
As part of CMC's end-of-the-year wrap-up, we shine a light on what Bitcoin has been up to as the rest of the crypto market has struggled.

Bitcoin is the longest-living, market leading OG cryptocurrency. For better or for worse, it has given birth to the entire cryptocurrency industry. Many believe that Bitcoin has fulfilled its mission as peer-to-peer digital cash, bringing freedom to people worldwide. Users of the oldest cryptocurrency range from political dissidents like Alexey Navalny to financially excluded Venezuelans. It has the highest brand recognition of any project in the space and works exactly as advertised.
Perhaps it does not have the bells and whistles of newer projects, but it also doesn’t have their implosions (see Luna) or constant network shutdowns (see Solana). Amidst all the chaos in the markets this year, Bitcoin keeps relentlessly producing block after block after block. Despite some in the cryptocurrency space viewing it as "legacy tech," it remains the market leader for a reason.
One of the reasons for Bitcoin's success is its design simplicity, which limits the threat surface of attacks. Its smart contract functionality may be highly limited, but this has helped it avoid hidden leverage and the corrosive problems of MEV. It does not have stablecoins, which curtails the protocol-level influence of large centralized players like Circle and Tether. Had the ETHPOW fork been more contentious, stablecoin issuers would have had an outsized say. Bitcoin’s simplicity makes it resilient.
Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts critical of Bitcoin’s “old fashioned” technology fail to understand that most cryptocurrency projects are parasitical of Bitcoin's pristine censorship resistance. Regulators and lawmakers realize that Bitcoin cannot be easily censored, so these projects pretend to be similar to Bitcoin and avoid scrutiny. Moreover, market participants also know that they can easily exit these weaker coins into Bitcoin at the push of a button if needed, so they are happy to park their wealth there temporarily. Many think that these projects will always exist in the shadow of Bitcoin.
In recent years, Bitcoin has solidified its position as "digital gold," with countries and companies adopting this narrative. While the 2017 bubble saw numerous projects attempting to be “the next Bitcoin,” Bitcoin was the undisputed king of its category by 2022. Competitors now seek to be “smart contract platforms” rather than digital money. With crypto lenders and exchanges defaulting on their obligations and DeFi protocols getting hacked left right and center, the simplicity of keeping Bitcoin in cold storage is increasingly appealing. Staying humble and stacking sats, as some would say.
Bitcoin hasn’t escaped the price volatility of 2022, having lost ~60% of its value year to date. But it has avoided the devastation of many other market participants. Investors in Luna, depositors of Celsius or users of FTX have found themselves completely wiped out. What these projects have in common is the complexity of their narrative: numerous tokens, intertwined in a myriad of ways, offering both yield, price stability and the allure of exponential growth. Ultimately, they provided none of that and imploded within days. Bitcoin eschews complexity, it promises neither yield nor price stability. Instead, it offers resilience.
Those that were misled by the siren call Celsius, Luna, FTX and the like are looking for answers. Self-custody and censorship resistance are narratives that struggle to compete with “get rich quick” while the market is hot, but their value has been re-established recently. Hardware wallets have had record sales since FTX’s collapse. People have learned hard lessons about trusted third parties and protocols obfuscating risk with complexity. It is a great opportunity for Bitcoiners to embrace them and educate them on Bitcoin’s ethos and mission.
Yet there are concerning trends. The Lightning network continues to grow, but at a pace far slower than most advocates anticipated. Bitcoin has lost mindshare among speculators and technology enthusiasts to Ethereum. More worryingly, Bitcoin is losing market share to stablecoins, which function as digital bearer instruments that can now reach those who previously only had access to Bitcoin. Even in markets that require a higher degree of censorship resistance, such as dark net markets, Monero is gaining ground. Furthermore, there are growing concerns that its transaction fees may not compensate for the decline in the block subsidy.
The Bitcoin community must address the challenging task of maintaining the predictability and simplicity of the protocol without shutting out impactful innovation. A careful balance must be struck between the users’ needs and Bitcoin’s mission. Ideology cannot trump reality, Bitcoin’s future development must be practical, not just theoretical. There are encouraging examples of forward-looking research, such as the fellowship sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation for roll-ups on Bitcoin.
Despite these challenges, Bitcoin remains the king and will likely continue to lead in 2023. However, it cannot afford to rest on its laurels: it must continue to evolve and adapt to the changing landscape.
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Grab Your Piece of the Pie: Sector Finance Token is Set For Launch
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Sector Finance is launching its token, $SECT, on Camelot DEX. There'll be 100M tokens available with 10% for public sale with a minimum commitment of $1.5M USDC and a maximum of $4M.
$SECT to Publicly Launch on March 31
The public token launch for Sector Finance token, $SECT, is set to begin at 17:00 UTC on March 29, 2023, and end at 17:00 UTC on March 31, 2023, on Arbitrum's native Camelot DEX.
