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Updated 2026-07-21· 91 stories
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Robinhood Chain launchpad wars are on fire! Here’s my quick look at the top 10 launchpads currently active on @RobinhoodCrypto 👇 🔹AI and Advanced Infra @virtuals_io / $VIRTUAL: “Society of AI Agents”. Has strong potential to integrate deeply with agentic trading on RH. @bankrbot / $BNKR: Currently the strongest AI Agent financial infrastructure platform. Supports token launching, trading tokenized stocks, and advanced orders. @clanker_world / base:0x1bc0c42215582d5a085795f4badbac3ff36d1bcb: A modular launchpad with smart sniper tax mechanics. Supports multiple chains and recently integrated Robinhood Chain. 🔹Modular and High-Performance Launchpads @ponsdotfamily / $PONS: Currently the #1 launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Leading in token deployment volume after many builders pivoted from Noxa. @flapdotsh: Modular token launch infra focused on customization and innovation. Live on both BNB Chain and RH. @bowdotfun / $BOW: Stands out with its permanent LP lock mechanism and creator fee-sharing model. 🔹Fair Launch and Degen-focused @DegenLaunchpad: Strong degen positioning. Creators earn trading fees indefinitely. Core philosophy: “Built by the Hood, for the Hood”. @UseCoinbarrel / $CB: recently pivoted from Solana to Robinhood Chain. Notable for their plans to expand to Arc mainnet as well. @pmavfun / $PMAV: A data-driven launchpad that allows users to quickly create Uniswap V4 pools on Robinhood Chain. 🔹Niche / Specialized @longdotxyz: Focuses on combining Robinhood’s tokenized stock tokens with RWAs, memes, and community coins, creating more hybrid use cases beyond traditional memecoin launches. Over the past week, I’ve seen degens make serious money catching launchpad tokens and early gems on RH. Entries are no longer as clean on many tickers, but overall onchain activity is still growing steadily. I still think the next few weeks will offer more opportunities, especially around projects with real utility. And this list may be the beginning of sth 👀 DYOR + NFA.
Here’s a list of L1s that were once labeled “Ethereum killers” by the media and the crypto community. Most of them are now down more than 95% from their ATHs. Lol. After all these years, there is no Ethereum killer. There is only @ethereum. $ETH has survived every cycle and will likely continue to do so. Stop wasting money chasing overhyped projects built around temporary narratives.
The real problem is not that KOL marketing has zero ROI. It is that projects are trying to rent trust from people who never built any conviction around the product. A KOL can promote protocol A today, protocol B tomorrow, then attack A next week without losing the next sponsorship. That may generate impressions, but it creates no durable distribution, no brand loyalty and no meaningful moat. Still, I would not write off KOL marketing entirely. The right creator can help a product reach a specific audience, explain a complex narrative or accelerate awareness during a launch. But projects need to stop measuring creators only by followers, views and engagement. The better questions are: Do they understand the product? Have their views been consistent over time? Would they still mention it without a paid campaign? Does their audience actually trust their judgment? In my view, the market is not suffering from a lack of KOLs. It is suffering from a lack of credible voices with long-term alignment. That is why integrity is becoming one of the most underpriced distribution advantages in crypto.
