Cryptocurrency
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Silo
Announcing: Silo Llama
We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of Silo Llama, a new deployment of the Silo Finance on Ethereum Mainnet. But wait a minute? Isn’t Silo Finance already live on Ethereum Mainnet? Well we like llamas, we like Curve Finance, and most of all we like $crvUSD. Introducing: Silo Finance — Llama edition Silo Llama…
Defi
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Silo
·Updated Aug 4
Silo Report — July ‘23
With nearly a year under our belt since contract deployment, your favorite contributors at Silo are excited to bring you our first monthly DAO report! Here we will provide regular updates on key metrics you might find interesting, including: Market metrics such as TVL and activity User metrics such as…
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Silo
·Feb 27
The Plight of Long Tail Assets
Thesis 2: Long-Tail assets cannot be included in Shared-Pool Lending Markets Background: Long-tail assets may refer to tokens that are relatively new, have limited liquidity on exchanges, or are yield-bearing tokens that derive their value from another asset. In a DeFi context, this makes it difficult to integrate into protocols…
Defi
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Silo
·Feb 7
Silo Arbitrum: Now Live
Silo is proud to announce that we are now live on Arbitrum, the premier Ethereum Layer 2 scaling solution. Arbitrum’s Optimistic Roll-Up design enables high-speed, low-cost transactions whilst harnessing the underlying security of Ethereum. …
Arbitrum
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Defi
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Silo
·Mar 8, 2022
An Analysis of Silo’s CVX LP Incentives
Those following our recent Medium posts would have been made aware that Silo recently acquired 250,212 $CVX (~$4.41m) as a way of positioning itself in the Curve Wars and incentivizing liquidity to a $SILO pool on Curve v2. …
Lending
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Silo
·Mar 8, 2022
A Brainlet’s Dive into Curve Finance — Silo Edition
Please view the governance proposal to add SILO:FRAX to Curve Gauge Controller here What is Curve Finance? Anyone who has delved into Defi would have come across Curve Finance. …
Cryptocurrency
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Silo
·Feb 8, 2022
Exploit — Hundred Finance
TL;DR Meter.io experienced an exploit which allowed uncollateralized minting of BNB.bsc This resulted in significant price dump of BNB.bsc Opportunists borrowed against cheap BNB.bsc which maintained inflated price of unwrapped BNB on Chainlink Oracles This resulted in bad debt accruing to Hundred Finance Date: 6 February 2022 Exploit Type: Bridge…
Crypto Knowledge
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Silo
·Feb 4, 2022
Lender Beware — Lending Risk
Lending is a great way for holders to earn money on tokens sitting idly on an exchange or a wallet. However, choosing a lending platform is not as simple as finding the one with the highest interest rate. Several factors determined by bad actors, the platform itself, or governance approach…
Cryptocurrency
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Dec 28, 2021
How is Silo different to Kashi?
One of the most common questions about Silo Finance is what makes it stand out against Kashi Finance and Wild Credit. To understand this, it is important to understand how these two protocols operate and what impact this has on the money markets that are created. Lending Pairs Kashi Finance and Wild…
Cryptocurrency
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