Projects to research 03/01 - 03/04

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I learned about interesting projects the past few days. 🧵 I selected some of the best researches (03/01 - 03/04) for you, you will find projects in the following Narratives: ▪️ Perp DEX ▪️ GambleFi ▪️ Options ▪️ Arbitrum ▪️ Real Yield And much more. 👇

I gathered the projects in the following categories: 1/ Layer1 2/ Layer2 3/ dApps ▪️ DEX ▪️ Perp DEX ▪️ Options ▪️ Vaults & Yield ▪️ Lending/Borrowing ▪️ Liquid Staking ▪️ NFTfi ▪️ Cross-chain ▪️ GambleFi & Prediction markets ▪️ Other 4/ Other

The categories are just informative, some projects can fit multiple categories. Everything is NFA, I don't vet the projects here. I read & selected the threads but I did not do deep research on every project. DYOR.

1/ Layer1 MultiversX (previously Elron), A highly scalable, fast and secure blockchain platform for distributed apps, enterprise use cases and the new internet economy (@Hercules_Defi) 🔹 Behemoth surviving cycles 🔹 Rebranding + active development twitter.com/Hercules_Defi/status/1630613538552307713

Berachain, a DeFi focused EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, powered by Proof of Liquidity Consensus (@misaflips) 🔹 Alpha + Not yet released 🔹 NFT Collections 🔹 Highly anticipated twitter.com/misaflips/status/1631723789309583360

2/ Layer2 Stacks, a Bitcoin Layer for smart contracts (@CryptoKaduna) 🔹 A Layer2 for Bitcoin, but not really a Layer2 🔹 Brings Smart contracts to Bitcoin (DeFi, NFTs and more on Bitcoin) twitter.com/CryptoKaduna/status/1630948341688279041

Base, a Layer2 built using Optimism's OP Stack (@GonzoXBT) 🔹 A product by Coinbase 🔹 Fast, easy-to-use bridges, possible gasless transactions twitter.com/GonzoXBT/status/1630627562824056836

LightLink, a Layer 2 blockchain secured by Ethereum, purposefully built for Metaverse, NFT and Gaming applications (@CryptoGirlNova) 🔹 Linked to GameFi & Metaverse growth 🔹 Fast, possible gasless transactions, enterprise ready twitter.com/CryptoGirlNova/status/1631643443025051649

3/ dApps ▪️ DEX Curve, Creating deep on-chain liquidity using advanced bonding curves (@jake_pahor) 🔹 An OG DeFi protocol that you must know & understand twitter.com/jake_pahor/status/1631309226902450180

Balancer and weighted pools (@Slappjakke) 🔹 Another OG protocol 🔹 Learn more about one of its main concept twitter.com/Slappjakke/status/1631237343951880192

Gridex Protocol, the first fully on-chain order book trading protocol for Ethereum, first launching on Arbitrum (@0xShinChannn) 🔹 New protocol, mostly anon team, high risk 🔹 Airdrop on Arbitrum twitter.com/0xShinChannn/status/1630954845422190596

Chainge, the most liquid cross-chain aggregated DEX (@fitforcrypto_) 🔹 Cross-chain 🔹 Perp & Options 🔹 All tokens distributed to community twitter.com/fitforcrypto_/status/1631389379800211461

Kromatika, a MetaDEX aggregator with no price slippage, Fees Earning Limit Order, Gasless mode & Perp (@Only1temmy) 🔹 Aggregates liquidity 🔹 Gasless possibility twitter.com/Only1temmy/status/1631736838573674501

▪️ Perp DEX LEVEL Finance, a Real-Yield Decentralized and non-custodial perpetual market on BinanceSmartChain (@Cryptotrissy) 🔹 A spot to be taken for Perp DEX on BSC 🔹 Real-yield 🔹 Easy to use UI twitter.com/Cryptotrissy/status/1630913018220642304

Roseon, a gamified derivatives exchange (@thelearningpill) 🔹 Mobile app 🔹 Coming to Arbitrum 🔹 Smart Wallet 🔹 Launchpad 🔹 Gamified features twitter.com/thelearningpill/status/1631685966510407682

Synthetix, a new financial primitive enabling the creation of synthetic assets, offering unique derivatives and exposure to real-world assets (@WinterSoldierxz) 🔹 Synthetics 🔹 Real-world Assets 🔹 Protocols using their Synths twitter.com/WinterSoldierxz/status/1631694075471462410

MetavaultTrade, the second largest Perp DEX on Polygon (@ViktorDefi) 🔹 Up to 50x Leverage 🔹 Low fees 🔹 Zero price impact 🔹 Using Chainlink Price Feeds twitter.com/ViktorDefi/status/1632035660327706625

▪️ Options Premia, a multi-chain decentralized options market based on a pool-to-peer architecture (@kindahangry) 🔹 American-style options 🔹 Premia V3 🔹 Tokenomics Revamp twitter.com/kindahangry/status/1631278232300396545

▪️ Vaults & Yield Stablz, an innovative stablecoin-centric farm (@cyrilXBT) 🔹 Real-yield 🔹 Integration with Curve twitter.com/cyrilXBT/status/1630847619839803393

More on Stablz (@LouisCooper_) 🔹 Alpha & Updates twitter.com/LouisCooper_/status/1631701178311659523

