The world of DeFi is an ecosystem of infinite potential and diverse opportunities. Yet, unlocking this potential and capitalising on these opportunities can be a complex task. This is where the integration of Morpho and Enzyme comes into play, combining the strengths of two powerful DeFi platforms to deliver an unrivalled asset management experience.

As an asset manager, your priority is to maximise returns while minimising risks. Efficiency, flexibility, simplicity, and safety become the cornerstones of your investment strategy. The fusion of Morpho’s innovative peer-to-peer lending mechanism with Enzyme’s robust suite of asset management tools offers exactly that.

So, what can asset managers expect when they use Morpho on Enzyme? A wealth of benefits that revolve around four core principles:

Improved rates: Positions on Morpho are more capital efficient thanks to seamless peer-to-peer matching. This leads to better APYs for asset managers and increases overall returns.

Attractive Risk-Adjusted Returns: Morpho improves rates without changing the underlying risk. As an asset manager, you always receive a rate equal to or better than the underlying pool, while maintaining the same risk parameters and liquidation guarantees.

Intuitive Integration: With Enzyme’s robust front-to-back execution and order management system, users can add Morpho positions to their portfolio in a few clicks.

DAO Treasury Management: Enzyme’s programmable risk management and trader delegation tools means DAOs can outsource the operations of their treasury to one or more asset managers and can add Morpho into existing strategies while maintaining their risk controls.

As the DeFi space continues to evolve, the team at Enzyme is committed to providing asset managers with the tools they need to maximise their yield opportunities. Enzyme’s integration with Morpho is a testament to this commitment, enabling access to optimised rates for lenders. Embrace this new era of asset management with Enzyme and Morpho, where safety and efficiency meets innovation.

With Enzyme’s v4 Sulu, it’s never been easier for managers to create custom on-chain asset management strategies, access dozens of DeFi d’Apps and trade 250+ digital assets in one simple, trustless, and efficient platform.

About Morpho

Morpho is an innovative peer-to-peer layer that significantly enhances the capital efficiency of leading lending pools such as Compound and Aave. It accomplishes this by implementing a unique mechanism that seamlessly matches lenders and borrowers on a peer-to-peer basis. As a result, Morpho can offer improved rates, thus optimising the lending experience while maintaining the same liquidity, liquidation guarantees, and risk parameters of the underlying protocol.

At its core, Morpho operates as a lending pool optimizer. It ensures that users interact with Morpho-Aave or Morpho-Compound the same way they would with the native Aave or Compound protocols. This means users still have access to billions of dollars ready to be borrowed or withdrawn, while also enjoying the same collateral factors, oracles, close factors, etc. The fundamental difference lies in the enhanced rates that Morpho can offer to both borrowers and lenders.

SOURCE:

https://medium.com/enzymefinance/enzyme-integrates-with-morpho-to-unlock-enhanced-yield-opportunities-in-defi-6b8ac32b341a

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This partnership with Etherspot aims to push the limits of Web3 infrastructure and give developers with unique methods for developing decentralised applications, games, and protocols. Developers may unlock a world of possibilities by integrating Etherspot’s AA capabilities into OKTC, ensuring greater scalability, security, and user experience.

Empowering Account Abstraction on OKTC

The core of this integration is the expansion of Account Abstraction (AA) on OKT Chain. OKT Chain is an EVM- and Wasm-compatible L1 built on Cosmos, focusing on true interoperability and maximized performance. At high scalability, developers can build and scale with low gas fees.

With Etherspot’s cutting-edge AA features, developers on OKTC will gain access to various exciting tools.

At OKTC, they are dedicated to providing their developers with a comprehensive suite of tools to accelerate their development processes. Etherspot serves as the recommended Account Abstraction wallet and infrastructure stack for projects seeking to leverage the high-performing OKTC ecosystem. Their smart contract wallet, primary SDK, React BUIDLer component, and React library — TransactionKit — empower developers, simplifying and expediting their development journey while ensuring a user-friendly and secure Web3 experience.

As they integrate the Etherspot SDK into their developer stack, they take Web3 user onboarding to new heights, making it easier than ever before. OKTC and Etherspot are committed to pushing the boundaries of Web3 infrastructure, empowering developers, and driving the widespread adoption of account abstraction.