Data via @Token_Logic https://aave.tokenlogic.xyz/aave/v4/markets/main-ethereum-core-v4/usdg
Catching up on yield research today, here are a few oddballs you might have missed. 1) @3janexyz has pivoted from being an onchain unsecured credit issuer to more of a wrapped private credit company and very limited borrowers. Their PTs have benefited from this pivot. ➢ PT sUSD3 (Junior Tranche): 22% Fixed APY ➢ PT USD3 (Senior Tranche): 13% APY 2) @blackopal_fi has $PLUME incentives on @pendle_fi. The base APR is around 11% over the last 30 days, but there's ~8% in added plume incentives. That makes the YTs profitable here, which is somewhat interesting. Now, it's not super easy to underwrite Brazilian Credit Receivables, but that's the task you're up against if you want to due diligence this yield. But it is a $300-$500b market, fwiw. IMO it would be a good candidate for tranching on @roycoprotocol. 3) @RE's reUSDe's discount has stayed around 3%. If you think it will stay here, the 18% PT is quite nice. As a reminder, the biggest concern here is that there's a rush for redemption and the limits / length causes a larger market discount with no easy path to exit without competing for redemption. 4) @SteakhouseFi high yield vaults at 13% on @Morpho. @monad is incentivising, may as well eat while there's food on the table. Collateral exposure on the USDC high yield is almost entirely XAUT, which is tether gold and certainly something I'm comfortable with. 5) Probably temporary, but the drama with @CapApp seems to have led to a high borrow rate (and therefore a high lending rate) for USDT to stcUSD. 7-Day Average is 14%. 6) @onrefinance tranches are still attractive imo. ➢ 8.31% Senior with 44% loss coverage ➢ 42% Junior with 2.2x loss exposure The junior has been capped for awhile, but it's one where mathematically (because of incentives) the junior should be risk adjusted, assuming this is not onf of those "once a decade" years for catastrophic floods, earthquakes, etc. 7) I found out recently that @Loopscale has some fixed rate markets, meaning you could loop up @solsticefi with both a fixed collateral and fixed borrow cost. I've got some buddies who locked in 18% for the foreseeable future. No liquidity at the moment, but another protocol to keep an eye on for liquidity. 8) PT-reUSD markets on Morpho look good here. Millions to borrow at 8% and less against a 10% fixed. I'm not saying "go leverage" but if you have the PT already and needed some liquid capital, it's positive carry. 9) I am once again reminded that $PRIME from @HastraFi is on EVM with a 4.32% borrow rate an 13M to borrow. Quick math puts the loop around 12-14% which I like. If I could feelessly flash enter and exit, I would do this. Maybe @GearboxProtocol or @3FLabs (hope that's the right tag) could build that. That's also something I wouldn't mind having tranched (a looped leverage vault). 10) Speaking of which, @roycoprotocol has @makinafi's looped mGLOBAL vault from @FasanaraDigital now. I'm not sure if it's available to everyone, but mGlobal has been great for a very long time, so senior or junior exposure to leveraged mGlobal is at the very least interesting. Anywho, join the DeFi Dojo for yield talk daily: https://defidojo.vip/ Use Promo Code: "iread" to get the first two months free for reading this entire thread.
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Kimi K3 has so much demand that they're literally pausing subscription plans. This is proof that the subscription-based billing model for AI is dying. The first time we're seeing anything like this.
Growing up in Middle America surrounded by corn and soybean farmers, not Wall Street bankers, I lived in a middle class community that saw little to no opportunity to get involved in the best market opportunities. It's part of why I fell so in love with DeFi. DeFi allows us as investors, with any amount of capital, to participate in any markets we want, onchain. Access to reinsurance market yields is a prime example of what DeFi can do to grow the pie beyond a group of elite investors and institutions, and expose more investor communities to better returns. Plus the power of 24/7 access onchain along with DeFi composability, it is the kind of story that can prove DeFi markets should become the primary financial markets, not something alternative. This is an excellent overview for investors looking to learn and better understand reinsurance yield from real premiums paid to take on risk, in an industry that's been profitable "most years." Re is built with this reinsurance yield, but distributed on Ethereum. reUSD (senior) = 6.2% APY reUSDe (mezzanine) = 12.2% APY The most junior capital at risk is Re’s accumulated capital and reserves, which shield reUSD and reUSDe from losses. Note: Re is a sponsor of The Edge Podcast.
