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Simple DeFi Saver strategies for the crab market

A few simple, basic strategies to consider for this post-merge era, together with DeFi Saver.

Automated Perpetual Rebonding Strategy on DeFi Saver

Since the launch on October 4th, Liquity's LUSD Chicken Bonds have seen respectable adoption, managing to attract over $40m of LUSD in the form of 1,506 unique bonds, at the moment of writing. The floor price of bLUSD (boosted LUSD) has so far reached 1.042 LUSD and, more

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LUSD Chicken Bonds now available at DeFi Saver

Following a wave of "DeFi 2.0" protocols whose aim was to attract POL (Protocol-Owned-Liquidity) by introducing various mechanisms including bonding, we now have a new, sustainable bonding solution developed by the team that brought us the Liquity protocol: Chicken Bonds [https://www.chickenbonds.org/]. What are Chicken Bonds? TL;

Compound v3 support now live with Automation and Notification features

Compound first launched on Ethereum mainnet in 2018, introducing the concept of a money market protocol and quickly becoming a staple of decentralised finance, shoulder to shoulder with Maker. In May 2019 the team released Compound v2, introducing more completely new concepts, such as collateral tokens (cTokens), and a year

DeFi Saver Newsletter Issue #41: Trailing stops on L1, Aave v3 Automation on L2s, the Merge & more

Welcome to our latest monthly recap post, covering recent updates, stats and important ecosystem happenings! Before we get to our most recent updates, we need to touch on the Merge, which is an incredibly important event in the Ethereum world happening in less than 12h. But what is it and

The holy grail of automated trading - Trailing stop now available for MakerDAO and Liquity

Back in April we came out with a blog post announcing the next generation of DeFi automation which marked the launch of our new modular automated strategies architecture. Since then we've released automated strategies such as Savings protection for riskless yield earning in combination with collateralised debt positions, Stop loss

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: Issue #40

Welcome to our latest newsletter, covering recent DeFi Saver updates, stats and ecosystem happenings! Newsletter updates Before we get to the latest juicy bits, we first need to get some maintenance done, so let's just briefly talk about the changes to the newsletter we'll be applying moving forward. Firstly, there's

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: June 2022

Welcome to our latest newsletter, covering recent updates, stats and ecosystem happenings! After the Luna & UST fiasco in May, the crypto markets experienced a continued, macro-influenced downturn even later into June. We also saw the consumer price index hit 1% in May alone, resulting in a 8.6% CPI YoY

DeFi Saver Smart Savings as a convenient access to yield: now with Convex integrated

We initially introduced our Smart Savings dashboard back in early 2020 as a tool to provide unified access to yield-providing protocols, which included Compound, Aave and dYdX stablecoin pools back then. This was at a time when Idle finance just rolled out their pooled solution for an automated rebalancing between

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: May 2022

After many months of work and significant user anticipation, we delivered on our promise last month and launched DeFi Saver on Ethereum Layer 2 networks Arbitrum and Optimism. Although we launched on L2’s in quite turbulent market conditions, at the end of one of the most intense months since

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DeFi Saver is now LIVE on Arbitrum and Optimism

We initially went live on the mainnet in April 2019, at a time when the ecosystem consisted of two or three protocols and the term “DeFi” wasn’t even coined yet. It was a vastly different time than today, as the space was extremely small, but things felt promising. As

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Automated Strategies for Liquity: Liquidation Protection for Troves is Now Live

Just over a year ago, in early April 2021, the Liquity protocol went live on the Ethereum mainnet, offering users access to a completely new, fully decentralized and governance minimized lending protocol, while also introducing the ETH-only backed LUSD stablecoin. Thanks to a very low liquidation threshold at 110% collateralization

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: March 2022

After a cold and a tad bit slow February in terms of our product updates, last month we delivered everything that we’ve been working hard on in the previous period.

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LDO Rewards Announcement

Three weeks ago we teamed up with the Lido team for a quick little promotion, announcing 2,500 $LDO will be proportionally awarded to users.

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Start using stETH in MakerDAO and Aave and win $LDO rewards

For the next two weeks, any transactions converting ETH to stETH done at DeFi Saver will be eligible for $LDO rewards. Read on for more details.

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: February 2022

February saw the continuation of the crypto market downturn, which began at the end of the last year. The world entered uncharted waters as one of the most significant geopolitical conflicts in the modern era came to be. While the entire crypto market was hoping for recovery after a breezy

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Introducing automated Stop Loss (and Take Profit) strategies for MakerDAO Vaults

Just weeks ago we introduced our new modular automated strategies system, together with the first showcase strategy connecting MakerDAO with yield producing protocols like Yearn, mStable and Rari and effectively providing users with riskless yield farming. Today, we’re taking liquidation protection one step further with stop loss options for

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Automated Strategies - The Next Era of DeFi Automation

Back in 2019 we pioneered automated options for decentralised finance with the release of DFS Automation, our signature automated leverage management system. Initially released for MakerDAO only, we expanded support to Compound and Aave in the following years, together with a major technical update in 2020 that introduced use of

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Automated Strategies - Technical Overview

Quick recap (Largely adapted from our EthDenver presentation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkroqlXCZyw]) * As you may remember, DeFi Saver started off as CDP Saver back in early 2019. We focused on automating Maker CDPs, providing liquidation protection and automated leveraging. * As 2019 neared its end, Maker moved to

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: January 2022

After closing 2021 with a significant December selloff, this month brought even more uncertainty amid a bloodbath which turned the entire crypto market red. Over $600B wiped out from the crypto marketAn immense plunge in value has hit the crypto markets with 50% gone since November's all-time high. January 21st

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DeFi Saver goes to ETH Denver!

We are thrilled to announce that we’re attending and sponsoring 2022 edition of ETH Denver dubbed The Year of the Buffigwei!

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: October 2021

As we entered the Q4 of 2021, expectations of new all-time highs, it turns out, were more than justified. After a quite volatile September, the entire crypto market rebounded to its new all-time high, with DeFi TVL crossing the magical $100B mark, and ETH crossing the May threshold. 🤯 DeFi Pulse

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: September 2021

Another September, another tax selloff. Although not clear at the start of the month, soon it was evident that crypto is not immune to the regular market movements and tax obligations. With the US being the primary market, the market witnessed another selloff. Ethereum together with the heavily correlated DeFi

The new DeFi Saver blog

After years spent with Medium, we are very happy to welcome you to the new DeFi Saver blog. If you've been with us long enough, you may remember that the first few of our release posts were published on the Decenter blog [https://blog.decenter.com/], before we branched out

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DeFi Saver Newsletter: August 2021

With the sweet memory of DeFi Summer 2020 still lingering in many minds, it was fairly certain that everyone and their dog was wondering the same thing - will we see a repeat this year? Alas, it seems it was not meant to be. Compared to last year's DeFi Summer