Sperax, USDs (liquid-staked stablecoin) + Demeter (Farming-as-a-Service) on Arbitrum (@ArbiAlpha) 🔹 Auto-Yielding Stablecoin protocol 🔹 Arbitrum Native 🔹 Real-Yield 🔹 USDs Fully Backed twitter.com/ArbiAlpha/status/1631399014653652993

Rodeo Finance, a protocol enabling Leverage for your positions on Arbitrum (@bizyugo) 🔹 Smart Vaults 🔹 Integrated in many protocols 🔹 Beta launch twitter.com/bizyugo/status/1631882186969468929

▪️ Lending/Borrowing Archimedes, a decentralized money market protocol allowing users to lend and borrow assets to various yield strategies (@thelearningpill) 🔹 Sustainable Top-of-Market APY 🔹 Risk Mitigation 🔹 Low maintenance positions twitter.com/thelearningpill/status/1630923360791134208

Sturdy, a protocol allowing yield farmers to get 10x leverage for farming projects like Convex, by supporting staked assets as collateral (@Only1temmy) 🔹 Staked Assets as Collateral 🔹 Aims to provide zero interest rates on borrowing twitter.com/Only1temmy/status/1631228963958968321

Liquidity, an interest free borrowing protocol built on Ethereum (@0xvanillacream) 🔹 Borrow at 0% interest rate 🔹 LUSD Stablecoin twitter.com/0xvanillacream/status/1631324150148091907

▪️ Liquid Staking EigenLayer, a game changing native ETH restaking protocol that'll revolutionize Interoperability and Staking for ETH (@0xSalazar) 🔹 Not yet released but already extremely popular 🔹 Highly important to Ethereum Staking & Security twitter.com/0xSalazar/status/1631626392059166722

▪️ NFTfi The Honey Jar, an NFTfi ecosystem aggregation project that will give holders exposure to the benefits of everything happening on berachain (@Bernin1001) 🔹 Benefit from an expanding ecosystem 🔹 Boosted yields on Berachain 🔹 Airdrop twitter.com/Bernin1001/status/1630989224936701968

▪️ Cross-chain Altitude, a LayerZero cross-chain and an enhanced security bridging solution (@arndxt_xo) 🔹 One of the first protocols built on LayerZero 🔹 Fast, secure, low fees bridging 🔹 Zero Impermanent Loss on their pools (single assets) twitter.com/arndxt_xo/status/1630568601169309696

More on Altitude (@TheDeFISaint) 🔹 Instant Guaranteed Finality 🔹 Airdrop twitter.com/TheDeFISaint/status/1631561679778598912

Symbiosis, a cross-chain engine and liquidity protocol (@Mr_Lumus) 🔹 Cross-chain swap twitter.com/Mr_Lumus/status/1631691077823414272

▪️ GambleFi & Predictions Markets Thales, a decentralized p2p parimutuel market on Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon & BSC (@0xsurferboy) 🔹 Prediction Market 🔹 Safebox twitter.com/0xsurferboy/status/1630886339406368770

JustBet, an autonomous on-chain peer-to-peer gambling platform (@Only1temmy) 🔹 Multiple games 🔹 Public Sale on Camelot on 03/09 🔹 No Middleman, No KYC, fully on-chain 🔹 True random numbers twitter.com/Only1temmy/status/1631689939002990592

More on JustBet (@LandfSmile) 🔹 Infrastructure to build more games 🔹 Immediately paid 🔹 Incentives for playing twitter.com/LandfSmile/status/1631702398187220992

▪️ Other Ipor, Interest Rate Benchmarks & Interest Rate Derivatives (@0xNairda) 🔹 Real-Yield 🔹 Ipor indices 🔹 Interest Rate Derivatives 🔹 An IRS for ETH yield twitter.com/0xNairda/status/1630568648136962048

Perpy, a Web3 Social Trading protocol on Decentralized Perpetual Exchange (@PerpyFinance) 🔹 Real-Yield 🔹 Launching on Arbitrum via Camelot soon (03/16) 🔹 30M FDV at launch twitter.com/PerpyFinance/status/1631670835382743041

Redactel Cartel, a suite of products based on Governance, Liquidity & Cash flow (@0xMughal) 🔹 Stablecoin DINERO is coming 🔹 Marketplace for governance/votes 🔹 Liquid wrapper for auto compounding yields in DeFi twitter.com/0xMughal/status/1631339784986828803

0x, a protocol and infrastructure that enables ERC-20 token exchanges by enabling off-chain order relay and on-chain settlement (@definapkin) 🔹 AMM, PMM & Market Makers knowlegde 🔹 0x enables liquidity provision by allowing anyone to become a relayer and host an order book twitter.com/definapkin/status/1631586532581834753

4/ Other MorpheusNetwork, a revolutionary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that aims to revolutionize the logistics industry through the use of blockchain technology (@wauwda) 🔹 15 Trillion Global Trade Industry 🔹 Google Startups Accelerator Canada Cohort 🔹 Alpha twitter.com/wauwda/status/1631212681733578752

Carbon Browser, a web3 decentralized privacy focused browser (@Only1temmy) 🔹 A spot to be taken 🔹 Fastest web3 browser 🔹 Decentralization, privacy, ad filtering solution 🔹 Built-in multichain crypto wallet 🔹 Incentive systems twitter.com/Only1temmy/status/1631302387683016706

Backpack, an open-source cross-chain wallet (@youngsolty) 🔹xNFTs 🔹Web3 wallet 🔹 Access dApps directly in the wallet twitter.com/youngsolty/status/1631364255055327233

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