Ondo Launching Equity Perps, Royco Introduces Yield Tranching, Earn 19% APR on Volatile Markets
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DeFi📈
MegaETH launched Rabbithole, a new ecosystem frontend as mainnet opened fully to the public, positioning it as the primary entry point for discovering apps, bridging and swapping assets, and tracking ecosystem events.
PrismFi went live on MegaETH mainnet as a self-funded trading superdapp, launching with swaps, cross-chain swaps, and earn features. The protocol also opened a seven-day Liquidity Generation Event to bootstrap core pools, offering exclusive bonus points as part of its mainnet incentive program.
Compound outlined its v4 roadmap, introducing isolated markets designed to support more capital-efficient use of yield-bearing collateral, with Pendle a v4 Priority Partner, enabling PT assets to access deeper on-chain liquidity and improved looping strategies.
Kamino launches an on-chain capital markets platform, enabling users to borrow, lend, earn yield, and deploy leverage on tokenized equities.
SushiSwap officially launches on Solana, bringing its 4 million+ user base into Solana’s ecosystem and enabling cross-chain trading with enhanced speed and liquidity.
Royco, a yield tokenization protocol, launches an on-chain yield tranching that splits returns into senior protected yield and junior first-loss, higher-risk exposure. The system enforces coverage on-chain and is live with whitelisted access for institutions, funds, and DAOs.
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Stablecoins/RWA🪙
XAUm, a tokenized gold asset by Matrix Dock, launches on Solana, enabling institutional-grade physical gold trading on blockchain with direct redemption in Asia.
Perps DEX
Ondo Finance introduces OndoPerps, a pioneering capital-efficient platform for equity perpetual contracts, leveraging institutional-grade infrastructure.
Paradex announces Season 3’s first XP drop on February 18th, rewarding user activity from February 1st to 17th, with subsequent weekly drops.
Airdrops🪂
Avalanche Foundation introduces Retro9000, a retroactive rewards program for projects on the C-Chain, offering incentives based on AVAX burned through real on-chain usage.
Farms 🧑🏻🌾
Superform and Pendle launch a new SuperWETH market with attractive incentives, offering 50x Superform points, 7.5% APY for liquidity providers
Solstice Finance launches USX lending on Loopscale with a 3.50% borrow APY and up to 5x leverage, potentially reaching a net APY of 21.5%
USDD and Binance Wallet launch the third phase of their collaborative yield strategy, offering a substantial 800,000 USDD reward pool, equivalent to 12% APR, with the campaign ending on March 10.
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🗞️
Strategy said it purchased 1,142 bitcoin for about $90.0 million at an average price near $78,815, lifting total holdings to 714,644 BTC as of Feb. 8.
Bitmine Immersion Technologies said its total crypto and cash holdings reached $10.0 billion, led by 4.33 million ETH, equivalent to about 3.58% of Ethereum’s circulating supply.
Bitcoin Miner Cango Inc. sold 4,451 bitcoin for about $305 million, settling the transaction in USDT and using the proceeds to partially repay a bitcoin-backed loan.
Polymarket is challenging Massachusetts in federal court, arguing that states cannot regulate CFTC-approved prediction markets, which could set a significant legal precedent for decentralized platforms’ regulatory status.
South Korean authorities launch an investigation into Bithumb exchange following a significant 620,000 BTC airdrop error, revealing potential systemic vulnerabilities.
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