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The inspiration for this article came from the unlikeliest source, an ad on a Youtube video I was listening to while in the shower. It went somewhere along the lines of, “our bonds allow investors to earn a market-beating 3 to 5% APY during this time of historically low-interest rates.” It got better… “You only have to lock your money in for up to 6 months to earn these competitive yields!”
My first thought was… HA! But then it brought me back to reality and made me think… are yield farming rates turning me into, dare I say, a degen? I don’t think that to be the case. I really don’t. So now, I’m going to convince myself in this article that I’m not. I think the younger crypto investors call this coping?
Right now, at this moment, I have Vapor/BNB earning me a measly 2,278% APY in a compounding vault. Ridiculous if you stop to really think about it. I calculated the average pre-compounding yield across my portfolio in BSC Defi. I’m sitting at about .5%, per day, or 182.5% APY. So what’s my point? I think it’s time to sit back and take a minute to put perspective on these yields.
With a quick google search, I discovered that “High Interest” savings account find themselves with landing around .5% APY. That’s lower than the average inflation rate. If I leave my money in a savings account, I’m losing.
I had a CD when I was a teenager and deposited small amounts with every paycheck. I remember the interest rate being around 6%, which was considered pretty good! According to bankrate.com, the best available CD’s are about .6% APY, with a 5-year commitment. What?
Using an ETF screener, I sought out the highest yielding bond funds available on the market. The top fund yielding fund with the symbol TYD has a 10.25% Dividend. Not too bad. I know nothing about the fund.
I happen to like real estate investment trusts to diversify into real estate while earning a dividend and maintaining liquidity. Using the same ETF screener, the top REIT offers a 10.19% APY.
Individual stocks often offer dividends and can range in the single-digit territory. I think it is great that you can hold ownership in a company you believe in while earning a share of the profit, but the dividend is usually nothing to get too excited about. AT&T, for example, pays a dividend of about 7.1%.
I was having a discussion with my financial advisor and we got on the topic of stable coins, particularly in De-Fi. He was trying to understand their risk factors after I told him I could pull 20% APY from holding USDT (At the time of writing this the APY for USDT in Beefy is actually 30.7%). Ultimately, it came down to… while the risk factor is low in the crypto landscape, there are obvious risks regarding smart contracts, wallets, etc. Rather than considering this a cash position, it is best to consider it a low-risk crypto position. I can live with that, and the 30% APY it offers. I would not utilize stable coins as the vehicle for my emergency funds, but It’s probably next on the list in terms of the best place to park some cash.
BTC and ETH both come in with APY’s in the mid-teens in Beefy Finance. This may not be the best yield, but considering the hypothetical upside potential, it’s a strong reward for holding the biggest crypto assets long term.
De-Fi liquidity pairs offer APY’s ranging from 30% to 100% on most of the large-cap cryptos, this yield is magnified when a yield optimizer is added into the equation.
When looking back through this list of a wide variety of available interest rates in the market, It’s pretty obvious that the incredibly high APY’s in the hundreds or thousands is simply bananas. Even a 30% APY on USDT is a bit mind-boggling. To me, there are only two variables that exist to account for the high APY’s of BSC yield farming: Risk and market efficiency.
This leads me to one question that I can’t quite shake:
To me, the obvious place to assess this question is the current APY of USDT. If the current savings rate is .5% in your bank, while USDT can earn 30% in Beefy, is the stable coin 60 times riskier than simply holding cash in a bank account. I don’t have a way to measure this, but I find that to be unlikely. It is my best guess that BSC yield farming rates are at a point of extreme inefficiency, and the high rates are not necessarily an indicator of excessive risk (don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of risk, and we should all know that by now).
I think, or at least have a hunch, that more funds will flow into the space causing yields to drop in most cases. That sounds bad, but could also be good for us early adopters of BSC, as the inflow of funds should cause an increase in asset prices. For now, the growth of the ecosystem is outpacing the inflow of funds, keeping rates high and earning potential intact. I’m going to get it while the getting’s good and wait for market efficiency to catch up. At least that’s my bet on BSC.
Disclaimer: Don’t read this to mean a 15,000% APY is simply due to inefficiency and you should yolo next month’s rent at it. Don’t do it.