""" In one article, learn how to use Monad's exclusive YouTube rewards to mine "69% ROI" Saturn airdrops. @saturn_credit is teaming up with @monad before the S1积分计划结束, not only listing $USDat on the Monad chain but also putting 470k $MON into YT-USDat!😎 Many group members have mixed feelings about YouTube; they fear buying the wrong thing, overpaying, or buying at the wrong time... Today, I'll break down the details of the Saturn airdrop/YouTube exclusive rewards and show you step-by-step how to buy YouTube most efficiently👇: -----Content Divider----- Saturn is a protocol that moves Strategy (MSTR) preferred stock dividends onto the chain. The dividends flow into sUSDat, which is a stablecoin collateralized by T-bills. Currently, through the Gravity Points积分计划, it accumulates future airdrop weights. Key public information: The current total points are approximately 339B, with daily growth of about 4.1B. S1 is expected to end on August 8th, leaving only 19 days. Extrapolating at the current rate, the final total points for S1 will likely be between 500B and 600B. Pre-market pricing can roughly be referenced using @aspecta_ai. Saturn's implied FDV is currently $208M on Aspecta. Assuming a 5% supply allocation (as community mainstream estimates), each million points are worth about $19 to $20. ❓Why is buying YouTube the most efficient way? Holding USDat gives you 9x, but YT-USDat (on the Monad chain) gives you 38x. The point multiplier difference is more than four times. Using YouTube can also improve capital efficiency because @pendle_fi's YouTube is a leveraged tool: a 37-day YT currently costs only $0.0092 per unit, with 100U buying about 10,850 units, effectively using 100U to leverage over ten thousand Notional Value for mining points. [Note: The value of YT after expiration is zero, equivalent to burning capital to mine points] Comparing three chains (point multiplier / implied APY / efficiency per $1 spent): Monad: 38x / 9.56% / 4,125 BNB: 36x / 8.68% / 4,284 ETH: 30x / 7.52% / 4,097 Do you see the problem? Looking at points alone, the pricing efficiency of the three chains is surprisingly close; Monad's multiplier advantage has been offset by the higher cost of YT. The market is actually very efficient. ❓Why do I say that the Monad version is worth buying?👇 Starting from July 23rd, within two weeks, 470,000 $MON will be entirely distributed to holders of YT-USDat on the Monad chain. BNB and ETH do not have this. Assuming current YT supply at 11.87 million units, each YT gets about $0.00084 over two weeks, effectively lowering your holding cost from $0.0092 to around $0.0084. Factoring this into the efficiency table, Monad surpasses BNB by about 6%. So, actually using 100U to buy Monad YT-USDat and hold until S1 ends: Points: 10,850 × 38x × 19 days ≈ 7.84 million points🧐 Assuming different TGE scenarios (assuming the number of YT units remains unchanged): Optimistic (FDV $208M, total points 508B): point value $160 + MON subsidy $9 = a 37-day return of about +69% Neutral (FDV $150M, total points 600B): point value $98 + subsidy $9 = an approximate return rate of +7% Conservative (FDV $100M, total points 650B): point value $60 + subsidy $9 = an approximate return rate of -31% Since Pendle has already announced the news in advance, many smart money has entered early. But you can still ambush YT using the following methods👇 -----Limit Order Divider---- You don't need to be too FOMO in this market, especially if your size is large😛 I strongly recommend that you make good use of limit order functionality. I tried a direct market order for 10k USDat and simulated buying YT... IY dropped from 9.5% directly to 11.6%, plus $184 fees. The main reason is that this pool is still small, so market orders are essentially giving LPs money. The correct approach is to place a limit order: 1) Place an order at the implied APY you want, zero slippage, no gas fee for signing. 2) A limit order is the maker, with fees of 0% (takers pay 0.19% to 0.26%). 3) This is something most people don't know: Pendle offers Limit Order Incentives for this market. As long as your order stays near the current implied APY, you will receive $PENDLE rewards based on the order amount and duration. Currently, the displayed reward rate is 100% annualized based on the order amount. Of course, if you're small, a market order isn't a problem either; sometimes opportunities are fleeting. -----Summary----- Even though the current market is somewhat lackluster, Saturn's FDV is still estimated to be at least $150M (don't forget the boost from YziLabs + Saylor himself). If you haven't participated yet, I think it's not a bad idea to ambush some before S1 ends. @saturn_credit @Saturn_Intern @PendleIntern @kevinlhr88 @eosborn88 @joejoedefi For reference only, not investment advice. DYOR! """
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