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Increase Your Borrowing Threshold
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 29, 2025

Increase Your Borrowing Threshold

Threshold’s tBTC token is now available for lending and borrowing in the Hydration money market.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 29, 2025

Round 2: Diving Deep into Hydration’s Hollar and gigaDOT

Hydration held an AMA about Hollar and gigaDOT on March 28th and revealed that we can expect the launch of gigaDOT within two weeks.

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Running the Moonbeam DeFi Gauntlet
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 26, 2025

Running the Moonbeam DeFi Gauntlet

Gauntlet has published its performance review of Moonbeam Season 3 incentives. While Beamswap and Prime Protocol struggled to gain traction, Stellaswap and Moonwell met and exceeded expectations.

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XTreme Staking
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 26, 2025

XTreme Staking

The BNC Launchpool is now live on XT. Stake BNC or XT to share in a reward pool of 6M BNC.

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Carry it over the Lending Threshold
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 22, 2025

Carry it over the Lending Threshold

If passed, Hydration Referendum 44 will enable tBTC for lending and borrowing in the money market.

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Did Someone Say Giga?
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 22, 2025

Did Someone Say Giga?

Hydration Referendum 45 proposes to renew DOT incentives for an additional month with the exception of KILT (uncertain future) and vDOT (incentives will soon transition to gigaDOT).

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Stella V4 Makes a Splash on GeckoTerminal
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 22, 2025

Stella V4 Makes a Splash on GeckoTerminal

Four Stellaswap V4 liquidity pools are now listed on CoinGecko’s GeckoTerminal. The remaining pools will be listed very soon.

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Best Keep that Pool Isolated, It’s Electrified
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 22, 2025

Best Keep that Pool Isolated, It’s Electrified

The Energy Web EWT token is now tradeable on Hydration thanks to the launch of the DOT/EWT Isolated Pool.

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A Liquid Staking Tsunami
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 22, 2025

A Liquid Staking Tsunami

After achieving its boosted target of 3.5M vBNC minted, the Bifrost WAVE BNC Explorers campaign has concluded.

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Ascending to Greater Heights
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 20, 2025

Ascending to Greater Heights

The Bifrost BNC token is now live on Ascendex. Deposit at least 1 BNC by March 24th for a chance to share in a 20K BNC prize pool.

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The Glimmering Pools of LAOS
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 20, 2025

The Glimmering Pools of LAOS

With the launch of the LAOS-GLMR pair, the LAOS token has its first liquidity pool on Stellaswap.

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The TVVIN Towers of Polkadot DeFi
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 14, 2025

The TVVIN Towers of Polkadot DeFi

In a new partnership, tokenized gold platform TVVIN will be adding its TVVIX and VVG tokens as collateral on the Kylix Finance lending and borrowing platform.

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Pocket Powered Provider of Liquidity
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 14, 2025

Pocket Powered Provider of Liquidity

The Stellaswap TG Position Tracker has returned, and now supports V4 pools. Users can now subscribe to get instant Telegram notifications when their liquidity pool positions go out-of-range.

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The Second WAVE Gets a Second Wave
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 14, 2025

The Second WAVE Gets a Second Wave

After already hitting 2.7M vBNC minted, the Bifrost WAVE BNC Explorers campaign has raised its minting target to 3.5M vBNC.

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Second Subsidy Season
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 7, 2025

Second Subsidy Season

Bifrost has launched Season 2 of its DOT Unbonding Subsidy Program. Stakers that unbond DOT and mint vDOT between March 1st and May 2nd will be eligible for a 12% APR subsidy to cover missing rewards during the 28 unstaking period.

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Explorers Be Explorin’
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 7, 2025

Explorers Be Explorin’

Minting of the Bifrost vBNC liquid staking token has now surpassed the milestone of 10M.

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Multi-chain LSTs, Now a Little ETHier
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 7, 2025

Multi-chain LSTs, Now a Little ETHier

Bridging of Bifrost vDOT, vBNC, vGLMR, vASTR, and their corresponding native-tokens to Ethereum, Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB is now available on the Hyperbridge DApp

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A Bit Hydrated
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·March 7, 2025

A Bit Hydrated

Polkadot Hydration Incentives are live for tBTC in the Omnipool, achieving APRs of up to 28%.

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WAVE after WAVE
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 28, 2025

WAVE after WAVE

BNC Explorers, the second phase of the Bifrost Liquid Wave campaign, has kicked off and will run until March 27th. You can now earn WAVE points by minting vBNC, referring friends, and participating in governance.