With this integration, OKTC opens up a world of opportunities for developers, ensuring that Web3 development on our platform is both cutting-edge and user-centric. They look forward to the incredible innovations that will emerge from this collaboration between OKTC and Etherspot.

SOURCE:

https://medium.com/okc-okx-chain/oktc-okt-chain-and-etherspot-join-forces-for-enhanced-web3-development-with-account-abstraction-8e589ea3a9e1

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The initial integration will use the following Chainlink Price Feeds: wstETH/ETH, ETH/USD, wBTC/BTC, BTC/USD, USDC/USD, USDT/USD, DAI/USD.

They chose Chainlink as the protocol’s go-to oracle solution because its infrastructure is seamless to integrate and time-tested in production. Chainlink already helps secure leading DeFi protocols responsible for tens of billions of dollars in smart contract value, maintaining robust security and high availability even amidst unexpected events, such as exchange downtime, flash crashes, and data manipulation attacks via flash loans.

Term Finance enables fixed-rate lending for the Web3 community by matching borrowers and lenders through a term auction smart contract. Here’s how it works.

First, borrowers and lenders submit bids or offers. Borrowers submit bids for loans and lenders submit asking rates. The term auction contract then uses an algorithm to select a fixed rate that clears the market. All lenders who asked less than the clearing rate are able to lend, and all borrowers who bid more than the clearing rate are able to borrow at the rate. After borrowers and lenders are matched at a selected fixed rate, Term Finance provides the tools for borrowers and lenders to monitor their collateral and positions. At maturity, borrowers repay the principal and interest to unlock their collateral.

In order to help monitor the price of borrowers’ collateral, the protocol needs access to fresh asset prices that are supplied directly on-chain in a highly reliable manner. Fair market asset prices should reflect a‏ volume-weighted average from all trading environments. Thus, the protocol needed to make use of an oracle network to fetch aggregated price data off-chain and deliver it on-chain to be consumed by our application.

About Term Labs

Term Labs is a blockchain research and development company founded by a team with deep traditional finance, big tech, and decentralized finance experience. Term Labs is dedicated to the development of robust, transparent, and scalable fixed-rate lending on blockchains.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform that has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, insurance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink enables developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

SOURCE:

https://term.finance/termchainlinkpartnership/

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The integration of Bounce Finance and Rollux empowers users to seamlessly engage in decentralized auctions on Rollux mainnet through the Bounce App. This collaboration enhances the efficiency and accessibility of decentralized auctions, benefiting from Rollux’s exceptional security, fast processing speed, and cost-effectiveness.

Currently, users can engage in fixed-price auctions for ERC20 and ERC1155 tokens. Bounce’s fixed-price auction is a type of auction where the price for the assets being auctioned is predetermined and agreed upon by the auctioneer and participants. It operates on a first-come, first-serve basis, with the first person to place the bid winning the auction. The assets are automatically swapped at the agreed-upon time, providing a time-contingent and efficient execution of trades.

Furthermore, the collaboration between Bounce Finance and Rollux signifies a commitment to driving innovation in the DeFi landscape. Rollux’s merged mining approach reinforces the relevance of Proof of Work (PoW), complementing Ethereum’s design philosophy, and removing the walls of division that have splintered the industry for too long. The integration invites the Ethereum developer pool and ecosystem to join the Bitcoin ecosystem with the least amount of friction facilitated by Syscoin & Rollux acting as the bridge.

About Bounce:

Bounce Finance is a decentralized auction protocol that empowers users to create and participate in diverse types of auctions on multiple blockchain networks. With a focus on Auction as a Service, Bounce Finance offers a wide range of products, including Token & NFT Auctions, Real-World Collectible Auctions, Ad Space Auction, and SDKs & Plug-Ins. Bounce Finance also provides Private Launchpad services, an on-chain solution designed to streamline IDOs for new projects. Furthermore, Bounce Finance is introducing Real-World Collectibles service, offering a marketplace for projects to sell their own tangible merchandise and luxury items. Bounce’s service includes an in-house manufacturing production line ensuring top-tier quality and seamless shipments.

