DeFi notes

I did quite a bit of reading today, I’ll share a few things I picked up relating to crypto and DeFi. I’m still trying to wrap my mind around it enough to the point where I can write a couple thousand words on it for my Substack, but for right now I still feel like I’m in the research phase.

DeFi is crypto’s latest craze, and it may soon challenge traditional banks – A good primer about DeFi and what’s going on in the traditional monetary systems.

Bitcoin of DeFi – about Yearn.Finance, covers the various sections of it as well as some of the background on it. Andre Cronje started it for his family and friends and codified it and released it to the public. Brilliant.

The Revolution You’ve Been Awaiting: Fintech + DeFi – Alternate title: “Software Robots and Automated Workflows”. Interesting read.

Guy Makes $250,000 a Day Yield Farming on Ethereum – Yes, but he started with $8.1 million ETH. I did take a look at the portfolio on Debank. $8m in Sushi swap, $4m in Swerve, and less in Compound and Balancer. Might pick up some SWRV just in case. Apparently I’m inadvertently staking there through Harvest USDC pool.

3 Rules for Healthy Pseudonymous Hygiene with Ethereum – With all this activity going on I’ve caught myself slipping a bit with my activities. I inadvertently shared a ETH tx with someone yesterday while I was depositing into Yearn yesterday, and now I consider that address burned, so to speak. I’ve got to be careful not to cross streams, so to speak, if I’m going to keep things clean.

And speaking of privacy…

The IRS is Offering $625,000 to Crack Monero – You bet they are. I’ve dealt with Cryptonote quite a bit, and it’s built on some solid math. Privacy tokens are the real thing, and Monero’s probably the oldest and most popular. I don’t see this happening anytime soon.