Crypto DeFi is early-stage VC-type investment, requiring very broadly-diversified basket/index investments with high levels of automation to harvest intrinsic yield, capture the value of aggregated meta-governance power to expand options for also earning extrinsic yield, and create hedging options to offset volatility while harvesting rewards. 

PowerPool: DAO-Managed Automated Smart Vaults & Structured Baskets

Competitive Analysis & Benchmarking

News Business In brief S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched five new indices for tracking the health of the crypto market. The company launched its first crypto metric earlier this year. Data provider S&P Dow Jones Indices has added five new indices to its existing roster of crypto market benchmarks, per a press release.

S&P Dow Jones Launches Five New Crypto Indices - Decrypt

In the frenzy of a manic bull market, chasing fast pumping coins and the newest memes may work in the short term but the inherent risks may materialize when a market correction suddenly takes over. A more dependable source of returns is also needed.

Beta: The Bedrock for Balanced Portfolios Built on DeFi and Web3

Dear Bankless Nation, We've talked about crypto indices a couple times so far (. We've even highlighted the best ones for your portfolio. These products could be one of the driving factors behind DeFi adoption-the way we cross the chasm.

The Bull Case for Decentralized Index Funds

The asset allocation DAO. Pie DAO makes diversified asset allocation and rebalancing a piece of cake 🍰 Universal access to anyone on the Ethereum network, with no minimum.

PieDAO - Medium

IIP: 60 Title: Llama Diversified Index Status: Draft Author: Llama Created: 2021-07-06 Requires: IIP-58: Launching Pulse Aggregate Yield (PAY) Simple Summary Llama would like to partner with Index Coop (IC) to co-manage the Llama Diversified Index strategy. The Llama Diversified Index (LDI) is a productive and diversified crypto index that optimizes returns relative to risk across various sub-asset classes within the crypto ecosystem.

IIP-60: Launching Llama Diversified Index (LDI)

We're in the third decade of the 21st century and your bank's giving you zero interest on your money. If your balance is above XX,000 the interest goes negative. You're paying the bank to hold your 'savings'. Clearly you need to manage your money yourself. It's time to dive in and swim.

The Wisdom of the DAO Crowd

January 18, 2022 - Pulse.inc announces a change to the methodology of the DeFi Pulse Index to be effective starting with the January 2022 rebalancing. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space.

Methodology change DeFi Pulse Index: Introduction of Minimum Weight Requirement

It's been a while since Tom Shaugnessy, Ceteris Paribus and Chris Manessis published MIP 7 with the Enzyme community. This proposal made a powerful case for moving away from one-off set up fees towards a recurring fee based on Assets Under Management. After being discussed at length, MIP7 has been embraced by the Enzyme Council and the community.

MIP7 Update: Fees will start accruing to $MLN this fall!

We are excited to release our Perpetual Protocol V2 integration on Set Protocol! This follows our recent Optimism deployment and plans to enable innovative structured products on Layer 2 ecosystems. In this article we will guide your understanding in: Knowing what Perpetual Protocol is Why we integrated with Perpetual Protocol and what it enables How you can take advantage of the integration today The first Perp-based featured product, live on TokenSets, showing casing a great use-case.

Introducing the Perpetual Protocol V2, Set Protocol Integration on Optimism

Use Set's battle-tested asset management tools and infrastructure to easily manage your crypto portfolios.

TokenSets - Asset Management Simplified

This past week, CoinDesk announced the launch of something called the Digital Asset Classification Standard (DACS). It covers the top 500 cryptocurrencies by market cap, a reasonable limit on the universe of relevant currencies. The goal is to give investors a sense of where a coin fits in this universe.

How to Be a Crypto 'SAMURAI'

Why Bitwise 4-year track record: All crypto, no distractions Crypto isn't something we got into on the side. It's been our sole focus from the beginning. That matters when you consider the dedicated attention necessary to understand this complex, constantly changing space. We're proud of our four-year track record helping investors harness crypto's power.

Crypto Index Fund & ETF Provider | Bitwise Asset Management

Hey so wanted to make a proposal that allows us to finally start getting back on track as the dust settles. The hacker has been summoned for court orders with warrants out for them so return in full probably won't happen soon so we need to make a plan to start recovery.

