Recapping the Week in DeFi

Cryptocurrency never sleeps, and neither does crypto news and content. Because of this constant stream of information, it’s difficult for investors to keep track of the most notable news. In this weekly recap, BSC News shares some of the most exciting stories and breaking news events of the week to help you stay up-to-date on all things DeFi.

Arbitrum Airdrop: Which DAOs Received the Most $ARB?

The Arbitrum airdrop was arguably one of the most notable DeFi events from the past week. Projects with a DAO and community treasury also received the airdrops, with the exception of The Protocol Guild. A number of factors were considered for eligibility, including deployment date, transaction volume, and more.

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MetaMask Institutional Unveils New Portfolio Dashboard, ETH Staking Marketplace

MetaMask Institutional launched an advanced version of its Web3 portfolio dashboard for institutional investors featuring cutting-edge tools, including an ETH staking marketplace. 

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Core DAO’s Core Bridge Goes Live, Confirms Huobi as Validator

Core DAO has finally launched its highly anticipated Core bridge, paving way for the growth of the Core ecosystem in the decentralized finance (DeFi) world. Powered by LayerZero, the bridge allows users to seamlessly transfer assets between the Core chain and other leading networks. Core DAO has also confirmed Huobi as a validator. 

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Celer Unveils Brevis: ‘A ZK Ominchain Data Attestation Platform’

Going deep into ZK: Celer Network has launched Brevis, a “Zero-Knowledge (ZK) omnichain data attestation platform” enabling smart contracts to access and compute data from any blockchain.

Learn more about Celer’s ZK solution in this article. 

Polygon, Immutable Partner to Build Dedicated Gaming ZK EVM Blockchain

Polygon Labs and Immutable have collaborated to build “Immutable zkEVM”, a zero-knowledge rollup dedicated to gaming. The new solution will have enforceable royalty fees for game developers. 

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Kyudo Archers are Now Available on Miidas NFT 

Following a successful minting, ArcherSwap’s native Non-Fungible Token (NFT) collection, Kyudo Archers, is now available on Core-based NFT marketplace, Miidas. 

Miidas is the leading NFT marketplace on the Core chain, supporting other networks, including BNB Chain and Polygon. kyudo Archer holders can now buy and sell the collection on the top marketplace after an official announcement on March 24. 

Kyudo Archers’ mint, comprising 10,000 unique digital archers, sold out in under 15 minutes at 20 $CORE, representing a strong interest in the Core ecosystem. The collection offers users numerous benefits, including staking and farming. Its availability on the Miidas marketplace will allow more users to enjoy its benefits in the blockchain industry. 

Already, 342 items have been sold on Miidas, with a trading volume of 217 CORE, worth over $400. The floor price for one Kyudo Archer NFT is 10 CORE on the multi-chain marketplace. Interested users should visit the collection’s page on the Miidas marketplace for more details. 

What is ArcherSwap: 

ArcherSwap is a unique DEX Automated Market Maker (AMM) on the Core chain. The protocol provides a DeFi ecosystem that allows users to trade and earn through NFT, GameFi, and projects utilizing its native BowPad launchpad. 

Where to find ArcherSwap: 

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What is Core DAO:

Core DAO is the official decentralized organization developing the Satoshi Plus ecosystem. It represents an opportunity for miners to access new revenue streams by contributing hash power to the chain. Inspired by the principles of both blockchains, Core displays a deep appreciation for the crypto ecosystem's history and an even greater excitement for Core’s role in its future.

Where to find Core DAO:

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Polynomial to Roll Out On-Chain Decentralized AMM

Polynomial Finance, a decentralized finance protocol, announced to launch its perpetual trading platform on Optimism through Synthetix on March 27.

According to the protocol, the Polynomial Decentralized Exchange (DEX) would include features typically found in Centralized Exchanges (CEXs). 

The platform also recently announced to launch power perpetuals on its platform. As per the protocol. the Polynomial Power Perps will introduce a new delta-hedged Automated Market Maker (AMM). 

Polynomial’s AMM will reportedly offer tighter spreads, lower funding rates, and consolidate market liquidity into one instrument, thereby enabling better portfolio management and diversification. The platform would use Synthetix Perps V2 for hedging LP's against directional risks.

Worth noting, Synthetix recently reached $490 million in daily trading volume for the first time on March 17 and generated $511,000 in fees.

In terms of trading volume, $479.8 million was traded on the Kwenta platform. The Polynomial platform, however, came third in terms of volume after Decentrex, generating $184.5k on the same day.

In addition, Synthetix has launched V3 on the Ethereum Mainnet and Optimism after completing a security audit. Synthetix developers claim the new version offers better architecture for the development of faster, more complex, and more efficient decentralized financial applications (DeFi). 

Synthetix currently has a Total Volume Locked (TVL) of $428.63 million and a market cap of $687.734 million. Synthetix (SNX) is trading at $2.55, down 6.87% in 24 hours.  

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What is Polynomial Finance:

Polynomial is developing a decentralized finance protocol to enable a more equitable, accessible, efficient, and transparent financial system. Polynomial automates financial derivative strategies to produce products that provide passive yield on various assets.

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Learn more about Polynomial:

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‘An Extensive Arbitrum-Centered Campaign’

Kyberswap reportedly launched the first-ever $ARB token liquidity pools, liquidity mining, and trading campaigns on the Arbitrum Chain at the time of the much anticipated $ARB token airdrop.

According to KyberSwap, the $ARB liquidity pools will provide users with more liquidity options and trading pairs. 

“We are excited to launch the first-ever $ARB liquidity mining pools,” said Victor Tran, CEO and Co-founder of KyberSwap. “These farms will mark the beginning of an extensive Arbitrum-centered campaign KyberSwap has planned, and we will announce more rewards and activities soon for both LPs and traders.”