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Hydrate the Bird, Tuppence a Can
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 27, 2025

Hydrate the Bird, Tuppence a Can

Kusama has arrived on the Hydration! It is now possible to bridge and swap KSM in the Omnipool.

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An Icy Infiltration
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 27, 2025

An Icy Infiltration

You can now bridge vTokens, BNC, and DOT to Optimism, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB from Bifrost via the Hyperbridge integration.

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Define and Conquer
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 27, 2025

Define and Conquer

Gaining even more visibility this week, Stellaswap V4 pools are now listed on

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Into the Frosty Vault
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 20, 2025

Into the Frosty Vault

Ledger support for Bifrost BNC tokens on Polkadot and Kusama is now enabled on Nova Wallet.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 20, 2025

Tarrific Tarriff Reduction

Swapping on Hydration got a little cheaper this week with minimum dynamic Omnipool fees reduced from 0.25% to 0.2% and minimum Stableswap fees down from 0.04% to 0.02%.

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A DeFiant Prolongation
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 20, 2025

A DeFiant Prolongation

The 25% rewards boost to celebrate the launch of Stellaswap V4 farms has been extended by one week.

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AAVEn a Bit ‘o’ Multichain Hydration
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 18, 2025

AAVEn a Bit ‘o’ Multichain Hydration

A series of three Hydration referenda have been initiated that, if passed, will reduce Polkadot Hydration incentives for CFG, INTR, KILT, and vASTR, and launch new farms for tBTC and AAVE.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 11, 2025

Absence Makes the Boost Grow Stronger

Stellaswap V4 pools may have been delayed slightly, but when they launch V4 liquidity providers can look forward to a seven-day 25% rewards boost.

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Hydration is Hydrated
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 10, 2025

Hydration is Hydrated

The Hydration HDX buyback 25-week staking boost campaign has commenced. With 197M HDX distributed over the period, APRs in excess of 30% are expected.

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Mints are Even vASTR than Before
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 10, 2025

Mints are Even vASTR than Before

Minting of Astar’s vASTR liquid staking token on Bifrost has continued to surge, now surpassing 100M.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 7, 2025

Kylix Adds a Minty Layer to DeFi

On Friday February 7th, Kylix co-founders Gianluigi and Pakman hosted Enrico and Mo of Mintlayer to discuss their recent partnership that will facilitate native BTC lending and borrowing.

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Scan Your Liquids
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 7, 2025

Scan Your Liquids

Have you noticed the new EVM tab on the Bifrost Subscan page? Browsing of Bifrost EVM transactions, contracts, assets, and accounts is now supported.

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Crackin’ a Cold 0.01
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 7, 2025

Crackin’ a Cold 0.01

If you prefer your wrapped BTC a little more decentralized, look no further, tBTC is now live on the Hydration Omnipool. Served ice cold, thanks to Snowbridge.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 7, 2025

Fast and Frosty Liquids

While currently only DOT is supported on the Hyperbridge DApp, it looks likes Bifrost’s liquid staking vTokens could be next.

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Entering the Fourth Dimension
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 7, 2025

Entering the Fourth Dimension

Stellaswap’s V4 DEX launches on February 7th, offering lower gas fees, enhanced efficiency, and an array of new modular features. To continue benefitting from incentives, liquidity providers will need to migrate to the new pools.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·February 3, 2025

Better Bitcoin Borrowing

Native BTC lending and borrowing is coming to Kylix Finance thanks to the support of Atomic Swaps powered by Mintlayer.

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Sippin’ on Sunshine
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 30, 2025

Sippin’ on Sunshine

After a successful $150K OTC purchase, Solana’s SOL token is now tradeable on the Hydration Omnipool.

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Liquid Staking Tokens May Get a Little Icy on that Route
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 30, 2025

Liquid Staking Tokens May Get a Little Icy on that Route

Acala has announced its plans to integrate Snowbridge, the trustless bridge between Polkadot and Ethereum, bringing Euphrates one step closer to becoming a multi-chain LSTFi hub.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 30, 2025

Time for Another Rescue Mission

Equilibrium DeFi vault participants, you have until February 25th to request withdrawals on the Equilibrium DApp.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 30, 2025

Praying for Mantis Airdrops

Mantis, a cross-chain AI enhanced DeFi platform created by the Picasso team, will be airdropping its new M token soon, and some members of the Polkadot ecosystem may be rewarded. Composable Polkadot Crowdloan participants, PICA stakers, and Picasso validators can now check their eligibility with the Mantis Airdrop Checker.

