Recap: DeFi Week of Jan. 6 🦄

Jan 12, 2020

Hello Defiers! Hope everyone’s having a great weekend.

Summing last week up: I got started in my DeFi passive investment experiment, where I’m putting an equal amount of money in 10 DeFi projects, plus Maker’s DSR as a benchmark. MakerDAO raised its Dai Savings Rate 2 ppts to 6 percent. Aave launched on mainnet with features including uncollateralized flash loans. A project called Zero Collateral also made progress with unsecured borrowing. DeFiZap introduced a new one-click strategy to its collection. And more!

Friday

DeFi10 Part 1: Lessons in Building a DeFi Portfolio

I’m putting an equal amount of money into 10 different decentralized finance protocols, plus a benchmark, enabling passive income and tracking their performance throughout the year. Check out the post to see the the final list of projects I’m trying out, the insights I got after my first batch of five investments, and the PDF going through all the steps involved in each investment.

Thursday

Dives

Earn 3x the Interest on a Dollar-Pegged Asset With DeFi: MakerDAO’s MKR holders voted to raise the Dai Savings Rate by two percentage points to 6 percent, meaning you can now earn 3 times the interest on Dai than what traditional banking apps offer for USD deposits.
Aave Launch Raises the DeFi Bar in a Flash: Aave is an open source, non-custodial lending platform that launched on mainnet with a series of groundbreaking innovations for decentralized finance, including uncollateralized flash loans and fixed-rate, short-term loans.

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Wednesday

Dives

Don’t Look at MakerDAO for Signs of Next Rally: It might seem safe to assume ether locked in MakerDAO could be a reliable way to predict when the next ether pump will come, but it’s actually the other way around.
DeFi Darling Synthetix is Hitting a Snag: Large holders are taking the opportunity to cash out on an enormous rally, amid a bullish crypto market.
Green Shoots in Zero Collateral Loans: Zero Collateral Protocol is an undercollateralized lending market, currently on Ethereum’s Ropsten testnet. The amount of total interest paid from that loan will be discounted from the collateral needed on the next loan, until eventually, collateral needed will drop to zero.

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Monday

Dives

DeFiZap Takes Financial Engineering to Another Level: DeFiZap’s latest one-click strategy is the Leveraged Liquidity Pool (LLP) Zap, which lets traders earn fees from liquidity pools, while keeping full ETH exposure.

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People Are Increasingly Streaming Their Salaries: The latest to use Sablier, a DeFi protocol which lets users withdraw their salary by the time worked without having to wait to the end of the month, is Pascal Tallarida of Jarvis exchange.
Tweets are Now Being Traded on Uniswap: Ameen Soleimani of SpankChain and MolochDAO tokenized 100 RTs and added 5 to a Uniswap pool under the token name PEW. In this hypercapitalism experiment, Ameen is basically selling retweets.

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💜Community Love💜

Thanking all the amazing defiers for the support and love this week (and always)!

Simone Conti | simoneconti.eth @simoneconti_

@CamiRusso @MakerDAO @AAve One of the best newsletter in the crypto space. 😎 Thank you @CamiRusso 🙏

Osama Shihab Fitoria @shihabfitoria

@CamiRusso's Lessons in Building a DeFi portfolio is a real gem. Looking forward to putting this into practice.

CryptoDad.ismoney.eth @CryptoParent

@CamiRusso's full post from The Defiant is linked here: thedefiant.substack.com/p/anyone-can-n… You should subscribe. She's a DeFi education machine. :)

thedefiant.substack.comAnyone Can Now Get 6% on a Dollar-Pegged AssetAlso, Aave launched on mainnet, making unsecured, on-chain loans a reality.

Bart Cant @bartcant

Enjoyed the read and signed up to learn from all the experiences from @CamiRusso https://t.co/BquM8YreFb

Camila Russo @CamiRusso

🧪The #DeFi10! I'm investing in 10 DeFi apps and tracking how they do. Takeaway after first 5: So good, but for insiders ⚡️Crazy fast & cheap 😖Confirmation popups, ETH gas fees are a pain 🧐Hard to track investments ⚠️DeFi needs more disclosures More: https://t.co/xLvAD4aF5x

mayato.eth @ Jakata @MayatoHattori

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Camila Russo @CamiRusso

First batch of #DeFi10 projects: @MakerDAO's DSR @bzxHQ's iDai @AaveAave aDai @UniswapExchange pool via @DeFi_Zap @staked_us RAY Click on this link for a HOW TO pdf, with my screen grabs and comments for each of them: https://t.co/B0vcsu0sdN https://t.co/oH1sepS8MI

carlindo.eth @carlindosousa

@CamiRusso Amazing work you have done here. :))

Caleb @calebsheridan

@CamiRusso cool experiment! Happy surprise to see you mention pools.fyi. Thanks for the valuable notes and feedback on your experience using these DeFi products.

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Dave Craige @davecraige

@CamiRusso props on all your great writing lately Cami. Great stuff.

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