Solar ☀️

I've been through every Solana @colosseum radar hackathon applications so you don't have to. ...and the DeFi track was full of hidden gems. Here's my top 7🧵

@allinbitcoin_ briefly, not with size im not really trading anyway but i keep it in mind in case i have any strategy that would fit

@DefiSolar btw did u try flash v2 yet?

V1 took Hylo from 0 to 1. Now V2 gives it the ability to go from 1 to 100. More assets, more predictable leverage, uncapped growth, and a new yield stream from borrowing rates.

@norbertbodziony at least you farmed the engagement, not worth the 8 digits tho haha

lost another 10M it was fun while it lasted

@markwasonline @baltimore465 @kamino @jito_sol for USDe it's not up to us, but for ONyc, there's room, it just needs more stablecoin liquidity from lenders. stay tuned, something is coming 👀

@baltimore465 @kamino @jito_sol I feel that. Wen increase @DefiSolar

Seems like every time I check, the ONyc and USDe pools are full. So while I’m waiting for the next cap raise, might as well earn 10.65% APY + $JTO on my $SOL in the meantime.

@cited congrats!

The 01 team will be joining N1 to build together. When I first started building on N1, the idea was to build a killer application that validates the infrastructure and the blockchain it’s built on. I’m excited for my team to build directly with N1 without the coordination tax of two teams trying to deliver on what has always been the same vision. 01 continues trading on app.n1.xyz and the roadmap only gets more ambitious from here.

@inno_ox @hylo_so big month you said? 👀

is @hylo_so the most underrated project on Solana? 👀 solana:4sWNB8zGWHkh6UnmwiEtzNxL4XrN7uK9tosbESbJFfVs 📈 > 2x to 4x SOL leverage, auto adjusts based on SOL price > liquidation resistant > composable across solana DeFi > one of the largest products on solana by SOL open interest solana:5YMkXAYccHSGnHn9nob9xEvv6Pvka9DZWH7nTbotTu9E 💵 > highest yielding stablecoin on Solana double digit APY from LSTs > backed by real onchain staking yield (stake it for even higher returns + points farming) > most importantly, DECENTRALIZED heard July is a BIG MONTH for Hylo. a revolution is coming for solana DeFi 👀

@onrefinance @solana looks like we're at $210M already 👀

can't fix it 100% but if you mix that with highly curated founders/projects, then there's a higher chance. as of now, the only project who kinda went from 0 to 1 was $ZINC and they abused the system by buying out existing holders at a 50% premium to ICO price. (a decent price would have been 150-200% to ICO price).

@DefiSolar @MetaDAOProject Believe me, it fixes nothing. No project has gone past the 0 to 1 phase. But if one ever does, you will see.

Tokens are so misaligned that the worst thing that can happen to the protocol whose token you hold is that it becomes extremely successful and mass adopted. If the protocol works, equity will be the asset that captures the business, while the token is left as a liquid proxy with no direct claim on the value being created. So even if you were right about the protocol, you still end up holding monopoly money. Until this gets fixed, the best trade will live in memes, or in the 0 to 1 phase of the protocol you are betting on, before adoption forces the value capture question.

@xydotdot @MetaDAOProject tokens launched on @MetaDAOProject have direct claims on the IP (social accounts, domain names, created software) + project's revenue. and the treasury is governed by token holders aswell. (outside of the monthly allocations)

@DefiSolar @MetaDAOProject MetaDAO fixes nothing tbh. If the token does not have a direct claim on the value created by the protocol, then the core problem remains.

This year DeFi was shaken by two big forces: (1) a few huge back to back hacks due to OpSec and (2) the overhang of AI models getting scary good especially at cybersecurity. I’ve always held this belief wrt open source code, but it also applies to systems - you can control the surface area of what is exposed - so you can just simply focus on shrinking it and reinforcing it. We’ve spent huge effort from the beginning of the year, pre DeFi hacks, across every domain of Kamino - cloud, frontend, OpSec, smart contracts, risk, monitoring. Break glass admins, dns monitoring, ai risk aware multisig watch, circuit breakers, internal dashboards. Multi level orchestration for bug finding - pipeline of AI agents looking for bugs, verifying, creating proof of concepts, building report. Lots of this is internal / invisible work, and generally I am strongly against publicly announcing it until it’s fully done. Just before that we went through a full market oracle hardening process that kept us resilient to temporary depegs and provider outages and at the same time through deprecating bad tokens. The work continues with things that are even more exciting and achievable due to the productivity boost that even our most ai-skeptical devs have observed. I have not lost faith in what DeFi should be, and it can be done right, but if done badly it can set us back years.

the bull case for @LasoFinance: > cracked founder with 1 exit already. > ownership coin (s/o @MetaDAOProject) > the business appeals to anyone, and every tokenholder is a potential user. > fits the agentic commerce narrative: AI agents need payment rails, and already represent 2-4% of volume and growing.

@sogimester wdym

@DefiSolar looks like the deal math is actually there but the optics are killing it

Founder blog looks like this and he’s currently raising at $3M FDV? ..for a prepaid cards startup at $400K ARR, with over $1M in revenue already? ..and on the only launchpad where the token is legally tied to the business outcome?

@8bitpenis fully agree! by far the best raise on @MetaDAOProject.

@DefiSolar i think metadao really picked well for this, super happy about everything around this raise

@alex_hunter20 revolut has lower fees than the so-called crypto exchanges lmao

Lmaooooo and some people are complaining about HL fees ? Wtf is this ?? 0.3/0.4% spot fees ? 1.2% on Coinbase ?????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Richard_ISC @metaproph3t @MetaDAOProject u sure? with that many tokens he's just going to set up a big sell order in fail conditional market no?

I remember talking with @metaproph3t 2 years ago as he was educating me on this kind of DAO rug. Futarchy / @MetaDAOProject fixes this.

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@mango_ @backyard_fi 👏

career update: Today, I’m excited to announce the next step in my journey, as I’ll be joining the @backyard_fi team as Growth Lead. Unironically, it feels like for the first time in my professional career, I’m in the right place, at the right time, with the right team. Ready to keep pushing the boundaries of the Solana ecosystem and build a product I genuinely like, and believe has strong PMF and real need & fit within the Solana DeFi and broader community. If you’re hearing about Backyard just now, it’s a full-cycle yield manager on Solana, allows users to create diversified, combined strategies with custom parameters and full management freedom. We’re focused on stablecoins right now, but our core mission is to cover any Solana yield assets (RWAs, stocks, native & liquid staking, etc.) you can imagine ;) We’re in the final prep for our Season 0 campaign. There are a lot of moving parts, so expect more Solana DeFi & Backyard content on my page. If you’d like to explore, contribute, or learn more about Backyard, feel free to dm me either here on X or on Telegram: sol_mango. Always 1 ping away! Up Only Season ⚡️