• Orca Whirlpools Rotation #19 Duration: Thursday December 29, 2022 — Thursday January 12, 2023
• Total Rewards: The rewards are detailed below for each Whirlpool with total rewards of ~5K ORCA per rotation across all pools. All Whirlpools are now open and rewards will begin on Dec 29th at ~24:00 UTC.
• Some new pools have arrived as the new year approaches! Some pools are making their first appearance on Orca, while others are making their debut to the ecosystem as a whole.
• New pools this rotation include projects ranging from blockchain-based social media, to Web3 gaming, to a new dog on the block. To learn more, visit each project’s website to see what they are building out for the Solana community.
• Finally, be on the lookout in the coming days for some new features that will make providing liquidity in Whirlpools even simpler than ever before!

Whirlpools with New Rewards… 🌀

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

SLCL/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from Solcial

• SLCL rewards: ~4,000 SLCL per week
• ORCA rewards: ~50 ORCA per week

BONK/SOL (1.0% fee tier) from BONK

• BONK rewards: ~3.84 billion BONK per week

BONK/USDC (1.0% fee tier) from BONK

• BONK rewards: ~3.84 billion BONK per week

Other New Whirlpools… 🌀

Check out these new arrivals to Orca’s waters

• DFL/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from DeFi Land
• MBS/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from MonkeyLeague
• PHY/SOL (0.3% fee tier) from Physis

🌊 Deepsea Insights 🌏

This year was a time of great transformation for Orca, Solana, and the entire crypto ecosystem. Over the past twelve months, Orca and Solana both made incredible progress in building out the infrastructure that will enable the future of decentralized finance.

When the year began, Orca’s Whirlpools did not even exist. Now they often power a majority of Solana’s on-chain trading volume. Users also now have the ability to take advantage of the efficiency of concentrated liquidity and permissionlessly launch their own Whirlpools with the token pairs and fee tiers of their choosing.

About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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This partnership of Tulip Protocol with the most user-friendly cryptocurrency exchange on the Solana blockchain, Orca, is to build concentrated liquidity vault strategies.

Tulip Protocol sees Wave 1 of the Whirlpools Builders Program as an interesting opportunity to grow its product line across the Solana DeFi ecosystem. They are proud to be a part of Orca’s mission to assist developers that create unique products.

A New Farm

Tulip Protocol has collaborated with Orca to develop focused liquidity vault techniques that minimize divergence loss and reward auto-compounding.

The vault employs a hybrid auto-compounding and rebalancing technique that allows user deposits to be classified into a limited number of tick ranges. This combines the compounding of liquidity provision rewards and the control of price/tick ranges within a pre-defined era.

In their backend, they’ve also included a new tool called “Autoswap,” which is powered by Jupiter Aggregator. This enables users to deposit uneven assets into the LP, and our backend will automatically exchange them to balance out before generating the LP, eliminating the need to browse into an AMM. Users will enjoy a one-click method to enjoy long-term yield with this vault.

How does this Work?

If the pair’s actual price reaches a threshold inside the specified price/tick range, the vault eliminates the liquidity until the next epoch. This enables the approach to handle Impermanent Loss, an issue for concentrated liquidity pools, particularly when one of the paired assets is volatile.

It is important to understand the different types of concentrated liquidity strategy vaults and how they are manage.

Vaults are Classified into Three Types: stable, pseudo-stable, and non-stable, each with its own set of concerns.

• Pure stable vaults: both paired assets are stablecoins. This category includes pairs like USH/USDC, USDH/USDC, USDT/USDC, UXD/USDC, etc. Pure stable vaults are typically managed using a strict strategy, which rebalances the position once the current tick index changes from the tick index that was active when the position created.
• Pseudo stable vaults: theoretically trade/pegged at price ratios similar to stable swaps, but paired assets aren’t price stable. This category includes pairs like SOL/stSOL, SOL/mSOL, etc. Pseudo stable vaults are usually managed using a midpoint strategy, which rebalances the position when the tick index changes by more than 50% from the tick index which was active when the position was created.
• Non-stable vaults: only one asset is stable, or neither paired assets are price stable. This category includes pairs like SOL/USDC, SOL/DUST, etc. Non stable vaults are typically manage using a variable strategy, which rebalances the position when the current tick index changes by X or more from the tick index which was active when the position created.

About Tulip Protocol

Tulip Protocol, the first yield aggregation platform, built on Solana with auto-compounding vault strategies.

