Weekly Wanchain Round-up Vol. 23

Kurisu
5 min readDec 9, 2023

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Welcome to volume 23 of the “Wanchain round-up series” where we cover all the latest news, trends, tips, and tricks within the Wanchain ecosystem! This series is your one-stop for all the latest happenings within the ecosystem, keeping you always in the loop!

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!! — Bitrock Announces First Stablecoin “USDB” Built With Very Own Wanchain Cross-chain Bridge. Cardano achieves Meta Mask Functionality Thanks to Wanchain!

On December 6th, EVM sidechain protocol “Bitrock” announced its first-ever USDB stablecoin and cross-chain bridge developed in partnership with Wanchain. Like all assets connected by Wanchain, USDB will enjoy unparalleled cross-chain functionality with blistering fast transactions, cheap fees, and unmatched security and decentralization.

Read the details, here!

Wanchain and Maestro are joining forces to bridge Cardano and MetaMask this is a huge step forward for the Cardano ecosystem as this solution will allow users to interact with any Cardano Dapp using Metamask.

Review the governance proposal, here!

Wanchain-powered bridges are the future!!

In other bullish news…

Wanbridge

You’ve heard about the legendary BTC XFlows. You’ve heard about the mighty ETH Xflows. Perhaps you’ve even been acquainted with the mythical USDT XFlows! But don’t forget, Wanchain also harnesses the heroic USDC XFlows! Below you'll see the Wanbridge transact nearly 121K USDC between Tron and BNB Chain with ease!

Remember! DAI is now live on 7 different routes including Ethereum, Cardano, Arbitrum, Wanchain, and Optimism!

Cardano is now cross-chain! Learn how to get started on your cross-chain journey, here!

Liqwid Finance

DAI lenders have been earning around a whopping 9.7% APY and 23% in LQ rewards this week!

USDT and USDC assets are still yielding decent rates rates with USDT at 2.6% APY and 23% APR in LQ rewards and USDC at 2.9% APY and 23% APR in LQ rewards respectively.

Spectrum Finance

Wanchain-powered cross-chain BTC and stable assets are live on Spectrum!

  • ADA/USDC- TVL: 17k APR: 15%
  • ADA/USDT- TVL: 12k ADA APR: 23%
  • ADA/BTC- TVL: 6.7k ADA APR: 5%

WingRiders

Hey Riders! The DAI/DJED pair is at an attractive APR rate of 5% on Wingriders!

Cherry Lend

Cardano-based lending and boring platform ‘Cherry Land’ will soon support Wanchain bridged assets: BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, and DAI!

“This collaboration opens the door for billions of dollars of assets to have easy access to loans on Cardano”.¹

Recent Wanchain Exposure

Wanlend

Stablecoins on Wanlend are maintaining favorable APR rates with wanUSDC leading the charge!

  • wanUSDC 22.59%
  • wanUSDT 14%

PSST!! Don’t forget! WAND emission rates have decreased by 25% as scheduled per their tokenomics.

Steamtrade

DCA remains one of the most popular investing strategies! DCA across 13 different assets including wanBTC, wanETH, wanUSDT, wanXRP, and wanUSDC with Steamtrade!

JacksPot

The JacksPot no-loss lottery currently sits at a 101 WAN jackpot payout! Winnings are settled at 23:00 UTC on Friday with the next round beginning at 00:00 UTC on Saturday.

Wanswap

The top two WanSwap DEX pairs from the previous weeks are still leading and maintaining their rates from last week! APR rates are 18.75% on the WASP/WAN pair and 11.27% on the WAND/WASP pair.

ZooKeeper

The classic gamified Farming and NFT app ‘ZooKeeper’ remains a Wanchain ecosystem favorite!

The ZooKeeper farming app continues its pump! Currently, ZOO is standing at 0.0101 USD, a 4.3 million market cap. No data on the current ZooKeeper TVL at the moment!

ZooGames

Hey Animals! Wanchain-based NFT project “CryptoCacs” teased a collaboration with ZooGames’ TexesZooGenesHoldem’! What are they cooking?!

Latest ZooGames team released the following updates from previous segments:

  • Quests
  • New limited cardback, wearable, and coin NFTs
  • Free roam the poker saloon
  • Custom starting tournament stacks
  • Instant Playpass

OpenZoo

The top 3 NFT collections from our previous segments continue to top the OpenZoo marketplace. We’re seeing Zoogenes at $395K, Small Arms Syndicate maintaining the $194K range, and CryptoCacs maintaining $70K.

RexDex

We’re still waiting to see what juicy listing RexDex has in store for us!

RexDex staking continues its pump with 271 million in staked REX! Liquidity on the platform has increased since last week and currently sits at a juicy 40k!

USDT pairs are leading the charts in this segment! Check them out:

RexDex’s top 3 highest APRs:

  • wanUSDT/wanXRP 73.39 %
  • REX/wanUSDT 65.50%
  • REX/ADA@wanchain 61.30%

Don’t forget to follow RexDex on X! @TheRexDex

Elk Finance

Calling all Elks! Don’t forget you can swap WAN for Elk and bridge Elk to more than 20 different networks via the mighty ElkNet! When bridging Elk from one chain to another, users can automatically swap their Elk for the destination chain’s native coin!

Check out the WAN/ELK farm if you haven’t yet!

DEGA Realms (NewDapp Integration)

DEGA Realms, a 2D open world by the user, is now live on the Wanchain L1 blockchain! Users can now build and publish their own maps! In the future, users will be able to build their own character, and enable the gameplay builder, Read more, here.

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