📢 SUCCESSFUL BETA LAUNCH + NEXT STEPS OF LVF ROLLOUT LVF Beta has now been live for 4.5 days, and although we've asked users to act cautiously during this period and not add significant TVL, we've already accrued $5M of test liquidity! So far, we've demonstrated a wide range of yield opportunities with sustainable 30-40% APR on ETH across multiple pods, and triple-digit leveraged yields on pTKNs! We think it's safe to say Beta has been a success so far 🎉 Furthermore, the treasury has steadily grown, accumulating almost $20k in fees during this period. This annualizes to $1.4M or roughly 60% APR on TVL deposits! We're excited to track this progress, especially after the Beta tags are removed and serious TVL is added to the platform. A reminder that at least 60% of these fees will eventually be used to buy back and burn $PEAS, and incentivize ongoing vlPEAS governance of the Metavaults, while the remaining 40% will enable the team to scale and speed up the delivery of our next innovations (work in progress 🤫). So, now that we're 4.5 days in—what comes next for LVF? 1️⃣ Metavault Beta will go live in the coming days. From here, you will be able to deposit USDC and WETH and earn the best risk-adjusted yields across the platform. During the Beta period, these risks will be curated by our team in consultation with community members. 🎯 2️⃣ We'll kick off our $20k PEAS UI/UX bounty period on Monday 17th - running for 2 weeks. Preference will be given to bounty hunters who demonstrate understanding of user journeys and provide meaningful suggestions to improve or simplify UX. The best ideas will be implemented in the following months. ✨ 3️⃣ To complement our 4 completed audits, our protocol bug bounty program with Sherlock concludes on the 18th, which will then enter a judging and review period expected to last 2-3 weeks. 🛡 4️⃣ Post-conclusion of the UX and Sherlock bounties in early March, Peapods will rip off the Beta tags and officially launch our revolutionary LVF Pods! You can expect this launch to coincide with marketing and an influx of TVL. No more TVL warning limits, and we can see how big LVF can truly grow! 🚀 While we follow through with this timeline, we'll continuously implement UI/UX optimizations to make the new Peapods app as close to perfect as possible. Among other improvements, we'll add a 'Simple' mode to the app, reducing the user journey to barebone essentials to make it more inclusive for less experienced DeFi users and degens. Plus, educational content is under production to ensure a smooth onboarding experience and help spread the word. The $PEAS LVF plane has taken off and is climbing to cruising altitude. 🛫🫛

bullish on DeFi

Let's be clear about something regarding Ethereum. 1. Highest security First of all Ethereum has the highest security amongst the programmable execution environments. Yes this matters. When world moves onchain, that means that most important and mission critical use-cases will use Ethereum. Most importantly this means $25T finance industry. 2. DeFi TVL The only PMF for onchain has been DeFi. Out of the 122B TVL Ethereum is the home for over half of it and almost 6x to the second biggest. The economies of scale is on Ethereum. Mainnet Aave is the only place you can borrow $1B in stables by posting a collateral. You can't do it anywhere else. All the most relevant DeFi innovation I keep being pitched is still on Ethereum. 3. Developer ecosystem and tooling While building DeFi sounds an easy to replicate anywhere, that is not really the case. DeFi protocols need solid network security and stability to be able to serve collateralized products and any product that include a oracle price feed. Second, in most nascent network ecosystems its much more harder to build DeFi and to secure it. Ethereum has advantage here as the developer ecosystem has build solid tooling around development (Hardhat, Foundry), multiple different testing tools, i.e. different fuzzy-testing, simulation tooling such as Tenderly for debugging and robust ecosystem of auditors that are really going deep into the code and caring, not just rubber stamping audit reports. 4. EVM innovation EVM has been the most valuable innovation in the Ethereum ecosystem. We are seeing more exciting innovation happening on EVM space, including from ZK-based EVMs to solve scalability from ZKSync, Scroll to Linea and Succinct. Instead of seeing one path of innovation, we are seeing multiple options competing to provide the best scalability and also privacy for users. 5. L2 strategy (+ Beef up Ethereum L1) People critisize the L2 strategy on Ethereum but it actually works. It allows L1 to offer highest security for Ethereum while allowing innovation to foster on L2s (as per previous point). Every major exchange or institution is looking to run their own network. They want customization and they want economics. How I would like to see this continue is that we keep innovating on the L1 side, and beef up Ethereum mainnet, faster. Once cross-chain liquidity is solved and ux challenges are removed, it all feels unified, and super fast. 6. POTUS is building on Ethereum WLF Aave instance is going to be deployed on Ethereum mainnet. Lot of innovation will follow on DeFi with WLF. This is where POTUS fundamentals are happening. 7. The institutions are deploying on Ethereum For institutions like BlackRock their main base is Ethereum and this is because Ethereum provides the highest security and stability for institutions to issue assets like RWAs, its also where all the DeFi network effects are. 8. Talent pool Most of the talented smart contract developers are on Ethereum, writing Solidity. This is also the reason why the most biggest protocols are on Ethereum and have been running for years and the same reason why the developer tooling on Ethereum is light years ahead of everything else. It's a more mature ecosystem. Remember, onchain is full of short term (very risky) opportunities that take the moment of attention but what really matters down the line is fundamentals. The ecosystems and its users that focus most of fundamentals will get the most adoption. It's just a matter of time when ETH pumps, but when it does, it's going to be the biggest revenge pump ever.