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About Orca

Orca is the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. Users can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees. And lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Whirlpools Rotation #12

• Duration: Thursday Sept 22, 2022 — Thursday October 6, 2022
• Total Rewards: The rewards are detailed below for each Whirlpool with total rewards of ~15K ORCA per week across all pools. All Whirlpools are now open and rewards will begin on Sept 22nd at ~24:00 UTC.
• Cega will be hosting Boaz from the Orca team on their Twitter Space today at 3pm UTC!
• On Friday, Jet Protocol will be jumping onto the Orca Twitter Space for an AMA on Friday 23rd at 16:00 UTC. Tune in to learn more about their new margin account features and how they have integrated Orca into their protocol! 🐳
• New bridged assets from Portal are surfacing in this week’s Whirlpools! Also be on the lookout for pools with daoSOL from MonkeDAO where LPs may now be rewarded with part of a tokenized Solana Monkey Business NFT… 👀

Double-Dip pools

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 daoSOL/SOL from MonkeDAO

#2 daoSOL/USDH from MonkeDAO

#3 daoSOL/USDC from MonkeDAO

• Double-Dip duration and Rewards for these pools are to be announced (keep an eye on Twitter! Coming soon 😉)

Other fresh Whirlpools…

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

#4 BUSD/USDC from Portal

#5 BNB/USDC from Portal

#6 LINK/USDC from Portal

#7 AVAX/USDC from Portal

#8 wMATIC/USDC from Portal

#9 UNI/USDC from Portal

#10 SUSHI/USDC from Portal

#11 HAWK/USDC from Hawksight

#12 MNDE/mSOL from Marinade Finance

Deepsea Insights

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

Fees on Orca are becoming more dynamic! 👀

LPs on Orca will soon be able to decide the fees they earn on their liquidity: 0.01%, 0.05%, or 0.30%. By providing LPs more options during volatile markets, the Orca ecosystem will become even more competitive and efficient! 🦈

In preparation for the new fee-tiers, LP fees on Whirlpools rose from 0.20% to 0.30% this week. LPs will earn the new 0.3% tier, with the Impact Fund continuing to receive 3% of fees earned on Whirlpools (the Orca Treasury is not receiving any fees from Whirlpools).

About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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A new wave of innovation is rolling into the Orca ecosystem… Specifically, Orca Wave 1 of the Whirlpools Builders Program!

The Builders Program was launched in late May to grow the Orca ecosystem by incentivizing developers to build on Orca’s capital-efficient Whirlpools.

Since then, there have been an overwhelming number of applications to build on Orca’s open source, dual-audited Whirlpools smart contract across the entire DeFi stack!

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Whirlpools Rotation #9

• Duration: Thursday August 11th — Thursday August 25th, 2022
• Total Rewards: ORCA rewards for this Rotation will be ~30K ORCA per week, with the distribution across our pools detailed below. All Whirlpools and Aquafarms are now open and rewards will begin on August 11th at ~20:00 UTC.
• Events: The submission form for the Solana Summer Camp Hackathon is now live, with prizes of up to $50,000 for innovators in DeFi. With Orca co-founder Ori and Orca’s head of BizDev Milan judging, we encourage all podmates who want to build in the ocean of DeFi to participate! 🐳

Double-Dip pools

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 SLND/USDC from Solend

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — September 8th 2022
• SLND rewards: ~1,600 SLND per week
• Orca rewards: ~200 ORCA per week

#2 ABR/USDC, acCELO/USDC, afFTM/USDC extended from AllBridge

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — September 8th 2022
• ABR rewards: 4,600 ABR per week across all pools
• Orca rewards: ~1,600 ORCA per week across all pools

#3 svtOKAY/SOL extended from Solvent

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — August 25th 2022
• SVT rewards: ~300 SVT per week
• Orca rewards: ~100 ORCA per week

Other fresh Whirlpools…

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

#4 KI/USDC from Genopets

• Note: the old version of KI is now listed as depKI/USDC, with the newly released version under KI/USDC.

#5 MEAN/SOL from MeanFi

While these Whirlpools receive no additional token rewards, they are highly capital efficient and provide tactical opportunities for Sharks! 🦈

Deepsea Insights

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

This week’s Deepsea Insight comes courtesy of Hubble Protocol and Marinade!

