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As promised this morning - dropping the breakdown that gives you a head start in making money on @Polymarket. In this thread: > how to start without mistakes > how to farm across different risk levels > and what tricks can boost your final profit

YieldBasis on simple language Imagine you have some BTC. You want to grow it but you don't want to mess with complicated DeFi pools where you always lose something because of these strange "impermanent losses" A normal pool works like this: – you put in Bitcoin and stables – the pool's formula keeps shuffling your assets: if BTC doubles in price – your share in the pool goes up but not as much as if you had simply held BTC – see that cut in your profit? That's what they call impermanent loss @yieldbasis came up with a neat trick. It says: "Let's act like you are depositing twice as much as you actually have" The protocol takes your BTC, borrows the same amount in dollars and puts both into the pool. At first glance this sounds like a crazy 1:1 loan that should get liquidated the moment the price dips. But here it works differently. The debt and your deposit are tied together: when Bitcoin price moves the protocol automatically rebalances the position. It shifts assets around so the debt is always covered and never hangs over you like a margin call. This isn't like borrowing on an exchange where you risk getting wiped out. It's a built-in mechanism that keeps the pool aligned with BTC price. Your position grows almost exactly like if you had just held BTC but on top of that you also collect trading fees from everyone using the pool. The loan "pulls in" the dollar side that normally just sits idle and as a result your profit is no longer clipped. So you end up with two income streams: – the rise in BTC price (fully preserved, no cuts) – the trading fees inside the pool (you get a slice of every trade) Why It Is Cool – you don't lose profit when Bitcoin goes up – you earn extra fees or YB token Everything works automatically, no need to juggle loans or rebalance by yourself. Where Is The Catch – if the market is quiet and trading is low, fees will be small. borrow rate may be bigger than yield – if crvUSD (the stablecoin used in the system) breaks, there will be trouble – and like all of DeFi: smart contracts can fail and protocol tokens can lose value How It Changes DeFi Until now you always had to choose: either hold your BTC untouched or farm liquidity and lose part of your profit to impermanent loss. YieldBasis removed that choice. Now you can keep your Bitcoin and earn yield on it without cutting into your upside. Hard not to notice all the buzz around this platform. Right now there's a @legiondotcc sale going on. They're trying to raise $1M, but people are already throwing in $176M worth of demand. I knew there would be hype, but didn't expect it to get this crazy