Indexed Recovery Plan Proposal

With the Fei-Rari merger and RSR contract change there are some mandatory housekeeping actions needed for the Degen index. It has also been noted in Discord that the current composition of Degen is almost a year old and is due for a refresh for some of the components to more fully live up to its name.

[Asset List Update] Degen Housekeeping and Refresh (DEGEN)

@banklessDAO 🤝 @indexcoop https://t.co/qK7Hj1JAZr

Bankless 🏴 on Twitter: ".@banklessDAO 🤝 @indexcoop https://t.co/qK7Hj1JAZr / Twitter"

Contributors and Feedback: @cedrick @HelloShreyas @Lavi & the protocol ambassadors listed below Date: June 28, 2021 Launching the Index Coop Ambassador Program The Index Coop Protocol Ambassador Program has kicked off! We want to provide an overview as to who our Protocol Ambassadors are and what their responsibilities look like.

Launching the Index Coop Protocol Ambassador Program

Pulse.inc announces a change to the methodology of the DeFi Pulse Index to be effective at the December 2021 rebalancing. The DeFi Pulse Index is a digital asset index designed to track the performance of some of the largest protocols in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) space.

Methodology change DeFi Pulse Index: Introduction of Flexible Capping

Smart and easy crypto investing with low fee index funds that let you buy the market.

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Users can now earn staking rewards and help secure the network by delegating their ONE tokens on Harmony. Stake DAO, a multi-service cross chain DeFi platform that enables users to easily grow their crypto portfolio within one intuitive dashboard.

ONE Staking via Delegation is Now Live on Stake DAO

Essential tool The statement that CF Benchmarks' recently launched CF Digital Asset Classification Structure (CF DACS) is one of the most notable junctures in years for adoption of the emerging asset class, is a difficult one to argue against.

CF Digital Asset Classification Structure: The Compact Primer

dHEDGE app lets managers trade synthetic assets - both long and short. Risk-adjusted ranking of managers makes it easy for investors to find really good managers

dHEDGE

Our Pie Baking Methodology PieDAO employs an open and responsive process for the modeling of its different Pies through discourse. This approach maximises feedback input from the Community, with DAO governance eventually giving the green-light to launch a pie. The formal process begins with a community member submitting a proposal (PIP) on the Forum.

Inside the Bakery: How We Build Pies

The DFX provides a market-cap-weighted benchmark for a representative basket of DeFi sector cryptocurrencies.It is replicable by professional investors operating from regulated jurisdictions that are integrated with global financial markets.The DFX is composed of assets suitable for long-term holding, based on their measured liquidity, their support by reliable service providers and their longevity among the [&hellip;]

DFX: CoinDesk's DeFi Index - CoinDesk

Dear GMI Holder, gm. This letter is intended to give you as a holder some insight into GMI and myself as a methodologist. GMI is a community product, and this (admittedly lengthy) document seeks to create a dialogue between the community and the methodologists. Maybe you'll get a POAP if you read to the end.

Letter to GMI Holders - March 2022 Rebalance

Enzyme's Sulu is now live on Ethereum! Users can begin the upgrade process You'll find that the interface has had a complete revamp App performance should be much quicker & smoother A Sulu mainnet release will follow on Polygon in the weeks to come!

Enzyme's Sulu is live!

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IIP Number: [to be assigned] Title: Meta-Governance 2.0: Executive Productivity Status: DRAFT Author(s): @anthonyb.eth @mel.eth Created: 14 January 2022 Simple Summary We propose a new model of voting with governance tokens in index products that will unlock the full value of meta-governance and will accrue value to product holders.

DRAFT: IIP-XYZ: Meta-Governance 2.0: Executive Productivity

NEW YORK, July 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI), the world's leading index provider, announced today the launch of its latest cryptocurrency indices including the new S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market (BDM) Index. The BDM provides a wide performance snapshot of the cryptocurrency market and includes more than 240 coins at launch.

