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…but then again could be nothing. Here are a collection of up-and-coming projects to keep an eye on anon.

Exciting, utility-based NFT’s aren’t something you would associate with the Curve or Convex ecosystem which is where the giga team behind Wen Llamas steps in. Check out their first Medium article here.

TLDR, 1,111 manually curated LLamas will be minted at 0.01 Eth where 100% of the minting fees are used to purchase CRV and CVX which will be locked away as veCRV and vlCVX in the community multi-sig.

Each Llama can level up to earn badges and medals which give special rewards and judging by this Tweet whitelisting is coming soon.

Oh and the team includes Curve and Convex devs.

Additional Resources: Twitter | Medium | Whitelist | Co-Founders Twitter

Camelot is an ecosystem-centric Arbitrum DEX with the goal of being Arbitrums #1 native dex by “enabling protocols to have a high degree of flexibility and control over their own liquidity.”

TLDR, It’s aiming to be a dapp that acts as a hub for other protocols and users to bootstrap liquidity. What makes it unique is it’s a dual AMM enabling you to make volatile (uniV2-like) and stable (curve-like) swaps.

Partners and pools include the likes of GMX, Umami, DAOJones, MIM and GMD with Genesis pools already live. Yield hunters should check this thread as it explains the why behind it being so special.

Knights of the round table, keep these dates in mind:

Additional Resources: Overview Medium | Twitter | Quest Thread | Tokenomics | Genesis Pools

NFTPerp is a perps future dex for NFTs so that we can go 5x long or short on our favourite (or most hated) bluechip NFT Collections.

Beta went live on mainnet last Friday 25th November and it’s head to head, Punks vs Apes to begin with as private beta testers can use the platform to make realised gains.

The NFTPerp team has managed to bring on board some giga brain advisors including @Crypto_McKenna, @benroy__, @n2ckchong and @benlakoff.

TLDR, the first dex to trade futures with up to 5x leverage to go long and short on bluechip NFT collections.

They use “vAMM (virtual automated market maker) under the hood, originally designed by Perpetual Protocol.” This basically means no liquidity provider is needed, no order book and in true PvP fashion, one trader’s gain is another trader’s loss.

Additional Resources: Docs | Twitter | Roadmap | Seed Investor Thread

→ Proposal 1180 ←

There’s no denying the Polygon BD team has been hard at work in ‘22. Hamzah Khan, the Head of Defi at Polygon recently submit a proposal to “invite the team to launch GMX on Polygon PoS” whilst name-dropping “Robinhood App” which Polygon partnered with back in Sept ’22.

Here’s why this could be big for GMX:

→ Leap 38 ←

Liquidity is drier than a raisin right now and Lyra is acting smart by listening to the community and acting in “response to user and integrator requests for an Arbitrum deployment.”

TLDR, deploy on Arbitrum, use GMX perps as liquidity to further grow the project and protect it from major downturns in the market.

PS. We wrote this What is Lyra Finance guide back in Sept ‘22.

→ Proposal 11445 ←

Users’ funds are at risk from the:

1) yvcrvstETH cauldron due to a faulty oracle and;

2) cvxRenCrv cauldron due to the “recent developments on the deprecation of Ren Bridge v1 make us uncertain on what the best path forward is with this kind of collateral.”

In return, xSushi holders get 35% of vault revenue by being ethical and supporting Abracadabra

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In a time where innovation is at its most needed the team at Tapioca Dao (the first ever omnichain money market, spanning across 12+ EVMs built on LayerZero) is changing the game by revolutionising the way airdrops are done in the form of “oTAP aka airdrop options.”

Founder veMatt drops by to tell us more.

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