BakerySwap's official Merch shop is now live with many exciting collections available and more to be added in the future.
The Merch store — Baked Merch, displays BakerySwap’s new collection of apparel, accessories, with many other offerings to come.
“Stay tuned for new Featured additions! $BAKE it!” the protocol encouraged on their Twitter on July 27th.
The digital store comes with a plethora of unique displays and collections to keep users engaged. Along with the numerous collections, the website is user-friendly and easy to navigate. BakerySwap was the first Non-Fungible Token (NFT) exchange on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Based on their popularity the merch shop comes at the right time for the platform to capitalize on a growing user base.
The new Baked Merch offers users a wide range of unique products and features. The digital store is powered by Spring, which is a simple solution for creating and selling products.
Currently, the Merch store has products based on three categories: apparel, accessories, and drinkware. More products will be added soon according to the BakerySwap team.
With just one click on each of the categories on the top right corner of the store’s page, users can see the different products available. Under the apparel category, Unisex/Men’s T-shirts, Women’s T-shirts, and hoodies & sweatshirts are up for sale. For accessories, phone cases are available, while drinkware features stylized water bottles.
The store is just a few days old but there is promise for its longevity considering its parent platform. Users can also find designs from featured artists like Irene Cerezo on the merch shop.
It also comes with a search feature that allows users to look up anything they want to buy and add it to their cart for delivery. Payment is straightforward, either by card or via PayPal.
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Binance Smart Chain (BSC) has selected the top 10 winners in their second Most Valuable Builder: The Big Bang of NFTs.
The winners were announced on July 29th and were detailed in BSC Matthew’s Binance Chain blog post. The competition started in late April and whittled down the Most Valuable Builder’s from over 500 projects.
“The MVBII was subtitled The Big Bang of NFTs to show that we will focus primarily on NFT+DeFi development in the second round,” explained BSC Matthew in the blog.
In the past few weeks here at BSC.News we’ve been lauding the incredible advances made by NFT Gaming projects. Judging by the winners we were right to do so.
The projects show no sign of decline, as at the time of writing they currently account for more than half of the entire daily transaction volume. We can put this in context when we understand that the BSC Network currently processes 800% more transactions than Ethereum. Incredible!
It is impossible to overstate the energizing effect of MVB II on the BSC ecosystem. The shortlisted projects achieved a total of more than 500,000 active addresses with $16Bn in transacted volume from May to July 2021, during the competition itself.
Aside from the immediate injection of interest the competition provides, there is a substantial $10,000 grant. An opportunity to strengthen security via Certik through a sponsorship. And arguably the most important, a priceless opportunity for an exclusive incubation workshop with industry experts.
There is also added potential for a direct listing in the Binance Innovation Zone and the incredible investment opportunities that come with that.
The Big Bang of NFTs focused primarily on the development of NFT+DeFi.
The initial phase began on May 1st, and oversaw over 400 applications from all over the world. Each project was given ample attention and put through a scrutinising process that carefully observed performance. A top 20 projects would be identified based on a strict criteria:
Product innovation: What does the project propose that is unique? Is this project competitive, and does it provide new features and products?
Security: Each project must have at least one completed team security certification or audit from independent BSC ecosystem partners.
Community & users: This includes the number of active users in the community, chain address activity, and regular users.
Transaction volume: Here, we looked at the transaction volume over different periods.
(The criteria is taken as specifically defined by the brilliant team at Binance)
The second phase saw the top 20 undergo even more scrutinous standards, as the projects are expected to be the most demanded applications in NFT+DeFi, dApps or Infrastructure in the BSC Ecosystem. Popularity is a must.
Security is then investigated as despite the huge number of Daily Active Users (DAU, Total Volume Locked (TVL), and Liquidity, projects are expected to hold up in terms of offering protection.
Finally, communication was understood as a key aspect. It was important to garner community strength via different media channels, including but not limited to Twitter, Telegram, Discord and Medium. Often underplayed, this communicative aspect is what binds these projects together, and the second phase of the competition accounted for that.
For now, the growth of the ecosystem is outpacing the inflow of funds, keeping rates high and earning potential intact. I’m going to get it while the getting’s good and wait for market efficiency to catch up.