S&P Dow Jones Indices Launches S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market Index

You can buy the SOLUNAVAX Index on Optimism through: Uniswap V3 is a fantastic platform to buy the SOLUNAVAX Index, but what if the price of the liquidity pool increases away from the fair NAV value of SOLUNAVAX due to demand? Well, there's a solution for that - issuance.

The SOLUNAVAX Index is Live on Optimism

Bitcoin and Dogecoin are both top 10 coins. Image: Shutterstock. In brief Hedge funds prepare to invest in digital assets in coming years, according to a recent survey. This shift also comes with a host of new challenges specific to this asset class, notably custodianship.

Hedge Funds Expected to Increase Crypto Holdings Over Next 5 Years

Investments made in internet technologies over the last several decades have given rise to products and services used everyday by billions of people, including messaging, video conferencing, ecommerce and everything in between. We think it's important to keep investing in the long-term development of the internet to address the needs of the coming decades.

Crypto Fund II | Andreessen Horowitz

Status: Proposal Author: Matthew Graham (@Matthew_Graham) Created: 15 October 2021 Simple Summary This proposal is to approve a spend of $105,770 to joint incentivise lending and borrowing of DPI, MVI, BED & ETH2x-FLI on Beta Finance's platform.

Proposed: IIP-95: Beta Finance - DPI, MVI, BED & ETH2x-FLI Incentivized Lending & Borrowing

Since launching in Q4 2020, dHEDGE V1 supported a thriving community of DeFi investors and pool managers. The growth and demand for DeFi protocols we've seen in recent months led to network congestion and surge in gas fees.

Announcing dHEDGE V2

Read writing from Thetanuts Finance on Medium. Thetanuts Finance is creating the best-structured products for users to maximize risk-adjusted yield generation in all market conditions.

Thetanuts Finance - Medium

With the announcement of their roadmap to launch Pollen DeFi has revealed they have been building an advanced update of the platform. The project is ready to launch its countdown after closing a round of private funding, raising $5 million US with key strategic backers, including The Graph and AlphaBit.

Pollen DeFi is tapping into the Future of DeFi with Participatory Asset Governance | CryptoSlate

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IIP-78: Launch The Yield Hunter Index ($YHI)

mv_digitalassets_guide.pdf

Hi everyone, The purpose of this thread is to both gauge the DAO's interest in deploying the Indexed infrastructure on Polygon, and request a list from the DAO of the protocols that - in its opinion - are worthy of inclusion in a POLY10 index.

[Proposal] Deploying On Polygon And Creating The POLY10 Index

Industrializing the Yield Farming Landscape Summary: Conventional vaults and indexes in DeFi have important distinctions in terms of gas and service fees paid, and the amount of assets held in a 'basket'. A vault automates yield farming on a limited number of assets while an index allows its holders to have an exposure to a larger number of assets in a single basket with a periodic rebasing function.

Vaults vs. Indexes

DAOs are eating the world. As new web3 infrastructure, tools, and applications emerge, DAOs are quickly becoming one of the most exciting design spaces for the future of organizations, work, and capital. At Syndicate, we believe that the world-changing potential for DAOs lay in their transformative ability to coordinate humans and capital natively on the internet together at scale.

What is an Investing DAO? Who Should Start One?

Continuing on our campaign to bring the best of every chain into one place, today we launch Passive USD Strategy on Harmony, a high-yield strategy built on Harmony's interoperability-focused smart contract platform! The new strategy offering comes after the launch of Stake DAO's Harmony validator, and marks the start of a close working relationship with Harmony.

Competitive Analysis & Benchmarking

Independent Analyst Coverage

Market Definition: Outlook for Decentralised ‘Baskets’/’Indices’ (from Bankless Dec 2020)

The Bull Case for Decentralized Index Funds

Product Definition: Differences between Stock Indices and Crypto ‘Baskets’

Overview of Crypto Investment Management

Competitors: On-chain DAO Crypto Asset Managers

Off-chain Private Crypto Asset Managers

Stock Exchange Traded Crypto Funds

CF Digital Asset Classification Structure

CoinDesk DACS Crypto Index Benchmarks

S&P Dow Jones Crypto Index Benchmarks

MVIS/Bloomberg Index; non-thematic