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Don’t Forget to Raise the Cap
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 30, 2025

Don’t Forget to Raise the Cap

After the recent surge of vDOT lending on Hydration, Bifrost has proposed to add vDOT as a collateral asset on the Moonwell money market.

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SOLty Electrolytes Bring Optimal Hydration
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 29, 2025

SOLty Electrolytes Bring Optimal Hydration

If passed, Hydration Referendum 11 will add SOL to the Omnipool.

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Why Not Upgrade, While We’re At It
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 22, 2025

Why Not Upgrade, While We’re At It

As its V3 DEX contract does not allow the adjustment of LP parameters in accordance with planned veSTELLA incentives, Stellaswap has taken the bold decision to upgrade the entire DEX to Integral V4. While this will result in a delay to the launch of veSTELLA by a few weeks, it will bring a suite of new modular features to the DEX and a reduction of gas costs.

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Doing the Lord’s Work
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 22, 2025

Doing the Lord’s Work

Lolmcschizz has initiated a discussion on Kusama OpenGov proposing that 33,333 KSM from the treasury be added to the Hydration Omnipool. This move aims to address the longstanding issue of KSM liquidity throughout the Polkadot ecosystem, which has forced many to resort to centralized solutions.

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Hydration’s Getting a Little SUIter and SOLtier
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 22, 2025

Hydration’s Getting a Little SUIter and SOLtier

Hydration Referendum 204 has passed, meaning Hydration Council multi-sig signers will now make an OTC purchase of USDC 150k of SOL and USDC 100k of SUI. After these assets have been launched on the Omnipool they will be topped up with additional OTC purchases.

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But Why Did Ben Make the Original Cap So Low?
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 22, 2025

But Why Did Ben Make the Original Cap So Low?

With the passing of Hydration Referendum 205, the vDOT and DOT supply caps will be raised for the money market along with some adjustments to the DOT lending parameters.

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Minting Increases vASTRy
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 20, 2025

Minting Increases vASTRy

Minting of vASTR has continued its notable gains in January, this time surpassing the 80M milestone.

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Big Volume Small Prizes
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 16, 2025

Big Volume Small Prizes

To celebrate its $2B trading volume milestone, Stellaswap has launched a Galxe campaign with 50 prizes of 10 USDT.

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Hyperbridge Keeps JOINNing Chains
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 16, 2025

Hyperbridge Keeps JOINNing Chains

Hyperbridge has partnered with JOINN Finance, an upcoming platform that will offer regulatory compliant access to multi-chain tokenized real-world-assets, along with a USDC spending account powered by Mastercard.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 16, 2025

This One’s for the Builders and Memers

The Acala Meme and DApp Contest kicks off on February 3rd and will run for 6 months. Prizes will be awarded each month to Acala EVM+ DApp builders and meme creators from a pool totalling 6M ACA.

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Subscantial Improvements for Acala
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 16, 2025

Subscantial Improvements for Acala

Check out the latest Subscan feature update for Acala, which includes asset view improvements and enhanced staking tools.

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Why Did Ben Make the Cap So Low?
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 11, 2025

Why Did Ben Make the Cap So Low?

The lending pool on Hydration just got a whole lot more interesting with the addition of vDOT. Hopefully you’ve already had your fun, because the lending supply cap was hit within 15 hours.

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Frosty Flexi Fees
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 11, 2025

Frosty Flexi Fees

Flexible fee payment is now available for Bifrost-EVM users. Gas fees can now be paid with any token from the flexible fee list such as DOT, GLMR, ASTR, and ETH.

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Let’s Get NEUROtic!
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 7, 2025

Let’s Get NEUROtic!

The NEURO/WETH pool will soon be incentivized on Stellaswap with 240k NEURO over a four-month period. In addition, Stellaswap has confirmed that the pool will be further boosted by the DOT Incentives campaign.

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vASTRonomical!
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·January 7, 2025

vASTRonomical!

Minting of the vASTR liquid staking token on Bifrost has surged past the sizable milestone of 51 million.

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Governance Is Now Open on Hydration
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 31, 2024

Governance Is Now Open on Hydration

The first OpenGov referendum on Hydration is open for voting. It proposes to add vDOT to the money market and adjust the risk parameters of several lending pools.

