegate interest management and enjoy a passive borrowing experience Ants & others will be happy to provide.
Liquity v2: Why user-set interest rates are a BOLD move forward 🔵
To date there is no protocol that has created an efficient interest-rate market between borrowers and stablecoin holders.
This is about to change. ⛓️
In DeFi we have:
- Fixed one-time origination fee - e.g.
The ants put their money where their mouth is & donated $500 to
@bluechip_org
Looking forward to having more stablecoins reviewed, historical data & deeper integrations of Bluechip ratings into other dApps
We're considering using the ratings directly, too, for our own framework
The stablecoin rating agency
@bluechip_org
is a key resource for
#DeFi
They deliver a standardized economic rating helping users to navigate the stablecoin landscape & provide great coverage of stable-related news
Like their work as much as we do? Consider donating:
The recording of the first Collective live call is up:
The full squad -
@floowp_
@TokenBrice
Nils &
@abmisx0
was there to explicit the Collective's mission and the means it deploys to fulfill it and answer the community's questions 👇
On top of helping onchain mission-critical
#DeFi
protocols, Ants are keen to donate part of their revenues to support relevant teams and institutions.
After a first donation to
@bluechip_org
in Nov, it's time for
@smoldapp
to feel the ants' loving embrace with 1000 $LUSD donated
The DeFi Collective is a Swiss nonprofit association incorporated in Zug and operating under the leadership of its founding board:
@flo_prantl
, our legal/policy expert
Nils Bundi, a protocol architect/smart contract dev
@TokenBrice
, our liquidity & governance connoisseur
That thrill when you won the lottery 🥳.
It's not huge, but let's keep compounding to support genuine DeFi, one dollar at a time 😅.
Thank you
@PoolTogether_
📢 Awareness (cont.)
We'd love to harness this occasion to announce that the Collective will host frequent shows to discuss its activities and the broader
#DeFi
.
These shows will be hosted by
@TokenBrice
, who will share his alpha for the first time in English in a live format🎉
Rdv ce soir 18h pour un live spécial DeFi avec
@TokenBrice
qui va nous présenter
@DeFiCollective_
une initiative visant à supporter les meilleurs projets en DeFi
Venez poser vos questions à
@TokenBrice
👉
The Collective focuses on five critical areas of expertise to help the most resilient
#DeFi
projects grow and drive more builders to explore the path of immutability:
🧪 Research
📜 Self-Regulation
📢 Awareness
🗳️ Governance
⛲️ Liquidity Management
🕸️ Integrations
ICYMI: Ants are on
@LineaBuild
and powering decent yields for $LUSD pools on to
@NileExchange
LUSD can be bridged with Linea bridge:
You'd need to paste the contract address - 0x5f98805a4e8be255a32880fdec7f6728c6568ba0
Come dilute us 🤗
GM Ants,
Ants like resilience and thus have little interest in RWAs in
#DeFi
. It's a pressing matter on the stablecoin vertical, where only a handful remains free of offchain assets.
It's time to give them the stage: $crvUSD, $GRAI, $fETH & $LUSD 👇️
While you're busy farming points, ants have been loading up on kerosene since close to day 1.
Soon even more with
@blueprintfi_eth
$LUSD/ $DYAD
Impact maxing > profit maxing, and it's quite often... More profitable 😇
DYAD is a simple, powerful stablecoin
LP DYAD to earn Kerosene: DYAD’s surplus collateral, tokenized
deposit Kerosene, along with $ezETH, $eETH and $stETH, to mint DYAD
Kerosene rehypothecates DYAD’s surplus collateral; the more you earn, the lower your cost to mint DYAD
The Colony keeps expanding!
We're delighted to welcome
@spicypiz
as our latest contributor
As our Content Strategist, he will help the Collective ramp up its content and social network presence (including Web3 Social soon) to raise awareness of its cause and actions.
Hope you had time to get in anon.
$GHO is now back to 0.99$, expect new incentives to concentrate liquidity at peg and stay there.
Congrats to everyone involved & our benevolent temporary "dictator"
@TokenBrice
&
@DeFiCollective_
The fourth harvest concluded, still up only. This marks the end of our fourth week of treasury operations.
1 month before public reporting 👀 (delay to preserve the alpha)
Next week, we kick of DeFi season on zkEVM.
We’ve been quiet, heads down trying to create something special and novel.
Hopeful we’ve succeeded, and can set a standard for the caliber of builders that you can expect moving forward for Polygon public and CDK chains.
