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FIGURE: WASSIE[1] NOTE TAKING ON DEFI PANEL DAY 2 This week, we bring you a special edition of DeFi Digest, stemming from the investigative journalism on Solana’s NYC Hacker House by Fundstrat’s in-house wassie, yours truly. Out of the week-long event, I attended the DeFi panels across two days, where representatives of DeFi protocols discussed the most pertinent issues in DeFi today and ways forward. _For a deep dive into...
WEEKLY RECAP Cryptoassets performed strongly for the second consecutive week, as prices have seemingly become less responsive to negative headlines surrounding the war in Ukraine and the risk of excess hawkishness from the Fed. It was another “risk-on” week within crypto as smart contract platforms performed the best on a size-adjusted basis out of any other sector. Much of this outperformance stems from the recent optimism surrounding Ethereum’s merge and...
FIGURE: ANCHOR CELEBRATING ITS ONE-YEAR BIRTHDAY Source: TradingView Fellow Yield Farmers, I hope the previous issues of DeFi Digest have laid some foundation in this fast-moving space that is Decentralized Finance. We’ve covered concepts such as money markets, decentralized exchanges, and yield sources/flows, teeing up this week’s analysis of Anchor Protocol nicely. Today also coincides with Anchor’s one-year anniversary of launching on Terra on March 17th, 2021. _For a recap...
WEEKLY RECAP For the first time since December 2018, the Fed announced a benchmark interest rate hike of 25 bps and signaled for six more hikes this year. It is apparent that the market had priced this in (discussed further below) and is content with the lack of increased hawkishness despite rampant inflation. Bitcoin and ether increased in lockstep with equities but remain largely range-bound, currently straddling $40k and $2.6k,...