Also: Additional roadmap updates, Zane Huffman takes the stage at Vidcon — Turning to Vesper for Bear Market Insights — Vesper’s Busy July Vesper has a big slate of speaking events lined up for the month of July. What they have in common: A broad desire to explore the unprecedented stress test going on in DeFi. At this time, DeFi participants are assessing their options for helping them weather the current market…

Also: Demonstrating Vesper Earn as an essential bear-market tool — Introducing: Deposit DAI, Earn VSP Vesper’s DAI-to-VSP Earn Pool is now available! Users deposit their principal (DAI) into the Earn pool and receive yield in VSP. Vesper users have already deposited over $1.3 million in DAI, making it the DAI pool with the highest TVL on the platform. This pool joins nine others in the…

Starting today, you can deposit DAI and auto-accumulate yield in VSP — Today, we’re introducing a new way to passively earn Vesper’s native token, VSP. By depositing into Vesper’s DAI-to-VSP pool, users earn yield in VSP, the token that facilitates the Vesper ecosystem. VSP token-holders can acquire vVSP by depositing their tokens in the vVSP Vault to earn additional yield. Benefits to…

When you deposit a stablecoin and earn yield in crypto, you get the best of both worlds in a tough market. — By many definitions, crypto is in a bear market. Bear markets are an opportunity for the industry to build the next transformative technologies without distraction. And certain products — like Vesper Earn — enable a new way for DeFi users to boost their portfolios amidst volatility. Vesper’s Earn pools enable…

Also: Vesper Earn DAI/ETH Pool as Bear-Market Strategy, Additional Developer Resources Now Available, Fee Structure Upgrades Carry On — New Strategies, New Paths to Yield Over the past several weeks, final auditing rounds came back for a powerful set of deposit-borrow strategies covering Aave, Compound, and major Compound forks on mainnet and Avalanche. These strategies primarily enable non-stable pools on mainnet to receive better risk-adjust yield by borrowing other Vesper pool assets and routing through…

Also: A brief roadmap review and update — Shifting Toward “Universal Fees” Vesper’s Universal Fee roll-out continued, with additional pools upgraded this week: vaWBTC vaFRAX What does this mean? From Vesper’s tokenomics proposal: The Universal Fee will charge a 2% annual fee on the assets deposited (principal) at the time of rebalance. If this fee is greater than the interest earned, the…

Also: Universal Fee Structure Roll-Out Continues — New Vesper Earn Pool Improves Treasury Management for Bitcoin Miners Are you a Bitcoin miner? Or looking for a new way to make your treasury work as hard for your as your mine? Vesper teamed up with Lumerin Protocol to create the newest Vesper Earn pool: deposit USDC, earn LMR. Similar to other Earn pools, users deposit their principal…

Also: Vesper Earn “Metapool” Proposal Passes, Track Vesper Assets on ApeBoard — Universal Fee Structure Hits First Set of ETH Pools Our first cohort of ETH pools: vaALUSD, vaDPI, vaAPE, vaMUSD, vaLINK, and vaFEI are now live under our new universal fee structure. By way of review: The Universal Fee will charge a 2% annual fee on the assets deposited (principal) at the time of rebalance. …

Also: Vote for Vesper’s Proposal on Saddle Finance! — Out With the Old, In With the New (Fee Structure) Vesper’s new “Universal Fee” structure is live on all Avalanche pools! This new fee structure streams a 2% yearly fee from deposits out of the yield earned only — meaning that the principal is never touched. Even better, it removes all withdrawal fees. This fee model will ultimately be…