About Rollux:

Built by SYS Labs, powered by Syscoin, and fueled by its utility token, $SYS. Rollux is an EVM-equivalent optimistic rollup that inherits the security of Bitcoin’s mining network and Syscoin’s Layer 1 finality and data availability. Rollux functions as Syscoin’s Layer 2 to help provide the unprecedented scalability necessary for an exponential increase of potential use cases, and sets the stage for realizing mass adoption. Rollux offers what no one else does: unmitigated security, speed, decentralization, and affordability.

SOURCE:

https://bouncefinance.medium.com/bounce-finance-integrates-rollux-mainnet-empowering-enhanced-security-and-efficiency-in-2f0b9165735a

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Africa faces a significant market problem, characterised by high fees, poor/multiple exchange rates, and slow settlement times for financial transactions. In response, LINK developed a payment infrastructure using blockchain technology. Another important piece of this infrastructure, which was crucial for smart contract transaction execution, required a blockchain oracle to deliver a price feed with the latest exchange rate of the Nigerian Naira.

As no other oracle was capable of providing such a feed, LINK collaborated with DIA to realise the project. DIA promptly deployed a custom feed for LINK, creating the first price oracle for the Nigerian Naira. This price feed is meticulously constructed by fetching trade data from digital asset exchanges and applying cleansing filters and price-determining methodologies.

Adoption and Usage of the Oracle

The Oracle has already been integrated into various dApps, including DFX Finance, which is quite exciting. DFX Finance is a decentralised foreign exchange (FX) protocol designed specifically for exchanging fiat-backed foreign stablecoins. On the Polygon network, the oracle powers an NGN/USD pool.

A Transparent Delivery

The NGN price oracle was implemented with bespoke configurations per LINK’s needs, ensuring easy connection with the oracle-powered dApps. LINK has requested and made these configuration settings publicly available in the DIA Forum in a transparent manner.

In conclusion, the partnership between LINK and DIA marks a transformative moment in the history of cross-border payments in Africa. It paves the way for a future where individuals and businesses can thrive on a level playing field, unrestricted by geographical boundaries or legacy financial systems.

About LINK Africa

LINK Africa is a cutting-edge Web3 company that revolutionises cross-border payments for the next billion Africans. Offering the tools and the infrastructure for developers and businesses to build scalable cross-border payments use cases as well as leverage LINK’s end-to-end product utilizing complex blockchain technology presented in the simplest form for businesses ranging from on/off ramps looking to scale to the continent, to local savings platforms looking to provide USD and higher foreign currency yields, to every day businesses just looking for ways to pay and get paid globally.

About DIA

DIA redefines oracles on 30+ L1/L2s: Fully customisable, unmet asset coverage, 100% transparent. Enabling new primitives for DeFi, NFTfi and GameFi.

DIA’s data feeds are fully customized with regards to the mix of sources and methodologies, resulting in tailor-made, high-resilience feeds and thereby setting a new paradigm for oracles.

SOURCE:

https://medium.com/dia-insights/partnership-with-link-africa-2ff9234b17d5

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• IBO1—the iShares $ Treasury Bond 0-1YR UCITS ETF, IBO1 is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) traded on the London Stock Exchange that provides exposure to US Dollar-denominated short-term government bonds issued by the US Treasury. The ETF specifically targets US government bonds with remaining maturities between zero and one year.
• IBTA—the iShares $ Treasury Bond 1-3YR UCITS ETF, IBTA is a fixed-income ETF traded on the London Stock Exchange that provides exposure to short-term US treasuries with direct investment in government bonds, specifically those with remaining maturities between one and three years.
• CSPX—the iShares Core S&P 500 UCITS ETF, CSPX is an ETF traded on the London Stock Exchange that tracks the performance of the S&P 500 Index, which is composed of a basket of the 500 largest U.S. companies by market capitalization.

Chainlink pricing Feeds enable the DeFi ecosystem to securely incorporate bIB01, bIBTA, and bCSPX (Backed Finance’s tokenized representation of the aforementioned assets) within their protocols by assisting in the provision of secure and trustworthy pricing data for these real-world assets.

As a leading pioneer in tokenized RWAs, Backed Finance issues freely transferable backed Tokens (bTokens) on the blockchain that track the prices of publicly traded assets.

