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# Yield Strategies

## Themes
### Active
* Pooled Yield Strategy (Money Lego)
    * Automated composing
    * Yearn
* Arbitrage
    * Inter DEX
    * Inter CEX/DEX (custodial)
    * Triangular
    * Yield arbitrage / Carry trades
    * Margin
* Indexes
    * SET-like
    * BTC/ETH 50/50
* Algortihmic Quant Strategies
    * HFT
    * Long only
    * Long/Short
    * Multi-Strategy
    * Margin
    * Vola trading
* Other trading strategies
    * NFT Trading Strategies
    * Onchain Data
    * Social trading
    * Rebalancing
    * Momentum trading
    * TA
        * https://mrjbq7.github.io/ta-lib/
        * [NUPL](https://academy.glassnode.com/indicators/profit-loss-unrealized/net-unrealized-profit-loss)
    * Signal based (news etc.)
        * Twitter, Github, Blogs, News
    * AI-based (CNN, other deep learning)
* Market Making
* Airdrops
    * Claim and distribute airdrops
    * https://twitter.com/eliasimos/status/1362757505785466887
* Flashloans?
    * White-hat exploit distribute 10% to pools 90% back
### Passive
* Stablecoin Issuance
    * Maker/DAI
* Staking
    * Lido, Cosmos
* Lending
    * AAVE, Compound
* Liquidity Provision/Mining
    * Uni, Sushi, Curve

## Pooled Yield Strategies

### Functions

```
Deposit, // supply tokens
Withdraw, // borrow tokens
Transfer, // transfer balance between accounts
Buy, // buy an amount of some token (publicly)
Sell, // sell an amount of some token (publicly)
Trade, // trade tokens against another account
Liquidate, // liquidate an undercollateralized or expiring account
Vaporize, // use excess tokens to zero-out a completely negative account
```

### Primitives (Money lego building blocks)

* Lend/Deposit for `X` APY (net positive)
    * Collateralize
    * Example: AAVE, Compound
* Borrow for `Y` APY (net negative)
    * Example: AAVE, Compound
* Pool/Deposit for `X` APY (net positive)
    * Pays dividends
    * Farm pool token
    * Example: YFI, CRV
* Repay Loan/Debt
* Claim
    * Claim pool token

### Features

* Reinvest dividends
    * Automatically re-deposit dividends
    * Borrow more loan
    * Deposit new loan into Pool to increase net profits

### Use-cases

* Liquidity mining
    * Deposit collateral into pool
    * Farm token
    * Examples: CRV

### Types


* Liquidity mining
    * Deposit collateral into pool
    * Farm token
    * Examples: CRV

# DeFi Landscape

## Lending
* AAVE
* MAKER
* Compound
* InstaDApp
* Alpha Homora
* dydx (+margin)
* C.R.E.A.M
* Idle Finance
* LINKSWAP
* TrueFi
* bZx
* B.Protocol
* Fulcrum (+margin)
* [Dharma](https://www.dharma.io/)

### Centralized Lending
* Binance
* Bitfinex
* BlockFi
* Coinbase
* CoinList
* Crypto.com
* Poloniex
* Nexo

## DEX / AMM
* Curve Finance
* Uniswap
* SushiSwap
* Balancer
* PancakeSwap
* Bancor
* Loopring
* DefiSwap
* Kyber
* 1inch (Agregator)
* [Radar Relay (+margin)](https://relay.radar.tech/)

## Derivatives
* Synthetix
* Nexus Mutual
* HEGIC
* DerivaDEX
* FutureSwap
* UMA

## Assets
* BadgerDAO
* RenVM
* Harvest Finance
* Yearn.finance
* Vesper
* Set Protocol
* Index Coop
* cvault.finance
* dForce
* Metronome
* mStable

## Liquid Staking
* Lido
* Stakehound

## Payments
* Flexa
* Matic Network
* Lightning Network
* xDai

## Yield aggregator
* Yearn.finance
* Harvest
* Alpha Homora
* Idle
* Pickle
* Rari Capital
* [Staked RAY](https://staking.staked.us/en-us/ray)

## Prediction market
* Gnosis

## Oracles
* ChainLink

## Smart Wallets
* DHedge
* Argent
* Bitpie
* DefiSaver
* Gnosis Safe
* Zapper
* Zerion

## Underdeveloped
* No-loss lotteries
* Decentralized futures
* Permissionless options trading
* Credit risk protocols for lending and borrowing
* Fixed interest rate loans
* Insurance platforms (https://nexusmutual.io/)

## Liquidity Protocols
* [Thorschain (Cross Chain)](https://thorchain.org/)

# Emerging Layer 1s
* Binance Chain
* Polkadot
* Cosmos
* Avalanche

# Ideas

* DeFi SDK with all primitives enabled
* Grants to include protocols
* Backtetsting module to test new strategies

## Research Areas

### Miner Extractable Value
### Priority Gas Auctions

# Sources

* https://loanscan.io/
* https://defipulse.com/
* https://defiprime.com/
* https://defirate.com/
* https://stats.finance/yearn
* https://defiyield.info/
* https://github.com/corbinpage/yield-farmers-almanac
* https://yieldfarming.info/
* https://thedefiant.io/
* https://github.com/ong/awesome-decentralized-finance
* https://www.reddit.com/r/defi/
* https://github.com/yieldfarming/yieldfarming
* https://www.stakingrewards.com/