🔛🔝🔜
Possums X Ants 💪
We are thrilled to announce our latest partnership with
@DeFiCollective_
The DeFi Collective is a non-profit built to support DeFi's mission of transforming financial services into a secure, transparent & inclusive public infrastructure.
Ants 🤝
@catinaboxfi
We've been looking forward to the next version of CIAB for months, thrilled to see it approaching!
Looking forward to staking our 🐈 to direct incentives to grow and sustain liquidity on Cat and boxETH tokens
@blueprintfi_eth
&
@Timeless_Fi
, u in?
📢 Awareness
Furthering the public understanding of the benefits and risks of decentralized infrastructure and DeFi protocols is vital to building trust in this new technology.
We will use any relevant social channel to create awareness towards this goal.
Ants were patiently waiting for
@VelodromeFi
Slipstream deployment to LUSD pools; the next epoch is when we finally get some action!
We'll be launching the $LUSD / $ETH, $LUSD / $USDC & $LUSD / $USDT Slipstream/CL pools with compelling vote incentives :
On Arbitrum,
@RamsesExchange
will be harnessed to grow a POOL/ETH CL pool:
- Seeded >$50k by the Collective, thanks to the donated $POOL & ETH from the Ants' reserves
- Supported thanks to the Ants' massive ~8.5M veRAM position
It should prove sufficient.
The monthly report of the Collective is out, providing context on our onchain activities during the month of November
Over the period, the ants generated $32 968 in revenue while supporting mission-critical tokens.
Check the report for more 👇
The monthly report for January is out, and (don't get too used to it)... it's another record month for the Collective!
- Net Revenue: $49 194, up 38% compared to the previous month
- Earnings: $ 42,945, up 40%.
The full breakdown is on the blog 👇
gm Ants
Our second quarterly summary is live, and it's an ace:
- Quarterly Revenues $173,424 (⏫98.91% vs last quarter)
- Quarterly Earnings $131,210 (⏫87.25%)
=> 75.66% surplus to be compounded into the treasury to further support genuine DeFi protocols
The DeFi Collective is not a service-providing company.
Instead, the Collective self-appoint to support the most resilient projects without a mandate, permission, or compensation.
There is no "hiring us". To benefit from our support, one needs to ship the highest-quality code.
The colony is growing! We're thrilled to introduce our third contributor,
@cookingcryptos
, a former chef turned
#DeFi
enthusiast
He's helping to submit grant requests in relevant communities: he's already at it, on
@PoolTogether_
governance:
Slipstream is here for the Collective!
The transition of the $LUSD-related pools to concentrated liquidity is well underway, with a fresh one launched just this week: $HAI/LUSD & another one with rewards starting at the next epoch: $GRAI/LUSD
Got LUSD on Optimism? Join in anon:
📜 User Protection (cont.)
… balanced laws and regulations.
We support developing and promoting an adequate self-regulation framework that fosters decentralization and trust in DeFi protocols.
The DeFi Collective is supporting these two LUSD/USDC pools this week.
More rewards are coming up next week.
Do what you want with that information, anon.
Velodrome (Optimism):
Ramses (Arbitrum):
The Collective is a community-driven effort, growing thanks to the work of its supporters, contributors, association members, and board members.
How to join the Colony?
Find all the details in the latest blog, including the story of
@0xluude
, the latest contributor onboarded
The ants are following the launch of
@blueprintfi_eth
closely and are eager to get involved with veBLUE and as liquidity provider on Blueprint: another great tool to improve the liquidity on the tokens of projects we support
⛲️ Liquidity Management
While essential for adoption, bootstrapping liquidity is challenging and costly - especially for public infrastructure projects with limited resources.
We support protocols to overcome this challenge with our network, expertise & liquidity-driving assets
🗳️ Governance
The value and adoption of DeFi protocols significantly depend on their ability to integrate with the broader industry.
We will advocate for increased support of the sturdiest DeFi protocols across the broader DeFi ecosystem.
GM Ants 🐜, the Collective keeps supporting
@LiquityProtocol
with these two $LUSD / $USDC CL pools this week.
- On Base with
@aerodromefi
- see link
- On Optimism with
@VelodromeFi
- see link
Trade on the $LUSD / $USDC pair through
@Kaskade_Finance
and earn
Ants are in the arena and trying new things: can volume-incentives work? Let's reconvene in a month to analyze the data and see.
