This is very true
Pendle YT market is often super ineffective since most of the people can't do any research themselves, and look at any numbers
There are so many YTs priced at levels that make no sense.
Pendle YTs are especially good for the smaller guys, since a lot of pools have only a few M$ worth of liquidity in them. So the bigger guys can’t ape them properly.
You can also trade YTs as a normal coin. If you ape early into a pool that people don’t see yet, you can farm leveraged points for free and exit in profits.
I could name a few recent examples:
Kinetiq's kHYPE / vkHYPE crashed after last week's points announcement. You could have aped YTs literally for free and farmed points cheaper than anyone else.
USDAI YTs, if you bought in early, once nobody really paid attention, you would have bought them 3 times cheaper than in peak Mania = Farm leverage points for free and exit in profits
FF YTs, Falcon did surprisingly well, and literally everyone who bought YTs ended up in profits.
There is also the other side, if the project does badly, you can lose a lot.
If you know what you are doing, or follow someone who spends hundreds of hours watching Pendle pools like a degen (me), Pendle can be an amazing edge that most of the CT still has no clue how it works.
Important Update - A Farewell to Ai Hero
Heroes, our journey together has been unforgettable. 🫶
Starting tomorrow (15 Oct), Ai Hero will stop issuing new vouchers.
Existing heroes can continue playing for the next 14 days until all heroes are used up. After that, the game will officially close on 29 Oct at 23:59hrs.
From the very first summon to the final game, the community made Ai Hero what it was.
Thank you for every completed battle and every bit of support you’ve given us. 💛
Though this chapter ends, the spirit of Ai Hero will live on in our legacy. The adventure will continue in our hearts. ⚔️
With gratitude,
The Ai Hero team
Solana szn 🟣
It’s officially Solana szn. Perps volume hit a new monthly record with $43.9B traded in August, while TVL continues quietly grinding toward ATHs.
Here’s your quick roundup covering what shipped on Solana last week:
- The U.S. Commerce Department started distributing GDP data on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, with data feeds powered by @PythNetwork
- Solana's ecosystem TVL + stablecoins issued reached an all-time high of ~$34 billion, up ~200% YoY, according to @tokenterminal
- @Lombard_Finance’s yield bearing Bitcoin (LBTC) arrived on Solana, bringing the $1.5B asset to Solana DeFi
- The Solana Policy Institute (@SolanaInstitute) donated $500,000 to the legal defense of @rstormsf and @alex_pertsev, the developers of Tornado Cash.
- @JupiterExchange launched Jupiter Lend in collaboration with @0xfluid and reached over $750M in deposits in just days from launch
- SIMD-0326: Alpenglow reached quorum for votes and is expected to pass, with ~99% of voting validators voting in favor of the proposal
- @deksxyz introduced their Debit Card powered by Solana
- @chrischang43 rolled out Sandwich Detector v2 for Sandwiched(dot)me, a major step forward in catching malicious actors who profit from extractive sandwich attacks
- @Solanamobile announced that Seeker szn officially kicks off on September 8th
- You can now trade @DriftProtocol perps from Telegram with @solcypherbot
- @lincolnbuidl and team rolled out @TradeInRhythm, a new trading terminal built on Solana
- NASDAQ-listed @MetalphaPro deployed Bitcoin liquidity on Solana through @ZeusNetworkHQ
- @defidevcorp took Solana to Wall Street and rang the NASDAQ bell, marking the first U.S. public company with a Solana-focused treasury strategy. Follow @ReserveSolana for more updates on Solana-focused treasury companies.
- Nigeria explored a partnership with @SuperteamNG to drive crypto education and adoption
- The Solana Foundation introduced Solana Bench, the first standardized, reproducible way to measure how well different popular LLMs like Claude Sonnet and GPT-5 can build and execute Solana transactions. Funding is available to expand this research.
- @GuiBibeau released the Solana Curriculum Repository, an open source curriculum for teaching blockchain and Solana in universities
- @StarAtlas open sourced Star Frame, a framework built on Pinocchio to help @solana_devs build complex, secure, and scalable programs
- @anza_xyz’s Solana validator client Agave hit a burst of 1.1 million TPS in a single-node synthetic test, matching Firedancer’s previous peak. The test used simple transfers and included several unmerged performance upgrades.
- SIMD-180 went live on mainnet, making it so that validator leaders schedules now key off vote account addresses instead of validator identity keys.
- @theprivacycash launched an open source privacy protocol on Solana for transferring SOL
- @vanishtrade announced their $1m pre-seed round led by @Colosseum
What did we miss? Shoutout other folks shipping in the comments below. Rest up and hope you all have a lovely week ahead 🫡
@TheMisterFrog@Cupseyy@waddles_eth@casino616@Cented7 Used @frontrunpro to stalk all wallets in the leaderboard. Pretty cool.
Long been thinking about a central database for KOL wallets, since I heard you guys are passing around spreadsheets 💀
(completley unaffiliated)