If these seem too risky, we could do something like AAVEβs or Compoundβs value accruing stablecoins (aUSDC, aDAI, β¦). I think these yield ~2-5% APY lately, and higher in bull markets when thereβs demand to borrow USD.
Similarly, for the portion of our treasury in ETH, we could hold a liquid staking derivative like stETH or frxETH to get ~7-11% APY.
(I have been very busy lately, so feel free to discuss/move forward with this proposal without might input from me if Iβm slow to reply!)
Iβm against this and would much rather just convert more to ETH
Why lock funds up for a few % points if we could get a similar return just buyingmore ETH β and be able to use it in the meantime?
Defi protocols can and will be hacked.
Chicken Bonds? The name alone sounds like a ponzi. Iβm sure itβs not, but yeild farms are a dime a dozen. AAVE/Curve/Uni/whatever β I think itβll be hard for us all to find a consensus one which one is best. ETH keeps things simple.
wrt 1 β none of the things I suggested βlockβ funds. Each of them can quickly/cheaply be converted back to USDC or ETH.
2 & 3 are fair.
imo the protocols I suggested are pretty safe, but I understand not taking even small risk with treasury. AAVE/Compound are probably safest for USDC but yield pretty low right now.
Iβm open to converting more to eth now, but how about stETH or cbETH to get staking yield? stETH has been around for a long time with a ton of ETH in their protocol, so quite safe imo. cbETH is by Coinbase so also likely to be quite safe.
I agree with this. Though I understand the want to get a high yield stable coin. Youβre better off just putting it in a U.S. money market mutual fund getting 4.8% right now but given the current market I would say DCA the usd into eth. To avoid being wiped in a black swan event. Why not just DCA alike $500 a week into eth regardless