🚨 NEW CAMPAIGN LIVE 🚨
@LiquityProtocol
campaign is now live! Trade $LUSD / $USDC on Kaskade for the chance to win up to $30k in $LUSD rewards from
@DeFiCollective_
incentivising
@mavprotocol
and
@Uniswap
pools!
Start trading now to secure your spot 👇
🧪 Research
The decentralization of public infrastructure is an active field of research, and understanding the drivers of security, reliability, and efficiency is crucial to our mission.
We conduct and support research that furthers the understanding of this field.
The $PSM / $LUSD
@Possum_Labs
Ramses pool was seeded on May 1st with 63k$ and voted on with the Collective's veRAM position.
The pool already attracted 85k$ extra TVL to sit at 148k$ TVL. That's a 2.4x in 2 weeks.
Let's go Ants 🐜🐜🐜
Epoch flip tomorrow means new pools! This week will bring you:
1. $LUSD / $GRAI (CL)
@gravitaprotocol
on Velodrome [Optimism]
- Seeded $33k, bribed and voted on by 🐜
2. $PSM / $LUSD
@Possum_Labs
on Ramses [Arbitrum]
- Seeded $63k and voted on by 🐜
Rotate accordingly
We look forward to hearing your thoughts and impressions.
To learn more about the next steps, join us tomorrow at 7 PM GMT+2 on the Collective discord server for the first Collective live session, hosted by
@TokenBrice
Got a spare 8 millies for the ants?
With or without it, our protocol guidelines are coming out next week, with the first protocol reviews to follow
They will help users, teams and even institutions to situate protocols on a spectrum going from "genuine DeFi" to "onchain CeDeFi"
@lex_node
Glad to see a lawyer actually saying this. The solution is stop the DINO theatre and invest in public goods.
Honestly if there is 8 mil USD to donate give it to the defi collective and put a rocket on them the further the mission faster. That's their entire mandate!
What is a "truly decentralized"
#DeFi
protocol?
In our latest article, our technically-focused board member
@nilsbundi
highlights the challenges of defining decentralization as well as its means challenges, and costs:
Thursday means harvest for the ants, and this one is special: our 12th - concluding our first trimester of onchain operations.
We've also breached new ATHs on all recorded metrics; looking forward to reporting on this one in Jan. 🥳
100 new ants today; let's keep growing the colony 🌊
Sympathetic to the Collective's cause? The next stop is our live session scheduled for tomorrow at 7PM GMT+2 on the Discord
The $POOL / $wETH
@VelodromeFi
LP is now >$50k, the initial objective set by the Ants, which self-appointed to the task
Yet, it was a team effort; thanks to
@PoolTogether_
for co-vote incentivizing the pool & to voters!
Onwards to $100k, as the APY remains highly competitive 👀
Epoch flip tomorrow means new pools! This week will bring you:
1. $LUSD / $GRAI (CL)
@gravitaprotocol
on Velodrome [Optimism]
- Seeded $33k, bribed and voted on by 🐜
2. $PSM / $LUSD
@Possum_Labs
on Ramses [Arbitrum]
- Seeded $63k and voted on by 🐜
Rotate accordingly
📜 User Protection
Trust in any critical infrastructure builds on existing quality criteria & transparent adherence of providers to these. Additionally, TradFi has numerously shown the success of industry-developed self-regulation in laying the foundation for future…
1/ Today, we unveil Morpho Blue 🟦
A trustless lending primitive that offers unparalleled efficiency and flexibility.
It will serve as a new base layer for decentralized lending.
The ants, through their veNFTs are long trading volume, while supporting the liquidity on tokens from mission-critical
#DeFi
protocols.
$18 400 of NET revenues in the first month (-> pinned tweet) with capital being deployed
Imagine fully deployed + more veNFTs + bullish vibes?
🥂 to the ants scoring a top 10 protocol veVELO position
It's 100% dedicated to supporting tokens of mission-critical protocols on Optimism such as $POOL & $LUSD, and still produces respectable weekly earnings used to fuel the ants' unstoppable flywheel of public good support
The top projects by amount of $veVELO:
🥇
@Optimism
🥈
@InverseFinance
🥉
@MillenniumClub3
Over the course of 2023, protocols were amassing $VELO to lock to increase their control of emissions and prepare for the Superchain.
It’s not too late to do well! If you are learning about the Collective today and would like to contribute, please contact us.
The Collective accepts donations and other contributions: entities and individuals supporting us do so for the best interest of DeFi.