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A Little Frost on the Hyperbridge
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 29, 2024

A Little Frost on the Hyperbridge

Bifrost has chosen Hyperbridge as its native bridge for multi-chain interoperability, and is now integrated with the Hyperbridge testnet.

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The Wonderful World of Kylix
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 29, 2024

The Wonderful World of Kylix

Monday 30th December 2024, 14:00 UTC+8 Polaworld hosts Gianluigi and Pakman on Monday for an overview of Kylix Finance and what the future holds.

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Getting Beta all the Time
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 29, 2024

Getting Beta all the Time

If you’re interested in trying out the beta of veSTELLA, head on over to the Stellaswap Discord to claim your spot.

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A Beefy Stampede
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 29, 2024

A Beefy Stampede

After just 24 hours of DOT Incentives, Stellaswap auto vaults surged past $1M TVL.

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Stella’s Auto Pools, Now With Extra Beef
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 29, 2024

Stella’s Auto Pools, Now With Extra Beef

Auto pools on Stellaswap, powered by Beefy Finance, are now benefitting from additional rewards thanks to the DOT Incentives campaign.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 21, 2024

Kusama Delivers a Frosty Favor

Bifrost’s request for a 50K KSM loan to boost the KSM-vKSM liquidity pair on Bifrost Stable Swap has been granted by Kusama governance. This will provide valuable vKSM liquidity as Bifrost prepares to bring vKSM to Polkadot via the KusamaPolkadot bridge, and across numerous other chains with its new SLPx protocol.

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Pakman Power-up
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 20, 2024

Pakman Power-up

Kylix Finance announces the promotion of Pakman from Head of Marketing to Co-Founder. With over five years of blockchain experience, and strong ties to numerous Polkadot projects Pakman is a welcome addition to the Kylix leadership team.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 20, 2024

Hydration, Liquidation, Governation

The Hydration runtime v33 upgrade is expected to take place on Monday December 23rd bringing with it the launch of on-chain liquidations and Hydration OpenGov.

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Hydrate the Lending Pools!
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 20, 2024

Hydrate the Lending Pools!

Hydration Referendum 201 proposes to use stablecoin reserves to fund the lending pools with an additional $1M USDT and $1M USDC.

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Spin Those Keys
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 15, 2024

Spin Those Keys

Polkasafe’s user-friendly multisig with enterprise grade security is now supported on Centrifuge.

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InterStella Swapping Volume
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 15, 2024

InterStella Swapping Volume

Congratulations Stellaswap for becoming the first DEX in the Polkadot ecosystem to surpass $2B in trade volume!

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2025 the Year of the DEX
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 13, 2024

2025 the Year of the DEX

Polkadex has unveiled its 2.0 Roadmap with four major milestones for 2025. Cross-chain transfers are expected in Q1 with the integration of Hyperbridge, while high-frequency trading should be enabled by Q2. Q3 and Q4 will see barriers to entry lowered with the integration of EVM Wallets and credit card crypto purchases and sales.

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Frosty Hydration in the Moonlight
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 13, 2024

Frosty Hydration in the Moonlight

Nova Wallet has expanded the cross-chain transfer support of vDOT to include the Hydration and Moonbeam networks.

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Farewell vFIL
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 13, 2024

Farewell vFIL

Bifrost has begun the phased shutdown of the vFIL service. It has already ceased FIL deposits into Bifrost, and vFIL minting is expected to end by the end of the year. The final phase of the shutdown is expected to be completed in Q3 2025, however users are recommended to complete vFIL redemption and cross-chain transfers of FIL by Q2 2025.

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The Omnipotent Omnipool Reaches New Heights
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 9, 2024

The Omnipotent Omnipool Reaches New Heights

This week the TVL in the Hydration Omnipool reached an all-time-high of more than $65M.

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A Frosty Winter Harvest
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 5, 2024

A Frosty Winter Harvest

Bifrost has launched two new pools on its Polkadot rollup. The vBNC-BNC pool, with a modest APR of 6.7%, has been migrated from Kusama. Meanwhile, the new BNC-USDT pool is offering yields in excess of 200%.

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Don’t Liquidate, Hydrate!
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 2, 2024

Don’t Liquidate, Hydrate!

The Hydration money market is live, offering lending and borrowing of WBTC, DOT, USDC, and USDT. The lending pools have been seeded with almost $3 million of Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL). Hydration’s money market is a fork of AAVE v3, with additional layers of MEV exploit protection through controlled block ordering.

