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Crypto investors are looking beyond price gains. More people are putting their assets into lending vaults to earn interest, and deposits have now topped $10 billion up from about $4 billion at the start of last year.
The idea is simple: you deposit your crypto, and the platform lends it out through DeFi strategies. Most vaults offer annual yields of around 3% to 10%, with riskier strategies promising more. But higher returns come with real risks: collateral can lose value, liquidity can dry up, and hacks or smart contract failures can lead to losses.
I expect crypto lending to keep growing as investors look for ways to earn from assets they’re already holding. Just don’t focus on the yield alone. Check what backs the loans, how risk is managed, and whether you can withdraw when you need to.
Did this dude just do UniV2 in UniV4 and called it an invention?
This weekend I invented something new, a new type of token using Uniswap v4 hooks that I call a Pair Token.
A Pair Token is a new type of ERC-20. It is a fused, auto-compounding asset, a fusion of two tokens.
For example, the stock tokens NVDA and SPCX fused into a single tokenized version of the two, with the ticker NVDASPCX, or ETH with NVDA, creating ETHNVDA.
Each Pair Token represents a full-range Uniswap v4 liquidity pool.
So why mint these tokens?
These tokens are self-multiplying in terms of value, as at any moment anyone can call the compound function to compound the LP fees generated by the pair’s trading activity back into the asset.
The token represents a new financial primitive, as it represents a proportional value and moves as an LP position NFT would, except that it is auto-compounding and, thanks to its v4 hook, allows for compounding and self-growth.
Since it is an ERC-20, this token can be freely traded onchain, LPed, or even paired with a launchpad.
A new type of token for a new type of exposure and strategy.
Starting tonight, you’ll be able to mint or redeem Pair Tokens for any pair on Robinhood Chain via the StonkBrokers website.
Minting and redeeming are free, and the compounding process on the tokens incurs a 10% fee on the LP fees generated, which is used for $STONKBROKER buybacks.
I look forward to a new line of products and protocols on Robinhood Chain using this new financial primitive.
Only on Robinhood Chain, powered by Uniswap. @Hookrfun
“Normal people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved.”
Exactly. That’s the argument FOR the doom of traditional software, not against it.
Nobody needs to vibecode their own search engine to ask ChatGPT a question instead of Googling it. The same user, the same need, one less reason to open another app.
The question isn’t whether everyone becomes a developer. It’s how many separate apps people still need as one chat app handles more of what they want done.
Book a taxi. Find a flight. Compare hotels. Research a purchase. Different services underneath, but why does each need its own app in the user’s pocket?
Software still exists. The businesses providing those services can still exist. But a lot of consumer-facing apps lose their purpose when the user can ask for the outcome instead of navigating the interface.
“Normies won’t vibecode” doesn’t answer that.
The threat isn’t everyone building their own app. It’s fewer people needing yours.
gm ☕️
it’s sunday, but defi doesn’t really care what day it is.
coffee on the desk, charts on the screen and a few things still need to be built.
some days are for resting.
some days are for building what you’ll be proud of later.
back to work.
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Excited to partner with @ForgeLending as they build on TAO.com’s wstAlpha wrappers.
Together, we’re working to give Alpha holders more ways to access liquidity and help grow the Bittensor ecosystem.
@EndureNet SN30
We're partnering with @taodotcom to bring Alpha collateral to mainnet.
Forge will build on top of tao.com's wstAlpha wrappers. Building on existing, audited, and trusted infrastructure means starting from solid ground on day one.
Glad to have @taodotcom as a foundational part of Forge.
Netflix is about to turn one of crypto’s biggest financial disasters into a love story.
But behind the SBF story are people who lost their savings, businesses that collapsed, and trust in an entire industry that took years to build.
The real horror wasn't the wild hair or the billionaire lifestyle.
It was how billions could disappear while so many people believed everything was fine.
FTX wasn't just a scandal. It was a brutal reminder of what happens when trust replaces verification.
Just don't let the drama make you forget the victims.
Will Netflix tell the story that needs to be told, or just the one people want to watch?
ApeGuru retweeted
Endure is live on mainnet, and now you can check it yourself.
The new dashboard follows SN30 on mainnet: network state, miner commits, and consensus accuracy, each backed by a source you can verify.
Explore it: dashboard.endure.network
Risk, with receipts. Because risk intelligence should be something you can check, not something you have to trust.
$TAO SN30.
ApeGuru retweeted
Love to see DeFi OGs use token mechanics to create new value proposition. Tokenized stocks need utility, plugging them into treasuries and building liquidity is the way.
The ticker is $PAPER.
I really don't understand why people continue to be so obsessed by harness engineering. Isn't it clear by now that every week that goes by the big labs company make third party harnesses less and less relevant.
ApeGuru retweeted
that’s why i use a vanilla harness with the default personality. prompt tricks have the shelf life of milk in the sun. give the model the goal and constraints and let it figure out the middle.
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Endure will prove that independent miners, competing on the same risk questions and scored against real outcomes, can produce better risk analysis than centralized teams.
We will publish a dashboard that lets everyone judge that performance for themselves. I think the results will surprise people.
@ForgeLending is in the final stretch of its audit.
Soon, Endure’s signals will help set risk parameters for bittensor:native loans backed by Alpha.
I believe Forge can become Bittensor’s leverage and liquidity engine, turning that intelligence into real utility and growth.
bittensor:native SN30
xitter.cf/ForgeLending/status/21…
Endure, $TAO SN30, is live on mainnet!
Risk intelligence that is competitive, outcome-scored, and auditable is here.
Read the full picture: xitter.cf/EndureNet/status/21074…
ApeGuru retweeted
a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers
when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore
the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art
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