Hubble’s listing of several Whirlpools last Rotation led to some speculation on how much activity the the new pools would attract. Turns out, there’s been plenty of activity taking place under the sea…

Note the difference between volume and liquidity. With the power of Whirlpools, liquidity in the USDH/USDC can facilitate more than seven times as much trading volume! 🌀

Additionally, Marinade recently transitioned their MNDE rewards to a decentralized model where MNDE holders can vote on directing MNDE to incentivize mSOL liquidity across the Solana ecosystem. Some mSOL pools have received outsized votes (mSOL/ETH 😉) — if you’re a member of the Marinade community, you can vote in their upcoming proposal ending tomorrow to direct rewards.

About Solend

Solend an algorithmic, decentralized protocol for lending and borrowing on Solana. Lending and borrowing have proven themselves to be key in a DeFi ecosystem.

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About MeanFi

MeanFi a censorship-resistant, user-friendly, self-custody, permissionless & trustless bank bringing everyday banking workflows and real-time finance to crypto and DeFi.

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About Genopets

Genopets the world’s first Free-to-Play, Move-to-Earn NFT mobile game that makes it fun and rewarding to live an active lifestyle. A Genopet your digital pet whose evolution and growth is inextricably linked to your own. The steps you take every day power your journey through the Genoverse as you explore, battle, and evolve — earning crypto while you play.

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About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Whirlpools Rotation #8 🌀

• Duration: Thursday July 28th — Thursday August 11th, 2022
• Total Rewards: ORCA rewards for this Rotation will be ~35K ORCA per week, with the distribution across our pools detailed below. All Whirlpools and Aquafarms are now open and rewards will begin on July 28th at ~20:00 UTC.
• Events: The Solana Summer Camp online hackathon continues, with prizes of up to $50,000 for innovators in the DeFi space. With Orca co-founder Ori and Orca’s head of BizDev Milan judging, we encourage all podmates who want to build in the ocean of DeFi to participate! 🐳

Double-Dip pools 🐋

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 mSOL/USDH from Hubble & Marinade

• Double-Dip duration: July 28th — August 25th 2022
• MNDE rewards: 20,000 MNDE per week
• Orca rewards: ~500 ORCA per week

#2 USDT/USDH from Hubble

• Double-Dip duration: July 28th — September 22nd 2022
• Hubble rewards: 1,000 HBB per week
• Orca rewards: ~100 ORCA per week

Other fresh Whirlpools 🌀

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

While these Whirlpools receive no additional token rewards, they are highly capital efficient and provide tactical opportunities for Sharks! 🦈

#3 DAI/USDH (USDH by Hubble)

#4 HBB/USDH (from Hubble)

#5 UXD/SOL (from UXD Protocol)

🌊 Deepsea Insights 🌏

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

Not only is there a raft of fresh Whirlpools from Hubble this Rotation: Hubble’s existing Whirlpools have also been attracting some interesting activity over the last two weeks.

Of particular note is the Triple-Dip USDH/stSOL Whirlpool, which is boasting strong volumes and trading fees without even considering the additional HBB, wLDO, and ORCA rewards!

About Hubble

Hubble protocol allows users to take interest-free loans against multiple crypto assets. Hubble works with USDH, Hubble’s decentralized stablecoin.

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About UXD Protocol

UXD Protocol a fully collateralized decentralized stablecoin backed by delta-neutral position using derivatives.

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About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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The Whirlpools Rotation #7 a wave of new stableswaps and a Double-Dip from Media is washing into the Orca ecosystem.

Whirlpools Rotation #7 🌀

• Duration: Thursday July 14th — Thursday July 28th, 2022
• Total Rewards: ORCA rewards for this Rotation will be ~35K ORCA per week, with the distribution across their pools detailed below. All Whirlpools and Aquafarms are now open and rewards will begin on July 14th at ~20:00 UTC.
• Events: Orca is proudly supporting the the Solana Summer Camp online hackathon, with prizes of up to $50,000 for innovators in the DeFi space. They encourage all podmates who want to build in the ocean of DeFi to participate!
• Members of the Orca Strategy team will also be attending the Solana Hacker House in Paris this Rotation. Be sure to drop by and say hello if you’re in the area! 👋

Double-Dip pools

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 MEDIA/USDC from Media Network

• Double-Dip duration: July 14th — December 29th 2022
• Media rewards: 2,075 MEDIA per week
• Orca rewards: ~500 ORCA per week

#2 ABR/USDC, aFTM/USDC, acCELO/USDC from Allbridge

• Double-Dip duration: July 14th — August 11th 2022
• Allbridge rewards: 4,600 ABR per week across all pools
• Orca rewards: ~1,000 ORCA per week across all pools

Other fresh Whirlpools…

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

While these Whirlpools receive no additional token rewards, they are highly capital efficient and provide tactical opportunities for Sharks! 🦈

#3 DAI/USDC (bridged by Portal)

#4 UXP/USDC (from UXD Protocol)

Deepsea Insights

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

Last Rotation we welcomed the DUST/USDC and DUST/SOL Whirlpools that are running swimmingly for LPs with no rewards except trading fees!