However, growing the adoption of these assets within the larger DeFi ecosystem requires robust and independent pricing data, which unlocks the ability to securely leverage these assets within advanced decentralized protocols.

As the industry-standard price oracle solution for the Web3 ecosystem, Chainlink Price Feeds have a proven history of reliability, security, decentralization, and widespread adoption within the DeFi ecosystem. It was mission-critical that the price data for IBO1, IBTA, and CSPX was made available on-chain by Chainlink Price Feeds specifically.

In the near future, they also plan to integrate Chainlink Proof of Reserve—the leading asset collateral monitoring service in Web3—to enhance the transparency of Backed’s products and help provide a publicly accessible, real-time collateralization information for Backed products.

About Backed Finance

Backed is a Swiss start-up bridging real-world assets on-chain. Backed issues on-chain tokens that track the value of real-world assets, such as stocks or ETFs. Tokens are freely transferable across wallets, are fully collateralized by the underlying asset, and are issued in compliance with the Swiss DLT act.

Backed’s tokens are not offered, sold or delivered within the United States, or for the account or benefit of U.S. Persons.

Backed is not affiliated with or licensed by iShares, BlackRock Inc., BlackRock Fund Advisors and any of its affiliates and bIB01, bIBTA and bCSPX are not iShares products.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform. It has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, on-chain finance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink empowers developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

SOURCE:

https://backed.fi/news-updates/chainlink-price-feeds

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The Co-founder and CEO of Cega has the following to say:

“Our expansion into the growing Arbitrum ecosystem signifies a proud step forward for Cega in the DeFi ecosystem. Arbitrum’s strong DeFi community fosters a favorable environment for Cega to enter and bring foundational options capabilities as well as cutting-edge derivatives primitives. Cega’s products will help users on Arbitrum gain access to a new kind of return with a strong reward. We’re looking forward to providing Arbitrum users with access to safer, structured investments.” — Arisa Toyosaki, Co-founder and CEO of Cega.

In celebration of Cega’s Arbitrum launch, they’re also introducing the L2 vault strategy, featuring ARB and OP tokens. Users stake USDC stablecoin to earn USDC yield with an estimated APY of up to 63% APY, downside protection of 50%, and strong backtesting results indicating a low probability (5% chance) to risk losses on invested principal. The L2 vault is a strong solution for those in the Arbitrum community seeking a diversified, risk-managed approach to earning high yields in DeFi while fundamentally supporting the growth of layer 2 blockchains.

About The Arbitrum Foundation

The Arbitrum Foundation, founded in March 2023, supports and grows the Arbitrum network and its community with secure scaling solutions for Ethereum. The Foundation oversees the $ARB token and governance structure as well as the Arbitrum Security Council. An Optimistic Rollup, Arbitrum One provides ultra-fast, low-cost transactions with security rooted on Ethereum. Launched in August 2021, the Arbitrum One mainnet beta is EVM-compatible to the bytecode level and has 65%+ TVL in the L2 segment, with 400+ DeFi and NFT projects are live in the ecosystem to date.

About Cega

Cega is a decentralized structured investments protocol that helps investors earn high fixed yield on their USDC stablecoin. Cega strategies deliver yield enhancement, principal protection, and more, to an investor’s diversified DeFi portfolio. Now accessible on Ethereum, Solana, and Arbitrum.

SOURCE:

https://cegafi.medium.com/cega-launches-on-arbitrum-aab2963c4691

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This integration gives Qoda access to a diverse array of on-chain price data, enabling users to deposit collateral, lend, and borrow assets typically unavailable on other fixed-income dApps.

To support a broad range of digital assets on its platform, Qoda requires accurate and real-time data feeds delivered on the Moonbeam network as an oracle smart contract. Hence, the integration of DIA oracles includes:

Live Price Feeds for Digital Assets

Qoda’s smart contracts use DIA’s oracle feeds to obtain up-to-date and accurate price data for a diverse range of assets including ASTR, ACA, and D2O. This ensures the proper accounting of risk and enhances Qoda’s creditworthiness as users must over-collateralize to initiate borrow positions in our markets.

DIA’s oracle feeds provide Qoda with a fully transparent and customizable oracle solution. This arrangement enables Qoda to tailor the feeds to best match their application’s needs and to build resilient price feeds for the selected tokens.

