Yield-Bearing Stablecoins Are In Right Now

Ethena Labs launches the second epoch of their Shard program, elevating the caps for USDe liquidity pools and introducing new integrations. Solana’s MarginFi drops their yield-bearing stablecoin, YBX, collateralized by SOL liquid staking tokens. Lastly, controversial L2, Blast, is lastly dwell, permitting customers to bridge in and work together with purposes on the chain.

Overview

Total Value Locked (TVL) throughout all chains present no indicators of slowing the ascent of the final three weeks, with TVL enhance accelerating this week as a result of massive bullish transfer within the markets after the Bitcoin ETFs see a number of days of report inflows. Notable outperformers embrace Bitcoin, after new inflows from campaigns launched by Bitcoin L2s, Merlin and B2 Buzz, and Coinbase L2, Base, which noticed inflows after renewed curiosity on the chain.

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Because the market heats up, Shoal Analysis shares their watchlist and the sectors that they’re specializing in going into the bull cycle in addition to the tasks in these sectors:

Ethereum: Uniswap Native Restrict Order Swaps

Ethereum high decentralized exchange (DEX), Uniswap, introduces Limit Orders, now dwell within the Uniswap app. In the identical week, additionally they introduced their upcoming wallet extension, the Uniswap Extension, which opens within the browser’s sidebar versus as a popup.

Stablecoin protocol, Ethena, kicks off Epoch 2 of their Shard Marketing campaign, elevating caps for sDAI and GHO liquidity pool, USDe lock caps and including help for depositors of USDe with yield by-product platform, Pendle.

Different Product Launches and Updates

Multi-chain DEX, PancakeSwap, proposes an affiliate program, permitting new DEXs to fork their code. Holders of the CAKE token will profit from receiving native tokens of profitable forks.
DeFi suite, Frax Finance, proposes to reintroduce a revenue share for veFXS stakers again, impressed by the current proposal for income share by the Uniswap crew. Frax Finance income is presently saved of their treasury.
Leverage protocol, Gearbox Protocol, now supports Renzo for leveraged liquid restaking, enabling depositors to earn extra factors in EigenLayer and Renzo. The technique presently additionally yields 2x the same old Renzo factors for depositors.
Prisma Finance launches new collateral options for ULTRA, their liquid restaking token backed stablecoin. These choices embrace EtherFi’s weETH, Renzo’s ezETH and KelpDAO’s rsETH.
Ethereum privateness layer, Railgun, unveils Railgun Connect, a browser extension designed to simply provide privateness to any consumer on any DeFi app, with out the necessity for integration from the app.
Real-world asset buying and selling platform, Ondo Finance, introduces Ondo Global Markets, a platform which seeks to convey all publicly traded securities on-chain, whereas accessing the liquidity from conventional exchanges such because the Nasdaq or the NYSE.
Cross-chain interoperability layer, Wormhole, releases Native Token Transfers (NTT), a versatile and compossable framework to allow the switch of native tokens throughout chains with out affecting their intrinsic properties. This framework allows integration with any form of token standard, opening the door to a myriad of potentialities.
F(x) Protocol releases fxUSD, a stablecoin collateralized by ETH, ETH liquid staking tokens and stablecoins. Customers can now deposit supported property to mint fxUSD. Incentives have additionally gone dwell as of twenty ninth February to help the launch.

L2s: Blast is Stay

The Blast L2 goes dwell, unlocking the near 2 billion in property that had been locked up throughout their preliminary airdrop marketing campaign. Customers can now bridge to the chain from quite a lot of supply chains and work together with greater than 30 purposes which might be already dwell.

Bridging protocol, Synapse, launches the testnet for the Synapse Interchain Community and the Synapse Chain. The Synapse Interchain Community is an optimistic proof-of-stake community whereas the Synapse chain is an Optimistic rollup primarily based on the OP Stack.

Different Product Launches and Updates

Solana: MarginFi Introduces Its Yield Bearing Stablecoin

Money market platform, MarginFi, introduces YBX, a yield bearing stablecoin backed by SOL liquid staking by-product tokens. The beginning supported collateral will embrace JitoSOL, mSOL, bSOL and MarginFi’s personal LST.

Solana decentralized infrastructure platform, io.web, launches the Ignition Program, a collection of Galxe quests which can lead as much as the IO token airdrop, which is predicted to be later within the 12 months.

One other Week, One other Airdrop

Solana-based actual property perpetual buying and selling platform, Parcl, introduced their upcoming token launch in April, with a deliberate 7-8% of the token provide to be airdropped to customers who’ve participated within the level marketing campaign.

ETH liquid restaking protocol, KelpDAO, launches the KEP token for claiming. KEP is a illustration of EigenLayer factors earned by KelpDAO and might be freely traded presently.

Perpetuals DEX, Aark Digital, proclaims their upcoming token airdrop, which can exit to TIA and PYTH stakers, JUP holders, and Aark customers. Eligible customers should take part of their Moon Pageant, opening 4th March to obtain their airdrop.

Modern DEX, Ambient Finance, proclaims the launch of the Ambient Factors Season 1, rewarding customers with factors which might be distributed weekly. Retroactive factors will even be awarded throughout Season 1.

GambleFi platform, Shuffle, proclaims that their airdrop will lastly go dwell on Monday, 4th March, after 12 months of being dwell, to reward the customers who’ve supported them.