And stablecoin yields from USH/USDC (from Hedge) and USDH/USDC (from Hubble) continue to an interesting pair of pools to explore— but be sure to understand the risks in these stormy market conditions!

About UXD Protocol

UXD Protocol a fully collateralized decentralized stablecoin backed by delta-neutral position using derivatives.

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About MEDIA 

MEDIA the cornerstone and vital artery of the network’s economy. It is the medium of exchange between bandwidth providers and anyone renting the CDN service, powering and enabling the long-term ecosystem self-sustainability.

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About Allbridge

Allbridge a simple, modern, and reliable way to transfer assets between different networks. It is a bridge between both EVM and non-EVM compatible blockchains, that aims to cover L2 solutions and NFT transfers in the future.

Lastly, Allbridge’s mission is to make the blockchain world borderless by providing a tool to freely move assets between various blockchains.

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About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Ultimate announce the first three DeFi protocols that we’ve integrated into their app: Orca, Friktion, and LidoFinance. They are building on Solana but will soon be adding Ethereum to fulfil our multi-chain vision.

The integration of Lido Finance into the Ultimate wallet makes liquid staking easier than ever before, with users able to benefit from liquidity and multi-layer yield opportunities with the same ease as on centralized exchange while staying in full control of your coins.

Ultimate is a #DeFi super app becoming the universal consumer gateway to #Web3. A multi-chain, fully non-custodial wallet that makes investing into web3 truly mass-ready.

About Lido

Lido is a liquid staking solution for ETH 2.0 backed by a number of the industries leading blockchain staking providers. Lido allows users to stake any amount of ETH without the need to maintain complex infrastructure, while letting users unstake at any time through secondary markets.

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About Orca

Orca is the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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About Ultimate

Building the future of Finance. Just as the internet revolutionized the way we transfer information, blockchain technology is revolutionizing the way we transact value.

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Orca is delighted to announce its partnership with Media Network to enable MEDIA rewards for the MEDIA/USDC Whirlpool, which will be live on the next rotation starting Jul 14, 2022.

Introduction to Orca

Orca is a decentralized exchange on the Solana blockchain where you can exchange tokens cheaply, quickly, and confidently. Additionally, you can provide liquidity to regular and concentrated liquidity pools called “Whirlpools” to earn trading fees and token emissions.

Everything you need to know about Whirlpools: how to maximize rewards in simple steps

Whirlpools are Orca’s brand-new concentrated liquidity pools. These pools allow LPs to concentrate their liquidity around specific price ranges, unlocking significant gains in capital efficiency for liquidity providers and better prices for swaps.

What are the main differences with regular pools?

Unlike standard pools, liquidity providers in Whirlpools will compete for trading fees and token emissions, which are divided among liquidity providers according to the parameters of their deposits.

Due to the structure of Concentrated Liquidity and Leverage, users who set a tighter price range around the current token price will receive a higher share of fees and incentives. On the other hand, they are more vulnerable to Divergence Loss (also known as Impermanent Loss or IL).

How do price ranges work?

Traditional pools have liquidity providers that provide liquidity across the entire possible price for a token, from zero to infinity. Users can choose the upper and lower limit for their liquidity when participating in a Whirlpool.

What tokens represent their deposit?

In a standard AMM pool, Liquidity provider tokens represent how much of the total liquidity of a pool is own. As users deposit liquidity, their original tokens go into the pool, and they mint LP tokens in an equivalent amount, increasing both the liquidity in the pool and the total supply of LP tokens.

When withdrawing liquidity, they burn their LP tokens and receive their original tokens back according to the pool balance (which may go up or down depending on the relative price of tokens), decreasing both the liquidity in the pool and the total supply of LP tokens.

As all liquidity in standard pools has the same zero-to-infinite range and no multiplier. All LP tokens are the same, which makes them fungible. In Whirlpools, each liquidity provider decides the range and amount of liquidity deposited into the pool, making each LP token unique and non-fungible.

For more information about Whirlpools, check out the FAQ.

About Media Network

Media Network is a blockchain agnostic, censorship-resistant, and community-powered dCDN enforced by smart contracts.

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About Orca

Orca is the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. Users can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees. And lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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