Top of Mind at Shipyard
- Uniswap has announced a new gasless DEX aggregator, UniswapX.
- Why would Uniswap want to enable potential routing of flow away from its own pools? Perhaps it’s an attempt to evolve the business, given rising interest rates and impermanent loss making liquidity retention increasingly difficult.
Uniswap again delivers the biggest news in the DEX world with the announcement of their gasless DEX aggregator, UniswapX. This is good news for traders because there will be more competition to fill their trades efficiently. It’s bad news for other DEX Aggregators, who will now have to contend with a dominant competitor. But at first glance, it’s mostly confusing. Why would Uniswap allow flow to be routed away from its own pools, cannibalizing its own marketplace?
Our hypothesis is rising interest rates. 70% of Uniswap volume is ETH <> USD pairs. But as ETH staking has unlocked and U.S. Treasury rates are making their way on-chain, it is becoming harder and harder to retain liquidity, which already loses money to impermanent loss. Without a clear solution to this existential elephant in the room, the smart hedge may be to evolve the business so it doesn’t need LPs at all.
- Shipyard CEO, Mark Lurie
Below DEX
Clipper’s New Farming Feature is Live!
Why Do It? 🤔
Clipper is designed to maximize LP returns. The new farming feature gives LPs even more
opportunities to earn. Farming allows LPs to collect OP token rewards by depositing into the
newly deployed Core Pool farm on Optimism.
The Process 🛠️
Clipper kicked off farming starting on Optimism as a way to test the farming contract in
production and capture feedback from users. OP has significantly lower gas fees than Ethereum
mainnet so it’s a great chain to start on.
LPs Win! 🎉
Check out farming now and keep an eye out for new farms and reward options in the near
future…👀
Around DeFi
- PanckaeSwap launches Revenue Sharing Pool, enabling CAKE stakers to earn a portion of PancakeSwap v3 trading fee revenues.
- Osmosis DEX launched a new concentrated liquidity feature that allows LPs to choose their own min and max prices for liquidity provision.
- PancakeSwap expands to the zkSync Era blockchain, making the DEX now available on five blockchains.
Community Updates
- Clipper Adventure 4 Signups are open August 1st - 10th! The Adventure launches on August 15th → Sign up here.
- Clipper’s Discord has reached 100k members and growing!
- New Clipper blogs:
- Clipper Regulatory Discussion
- Clipper: The DRP for DAO Treasury Management
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