Ignas | DeFi Research
Ignas | DeFi Research

@DefiIgnas

14 Tweets Apr 05, 2023
4/ In light of this, I ventured to analyze the roadmaps of the 25 major #DeFi protocols to see what's next in the pipeline.
You can check the full list of projects, roadmap details, timeline and the information source.
Link to Notion table: bit.ly
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So, what's coming for DeFi?
1⃣ Growth of Protocol-owned-stablecoins
Following recent launches of #NEAR, #Tron, #Waves blockchain stablecoins, #DeFi protocols Aave and Curve are planning to launch their own stablecoins too.
Even $SHIB is building its own stablecoin $SHI
6/ While not much official info is available crvUSD, Aave revealed its $GHO stablecoin mechanics.
The advatanges:
• Add a new source of revenue
• Brings additional use cases for the token
• Increases its demand and boosts generated yield to liquidity providers.
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2️⃣ Increased adoption of veTokenomics:
• Yearn Finance is expected to launch $veYFI with a 4-year locking in mid August
• Synthetix will use $veSNX gauges for inflation weighting
• Pancakeswap too will roll out $vCAKE for rewards weight voting 'soon'.
8/ The model creates skin in the game and discourages mercenary farming when liquidity mining token rewards are instantly sold.
I wouldn't be surprised if $COMP transitioned to veTokenomics as well in the future, as they stopped liquidity mining altogether
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3️⃣Focus on Progressive decentralization
As projects establish PMF, financial sustainability, a community and regulatory compliance, they seek to reduce their single point of failure - centralization.
$DYDX, $GRT, $REN, $LDO and $MKR is moving towards full decentralization
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4️⃣Launching new iteration protocols
#Crypto and DeFi moves fast.
In order to keep up with the fast pace market, many protocols will completely overhall how the protocols work.
Soon to launch:
• Synthetix V3
• Compound III
• Nexus V2
• dYdX V4
• Yearn V3
• GMX X4
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5⃣ Future is multichain
This one is so obvious, that even Compound has a multichain strategy for its Compound III.
Also:
• $SUSHI launched SushiXSwap DEX
• $REN is working in partnership with @catalogfi for a Metaversal exchange
• MakerDAO's End Game has Maker Teleport
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6⃣Increasing influence of Uniswap V3
V3 introduced concentrated liquidity and recently @KyberNetwork launched KyberSwap elastic with concentrated the same feature + 5 fee tiers for LPs.
@osmosiszone is building CL too.
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7⃣Expanding token use cases:
@chainlink announced Economics 2.0 for $LINK staking
@PancakeSwap V2 tokenomics caps $CAKE at 750M tokens, boosts yields, IFO benefits and weight voting
• Maker will launch liquidity mining for $MKR and even $DAI holders for its End Game
14/ one more thing…
The transparency in which teams are building is very different even among the top DeFi projects. 
$YFI, $SNX and $MKR have very clear roadmaps and details on implementation and great communication while $UNI is the most closed off.
15/ Will these protocol upgrades suffice for #DeFi to recover?
Would love to get your take on it @DeFiSurfer808 @thedefiedge @Dynamo_Patrick @DeFi_Dad @DegenSpartan @xangle_intern @milesdeutscher and @intocryptoast
16/Feel free to reach out if I missed something important or you want contribute to the table.
I will be following the progress of these roadmaps so make sure to follow me!
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