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- 🟠 Detroit Set to Accept Crypto Tax Payments. The Michigan city is the largest in the U.S. to support crypto payments for paying city fees and taxes.
- 📜 Ethereum Foundation Reveals $1B Treasury & New Conflict of Interest Policy. The EF has enough runway for the next half-decade and beyond.
- ⬛️ Jack Dorsey's Block Doubles Down on Bitcoin Mining, Abandons 'Web5'. Jack Dorsey takes a bigger bet on bitcoin infrastructure.
📸 Daily Market Snapshot: DeFi's buzziest players from the past cycle pumped bigly off of Trump's election win, with Ethena, Aave, Maker and Lido seeing substantial weekly candles. With ETH nearing $3,000 and DeFi mindshare growing, crypto investors are bidding up the long-tail DeFi protocols as well, hoping for a new Trump-induced bull run.
| Prices as of 2pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.53T | ↗ 0.8% | ↗ 8.6% |
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BTC $76,717 | ↗ 0.4% | ↗ 10.8% |
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ETH $2,955 | ↗ 3.1% | ↗ 17.9% |
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PENDLE $5.29 | ↘ 1.5% | ↗ 10.4% |
OpenSea is getting ready for a big revamp launching next month!
In preparation, we've updated our Bankless Guide to the NFT marketplace, so you can get up to speed on their latest efforts ahead of their December OpenSea 2.0 re-launch.
Let's dig in 👇 👇
Mantle kickstarts Season 1 of Methamorphosis. Building on the success of their Liquid Staking Token, mETH, Mantle LSP announces plans for a new Liquid Restaking Token, cmETH, along with a governance token, COOK. With Methamorphosis, participants can now farm Powder for future COOK tokens and position themselves early for upcoming cmETH release.
🧑🌾 Farming Alpha: Onchain yields got marginally juiced in the Trump bump this week! Aerodrome continues to provide attractive 34% yields on tBTC-cbBTC, meanwhile, Fraxlend is close behind, offering 25% APY on WBTC lend deposits. While ETH yields ticked up only slightly, high demand for crvUSD is being reflected in market-leading stablecoin yields for the token across numerous platforms on Ethereum.
Top Opps:
- 🟠 BTC: 34% APR with Aerodrome’s tBTC-cbBTC pool on Base
- 🟠 BTC: 25% APY with Fraxlend’s WBTC pool on Ethereum
- 🟠 BTC: 10% APR with Convex’s cbBTC-WBTC pool on Ethereum
- 🟠 BTC: 8% APY with Pendle’s LBTC (Corn) PT on Ethereum
- 🔵 ETH: 17% APR with Convex’s sfrxETH-rsETH pool on Ethereum
- 🔵 ETH: 8% APY with Pendle’s cmETH PT on Mantle
- 🔵 ETH: 7% APY with Pendle’s rstETH PT on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 19% APR with Convex’s crvUSD (sFRAX collateral) vault on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 19% APY with Aave’s crvUSD pool on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 16% APY with Aerodrome’s DOLA/USDC pool on Base
- 🟢 USD: 10% APY with Aave’s USDbC pool on Base