Leon🍃✍️

• I write about Everything Web3 & DeFi

[Leon🍃✍️ @LeonDeFi]

Meet James Howell

He lost access to $280 million in BTC after discarding a hard drive with his wallet’s seed phrase.

With Account Abstraction, he wouldn’t have needed that seed phrase to recover his funds.

So, what is Account Abstraction and why is it a game changer?

A🧵

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

One thing I always appreciate is when a team genuinely asks for community feedback instead of treating it like a marketing exercise.

Seeing the market validate @edeldotfinance's internal thinking shows they're building with conviction while still listening to the people using the product.

If these upcoming $EDEL upgrades reflect both, there's a lot to look forward to.

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

One thing I like about @edeldotfinance is they're focused on making the ecosystem usable, not just holdable.

Runway now supports deposits and withdrawals for edelX and $CC, and that activity still counts toward weekly rewards.

another step toward participation feeling seamless instead of fragmented.

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

let’s do more in Q3🫡

[Edel Finance @edeldotfinance]

Big day for @andres_solt. Big day for building in public.

Any guesses on the first guest? 👀

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

the products that win long term aren't always the loudest ones.

they're the ones quietly showing up in the right infrastructure with the right partners.

EDELx is now live on @Cansai_App.

hold, transfer, swap across @CantonNetwork in a wallet built natively for the network. secure and private by design.

@edeldotfinance keeps making the right moves before most people are paying attention.

that's usually the sign $EDEL

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

the thing that's always bothered me about most yield in crypto is that it's only as strong as the hype cycle holding it up.

the moment sentiment shifts, the yield disappears with it.

@flintrwa is built on a completely different foundation.

real european real estate generating actual cash flows, settled weekly, ~10% apr.

yield that doesn't need a bull market to exist.

that's not a small thing.

that's the whole point

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

somewhere along the way crypto convinced itself that yield could only come from within.

token emissions, lending loops, trading fees, all roads leading back to the same ecosystem.

@flintrwa is asking a different question entirely.

if the infrastructure exists to bring real world cash flows on-chain, why are we still thinking this small?

real estate backed yield through a single vault.

that's the answer.

and honestly it's been in front of us the whole time

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

Weekly Recap: Everything That Happened in the @edeldotfinance Finance Ecosystem 👇

A lot happened this week at Edel:

→ xPoints went live on Edel

Users can now use xStocks as collateral and earn xPoints simultaneously.

→ Over 25M $CC secured and locked

A major milestone that further strengthens the protocol's position within the ecosystem.

→ EDELx launched on Tradecraft

EDELx is now live on Tradecraft, expanding utility and accessibility for users.

→ $EDEL held strong

Current market cap sits at around $7M, with only an ~8% pullback despite broader market volatility.

→ Tokenized stock borrowing hit a new milestone

The total value of borrowed tokenized stocks reached $457K.

→ TVL approaches $500K

Total Value Locked is now nearing the half-million-dollar mark.

Still feels significantly undervalued considering the size of the opportunity Edel is targeting.

→ Content and awareness at an all-time high

The Edel team shipped more content than ever this week, while @andres_solt appeared on multiple podcasts to spread the vision behind tokenized stock lending.

The ecosystem keeps growing.

And we're still early.

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

most of crypto twitter is about to miss this.

i don't think people understand what's actually about to happen on june 16.

magnus carlsen. world number 1. playing on an anichess board with JP morgan and standard chartered on the sponsor wall.

these institutions don't put their name on things that don't matter.

a regular player can still qualify to sit across from him before it goes live.

5 days. 1,000,000 $CHECK prize pool.

don't be the person asking about it after it's over.

@AnichessGame @jesusislord

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

most people don't realize how much yield they're leaving on the table by holding stables and doing nothing with them.

18.93% on edel right now powered by @merkl_xyz.

that's not a teaser rate, that's live.

your stables should be working harder than you are 👇

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

i've been quiet about edel but let me say this once.

most people see a lending app.

i see a derivatives venue being built on the only chain institutions are actually willing to trust, canton.

goldman, hsbc, BNP paribas, visa already in.

visible books get front-run. that's why institutions never showed up on-chain.

canton fixes that.

edel is building the venue on top of it.

treasury is already doing 40-50k a day.

this is not a bet on a promise, the numbers are public.

i know what they're cooking.

i'm aping in soon $EDEL 👀

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

https://t.co/A1h0B1OEzb

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

everyone talks about diversification in crypto and almost nobody actually has it.

btc priced in usd. eth priced in usd. stablecoins pegged to usd.

most portfolios are diversified in name only, underneath it all, it's the same currency exposure dressed up differently.

@flintrwa actually breaks that pattern.

eur-denominated real-world yield, backed by real estate, with guaranteed yields and incentivized rewards on top.

that's not a new asset class wrapped in crypto language, that's genuinely different exposure.

real diversification is not holding ten tokens that all move with the same currency.

it's having something that doesn't.

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

let me be straight with you, 19% base apy with $28,000 in extra rewards stacked on top is not something you see everyday.

phase 2 of the @alturax mission is live on jumper right now.

swap into $AVLT on hyperevm, hold it, and let it work.

get started now👇🏻

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

$500k tvl is just the first checkpoint.

flint is doing what most yield products only talk about.

real estate-backed returns, merkl incentives via @merkl_xyz, all through a single vault on @lagoon_finance.

the people who understood the vision early are already in.

the rest will catch up when the numbers get harder to ignore.

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

maybe, maybe not

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

Imagine this:

You have a stack of USDT sitting in your wallet.

Doing nothing.

But you're hesitant to put it to work because:

• DeFi hacks are everywhere
• You're not sure the yields are worth the risk.
• You don't even know which protocol to trust.

So how do you find a protocol that's actually worth depositing into?

👇🧵

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

i almost scrolled past this and i would've been sick about it tomorrow.

14,000+ people are already in the $SPCXx launchpad on @mexc and there's less than 2 hours left.

today is literally spacex ipo day and regular people got a way to get exposure to the narrative through a simple subscription.

no vip. no special requirements. nothing.

i don't post things like this often but when i see a closing window i say something.

once it's gone it's gone.

check it out before you're the person asking

"why didn't anyone tell me" 👀🔥

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

people always say real estate is the best investment.

but the same people saying that know it's never been easy to access unless you already had money or connections

that's the part nobody talks about.

the barrier wasn't the asset, it was everything around it. the minimums. the lawyers. the geography. the gatekeepers.

flint is the first time i've seen someone actually solve that on-chain.

regulated tokenization on the backend, defi on the front end.

you just need a wallet. that's it.

no one deciding if you're worthy enough to participate in one of the oldest wealth-building tools on earth.

we talk about financial freedom in crypto a lot.

@flintrwa is one of the few things i've seen that actually means it

[João💎 @JoaoDeFi]

community keeps winning on @alturax

every few weeks there's another way to make AVLT work harder instead of sitting idle.

first it was yield.

then more integrations.

now borrowing and looping opportunities on morpho eth mainnet.

the best part is watching the ecosystem become more useful over time, not just bigger.

that's the kind of growth that keeps people around long even if the hype fades.