This Week in DeFi: blocmates Alpha Report. 16th July.

Jul 16, 2021 | Community Guides

This Week in DeFi: The blocmates Alpha Report – News, Opportunities and more…

Welcome to the third instalment of This Week in DeFi. We are going to release a weekly round-up newsletter on our website which covers all the current events, opportunities and what to look out for in the coming days.

Here at blocmates, we are trying to help as many people discover and understand the weird and wonderful world of DeFi. If there is anything you are unsure about you can always join our free community ran Telegram which is aimed at helping newcomers and those who have issues in crypto and DeFi.

Before we start non of this is sponsored and if it does become sponsored in the near future we will tell you. There are enough shitty things going on in the industry at the minute. This is no strings attached. 

On top of that, we aim to be at the forefront of DeFi, experimenting and trying new things as and when they come up. We do the troubleshooting so you don’t have to.

Anyway, enough of that it is time for the alpha report.

Last week we covered AXS, SAND and ALICE which have all performed very well during this turbulent market.

Beefy Finance and the Moonpot no-lose lottery…

Beefy Finance (BIFI) who have consistently been the most professional and valuable yield aggregator across multiple chains have once again smashed it out of the park with their new Moonpot lottery…

Their $CAKE Moonpot vault will go live on the 19th July meaning those that are staked in the vault earn compounding interest over 100%APY whilst also being entered into a no-lose lottery…

You literally can’t lose.

Follow @beefyfinance on Twitter for regular updates on Moonpot…

Adamant Finance Fights Back Against Alameda Whale Wallet…

This week there was a governance vote over at Adamant Finance as it came to the team’s attention that around $173m was deposited across multiple blue-chip vaults raising their TVL to over half a billion dollars.

The problem? Well, when you own half the TVL of a project which pays rewards in the native $ADDY token, there is cause for concern. The concern increases when the wallet began to take the 50% penalty for early withdrawal and then dump $ADDY onto the market causing a dent in the ADDY price.

Governance vote to blacklist the wallet which was suspected to be Alameda Research was not passed with some holders saying the governance proposal was not in the spirit of DeFi…

It could be argued that if you have that much capital then swaying a vote either way is pretty easy… Just look at Uniswap.

Following the vote, the wallet has reduced its exposure in the Adamant Vaults to around $36m…

The team have brought out some great changes following this situation and are now boosting rewards for longer-term staker’s and have also released a 4-year lock-up vault. The rewards would be incredible on this…

For more on Adamant Finance follow THIS LINK

Iron Finance launch V2 with their new ICE token.

Iron Finance came back this week with their revamped stable swap protocol, tokenomics and new $ICE token.

The ICE token is paid out to those staking an IS3USD stable coin of USDC, USDT and DAI.

Incredibly, even after the last Iron finance fiasco, the vault surpassed over $1bn TVL!

At the moment from our perspective as the new stable coin is not actually released the move would be to be in the IS3USD pool whilst potentially off-loading half of the ICE rewards which sit at nearly 100,000 ICE per day.

Alternatively, you could immediately stake the ICE token in the single-sided staking pool for a designated period of time (probably best to unlock before the stable coin release in our opinion).

Who knows, we are not personally playing this one until the full protocol is up and running. Although that being said, we are surprised at the number of people who are still trusting Iron Finance with their funds, it is quite remarkable… Apes gonna ape.

Wault Finance bounces back from internal FUD…

This was a very weird one indeed. A statement was released from the Wault Finance team mentioning that they had been the victims of a FUD attack from two of its previous marketing team.

This was quite a surprise and on the release of the statement, it wasn’t a very good look for the two who also went on to try to blackmail the wault team for nearly $500k…

Anyway, enough of all the bitching…

The team responded with a brilliant new product in WUSD. A commerce-backed stablecoin.

This caused the WEX and WEXpoly tokens to pump around 65 and 25% respectively… Some much-needed relief for the Wault Finance investors.

Looking at the WUSD protocol and reduced daily emissions on both tokens added to the now-increased utility of both tokens, I believe the WEX and WEXpoly holders may have something to smile about going forward.

It is a long road to recovery but at least there is now a route out.

For more on Wault Finance and their excellent DeFi eco-system head to their DApp HERE.

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