We are excited to announce the public token launch of Sector Finance ($SECT). Our launch will take place March 29 via @CamelotDEX on Arbitrum.
— Sector Finance (@sector_fi) March 16, 2023
To celebrate this new milestone, we are increasing the Incentive Pool for early Vault depositors.
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The maximum supply will be 100 million $SECT, and 10% of that will be made available to the public. There is a minimum total commitment of $1.5 million USDC and a maximum commitment of $4 million USDC for the public launch of the token.
However, Sector Finance would retain the tokens allocated for the launch if the total committed $USDC is less than 1.5M. In that case, deposited funds will be returned to all participants.
Participants who deposit early and own Camelot's native token, xGRAIL, will be able to join the whitelist launch 24 hours before the public offer begins. As reported, all participants will receive the same fair launch value ("FLV") set at the end of the launch period. For all, the final price would be set as follows:
- Max = 4M $USDC Commitment / 10M $SECT
- Min = 1.5M $USDC Commitment / 10M $SECT
Additionally, holders of $SECT can stake, lock, and receive vote-escrowed $SECT ("$veSECT"), which provides governance rights over protocol fees and emissions. There is a vesting period for one-third of the tokens where they would be staked in veTokens for three months.
Sector Finance will publish specific instructions on participating in the public launch ahead of the launch event.
Incentivized Vault Offering
Sector Finance will increase the Incentive Pool for the Incentivized Vault Offering ("IVO") from 1.0% to 2.0% in celebration of its public launch.
According to the protocol, early depositors will earn $veSECT and $bSECT from the Incentive Pool in addition to the real yield accrued in USDC/ETH. Early depositors will benefit both from short-term upsides and long-term value accruals.
Participants can earn $bSECT and $veSECT from the Incentive Pool at the end of the Incentive Period when they deposit into either the Aggregator Yield Vaults or Single-Strategy Vaults.
You can learn more about the incentive vault offering here.
What is Sector Finance?
Sector Finance is a product protocol designed to scale the DeFi ecosystem sustainably through diverse yields and unparalleled risk transparency. The protocol is developing risk management tools and investment products to assist the next generation of DeFi users. Sector will run on Arbitrum, and the strategies will work with a variety of ecosystems, including Ethereum Mainnet, Moonriver, and Optimism.
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The top DeFi protocols on Ethereum have captured billions of TVL and generated offspring that have captured billions more.
Uniswap, Compound, Olympus DAO, Aave
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” – Oscar Wilde
Snarkiness aside, any good developer understands it’s far less efficient to build from scratch, than to identify existing good code and to adapt it to their purposes. The world of crypto is filled with Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocols that are based on forks of predecessors.
Unsurprisingly, Ethereum protocols are the most popular models for other platforms to follow. In many cases, the Total Value Locked (TVL) of the offspring exceeds the parents!
Let’s check out the top 4 Ethereum protocols, in terms of the adoption of their forks, and then also look at one wild-card protocol: Uniswap, Compound, Olympus DAO, AAVE and Solidly.
(All data sourced from DefiLlama.)
1. Uniswap
Name: Uniswap
Category: DEX
TVL: $3.78 billion
Most Popular Forks: PancakeSwap (BNB etc.), SushiSwap (ETH etc.), BiSwap (BNB), VVS Finance (Cronos), Quickswap DEX (Polygon), Camelot (Arbitrum), SpookySwap (Fantom)
Total TVL of Forks: $6.92 billion
2. Compound Finance
Name: Compound Finance
Category: Lending
TVL: $2.67 billion
Most Popular Forks: Venus (BNB), Tectonic (Cronos), Benqui Lending (Avalanche), Sonne Finance (Optimism), Mare Finance (Kava)
Total TVL of Forks: $4.56 billion
3. Olympus DAO
Name: Olympus DAO
Category: Reserve Currency
TVL: $253 million
Most Popular Forks: Wonderland (Avalanche, ETH), Klima DAO (Polygon)
Total TVL of Forks: $1.51 billion
4. AAVE
Name: AAVE
Category: Lending
TVL: $8.53 billion
Most Popular Forks: UwU Lend (ETH), Geist Finance (Fantom), Radiant (Arbitrum)
Total TVL of Forks: $830 million
The only DeFi protocol in the top 5 that was not originally on Ethereum is Solidly, which was launched by famed DeFi developer Andre Cronje on Fantom. Solidly’s TVL on Fantom experienced a meteoric rise and equally meteoric fall, but the protocol has spun off several massively popular protocols on other blockchains.