About DIA

DIA redefines oracles on 30+ L1/L2s: Fully customisable, unmet asset coverage, 100% transparent. Enabling new primitives for DeFi, NFTfi and GameFi.

DIA’s data feeds are fully customized with regards to the mix of sources and methodologies, resulting in tailor-made, high-resilience feeds and thereby setting a new paradigm for oracles.

About Qoda

Qoda is a decentralized loan exchange with several key features such as an on-chain order book for lending/borrowing, isolated collateral-tier vs market-tier assets, repayment redemption ratio and many more. These features give users more control and flexibility over their crypto portfolio.

Qoda aims to broaden the spectrum of crypto assets used in lending/borrowing beyond popular assets like USDC, ETH, and BTC. Its pursuit of this goal has led to a fruitful collaboration with DIA, an oracle provider specializing in the creation of reliable price oracles for long-tail assets.

SOURCE:

https://medium.com/dia-insights/partnership-with-qoda-7e8e087b04d

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K-3 Kingdoms participation in BUILD furthers its integration with Chainlink, with added benefits of priority support from the Chainlink ecosystem, increased access to dApps aiming to capture a larger share of Web3 gaming users, and stronger incentive alignment between the Chainlink and K-3 Kingdoms communities.

K-3 Kingdoms joined BUILD to maximize the benefits of security and reliability that Chainlink’s oracle infrastructure provides. As part of BUILD, K-3 Kingdoms will receive key benefits, including access to and integration of verifiable randomness within published games and access to new Chainlink product alpha and beta releases, among other benefits.

In exchange for these services, K-3 Kingdoms will make multiple percentage points of its native token supply available to Chainlink service providers, including stakers, over time. These mutually aligned economic incentives enable both communities to support one another.

About Chainlink

Chainlink is the industry-standard Web3 services platform and has enabled trillions of dollars in transaction volume across DeFi, on-chain finance, gaming, NFTs, and other major industries. As the leading decentralized oracle network, Chainlink enables developers to build feature-rich Web3 applications with seamless access to real-world data and off-chain computation across any blockchain and provides global enterprises with a universal gateway to all blockchains.

About K-3 Kingdoms

K-3 Kingdoms (K3K) is a play-and-earn blockchain-based simulation game based on the Three Kingdoms IP. Players can become monarchs in the K3K world, grow their territories, produce resources, and create their own teams by recruiting NFT heroes. Players can participate in two seasonal game modes — ranking competition (PvP) and power competition (MMO).

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The first component of the partnership involves a $50 million ALGO token purchase agreement to, in part, provide liquidity into the Algorand ecosystem.

An additional MOU has been signed with the aim of allocating funds to support projects that are building on the Algorand blockchain in the spaces of DeFi, Art and Music, Gaming, Oracles and Bridges, and Infrastructure.

The Managing Partner of DWF Labs, Andrei Grachev, had the following to say about this collaboration:

“We selected Algorand because of its unparalleled level of technology and security among permissionless DLTs, as well as its leadership in environmental sustainability and social impact. Algorand’s blockchain infrastructure provides the speed and instant finality required for creators, financial institutions and governments to smoothly transition to the new digital economy at scale, in an environmentally responsible manner. This partnership with the Algorand Foundation is another important step in the maturation and growth of innovation in this space,” said Grachev.

About DWF Labs

DWF Labs is a global digital asset market maker and multi-stage web3 investment firm, providing support from token listing to market making to OTC trading solutions. DWF Labs seeks to invest and support bold founders who want to build the future of Web3.

About the Algorand Foundation

The Algorand Foundation empowers a dynamic, inclusive, and borderless global ecosystem – at scale – based on the Algorand blockchain technology. Designed by MIT professor and Turing Award winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand is uniquely capable of delivering on the promise of a borderless global economy. It achieves transaction throughputs at the speed of traditional finance, but with immediate finality, near zero transaction costs, and on a 24/7 basis. Its carbon-neutral platform and unique pure proof-of-stake consensus mechanism achieves both security and scalability on a decentralized protocol, and without a second of downtime since it went live in 2019.

SOURCE:

https://chainwire.org/2023/06/26/dwf-labs-and-algorand-foundation-reach-strategic-partnership/

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