SEC's Assault on Staking ($)
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- 😑 SEC Sues Consensys Over Alleged Securities Violations. The agency alleges that MetaMask, Lido, and Rocket Pool staking services are unregistered securities.
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📸 Daily Market Snapshot: BTC tested falling below $60K after a week of rebuilding, but all eyes were on staking kingpin LDO which fell over 16% after the SEC named the asset as an unregistered security in its Consensys suit. RPL, which was also named, fell 7.5%.
| Prices as of 5pm ET | 24hr | 7d |
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Crypto $2.24T | ↘2.0% | ↘4.3% |
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BTC $60,128 | ↘2.0% | ↘6.2% |
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ETH $3,382 | ↘1.6% | ↘3.9% |
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AVAX $28.07 | ↗0.3% | ↗1.7% |
One year ago this week, our very own David Hoffman shared details about his experience living with some of crypto’s brightest minds in the ephemeral city called Zuzalu.
Inspired and initiated by Vitalik Buterin, Zuzalu blended structure and spontaneity to construct a successful experiment, but almost immediately after the ephemeral city dispersed, attendees wondered how they could keep the fire of Zuzalu alive and continue to offer places for the ethos of Ethereum to connect with disparate emerging technologies.
Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to since 👇
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🧑🌾 Farming Alpha: While Curve, Aerodrome, Aave, and Frax are offering market leading variable returns, yields across DeFi have sharply fallen this week. Highly desirable 30%+ yields for restaked Mellow PTs through Pendle were halved this week along with the slide in variable rates and increase in vault capacity, but remain desirable for users concerned yields will continue to compress.
Top Opps:
- 🟠 BTC: 4% APY with Fraxlend’s WBTC pool on Ethereum
- 🔵 ETH: 21% APY with Curve’s weETH-WETH pool on Ethereum
- 🔵 ETH: 17% APY with Pendle’s amphrETH PT on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 40% APY with Cruve’s sUSDe-crvUSD pool on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 22% APY with Pendle’s sUSDe PT on Ethereum
- 🟢 USD: 21% APR with Aerodrome’s DOLA-USDC pool on Base
- 🟢 USD: 15% APY with Aave’s DAI vault on Arbitrum
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