Solidly
Name: Solidly
Category: DEX
TVL: $1.5 million
Most Popular Forks: Velodrome (Optimism), Solidly V2 (ETH), Thena (BNB), Ramses Exchange (Arbitrum), Equalizer Exchange (Fantom), Solid Lizard (Arbitrum), Equilibre (Kava)
Total TVL of Forks: $863 million
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Ethereum is an open-source, distributed computing platform based on blockchain technology that can execute smart contracts - that is, the terms written in the contract will be executed transparently, automatically when the previous conditions are satisfied, and no one can interfere. At the same time, Ethereum also allows developers to build decentralized applications (DApps) and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO).
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The most anticipated IDO event on Core DAO, CoinBook’s $BOOK token IDO is set to take place.
The world’s first decentralized peer-to-peer orderbook exchange, CoinBook, is holding an Initial DEX Offering (IDO) for $BOOK token.
What is CoinBook?
CoinBook is the world’s first decentralized P2P protocol on the Core chain allowing traders to exchange tokens peer-to-peer without the need for a Centralized or Swap Exchange.
This innovative DEX is igniting the P2P movement of crypto with its unique smart contract technology that circumvents the need for a Centralized or Swap Exchange with many advantages such as:
- Guaranteed Privacy (No KYC)
- Lower fees compared to CEX
- No slippage
- No market price impact
- No front-running bots
- You can keep full custodian
What is $BOOK?
$BOOK is the native platform token of CoinBook which will begin its IDO sale on March 22, 2023 at 12 PM UTC.
There are three major utilities of $BOOK:
Stake $BOOK, Build Your Portfolio
100% of the DEX transaction fees collected from trades will be donated to the holders who stake $BOOK in the Library Staking Pools. Users will be able to choose which Library pools to stake in to earn free tokens such as $BOW, $LFG, $AICORE, and much more!
Monthly Platform Rewards
CoinBook will reward its users monthly in $BOOK. The trading volume a user generates each month will determine how many $BOOK rewards they will earn.
Marketplace Governance
To further decentralize the CoinBook platform, the holders of $BOOK will participate in governance voting on important platform decisions. The more $BOOK you hold, the more voting power you have on proposals.
$BOOK IDO Details
Private Sale (Whitelisted Wallets) will first participate in the sale on March 22, 2023, from 12:00 UTC until 14:00 UTC. All Season 1 airdrop participants with completed tasks are whitelisted.
Public Sale (All Wallets) will start participating on March 22 2023, from 14:00 UTC until 14:00 UTC the next day (March 23, 2023).
The $BOOK IDO will take place on CoinBook’s platform. You can find out more details about CoinBook and $BOOK token on the CoinBook Doc.
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Synthetix Smashes Records: Reaches $490 Million in Daily Trading Volume

Synthetix, the derivatives liquidity protocol, achieved a record-breaking $490 million daily trading volume on March 17. The protocol also generated over $511,000 in fees on the same day.
Synthetix Made Record Trading Volume
Derivatives Liquidity Protocol, Synthetix hit $490 million in daily trading volume for the first time on March 17, according to Dune analytics.
In terms of trading, the majority took place on the Kwenta trading platform, which accounted for $479.8 million in trading volume. In addition, the Synthetix generated more than $511,000 in fees on March 17.

Worth noting that Synthetix will distribute over $8M of Optimism's governance tokens to its perpetual swaps users as rewards.
The reward system will reward traders based on the fees paid, the volume generated, and the amount staked in SNX, Synthetix's governance token. As reported, users who stake 2,500 or more SNX can further boost their rewards with a maximum bonus of 15%.
The program will begin in the first week of April and run for 20 weeks.
In the first week, 50,000 OP tokens will be distributed, followed by 100,000 OP in weeks two and three. The remaining weeks of the program will see 200,000 OP per week.
The rewards will be issued from Synthetix's treasury, which received 9 million OP from the Optimism Foundation in July 2022.
Synthetix has also deployed version 3 (v3) on the Ethereum mainnet following security audits on February 23.
According to its developers, Synthetix v3 offers developers better architecture for developing faster, more complex, and more efficient decentralized financial applications (DeFi). Additionally, V3 will provide simplified staking and differentiated debt pools, meaning network stakers can contribute collateral to specific asset pools and receive fees without being exposed to every Spartan Council-supported asset.
Synthetix currently has a Total Volume Locked (TVL) of $457.14 million, which includes $303.82 million in Ethereum and $153.32 million in Optimism. Synthetix is trading at $2.88, up 0.08 in 24 hours.
What is Synthetix:
Synthetix is a decentralised liquidity layer built on Ethereum and Optimism that acts as a backend for DeFi protocols. Stakers provide liquidity to collateralize a portfolio of synthetic assets in exchange for rewards and market yields. This liquidity is used to underwrite synthetic assets and perpetual futures trading at oracle prices, removing the need for traditional order books and counterparties. As a result, liquidity is commutable and fungible across markets, and traditional slippage is eliminated.
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The daily Web3Go Data report specializing in blockchain data on BNB Chain. Here is the report for March 24, 2023.
Web3Go Daily Data: BNB Chain


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