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Get Ready for the HyperDEX
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 2, 2024

Get Ready for the HyperDEX

As part of its new roadmap, Polkadex will be forfeiting its parachain slot upon expiry and integrating with Hyperbridge. With this integration, Polkadex aims to tap in to a wealth of cross-chain liquidity, and expand its token support across the Polkadot ecosystem and beyond. To facilitate a smooth transition, Polkadex users are recommended to withdraw their non-PDEX tokens by December 15th 2024.

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Moar Lending Markets for the Polkadot Eco
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·December 2, 2024

Moar Lending Markets for the Polkadot Eco

Kylix Finance announces a strategic partnership with StellaSwap to build a lending market for Stellaswap tokens, utilize the Stellaswap DEX for collateral liquidation, and facilitate self-repaying loans with stDOT liquid staking tokens.

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Breaking Through the Ice Ceiling
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 29, 2024

Breaking Through the Ice Ceiling

Bifrost has surged past the monumental milestone of $100 million TVL.

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Building Bridges for the Bridgeless
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 29, 2024

Building Bridges for the Bridgeless

Kylix is joining forces with Hyperbridge to enhance their bridgeless multi-chain lending protocol with consensus based cross-chain messaging. In addition, this partnership will allow Kylix users to pay fees with stablecoins.

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A Beta Kind of STELLA
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 25, 2024

A Beta Kind of STELLA

Get your tokens ready, Stellaswap will launch the beta of veSTELLA this week.

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A Frosty Subsidy
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 25, 2024

A Frosty Subsidy

To ease the burden of the recent reduction in DOT staking rewards, Bifrost is offering a DOT incentive of 11% to cover missed rewards during the 28-day unstaking period. To qualify, unbond DOT from classic staking or nomination pools and mint vDOT before December 31st 2024.

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Tall Peaq, Short Peaq, Long Peaq? It’s Up to You Now
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 22, 2024

Tall Peaq, Short Peaq, Long Peaq? It’s Up to You Now

With Peaq listed on ByBit, it is now possible to open long and short PEAQ token positions with perpetual contracts.

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DeFinite Polkatunities
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 17, 2024

DeFinite Polkatunities

On Friday November 15th Polkaworld hosted a panel on DeFi Opportunities on Polkadot, featuring Aziz (Stellaswap), Gianluigi (Kylix), and Tyrone (Bifrost).

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Frosty Farming
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 15, 2024

Frosty Farming

In preparation for money markets on Hydration, Bifrost have the replenished the vDOT pool. That's right, the frosty trifecta of vDOT, HDX, and BNC farming rewards are back!

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 15, 2024

Follow Stella Fellas

Join the Stellaswap Galxe campaign for a chance to with 10 x prizes of USD $1,000.

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Kylixing with Mandala
Dodow
Dodow
·November 9, 2024

Kylixing with Mandala

Mandala has announced a partnership with Kylix Finance. The collaboration will open up DeFi lending services to Indonesian enterprises. Furthermore, fiat on/off ramps will be catered for via Pendulum.

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Lock Your STELLA, Unlock Big Rewards
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·November 1, 2024

Lock Your STELLA, Unlock Big Rewards

As part of Stellaswap Reborn, Stellaswap is launching the veSTELLA token which will be generated by locking STELLA. Tokenholders will earn 83.5% of trade fees, and 10% of LSD revenue, all paid in USDC. The veSTELLA token will be used as voting token to choose incentivized pools, and can act as a yield booster when staked in a pool.

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STELLA Slowly Smolders
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 28, 2024

STELLA Slowly Smolders

With another 100M STELLA burned on Friday, 20% of the total supply has now been incinerated.

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Gases for Your Liquids
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 28, 2024

Gases for Your Liquids

There are now even more options on Bifrost for paying gas fees. You can select from an array of different tokens including BNC, DOT, GLMR, ASTR, MANTA, ETH, and their LSTs (i.e. vtokens).

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I Scream, You Scream, Gav Screams for DexScreen
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 28, 2024

I Scream, You Scream, Gav Screams for DexScreen

Possibly caving in to the pressure from an increasingly agitated Gavun Wud, DexScreener has finally integrated Hydration, indexing trades going back six months.

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Multi-Chaining in the Real World
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 23, 2024

Multi-Chaining in the Real World

Thursday October 24th 17:00 UTC https://x.com/i/spaces/1yNGagPXpjbxj Gianluigi (Kylix), Richard (Xcavate), Pakman (Pakman Media), and Jay C (Polkadot Español) explore multi-chain integrations with real-world assets.

