Kris Kay | ๐Ÿฆ‡๐Ÿ”Š๐Ÿฉ DeFi Donut Profile picture
Dec 23, 2022 โ€ข 19 tweets โ€ข 6 min read โ€ข Read on X
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I read @MessariCryptoโ€™s 168-page report on EVERYTHING web3 so you donโ€™t have to.

(DeFi, NFTs, Trends etc..)

Letโ€™s dive in.. ๐Ÿงต Image
2/x

Winter is Here โ„๏ธ

- speculative mania gone
- true believers remain
- fundamentals stronger than before
- most important time in crypto history to focus and learn / stick around Image
3/x

Crypto still inevitable ๐ŸคŒ

- innovation overshadowed by scams
- Bitcoin & ETH in historic โ€˜buy rangeโ€™
- stablecoins rival global card networks (visa..)
- L1s scaling & lowering fees
- DeFi 1.0 working without hiccups
4/x

Back to Basics ๐Ÿ“Š
- we now have Analysis tools
- fundamentals are emerging
- easier to research coins
- BS coins will fade bc of these tools
- currently 13 dapps with $10m run rate revenue
5/x

VC money still exists ๐Ÿ’ฐ

- โ€˜21 - mid โ€˜22 = $55b of investments
- 2nd half of โ€˜22 VC investments down 70%
- VC investments slowed but still going
6/x

Exchanges ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ผ

- Coinbase & Binance dominate
- FTX failure led to increased transparency standards
- regulatory risks for smaller exchanges are present
7/x

Crypto Credit Crisis ๐Ÿฅต

- 3AC & BlockFi bought GBTC
- GBTC premium crashed
- 3AC & BlockFi got trapped,
- & borrowed against GBTC
- Genesis loaned them $
- Luna was BIG blow
- 3AC & BlockFi gave Genesis bad debt
- FTX final blow
- Dominos & contagion
8/x

StableCoins โš–๏ธ

- should be USA leading export
- huge potential & scale
- first govt player will benefit big time
- stablecoin settlement rivaling big payments players like visa / Mastercard / PayPal
- hundred billion+ $$ market cap
9/x

Whatโ€™s @VitalikButerin excited about? ๐Ÿคด

- privacy preserving stable coins
- Prediction markets! (Fun)
- identity modules (ENS etc)
- Hybrid applications (on+off chain) for things like voting
10/x

Revenge of the dApps ๐Ÿ’ป

- DeFi TVL = $40 billion
- Fin. services industry = $23 trillion
- huge market to be had for DeFi apps
- growth upside is big
11/x

The @Uniswap Unicorn:๐Ÿฆ„

- currently only $1b+ protocol
- V3 update was huge
- likely to keep its dominance
- dividend โ€˜fee switchโ€™ going into trial run
12/x

Real world collateral (DeFi) ๐Ÿ’ฐ

- overcollat lending dries up when risk off
- undercollat lending popping up in DeFi (@goldfinch_fi, @maplefinance)
- DeFi will need to create more uncollateralized lending to compete with banks
13/x

Rise of liquid staking ๐Ÿ’ง

- stETH & rETH huge growth
- risk of staking ETH falling,
- little reason NOT to stake ETH
- synthetic assets give utility & will create long term hodlers

@LidoFinance & @Rocket_Pool
14/x

Generative art / NFTs ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ

- NFT market est value $8b-$10b
- 2/3 of NFT value = profile pics
- NFTs in gaming has big potential
- NFTs bleeding into every industry
- NFTs disrupting creator monetization
15/x

GameFi ๐ŸŽฎ

- gaming x finance
- trad gaming extracts value from players
- GameFi gives value back
- enjoyable games lacking still
16/x

DeSo ๐Ÿ’ฌ

- decentralized social gaining steam
- on-chain reputation / ownership
- give value back to users
- @LensProtocol leading the way as ground level platform
17/x

Wallets ๐Ÿชช

- wallet abstraction needed
- @coinbase web3 in-app wallet ๐Ÿ”ฅ
- great wallet experience needed for payment adoption
- @zapper_fi & @nansen_ai explorers are huge help for investors / users
18/x

