Coindesk found out what was in the Uniswap Wells notice.
SEC saying LP contracts are securities, Uni an unregistered exchange and the wallet/site a broker.
So to summarize
Best case: MakerDAO has been paying through the nose for an arranger that’s giving them below market returns, with high fees and none of the required reporting.
Worst case: gigantic hole in MakerDAO balance sheet.
Neither of those seem great lol
have to hand it to
@labsGFX
they really in the governance arena trying things
too bad all their sensible ideas get voted down
right now they are working on offboarding Monetalis, one of MakerDAO's RWA custodians that never produces any reports
bruh lmaooo
Gauntlet needs to fire their intern
@swellnetworkio
and
@stakewise_io
are two totally different protocols and osETH isn’t even an LRT
it’s not just a social media mistake either cause an osETH (the liquid staking token) is actually listed in their vault
how it started, how it's going
I think Gauntlet is getting off the hook very easy on this one by saying "look it was a few days of yield"
irresponsible supply cap policy created the situation for a liquidation cascade that lost borrowers a lot of money
Big week ahead with spicy governance activities going down in MakerDAO.
Do MKR holders fire their arranger that never does any work? Or do they toe the party line and refuse to allow randos to make positive changes?
Find out on the next episode of DBZ!
Update: The proposal has been submitted, and will be up for a vote next Monday. We anticipate minimal opposition from delegates, since it’s an open and shut case. Low yield, quality competitors waiting in the wings, deficient record keeping, never delivered an audit, etc etc etc
not a big fan of schadenfreude in defi because the space is so small and I think we should all grow together
that said, if people have been pointing out potential issues and risks for months and the response has been "who cares?" then the bad situation actually happens...
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We will update it regularly, at least until the start of voting (June 23), to reflect the evolution of metrics.
2/5
You can earn (under market) yield but you can never leave
Depositors are stuck in Hotel Gauntlet until either some borrowers repay (why would they at 4% borrow rates?) or more supply enters (why become exit liquidity?)
people have been asking where the yield for GHO Merit program is coming from
the answer is easy
it comes from all-natural, sustainable, points-free DAO revenue
profit is a hard thing for ct to understand, but Aave is making over $40m annualized mostly in ETH and stables
@bjnpck
@crypto_yuvi
@lemiscate
the
@Token_Logic
dashboard site has both GHO revenue and total Aave revenue broken down in all the ways you could want.
For revenue distribution, as always it's on the gov forum.
Merit program was extended for a year targeting specific uses of the protocol.
Interesting how you can pretty much see any major news event footprint in Etherscan just by noticing that beaver builds all the blocks for a couple minutes straight
mexican standoff vibes in the MakerDAO offboarding proposal
big delegates on both sides but most of the votes haven't been registered yet, so maybe they wait to see where things are closer to the deadline
Ethena been live for months and people still haven’t googled “cash and carry” or “basis trade” it seems.
It is the most basic commodity trade after a vanilla long so worth learning about for the uninitiated.
supplying ETH to Aave Arbitrum currently making more than staking, thanks to borrow pressure from weETH holders.
Do we see supply rates for wstETH increase as a result?
How did this happen you ask?
After ezETH depeg Gauntlet put most liquidity in a new market with a lower LTV but much lower borrow costs that got 100% utilized
Morpho's interest rate is bizarre. Even at max utilization the rate is only 3% so no incentive for borrowers to repay
@Togbe0x
just one example, still >80% depends on how you structure ur hedges
many others and better APY if you do it yourself + go thru other venues to loop
this is where fancy theory and math papers meet actual degens on chain
while the floating rates seem nice, here is how it played out on another ezETH market they are allocated to
degens fine paying high rates and it takes weeks for the rate to go up even at 100% utilization
@Togbe0x
when utilisation gets away from 90% the whole IR curves is supposed to shift up (or down), I guess we will see how effective this mechanism really is
max points farm baby
weETH collateral, borrow GHO, swap for USDe, deposit in Aave
sats, ether fi points, eigen layer points and merit rewards all in one
Users will be able to earn Sats for the following:
i) USDe collateral: 20x
ii) sUSDe collateral: 10x (tbc via governance)
iii) stETH, ETH, rETH, weETH collateral to borrow GHO into USDe 20x
iv) stETH, ETH, rETH, weETH collateral to borrow USDC/T into USDe 10x
not much noise on this but a cool collab between Aave and Synthetix will go live soon
aUSDC and other yield bearing coins make good resting collateral for this kind of thing
thinking about Ethena some more
good business for exchanges to onboard USDe as margin bc it push down the cost for long side
As long as some USDe not staked then holding sUSDe always give you better yield than running trade yourself
December 2023: Monetalis report contains 9 figure discrepancies
Also December 2023: Monetalis Holdings LTD company in UK dissolved
No more reports since then.
Coincidence?
at the original cap of 3k ETH, the event may have had a few liquidations but it would have been way less
there was over 10,000 ezETH supplied on that one market
zero chance that was going to end well, and all enabled by your friendly neighborhood risk manager
sure we can say "those users were being degen and they got what they deserved" but gauntlet gave them the rope
what prompted them to raise the supply caps twice in two weeks?
no mention of what went in to this decision anywhere on the forums or otherwise that I have found
@llamaonthebrink
any more links/context on this?
this seems like one of those things where people in the know all subtweet each other in a way designed to lock the rest of us out lol
7/ For more details on the timeline, liquidity, and liquidations of ezETH and our overall vault risk parameterization and strategies, we invite you to visit our forum post:
Crypto UX sucks
Transactions take seconds to confirm with automatic receipts.
