DeFi Recap: Derivatives
Weekly update, 4th February— 11th February.
Welcome to the DeFi report curated by Citadel.one team! We picked up 3 leading DeFi projects from among Derivatives for you to keep track of the most important governance votes, discussions, and incentives. The general market overview, selected metrics, articles, and hot tweets — it’s time for our DeFi Recap. Let’s get started!
We are happy to announce that this DeFi Recap is brought to you in collaboration with Nexus Mutual team. More news, updates & Nexus Mutual metrics inside!
Market Overview
Top-10 Derivatives
Total Value Locked in Derivatives
Median Gas Price (Gwei), by week
Derivatives
Nexus Mutual
Platform: nexusmutual.io
Value Locked: $280.0M
Governance Proposals: app.govblocks.io
Twitter: twitter.com/NexusMutual
Docs: nexusmutual.gitbook.io
Forum: forum.nexusmutual.io
Metrics
Capital Pool
DPI Uniswap Liquidity Chart
Featured Discussion
A Targeted Liquidity Mining Incentive: Wrapped NXM (wNXM)
Risk assessors deposit NXM and stake on contracts which, to their judgement, is secure and unlikely to be subject to deliberate attacks, or exploits/failures resulting from persistent bugs in the code. As Bancor is growing its TVL, the Foundation has elected to provide NXM stakers with an additional incentive to cover the Bancor contracts, in the form of BNT shield mining rewards 6. These incentives are designed to attract the attention of risk assessors, who may then decide to stake NXM against the platform. High amounts of assessor NXM staking on a contract results in reduced Nexus Mutual insurance premiums for Bancor liquidity providers.
Cast your vote: app.bancor.network
Featured Article
Upgrade: investment earnings, reduced gas fees and streamlined architecture
This upgrade will enable Nexus Mutual to start investing the mutual’s funds, much like a typical insurance company would. It does this by enabling the Capital Pool to make trades via Uniswap. Members will be able to jointly decide which assets to invest in and how much of the mutuals assets to allocate. There is a limit to the amount of new assets (denominated in ETH) that the mutual can hold and each asset has a min/max threshold denominated in the asset itself.
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Synthetix
Platform: synthetix.io
Value Locked: $2.81 B
Open Votes: 1
Active SIP-110 proposes to introduce TSLA to the Synthetix family of offerings
Featured Articles
The Bellatrix release
February 4, 2021 an upgrade has been deployed with a major protocol improvement. During this time, which is expected to take up to several hours, users may be unable to interact with the protocol, including using Staking, Mintr, Kwenta, or Synthetix.Exchange, and transferring SNX or Synths. More details about the upgrade can be found by the link.
How to short using Synthetix
As of the end of 2020, there is a new shorting mechanism live on Synthetix! This was previously only available at a contract level, as explained here, but there is now a new interface that allows anyone to take out a simple short. This mechanism is also expected to be integrated into Staking. This post will outline how the shorting dynamic works, and how to use the new interface.
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Secret Network
Website: scrt.network
Value Locked: $40M
Open Votes: none.
Featured Article
SecretSwap Update: AMM Rewards + Governance Token
SecretSwap, the first cross-chain and front-running resistant decentralized exchange, will be launched on Secret Network mainnet on February 17, 2021! SecretSwap, which uses the SNIP-20 secret token standard and Secret Ethereum bridge, creates a front-running resistant DEX for Secret Network and Ethereum assets. As our interoperability efforts around IBC and other networks mature, SecretSwap will become a cross-chain, privacy-first, front-running resistant liquidity hub.
This post contains critical information for prospective SecretSwap LPs and traders, all SCRT stakers and delegators, and users of Secret Bridges. Read carefully, and get excited for launch!
Featured Discussion
Grant Proposal: Secret Tunnels
“At a high level, the project would be an SDK for ‘wrap arbitrary python computation in a separate enclave, and use SN to verify that enclave contains what it says it does, and to send data safely to and from that enclave’.
What does this enable?
‘Using numpy/scipy/sklearn/tensorflow on data via SN’, for one. For 2, all those wonderful decentralized lending algos that need floating-point arithmetic can now run on this. For 3, If you write your python computation idempotently, it massively decreases gas costs for expensive computations, and decreases load on nodes to run them. For 4, now you can have nondeterministic computations on SN via the secondary enclave! (only when the computation is idempotent/caches results).
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