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Hey Now, You're a dAppAstar
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 17, 2024

Hey Now, You're a dAppAstar

Astar dApp stakers, don't forget to stake during next Voting Period starting on Saturday October 19th to qualify for bonus rewards.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 16, 2024

Pendulum Swings Deeper into LATAM

Stablecoin specialists Pendulum have added Argentinian Peso (ARS.s) and Peruvian Sol (PEN.s) tokens, issued by Anclap, to the Spacewalk bridge.

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See the Smoldering STELLA
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 16, 2024

See the Smoldering STELLA

With Stellaswap's second round of token burning complete, you can now keep up with the burn progress on CoinGecko, which shows the 100M tokens already burned. Stay tuned to see 150M more STELLA burned in the coming weeks.

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BlockDeep Takes a Look Under the Kylix Hood
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 11, 2024

BlockDeep Takes a Look Under the Kylix Hood

Upcoming multi-chain lending platform Kylix Finance has secured a complementary comprehensive code review from BlockDeep Labs thanks to the funding of Referendum 700.

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Stellaswap Still Stacking Incentives
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 11, 2024

Stellaswap Still Stacking Incentives

Round 2 of OKX Defi wallet Stellaswap Bonus Event incentives has commenced. STELLA-GLMR, GLMR-xcUSDC, xcDOT-xcUSDT, and GLMR-xcDOT, stDOT-xcDOT will be boosted with additional DOT rewards for the next two months.

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SUBstantial APRs on Stellaswap
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 10, 2024

SUBstantial APRs on Stellaswap

Week 5 of the Stellaswap DOT Incentives campaign sees a DOT boost added to the ASTR-DOT, CFG-DOT, PHA-DOT, and SUB-DOT pools. Nothing in the campaign so far has come close to the astronomical APRs of the SUB-DOT pool which initially peaked at 6800%!

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Connect and Collect with Kylix
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 4, 2024

Connect and Collect with Kylix

Kylix has launched their Uptober Airlyft campaign with a prize pool of 200 USDT. Ten lucky participants will receive 20 USDT each.

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Stella's Coming Full Circle
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 2, 2024

Stella's Coming Full Circle

Stellaswap announces its membership in the Circle Alliance, opening up opportunities to collaborate and innovate with a global network of organizations that have the common goal of expanding the reach and adoption of stablecoins and Web3.

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STELLA's On Fire
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·October 2, 2024

STELLA's On Fire

As part of Stellaswap Reborn, 50% (250M) of the STELLA token supply will be burned over 5 weeks. This week marks the beginning of the burn-off with 10% of the Total Supply incinerated.

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All Hydration is Equal, But Some is More Equal than Others
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 28, 2024

All Hydration is Equal, But Some is More Equal than Others

Round 2 of the Polkadot Hydration Campaign is live. In accordance with Hydration Referendum 214, pools have been adjusted to divert funds towards the most successful pools of the first wave. Most notably, rewards for the PHA pool were increased by 100%, resulting in initial APRs of 65%. In the coming days a second referendum will be initiated to start two new farms - vASTR and MYTH/DOT.

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Three Incentive Campaigns???
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 27, 2024

Three Incentive Campaigns???

Just in case Moonbeam Season 3 and DOT Incentives weren't enough, OKX DeFi wallet users can now benefit from an additional 23K DOT of rewards boosting the Stellaswap xcUSDC-xcUSDT and axlUSDC-xcUSDC pools. This is just the start. Stay tuned for more.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 27, 2024

Stella's Born Again?

Stellaswap has begun cryptically teasing something called "Reborn" for 27th of November. New name? New Direction? Stay tuned to find out.

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Anemoy Demystified by Chronicle's Oracle
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 27, 2024

Anemoy Demystified by Chronicle's Oracle

Centrifuge has partnered with RWA Oracle provider Chronicle Labs to provide enhance the transparency of the Anemoy UST Liquid Treasury Fund. Users will be able to access to verified real-time price updates, comprehensive portfolio data, and Net Asset Value (NAV) of on-chain and off-chain holdings.

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Stellaswap Pools Got a Whole Lot CEXier
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 27, 2024

Stellaswap Pools Got a Whole Lot CEXier

Stellaswap pools have been integrated into OKX. Users now have access eight Stellaswap pools from the OKX DeFi wallet, and can benefit from the Moonbeam Season 3 and DOT Incentives campaigns.

