4/ Recently as leverage started to wind down from crypto markets, deposits have gone up a lot and borrowing down
The yield reserve has been running at a deficit to maintain the deposit yield.
6/ I don't understand the first reason - YR was created to be used precisely in situations like this. Can't get upset about a mechanism fulfilling its existential purpose.
As to the second, if YR depletes Anchor will just operate like a regular money market ...
7/ ... and with staking returns + ANC borrowing incentives it will still offer a rate of 15-16%.
If we were to get to this hypothetical situation, Anchor will *still* offer the highest ra return on stablecoins. By far.
It will be fine.
8/ Narrowing the gap in between deposits and borrows is an important challenge, and more than anything has been driven by the slowness of adding more staking collateral.
It's not so much that leverage demand is going down, there is barely any luna left that can be locked
9/ When we started anchor we took the strategy of:
1) building bespoke staking derivatives for Anchor
2) creating liquidity for said derivative
3) forcing users to bridge said collateral to the Terra chain from others to borrow and deposit
10/ Too slow.
We are making changes in the next iteration of the protocol to be more flexible in the types of staking derivates that can be used (integration speed uponly)
1/ Iβm not a threadorrrrrr, but letβs talk about Anchorβs foreign policy and what it means for the citizens of ally nation chains.
Nb: this directly affects the yield reserve, which Iβm told has the undivided attention of 5.5 gigabrains
11/ We are also taking anchor to users on other chains instead of forcing bridging (e.g. most avalanche users want to borrow natively instead of having to bridge and set up new key management structures etc)
13/ But in the meanwhile, I am resolved to find ways of subsidizing the yield reserve.
Anchor is still in the growth phase, and maintaining the most attractive yield in DeFi stable will strengthen that growth & build up moats.
https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1485874118029635589β¦
Stay tuned.
14/ P.S. I've also been getting lots of DMs to comment more often on various takes on Anchor and Terra
It's not that I don't want to - just that if I did I would be spending all my time responding to random threads, and would prevent me from doing my day job