⍺ DeFi Alpha: Private DeFi With Aztec & Delta-Neutral Yield Farming

• Yields: 62% APR on Stablecoins, 15-18% on ETH and BTC

• Starter Tutorial: Private DeFi on Ethereum with Aztec Connect

• Degen Tutorial: Introduction to Delta-Neutral Yield Farming

DeFi Alpha is a weekly newsletter published for our premium subscribers every Friday, contributed by Defiant Advisor and DeFi investor at 4RC, DeFi Dad, and our Degen in Chief yyctrader. It aims to educate traders, investors, and newcomers about investment opportunities in decentralized finance, as well as provide primers and guides about its emerging platforms.

Motivation

Two years ago, DeFi investors could easily name every yield farming opportunity without much effort. It was a simpler time, when only a handful of teams had launched with any liquidity to trade, lend, borrow, provide liquidity, or even demonstrate new primitives such as no-loss savings by PoolTogether.

But times have changed! Before the current bear market took hold, DeFi liquidity had grown to hundreds of billions of dollars across Ethereum with new burgeoning DeFi economies taking shape on EVM-compatible chains such as Polygon and Avalanche and non-EVM chains such as Cosmos and Solana. Any given day, a new DeFi or NFT project is launched.

So, after writing and creating countless DeFi guides and tutorials since 2019, we at The Defiant agreed it’s time we publish a more detailed weekly guide on all you need to know to keep up with new and old yield earning opportunities. 

This is DeFi Alpha by The Defiant.

Any information covered in DeFi Alpha should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions. Any mention of a token or protocol should not be considered a recommendation or endorsement.

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📈 Yield Alpha

Each week we will provide options to earn yield on ETH, WBTC, stablecoins, and other major tokens.

• Stablecoins - LP with DOLA, USDC, USDT, and/or DAI at 61.91% projected vAPR in the Curve DOLA+3Crv LP staked in Convex.

  • This yield is accrued in CRV, CVX, and trading fees.

  • To participate, one must first deposit into this Curve DOLA-3Crv LP and then stake the LP here in Convex.

• ETH - Earn 15.78% projected vAPR with the Curve alETH LP staked in Convex

  • This yield is accrued in CRV, CVX, and trading fees.

  • To participate, one must first deposit ETH or alETH into this Curve alETH LP and then stake the LP here in Convex.

  • Check out the Beginner Tutorial today to learn more!

• BTC - Earn 17.74% projected vAPR with the Curve pBTC LP staked in Convex

  • This yield is accrued in CRV, CVX, and trading fees.

  • To participate, one must first deposit pBTC, renBTC, sBTC and/or WBTC into this Curve factory pool and then stake the LP here in Convex.

• AVAX - Lend AVAX to the sAVAX/AVAX pool on Platypus via Vector at 14% APR 

  • This yield is issued in VTX, PTP, QI, and AVAX.

  • To participate, one must deposit into the AVAX Stake option here on Vector.

• SOL - Lend stSOL to leveraged farmers on Tulip Protocol at 4.53% APY + 4.9% APR from the underlying SOL liquid staking rewards issued to stSOL holders

  • This yield is backed by interest paid by borrowers on Tulip + staking rewards.

  • To participate, one must deposit stSOL in the Tulip lending tab.

  • To obtain stSOL, one can trade on a DEX or mint it here on Lido.

• MATIC - stake MATIC with MaticX and LP MaticX-MATIC on Balancer for a net 21% APY

  • The yield is backed by validator rewards using the MaticX liquid staking derivative + trading fees on Balancer + BAL rewards + SD rewards.

  • To participate on Polygon, I use the Stader MaticX dApp to mint MaticX.

  • Then, I deposit into the 50/50 MaticX-MATIC pool on Balancer and stake the LP.

• ATOM - mint pATOM and stake the pATOMs on Ethereum to earn more pATOMs on pSTAKE at a rate of 13.5% APR

  • The yield earned is issued and claimable in pATOM.

  • To participate, one must first mint a 1:1 representation of ATOM as pATOM on Ethereum by using the pSTAKE dApp under Stake

  • Then, deposit/stake pATOMs to get stkATOMs and earn 13.5% APR 

• FTM - stake with sFTMx by Stader, earning 13% APY

  • The yield is issued in FTM rewards, as sFTMX is earning FTM via validator rewards to support Fantom’s PoS network.

  • To participate, one must deposit FTM to receive sFTMX here on Stader.

• HBAR - stake with the first HBAR liquid staking derivative by Stader, earning 40.5% APY

  • The yield is issued in HBAR rewards, as HBARX is earning validator rewards.

  • To participate, deposit HBAR to receive HBARX here on Stader.

  • Caution: This is in beta and withdrawals will not be possible until July 2022 or later.