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A Bit of Liquid Encouragement
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 26, 2024

A Bit of Liquid Encouragement

Week 3 of the DOT Incentives campaign has commenced on Stellaswap. The theme of this week is Liquid Staking Tokens, with additional DOT incentives added to the stDOT-DOT, LDOT-DOT, and vDOT-DOT pools. APRs at kick-off peaked at 135%!

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All Aboard the Cross-chain Train
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 19, 2024

All Aboard the Cross-chain Train

Cross-chain swaps have arrived on Talisman wallet. Powered by SimpleSwap and Chainflip, users can now swap tokens between Polkadot, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Manta Pacific, and Bittensor, and to native Bitcoin as a destination.

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Going, Going, Gone: Kylix Secures the Final Ever Polkadot Parachain Auction
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 19, 2024

Going, Going, Gone: Kylix Secures the Final Ever Polkadot Parachain Auction

Multi-chain lending platform Kylix Finance has won Polkadot parachain Auction 81 with a self-funded bid of 10K DOT. This was the final ever Polkadot parachain auction, as Coretime sales have now commenced.

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Stable APReciation
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 19, 2024

Stable APReciation

Week 2 of DOT Incentives campaign has commenced on Stellaswap. This week's theme is Stablecoins, with additional DOT incentives added to the USDT-USDC and pools. Initial APRs peaked at 95%!

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A BounDeFil Boost to the Ecosystem
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 13, 2024

A BounDeFil Boost to the Ecosystem

The DeFi and Infrastructure Bounty has released its September 2024 Update, detailing funding for six projects. DIA received $119.25K to integrate trade data from the Hydration Omnipool and Bifrost DEX into its price feed oracle. A Child Bounty of $20K went to Alchemy Pay for the integration of Asset Hub DOT, USDC, and USDT into their on/off ramp. KILT's Polar Project which provides tooling for bridging Polkadot parachain native tokens to Ethereum with Snowbridge received €16.8K of funding. KuCoin received $80K for integrating Asset Hub USDC support. Harbour will receive €150K for integrating Asset Hub USDC, USDT, and DOT onto their Magic Ramps, which integrate personalized IBANs into Web3 wallets for seamless bank account transfers. For $136.8K, Dip Dup is developing API endpoints that give Polkadot developers access to live market data powered by Dexscreener. This will enable them to display prices charts and trading history for Polkadot ecosystem DEXs.

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Kylix Swings Pendulum's Way
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 13, 2024

Kylix Swings Pendulum's Way

Kylix announces a partnership with Pendulum to develop a new lending product that merges the strengths of traditional finance and Web3.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 13, 2024

Hydrated and Updated

Check out the latest updates to the Hydration app. The Staking page has been redesigned show a visualization of your rewards percentage over time. You can now join farms with one click at the same time as adding liquidity, and now it is possible to transfer liquidity positions from the Wallets tab.

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0.20
A vASTronomical Milestone
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 13, 2024

A vASTronomical Milestone

Mints of vASTR on Bifrost have soared past the 35M milestone.

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0.13
DOT and GLMR Get Stellated
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 12, 2024

DOT and GLMR Get Stellated

The DOT Incentives campaign has commenced on Stellaswap. Incentives will be rolling out weekly. The theme for Week 1 is "Bluechips", with additional DOT incentives being added to the GLMR-DOT, DOT-USDT, and GLMR-USDC pools. Some pools saw initial APRs of more than 300%!

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0.20
Top Ten Tokenized Treasuries
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 12, 2024

Top Ten Tokenized Treasuries

More promising news from Centrifuge as they have cracked the top ten entities in global tokenized treasuries thanks to their popular UST Liquid Treasury Fund offering from Anemoy Capital.

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0.15
Centrifuge Spinning up to New Heights
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 12, 2024

Centrifuge Spinning up to New Heights

Centrifuge announces an all-time high of over USD$311M total value locked on its tokenized real-world assets platform.

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Beam Me Up DOTtie
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 12, 2024

Beam Me Up DOTtie

Moonbeam announces the substantial milestone of USD$31M of multi-chain funds transferred via Moonbeam Routed Liquidity.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 12, 2024

Bonus Hydrated Fortnight

Round 1 of the Polkadot Hydration campaign has been extended by two weeks to the 29th of September. This will give the community some additional time to discuss potential changes to Round 2 farms, and assess the impact of the Stellaswap incentives which went live on September 11th.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 5, 2024

A vToken of Appreciation

Bifrost announces Astar Degens as their second partnership for the vToken Reward-Program. Astar Degens will now take a 20% commission for integrating Bifrost into their marketing efforts.

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0.20
Multi-milestone Madness for Polkadex
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 5, 2024

Multi-milestone Madness for Polkadex

The marvellous milestones keep rolling in for Polkadex, this week they hit a whopping 2M total DEX trades.

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Multimillion Milestone for Polkadex
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·September 5, 2024

Multimillion Milestone for Polkadex

Polkadex has achieved the massive milestone of USD$30M in total trade volume.

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DeFi Autumn?
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·August 31, 2024

DeFi Autumn?

The Stellaswap DOT Incentive Program is finally launching on September 11th. One million DOT for the incentive program were granted to Stellaswap with OpenGov Referendum 580 in April 2024. The rewards will be spread amongst four categories - stablecoins, bluechips (DOT and GLMR), liquid staking, and native Polkadot projects. The incentive program will last for 12 months, with Stellaswap targeting a more than 10x TVL increase to USD$55M.

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Stellagrams in your Telegram
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·August 21, 2024

Stellagrams in your Telegram

Introducing the Stellaswap Telegram Position Tracker. You can now get instant updates on Telegram when your LP positions across multiple wallets go in or out of range.

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vASTR is Bifrosted
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·August 21, 2024

vASTR is Bifrosted

The vASTR pool on Hydration is now incentivized with BNC, offering up to 4% APR of additional yields.

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A Token of Apereciation
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·August 15, 2024

A Token of Apereciation

Start dApp staking now with the Astar Degens DAO to earn a 20% bonus.

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Acala's Hydrated
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·August 8, 2024

Acala's Hydrated

Two new isolated pools from Acala have launched on Hydration, ACA/DOT and LDOT/DOT. Stay tuned for liquidity provider incentives.

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BNC No Longer Just a Utility Token
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·July 18, 2024

BNC No Longer Just a Utility Token

Bifrost teases their new BNC 2.0 tokenomic model which will include fair distribution of protocol revenue.

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Better Late Than Never
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·July 17, 2024

Better Late Than Never

With Stellaswap's offchain rewarder finally going live, Moonbeam Season 3 GLMR rewards are now boosting the DOT-USDT pool.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·July 10, 2024

Could I Borrow a DOT?

Kylix Finance, an advanced DeFI lending platform, receives one of the final Web3 Foundation Decentralized Futures grants. Kylix offers a multi-chain lending platform with permissionless creation of lending pools, strong incentives for liquidity providers, and on-chain auctions for liquidating collaterals.

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yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·July 2, 2024

A Bit of Frost in your Bountiful Summer Harvest

You can now enjoy triple farming rewards with Bifrost joining the party in the Hydration's Hydrated vDOT Farm. Current Yields ~17% APR: vDOT 7.9% HDX 5.3% BNC 4%

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They DeFi-nitely Won That Auction
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·June 30, 2024

They DeFi-nitely Won That Auction

Upcoming DeFi platform Mosaic Chain has won Polkadot Auction 73 with a self-funded bid of 10,129 DOT.

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DOT the Bounty Hunter
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·June 27, 2024

DOT the Bounty Hunter

Velocity Labs announces the first three child bounties of the Polkadot Treasury funded DeFi and Infrastructure Bounty First, USD 63k for Kucoin for Asset Hub integration and support of USDT deposits and withdrawals. Next, USD60k for Ramp Network to integrate Asset Hub with support for USD, USDC, and DOT deposits. Finally, 118k for Zapper to integrate the EVM parachains Astar, Hydration, Moonbeam, and Acala into their Web3 portfolio dashboard.

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Sanchez
Sanchez
·June 6, 2024

Oak Network rebrands to Ava Protocol

Oak Network rebrands to Ava Protocol, with plans to extend it's automation services to Ethereum and beyond. Ava will launch as a parachain and on Ethereum's Eigen layer, with a change in the OAK token to AP.

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It's Nearly Time to Dive into the OmniPool
yay.oi 🥚
yay.oi 🥚
·May 24, 2024

It's Nearly Time to Dive into the OmniPool

HydraDX announces launch details of the Polkadot Hydration campaign. From June 10th, $10M+ of vDOT and HDX incentives will start trickling into to the Omnipool. Initial APRs are expected to reach up to 260% .

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