I did my best to cut the fat and condense this report, but thereโ€™s still a lot of information to be absorbed, shout-out to @twobitidiot & @MessariCrypto for putting it together, go read it for yourself on the Messari website (free)
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Jan 11, 2022
prove me wrong:

I was the first person to put an NFT on an Apple Watch.
๐Ÿ“… Date - April 15th, 2021

๐Ÿงต
here is 3 days later, when I'd post another NFT apple watch photo in the @RTFKTstudios punk thread, which got some eyeballs from other punk owners:

2 days after this, another punk owner posted a apple watch punk pic , crediting me as the inspiration, and in his replies you can see how / where the trend got traction:

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Sep 14, 2021
Some DeFi Blue chips, ranked by how many different block chains theyโ€™re deployed on. ๐Ÿ’กโšก๏ธ

$SUSHI ๐Ÿฃ leading the pack.

(A thread) ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ
2/
If blockchains are countries, then dapps are like Franchises.

McDonaldโ€™s can exist in USA, but can have locations in Germany etc..

Foreign McDonalds franchises, pay franchise fee back to the McDonaldโ€™s Corp.

โ€œForeignโ€ Sushi Swaps pay fee to $SUSHI stakers
3/
The more blockchains Sushi branches out to, the more fees generated by users.

Meaning more fees earned by $SUSHI stakers back on the home base (Ethereum)

See SUSHI fees generated from diff blockchains in the last day ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ
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Jul 31, 2021
๐Ÿ’ต Stable Saving 101 ๐Ÿ’ต

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ Using โ€˜crypto dollarsโ€™
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ AKA stable coins.
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ pegged 1:1 with the dollar
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ whose price doesnโ€™t change.

Best ๐Ÿ”ฅ apps to get crazy good interest on these crypto dollars!

1. Watch vid
2. Read the thread ๐Ÿงต
3. Earn $$$
1/ @harvest_finance

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ auto compounding vaults
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ auto-sells farming rewards
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ sellers for your deposited asset

Link: harvest.finance Image
2/ @AlchemixFi

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ solid DAI APY
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ can borrow against it
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ 50% instant loan on demand
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ loan pays itself off
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ no liquidations

Link: app.alchemix.fi/vault Image
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Jul 8, 2021
Staking?
Lending?
Liquidity Mining?

Hereโ€™s a list of the strategies people use to make $$$ in DeFi

[A master thread ๐Ÿงต]

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Term: Lending
Goal: Passive interest income

- Lending = hands free interest
- Low risk
- 3% - 20% APY possible
- Stablecoins most worthwhile
- Withdraw funds any time.
- NOT THE SAME AS STAKING

Crypto banks ( @AaveAave & @compoundfinance ) lend your assets 4 you.
3/8

Term: Liquidity Pools (LP)
Goal: passive income

- Dec. Exchanges
- Powered by Pools
- Trading pair pools (i.e ETH / DAI )
- Any1 can add a pair to a pool
- Get rewarded from swap fees
- Risk: Impermanent loss

DEXs to LP on:
- @SushiSwap
- @QuickswapDEX
- @Uniswap
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Jun 14, 2021
All the crypto I own & why:

...a thread ๐Ÿงต - (no order)

(1/17)
2/17 - $ETH

๐Ÿ‘‰ Most decentralized blockchain
๐Ÿ‘‰ Most in-demand blockchain
๐Ÿ‘‰ Network effect level: 99999
๐Ÿ‘‰ Largest contributor community
๐Ÿ‘‰ Refined Smart Contracts
๐Ÿ‘‰ Battle Tested Network
๐Ÿ‘‰ Trillions of $$$ settled
๐Ÿ‘‰ Home of NFTs
3/17 - $LINK

๐Ÿ‘‰ Commoditized data feeds
๐Ÿ‘‰ Data feed used in all of DeFi
๐Ÿ‘‰ Most refined Oracle
๐Ÿ‘‰ Most adopted Oracle
๐Ÿ‘‰ Network effect: crazy
๐Ÿ‘‰ Data is evergreen
๐Ÿ‘‰ Hedge against a single blockchain
๐Ÿ‘‰ Multichain eco-system
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