Hyperlend Airdrop, Aave Governance Tension Escalates
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DeFi📈
Hyperliquid Labs will unstake 173k HYPE tokens today to be distributed to team members on Mar 6, lower than the community expected amount of above 200k HYPE.
Steakhouse launched Supervisor V2, adding guardian and depositor veto power to Morpho vaults so risky changes can be blocked before execution, improving depositor protection and making vaults more transparent and institution-friendly across Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
Echelon launches Infinifi’s iUSD lending on Echelon Chain with $25,000 in incentives split between suppliers and borrowers.
Summer launches DAO Risk-Managed Vaults across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Sonic, and Hyperliquid L1, optimizing for higher risk/reward strategies while curating yields from top protocols.
Stablecoins/RWA🪙
Pendle enables fixed-yield trading on Ripple’s RLSD and PayPal’s PYUSD institutional stablecoins with a maturity date of May 28, 2026.
Unitas launches sUSDu on Pendle with an April 23 maturity date, enabling users to lock fixed yield, access leveraged exposure via yield tokens, and provide liquidity.
Curvance launches YZM | AUSD market on Monad, integrating Yuzu Money’s yield vault with Accountable’s verifiable yield infrastructure.
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Issues⚠️
Aave governance tensions escalated as Aave Labs and ACI published opposing reports ahead of the $51M funding from the “Aave Will Win” proposal vote, with debates centered on revenue alignment to token holders, accountability for ~$86M in past funding, and risks of contributor exits impacting token performance and competitiveness vs Morpho.
Airdrops🪂
Hyperlend $HPL token airdrop will launch tomorrow, with trading live on Hyperliquid tomorrow, pairing with Native market’s USDH.
Venus launches Flux on BNB Chain with $1,000,000 in supply incentives, creating the first unified liquidity layer across 8 chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism.
Huma Finance launches Season 3 Eligibility Checker for $HUMA airdrop. Eligibility is based on on-chain activity, especially USDC deposits into their point-farming modes.
Farms 🧑🏻🌾
Origin Protocol‘s OUSD/frxUSD Curve pool offers up to 18% APR on stablecoin LPs powered by Pool Booster.
Dolomite launches Looped stcUSD strategy offering 11% APY on stables with 3-9x leverage on Ethereum.
Pendle offers 7.6% fixed APY on PT-srNUSD, more than double the US 5-year rate, now with leverage and looping enabled on Morpho.
Neutrl Fi kicked off Season 1 around NUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin that earns by delta-hedging acquired OTC discount altcoins, while TVL grew by $212M in the past 60 days from launch.
Top farming strategies include:
- Points focused: Pendle YT-NUSD (50x points) and YT-sNUSD (25x points)
- Yield focused: Loop the new PT sNUSD Morpho market for up to ~20% yield, depending on rates and leverage.
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News🗞️
Metaplex, a token launcher protocol, launches an App on Solana, enabling permissionless token launches via time-based launch pools with pro-rata distribution and refund protection, alongside a $250K MPLX rewards campaign.
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