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🔎Top 5 upcoming protocol launches
The past few months have been pretty rough for crypto.
But despite the current terrible market sentiment, there’s plenty of exciting stuff that’s happening in this industry.
So in this issue, I wanted to cover some of the most anticipated crypto launches for the next few months.
Let’s dive in 👇
1. Mantle Banking
Mantle Banking is a crypto-native neobank.
Think of it as an on-chain alternative to Revolut - an all-in-one Fiat and Crypto Account for everyday activities.
With Mantle Banking, you’ll be able to:
Spend your crypto and receive your fiat salary in one account
Get access to crypto-native high-yield opportunities through stablecoins
Spend your stablecoins across multiple currencies when traveling
Pay using Apple Pay, Google Pay, AliPay, and more
Borrow against your assets directly in the app
Invest to grow your savings
The goal is to make DeFi accessible to everyone and create a user-friendly interface between TradFi and DeFi.
Interestingly, the Bybit CEO also announced a few days ago that Bybit is working on a close integration with Mantle Banking.
The launch date for Mantle Banking isn’t known, but it will probably go live in Q2.
2. Fluid DEX V2
Fluid DEX V1 proved to be a massive success.
Since its launch in early Q4 last year, it has become the 2nd largest DEX on Ethereum L1 by trading volume due to its very high capital efficiency.
In short, what makes Fluid DEX stand out is that it allows its users to use their debt and collateral as liquidity for trading purposes.
The 2nd iteration of it (DEX V2) is now under development, and it will bring several major changes:
Concentrated liquidity (just like on Uniswap V3)
Enable the permissionless creation of new pools
Support for Hooks - which are smart contracts that allow developers to customize how pools, swaps, fees, and LP positions work
Dynamic fees
The upcoming iteration is also expected to be more capital efficient than DEX V1.
According to its team, Fluid DEX V2 will go live in 2-3 months.
3. Pendle’s Boros
Boros is Pendle’s next major product - which has been under development for a looong time.
Boros can be seen as a marketplace for hedging and speculating on any yield from DeFi, CeFi, or even TradFi markets.
At first, Boros users will be able to speculate only on funding rates from perpetual futures markets. Protocols like Ethena and Resolv will massively benefit from this, as the yields they offer depend on the funding rates.
Using Boros, they’ll be able to lock in a fixed funding rate when the funding rates are high in order to offer higher yields during market downtrends.
The revenue generated by Boros will go to PENDLE stakers.
Unfortunately, it is unclear when this product is going to be released.
But its launch will probably happen in late Q2 or Q3 2025.
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4. Kaito Earn
In short, Kaito Earn is an upcoming platform that will enable projects to design targeted campaigns that help them attract and reward the right users.
Campaigns with “Yap to Earn,” “Refer to Earn,” “Trade to Earn,” or “Use to Earn” models will all be visible in one place on Kaito Earn.
Using it, any crypto project will be able to target a subset of relevant users based on a precise user segmentation (filtered by geography, language, interests, sentiments, reputation, on-chain behaviours, etc.)
Top users will even have access to exclusive private sales on the Kaito launchpad.
Why is this a big deal?
Because it could help the projects that launch a campaign on Kaito Earn to rapidly find product–market fit by connecting them with their target audience.
On top of this, projects will also have the option to properly reward their loyal users with priority access to private sales or other special perks.
Kaito Earn will use AI to determine the right audience for each project.
5. GammaSwap’s Yield Tokens
Another interesting upcoming DeFi primitive is GammaSwap’s yield tokens.
Yield tokens can be seen as tokenized concentrated liquidity positions that will provide high APR rewards with no impermanent loss (IL) risk.
Under the hood, yield tokens will automatically provide liquidity into a concentrated range and use GammaSwap to hedge the IL. In this way, they are expected to generate annual returns of up to 50-80% on assets like ETH.
Yield tokens will essentially democratize access to highly advanced market-making strategies that are not accessible to retail at this moment.
To get access to these strategies, you’ll just have to mint yield tokens on the Gammaswap app.
After that, you’ll start earning passive yield.
Initially, GammaSwap will release two yield tokens that will replicate USDC exposure and EtherFi’s eETH exposure.
According to its team, they should go live this month.
On-chain Alpha🔎
Hyperliquid captured 70% market share in the perpetual DEX sector
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The latest developments in DeFi
Vitalik Buterin proposed replacing Ethereum’s EVM with RISC-V. This could significantly boost the network scalability
EigenLayer’s Slashing Upgrade has launched on the mainnet
EtherFi announced the launch of its DeFi bank, offering traditional banking services to crypto users
Arbitrum released Timeboost - a new transaction ordering policy that creates a new revenue stream for the DAO
Sonic L1 has been integrated by Arkham, a popular on-chain intelligence platform
Fantasy top introduced Clout: A points system that rewards social activity in a similar way to Kaito Yaps
Hyperliquid’s validator set became permissionless
Orca announced that ORCA token buybacks have begun. 20% of the protocol fees are allocated to token buybacks
DefiLlama launched a new Token Unlocks Calendar
Ethena announced that its upcoming RWA blockchain will be deployed as an Arbitrum chain
Optimism introduced the SuperStacks points program to reward on-chain activity. You can earn XP points by providing liquidity on Uniswap or Velodrome
Initia, the network for omnichain rollups, launched its mainnet
LayerZero announced that a16z acquired an additional $55 million ZRO
Circle, the USDC issuer, announced Circle Payments Network - a stablecoin platform that will allow banks to move money instantly
That’s all for this week!
Until next time,
The DeFi Investor
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