The inspiration for this article came from the unlikeliest source, an ad on a Youtube video I was listening to while in the shower. It went somewhere along the lines of, “our bonds allow investors to earn a market-beating 3 to 5% APY during this time of historically low-interest rates.” It got better… “You only have to lock your money in for up to 6 months to earn these competitive yields!”
My first thought was… HA! But then it brought me back to reality and made me think… are yield farming rates turning me into, dare I say, a degen? I don’t think that to be the case. I really don’t. So now, I’m going to convince myself in this article that I’m not. I think the younger crypto investors call this coping?
Right now, at this moment, I have Vapor/BNB earning me a measly 2,278% APY in a compounding vault. Ridiculous if you stop to really think about it. I calculated the average pre-compounding yield across my portfolio in BSC Defi. I’m sitting at about .5%, per day, or 182.5% APY. So what’s my point? I think it’s time to sit back and take a minute to put perspective on these yields.
With a quick google search, I discovered that “High Interest” savings account find themselves with landing around .5% APY. That’s lower than the average inflation rate. If I leave my money in a savings account, I’m losing.
I had a CD when I was a teenager and deposited small amounts with every paycheck. I remember the interest rate being around 6%, which was considered pretty good! According to bankrate.com, the best available CD’s are about .6% APY, with a 5-year commitment. What?
Using an ETF screener, I sought out the highest yielding bond funds available on the market. The top fund yielding fund with the symbol TYD has a 10.25% Dividend. Not too bad. I know nothing about the fund.
I happen to like real estate investment trusts to diversify into real estate while earning a dividend and maintaining liquidity. Using the same ETF screener, the top REIT offers a 10.19% APY.
Individual stocks often offer dividends and can range in the single-digit territory. I think it is great that you can hold ownership in a company you believe in while earning a share of the profit, but the dividend is usually nothing to get too excited about. AT&T, for example, pays a dividend of about 7.1%.
I was having a discussion with my financial advisor and we got on the topic of stable coins, particularly in De-Fi. He was trying to understand their risk factors after I told him I could pull 20% APY from holding USDT (At the time of writing this the APY for USDT in Beefy is actually 30.7%). Ultimately, it came down to… while the risk factor is low in the crypto landscape, there are obvious risks regarding smart contracts, wallets, etc. Rather than considering this a cash position, it is best to consider it a low-risk crypto position. I can live with that, and the 30% APY it offers. I would not utilize stable coins as the vehicle for my emergency funds, but It’s probably next on the list in terms of the best place to park some cash.
BTC and ETH both come in with APY’s in the mid-teens in Beefy Finance. This may not be the best yield, but considering the hypothetical upside potential, it’s a strong reward for holding the biggest crypto assets long term.
De-Fi liquidity pairs offer APY’s ranging from 30% to 100% on most of the large-cap cryptos, this yield is magnified when a yield optimizer is added into the equation.
When looking back through this list of a wide variety of available interest rates in the market, It’s pretty obvious that the incredibly high APY’s in the hundreds or thousands is simply bananas. Even a 30% APY on USDT is a bit mind-boggling. To me, there are only two variables that exist to account for the high APY’s of BSC yield farming: Risk and market efficiency.
This leads me to one question that I can’t quite shake:
To me, the obvious place to assess this question is the current APY of USDT. If the current savings rate is .5% in your bank, while USDT can earn 30% in Beefy, is the stable coin 60 times riskier than simply holding cash in a bank account. I don’t have a way to measure this, but I find that to be unlikely. It is my best guess that BSC yield farming rates are at a point of extreme inefficiency, and the high rates are not necessarily an indicator of excessive risk (don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of risk, and we should all know that by now).
I think, or at least have a hunch, that more funds will flow into the space causing yields to drop in most cases. That sounds bad, but could also be good for us early adopters of BSC, as the inflow of funds should cause an increase in asset prices. For now, the growth of the ecosystem is outpacing the inflow of funds, keeping rates high and earning potential intact. I’m going to get it while the getting’s good and wait for market efficiency to catch up. At least that’s my bet on BSC.
Disclaimer: Don’t read this to mean a 15,000% APY is simply due to inefficiency and you should yolo next month’s rent at it. Don’t do it.