Can only send in USD or EUR or any of the other 20 currencies that have stablecoins already
Transactions costs are a few dollars at max and often a few cents no matter the size.
Just terrible
Why do people keep trying to shoehorn narratives on to ETH?
No narrative is better. That way people can attach it to their favorite.
Commodity guys: digital oil!
Tech guys: world computer!
Fixed income guys: sovereign bond!
There’s something for everyone
@delucinator
aave doesn’t really have a stake in this one
not great to see users loose money bc of preventable things
as far as aave dubs they are many
stkGHO holders getting like 90% apr in airdrops, DAO is hugely profitable and making over $50m a year, GHO supply at ath and growing
@ImperiumPaper
The thing is no one seems to have any actual idea which seems the most worrying to me
And there are a lot of possible bad outcomes between the best and worst case scenarios here
the issue with Uni v3 as your main pool is that if something happens and it depends you end up with a huge sell wall going against you for the rest of time until you can flip back into range
has anyone seen research on stableswap vs univ3 for pegged asset liquidity
a lot of protocols focus on univ3 for pegged assets but i feel like curve (/balancer/solidly) stableswap maths is goated
trying to justify my assessment
@ImperiumPaper
ok sure but that’s outside of the basic trade
and in practice of course ethena is run like a bank and reserve ratios in usdt reflect this
we had only one day of net negative funding but USDe supply has stopped growing
not to mention real yield is heavily subsidized since only 300m or so is staked
the space for good yield on the carry trade isn’t two yards wide
what if fractional reserve banking is original sin and all money should be overcollateralized and backed by hard reserves?
issue was that gold market cap is too small to back all money flow needed to grease the wheels of commerce
The LRT Core Vault on
@MorphoLabs
is performing as any lending market is intended to.
If borrower demand exists they will borrow what's available. As this happens, the interest rate increases so that suppliers are compensated.
At > 90% utilization, IR will continue to increase:
maybe curve oracles should be blacklisted?
study mich depositing in a platform that was misusing a curve oracle and as a result got rekt
if the only person in the world that understands curve oracles well enough still didn't catch this, not sure anyone can
@0xGeeGee
Unironically restaking and shared security is probably best BTC L2 narrative idk why they aren’t on this vs trying to make DeFi rollups themselves
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thinking some more about the NewStable blacklist function
probably a necessary evil if you're going to have RWA collateral, especially anything touching US financial system like treasuries which is most of MakerDAO's exposure in the real world
>oh but why were you fudding ethena before and now it's listed
are you slow?
MakerDAO planning to dump a yard into a new protocol is a lot different from Aave onboarding an asset in isolation mode with a 80m supply cap
lmao but apparently the MakerDAO “community” decided to absolve them of all reporting and auditing requirements.
Now some community members are rightfully asking for their money back.
Will see what the “community” decides.
@Togbe0x
@SteakhouseFi
Make proposal to put an auditor, move those funds to tokenized t-bills or whatever you need to be happy.
Maker community set the rules. 🤷
an interesting contrast between all the hoops projects have to jump through for LTIPP grants and the gaming thing
grants are being streamed with option to shut it off it projects don’t meet reporting and metric requirements
so it’s not that DAOs don’t know how to use the tech
I don't understand why big daos don't use streaming services like
@Sablier
to pay this amount of money for "potential growth", especially when DAOs don't have a good track record of making smart investment decisions.
Funny comment cause you can get 20% on chain with no smart contract risk and some minimal counterparty risk with a short on futures and some nexus insurance.
@crypto_yuvi
In almost all cases, getting 20% on chain is not worth the smart contract risk + stable coin specific risk, if you underwrite both even remotely carefully.
@Fiskantes
what exactly should the market cap be? cap has been growing steadily in controlled manner and expansion to Arbitrum coming soon and new facilitators will grow it some more
Gnosis chain has always been one of my favorites but they really need to fix the bridging situation between other L2s
Hopefully native USDC there solves this problem
dang mainnet safes only get points, seems very shortsighted tbh, should be pushing retail to get those things set up on L2s
I guess mainnet is still where all the money is
Two weeks to discuss. Should get spicy.
Will be a good test on how well off-script ideas get dealt with in MakerDAO.
But based on reading the room in the gov thread, doubt that it passes.
A
@MakerDAO
poll just went live to allocate today’s MKR holders 25% of all subDAO tokens (SPK + 5 others). Currently there is no allocation to existing MKR holders in the subDAO spin offs. This represents a great opportunity for MKR holders to get SIX(!!) token allocations
As my team was the first derivative house to trade yield swaps on LRTs in the 20's and was involved directly in the restaking index original construction I know the math. jeez. Do you think I don't? I've traded hundreds of yield swaps in my life.
Oof yah. I’m really privileged to be employed. And at the risk of sounding insensitive, I’ve often wondered what I’d be capable of in a situation where it was do or starve.