Jan 10Our Vision For 2023The Instrumental Finance initiative will undergo a revamped approach as previously we were building on Mosaic’s infrastructure and our vision relied on this technology. …Defi4 min readDefi4 min read
Sep 27, 2022Instrumental Dev Logs 1:Overview Instrumental Finance will serve as Picasso’s cross-chain strategy hub. How is this actually accomplished? This first ever Dev Logs on Instrumental will dive deep into the architecture of the pallets behind the project and the strategy currently in the works. Pallets: You can split the pallets native to STRM into…Defi4 min readDefi4 min read
Jun 3, 2022veSTRM utility in Instrumental’s broader visionWith the announcement of our latest STRM rewards, where we detailed the release of an additional 0.45% of the STRM reward supply to be distributed in the next 3 months. During the first month to existing veSTRM holders, and the following two months to also include new STRMers who lock…Defi3 min readDefi3 min read
May 5, 2022Recent Q1 Messari Uniswap Report Confirms Instrumental’s Value PropositionWritten by 0xMoonscraper The latest quarterly Messari report on Uniswap found differences in Liquidity Provider (LP) returns across different platforms and time periods. …6 min read6 min read
Apr 29, 2022Leveraging Instrumental Finance as a cross-chain strategy hub for Picasso and DotSamaThe DotSama ecosystem holds immense financial promise for DeFi users. Given its current traction and with many new financial primitives set to launch, members of the Ethereum community interested in yield generation will migrate to DotSama in recognition of this opportunity. …3 min read3 min read
Mar 18, 2022Framework for developing optimal cross-chain capital allocation strategiesWritten by Juan P. Madrigal-Cianci, Jesper Kristensen, and 0xmoonscraper Advanced Blockchain Research & Instrumental Finance SB-MATH-CSQI, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Instrumental Finance. March 14, 2022 Introduction We build a framework for developing cross-chain yield-optimizing strategies. The cross-chain aspect will be implicitly modeled via a cost-function introduced to handle the…Defi13 min readDefi13 min read
Mar 16, 2022Instrumental Finance: Chasing yield in the Picasso ecosystemInstrumental acts as the cross-chain strategy hub for Picasso, Composable Finance’s Kusama parachain, a position that opens up a host of new opportunities for liquidity providers (LPs). The ability for DeFi users seeking to optimize their yield position across chains and layers, most especially on Picasso without needing to manually…Defi3 min readDefi3 min read
Mar 11, 2022STRM Liquidity Rush EndsThe three-month liquidity rush program that began on December 9th, 2021, will be ending this Sunday, March 13th. In this program, users locking STRM-ETH SLPs within a three month locking period also earned 5% of the STRM supply to be vested over three months. Although the program has ended, LPs…Defi2 min readDefi2 min read
Mar 7, 2022Instrumental x Cubic — The start of cross-chain yield strategies optimizationCoinciding with Instrumental’s vision as a cross-chain strategy hub, Instrumental is leveraging Cubic, a foundational pallet on Picasso and vault primitive for cross-chain yield strategies optimization, to provide optimal cross-chain yield opportunities for users and protocols in the DotSama and Cosmos ecosystems. …Defi4 min readDefi4 min read
Mar 3, 2022Instrumental Finance: the cross-chain strategy hub for PicassoThe epicenter of most DeFi activities lies in liquidity provisioning (LPing) where liquidity providers (LPs) provide funds to strategy pools in search of the best yields. This task of ‘farming’ yield has increasingly become attractive for users but as yield opportunities expand across different layers and chains the complexities involved…Defi3 min readDefi3 min read