As reported, KyberSwap's liquidity mining programs will enable liquidity providers to earn fees and rewards by adding liquidity to $ARB pools.

The following pools are eligible for $ARB liquidity mining rewards:

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New Fee Tiers and Trading Campaigns

KyberSwap introduced new fee tiers of 2% and 5% for these yield farms, which previously was 1%. As a result of these new fee tiers, KyberSwap anticipates that $ARB farmers will have opportunities to benefit from the anticipated higher volatility and trading volume during the price discovery phase after the airdrop.

Currently, the $ARB pools at the KyberSwap platform are generating considerable APRs. For instance, the ETH-ARB pair has a current APR of 1757.07%.

As part of its trading campaigns, KyberSwap has partnered with other protocols with a certain amount of rewards. By collaborating with Pomerium Trading and Bob Trading, KyberSwap launched trading campaigns with $5,000 rewards each.

The KyberSwap team plans to reward traders and liquidity providers post-launch, including $ARB and $KNC airdrops and commemorative NFTs. KyberNetwork (KNC) is trading at $0.6896, down 4.79% in 24 hours. On the contrary, Arbitrum ($ARB) is trading at $1.29 with a market cap of $1.634 billion.

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What is Kyber Network:

Kyber Network is a multi-chain cryptocurrency trading and liquidity hub that connects liquidity from various sources to enable trades at the best possible rates. Kyber Network can be integrated into decentralized applications (dApps), cryptocurrency wallets, and platforms for decentralized finance (DeFi).

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Learn more about KyberNetwork:

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Empowering Sub-Communities

The $ARB governance token is the first native digital asset of Arbitrum. As part of the platform's airdrop, 11.62 percent of the circulating supply of the token is distributed to early supporters, and 1.13 percent is distributed to developers who build on Arbitrum. This means that 12.75 percent of the token's total supply will enter circulation soon.

According to Arbitrum foundation, the airdrop was not retroactive. It was instead a way to empower sub-communities on the layer2 network to decide how governance is handled locally.

As Arbitrum noted, airdrops would only be available to projects with a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and community treasury. Nevertheless, it made an exception for The Protocol Guild, a collection of Ethereum core developers.

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How Much $ARB Did DAOs Receive?

When selecting projects for airdrops, Arbitrum evaluated factors including their deployment date and whether they were multi-chain or native to their ecosystem. Additionally, the transaction volume and the total value of assets locked onto the project, as well as native liquidity, are also considered.

Arbitrum airdropped a total of 112.834 million $ARB to DAOs. Following are the top seven DAOs that received the most $ARB during the airdrop, according to a list compiled by Nansen: 

• Treasure DAO: Treasure is an Arbitrum-based decentralized network for blockchain-based metaverse projects. Through its NFT marketplace and gaming and staking platform, Bridgeworld, Treasure aims to bootstrap new, decentralized metaverses and support their growth. The Arbitrum Foundation airdropped 8 million $ARB to Treasure, the most ever received by a DAO. 

• GMX: On the next line is GMX, which also received 8 million $ARB. With GMX, you can trade both spot and perpetual assets for low swap fees and with close to no price impact. Liquidity providers earn fees from market making, swap fees, and leverage trading via this multi-asset pool.

• Uniswap: Uniswap facilitates automated trading of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens through its decentralized trading protocol. Token trading on Uniswap is fully automated and open to anyone who owns tokens, while trading is more efficient than on traditional exchanges. Uniswap obtained 4.378 million $ARB. 

• Sushiswap: SUSHI is an automated market maker (AMM). An increasingly popular tool among cryptocurrency users, AMMs are decentralized exchanges which use smart contracts to create markets for any given pair of tokens. The protocol aims to diversify the AMM market and also add new features not found on Uniswap, such as an in-house token, SUSHI, that rewards network participants. Sushi DAO received 4.249 million $ARB. 

• Dopex: The Dopex protocol maximizes liquidity for option writers while minimizing losses for option buyers. Users may deposit base/quote for their respective pools, earn passive income through writing and purchasing discounted options through liquidity pools. A total of 3.863 million $ARB was received by Dopex. 

• Curve: Curve manages liquidity using an automated market maker (AMM) on a decentralized exchange for stablecoins. In August, Curve launched a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), using CRV as its underlying token. The DAO connects multiple smart contracts for users' deposited liquidity using the Ethereum-based Aragon creation tool. Curve received 3.476 million $ARB.

• Radiant Protocol:  Radiant has been designed to solve scale, parallelism, and Turing Complete programming problems associated with all existing blockchains. It is a peer-to-peer digital asset system that facilitates direct trade between users without requiring a central authority. Radiant Capital received 3.348 million $ARB.

In addition to these protocols, Balancer, Protocol Guild, CAP, Vest Finance were also among the projects that received most airdrops. The launch of the Arbitrum token is among the most anticipated events in the crypto space this year, especially since it is gaining momentum in the DeFi sector without a governance token since last year. 

Arbitrum ($ARB) is trading at $1.32 with a $1.674 billion market cap. According to CoinMarketCap the price of the token fell by more than 88% today, within minutes after it was listed across various exchanges. 

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What is Arbitrum:

Arbitrum is an Ethereum layer-2 network that enables developers to build and deploy highly scalable smart contracts at low cost. You can use Arbitrum chains to do all the things you do on Ethereum — use Web3 apps, deploy smart contracts, etc., but your transactions will be cheaper and faster. The flagship product for the team, Arbitrum Rollup, is an Optimistic rollup protocol that inherits Ethereum-level security.

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