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I’ve been studying just a few of those ‘Love Is Blind’ exposés just lately, that are all the time slightly fascinating and slightly terrifying.
In my very own humble opinion, these lawsuits received’t make a significant dent within the present’s viewership. What will kill ‘Love Is Blind’ is the truth that the “social experiment” facet of the present was settled like 5 seasons in the past, and its storylines are rising more and more bland.
I digress. As for Solana:
Phantom could enhance JitoSOL utilization
Phantom and Jito — Solana’s most notable pockets app and its largest liquid staking supplier — introduced a partnership right this moment.
Beneath the deal, customers who’re natively staking their solana on Phantom could have the choice to transform their holdings to the JitoSOL liquid staking token (LST). On prime of this, the businesses say customers will quickly be “prompted” to transform unstaked SOL into JitoSOL throughout the Phantom pockets (I’m advised this implies in-app JitoSOL minting).
The importance of it is a matter of perspective.
On one hand, LSTs take motionless belongings (staked SOL) and make them helpful for DeFi purposes — which leverages Solana’s base layer safety to make the ecosystem extra liquid. LSTs solely make up 6% of all staked solana, so there’s quite a lot of potential for progress on this space.
However it’s value noting that previous to the partnership, customers may already buy JitoSOL inside Phantom in the event that they wished to. It takes two to a few days to unstake solana, so the Jito-Phantom partnership is absolutely simply saving customers a little bit of trouble in doing one thing they might already do.
(Jito Basis contributor Andrew Thurman identified that minting JitoSOL is extra capital environment friendly than swapping SOL for JitoSOL, which can also be value noting.)
Checked out this fashion, Jito may be taking a guess that higher training would result in the adoption of JitoSOL. In different phrases, customers who’re staking their SOL won’t perceive that they will each earn yield and have a token by way of JitoSOL, and this partnership is akin to sending everybody an enormous push notification saying: “Hey, you’re leaving cash on the desk, simply FYI!”
I ran this by Phantom’s head of progress, David Wu, who echoed the sentiment that the partnership is essentially about training. He declined to touch upon whether or not Jito had paid Phantom as a part of the deal.
Jito seems to have satisfied others in Solana DeFi that its guess will money out. Kamino and MarginFi elevated their JitoSOL loan-to-value (LTV) ratios — primarily making JitoSOL extra precious as collateral — whereas Drift raised its deposit cap for the asset.
Thurman mentioned since SOL-JitoSOL is Solana DeFi’s most liquid LST pair, it needs to be seen as essentially the most precious LST to be used as collateral.
As JitoSOL’s liquidity deepens, Thurman mentioned he sees the LST changing into “the defacto collateral for Solana DeFi.”
— Jack Kubinec
Zero In
Right here’s the market share of the 4 largest Solana LSTs over the previous three months:
As you may see, JitoSOL and mSOL have seen their market dominance falter a bit in latest weeks, primarily pushed by the relative progress of INF, a product supplied by Sanctum. INF only in the near past handed bSOL, the LST supplied by BlazeStake, to develop into the third-largest LST.
INF is a novel product whose “infinity pool” might be considered a basket of LSTs, providing holders publicity to the weighted common yield of tokens within the pool.
Its progress has additionally definitely been helped by Sanctum’s points-like program for its CLOUD token airdrop. The airdrop-farming window has ended on Sanctum for now, so it stays to be seen whether or not INF can proceed to seize market share from incumbents.
— Jack Kubinec
The Pulse
It looks like it’s time to lastly handle the Iggy Azalea within the room: The last decade-past-her-peak rapper’s memecoin is driving the net crypto dialog.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized the development of superstar backed memecoins, emphasizing the speculative nature and lack of utility in these tasks. He expressed his issues on social media, stating he was “feeling fairly sad” in regards to the rise of superstar memecoins, evaluating them unfavorably to earlier tasks just like the NFT based mostly animated sequence “Stoner Cats,” which had a extra tangible goal.
In response, Azalea posted a picture depicting herself as a breastfeeding mom with Buterin because the child, captioned “he was simply hangry.” This led to a flood of reactions from the crypto neighborhood, with many customers mocking Buterin and supporting Azalea’s retort. Consumer @0xSweep commented, “He will get all the women,” whereas @kalvissh admitted, “This isn’t one thing I anticipated to see once I opened Twitter right this moment.”
Buterin’s criticism and the following social media reactions spotlight the continued pressure between requires accountable blockchain improvement and the speculative fervor driving the memecoin craze. As regulatory our bodies just like the SEC monitor these developments, the long-term viability and moral issues of superstar memecoins stay suspect.
Mom is up 96.9% over the past 24 hours. For my cash although, I’d in all probability take the recommendation of the man whose work makes your entire ecosystem doable within the first place. He simply may know a bit greater than some random pop singer making an attempt to capitalize on the most recent development.
— Jeffrey Albus
One Good DM
A message from David Wu, head of progress at Phantom: