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GM. This is Milk Road, the newsletter that helps you unwrap crypto faster than a 6-year-old unwraps their presents on Christmas morning.
It’s the last edition before the holidays (Merry Almost-Christmas, ya filthy animals) …
… so today we’re sliding down your chimney to drop off 5 quick gems.
- Solana’s DEX volume 100x’d in 3 months 🤯
- ETH trading pairs are down, SOL trading pairs are up 🔥
- The restaking mania continues 📈
- Trade of the Week: From $52 → $110,000 💰
- Coinbase goes French 🍪
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SOLANA’S DEX VOLUME 100X’D IN 3 MONTHS 🤯
Here’s a wild stat for ya… (shoutout to @Dynamo_Patrick for putting it on the radar).
- Solana’s DEX trading volume on Sept. 22… $13.24M.
- Solana’s DEX trading volume on Dec. 20…$1.55B. (as in B, for billions!!)
That’s 100x growth in 3 months. 🤯
OK! WE SEE YOU SOLANA!
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ETH TRADING PAIRS ARE DOWN, SOL TRADING PAIRS ARE UP 🔥
In a bull market, most tokens see big, green gains.
It’s like that episode of Oprah…“You get a price pump! You get a price pump! Everyone gets a price pump!”
But not all gains are created equally... some jump 50%, others 100%.
This is why it’s important to track how assets perform relative to each other.
That’s where trading pairs come in. They denominate the price of one cryptocurrency in the price of another cryptocurrency vs. just U.S. dollars.
Well, check it out… here’s how some popular trading pairs are performing recently:
- ETH/BTC: -30% and bleeding 📉
- SOL/BTC: +260% year-to-date and pumping 📈
- SOL/ETH: +410% and pumping 📈
THE RESTAKING MANIA CONTINUES 📈
121 days ago, we tested something new out on the Milk Road Public wallet…
EigenLayer. It’s a protocol that lets you take your staked ETH, and restake it to earn additional yield.
We dropped a whole edition about it. If you read it and got in on the action, congrats - you got in right before the mania started…
EigenLayer’s growth has been pretty impressive:
- Just reached $1B+ in deposits.
- 160% increase in total value locked (TVL) over the last 90 days.
- 140% increase in core developers over the last 90 days. (Milk Road Rule #32: If you wanna know the next big trend, follow the nerds).
The best part? We’ve been accruing some sweet sweet “restaking points” over the last few months.
All we did was restake 1 stETH and we’ve earned almost 3,000 points!
According to this Dune leaderboard, we’re ranked 9,000 out of 60,000 in points. Not too shabby. For almost no work.
And if EigenLayer decides to launch a token, which a lot of people predict they will, we might see a nice juicy airdrop!
FROM $52 —> $100K+ 💰
Every once in a while, you’ll come across a crypto trade that’ll make you do a double take...
You’ll start questioning whether laws were broken in the process…
Well, check out this trade from $52 → $112,000.
How? Black magic A new memecoin, DogWifHat ($WIF).
P.S. - we have no idea who this is… but damnit, we’re still cheering them on like an NBA fan that just hit a half-court shot to win a brand new car!
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