Sort out 30 mainstream projects that need long-term attention this year

Original title: "30 protocols with strong catalysts in the coming months"

Original author: Thor Hartvigsen, encryption researcher

Original compilation: Kxp , BlockBeats

Under the background of multiple factors such as the expected slowdown of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hike, the encryption market Ushering in a round of strong rising market, encryption researchers have sorted out 30 mainstream projects that need long-term attention this year to grasp the latest trends of mainstream protocols in the next few months.

< h4>Lido

Lido V2:

· Staking Router: Allows anyone to become a node operator through a modular plug-and-play model (the goal is to increase the degree of decentralization)

· Withdrawal: StETH holders can withdraw directly from the Beacon Chain after Shanghai upgrade

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Velodrome

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Velodrome 2.0 will be available in Q1:

· VELO FED: veVELO holders will get a say in VELO monetary policy

·  Custom and adjustable currency pair transaction fees

· New Approach to Centralized Liquidity Pool

· Overall UI/UX Improvements

· and some other upgrades

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Radiant Capital

Radiant V2 will be introduced in a few weeks:

· cross-chain Expansion (BNB chain first)

·  New assets for lending and lending, including StETH, BNB, potentially GLP, gDAI and more assets through governance voting

· Reducing RDNT emissions through dynamic liquidity

· UI/UX has to be redesigned

Fantom Foundation

· fUSD v2: for builders and users Provided on-chain fee system (optionally using fUSD as transaction fee)

· FVM: Compatible with Solidity, faster execution speed Fast; the test shows about 4500tps, the data storage is reduced by 98%, and the main network is planned to be launched by the end of 2023

· Andre will return

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Atlas upgrade:

· Preparing for Withdrawal (Shanghai Upgrade)

·  8 ETH mini-pools (remaining 24 ETH provided by the protocol to operate validators); lower barrier to entry + higher level of decentralization

< p>· Gas fee optimization (40% reduction)

Atlas is planned to go live in March/April.

PlutusDAO

· PLS V2 tokenomics will be launched in March Coming later: This will allow users to lock their PLS for multiplier points to the vault. By doing so, they can earn real money from rewards, receive esPLS Tokens, and more.

· In addition, PlutusDAO is planning to incorporate more governance tokens into its platform, and plsRDNT is the next token to be added . The PlvRDNT vault is also planned for a future launch.

GMX

GMX

GMX will launch V2 sometime this year (probably Q1 /Q2, which is currently being audited), which will introduce a host of new tradable assets, not just Crypto (synthetic currency pairs).

There are also notices about cross-chain expansion after V2 in Discord.

Optimism Foundation

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Optimism is building the OP stack: a modular blockchain framework for easily building various scalable rollups (OP chains). Coinbase's Base will be the first to leverage this technology with its first phase being Bedrock (Q1'23).

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· Cross-chain extension to BNB chain

Liquidity book V2:

·  is< a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24sJOE&src=cashtag_click">sJOEV2 pool fee conversion provided by stakers

· Limit Orders & Permissionless Liquidity Book Pools

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Rage Trade

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· Upgrade to GLP High Risk Preference Vault: Hedging Trader's Profit and Loss

< b>· GLP v2 integration (after GMX synthetics upgrade)

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· Rage perp v2: potential new collateral options besides tricrypto

Synapse Protocol

Synapse is building an Ethereum native Optimistic rollup (Synapse chain):

· Cross-chain information transfer: call a contract on one chain, and call it on another An on-chain implementation

·  built for cross-chain Dapps with Synapse bridge

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· Coming Soon

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Frax Finance

·  frxETH continues to grow because Frax has The most competitive staking yield

· FIP-188: FRAX will be fully collateralized (from 92% to 100%)

< b>· FRAX and the overall growth of the Frax ecosystem (FPI, veFPIS, FraxSwap, Fraxlend frxETH, etc.)

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Pendle

Pendle provides a very high rate of return by dividing assets into principle tokens and income tokens , TVL is on the rise throughout 2023.

They recently used GLP to cross-chain to Arbitrum, and will add gDAI and additional assets in the future.

< h4>Synthetix

Synthetix V3:

·  ETH and other assets as collateral for synthetic assets

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· Liquidity providers will be able to choose which synthetic assets to allocate their liquidity to (high risk = high fees)

· More adoption of products built on top of Synthetix (Kwenta, Lyra, Thales, etc.)

Conic Finance

Conic provides omnipool on Curve (distributes users' liquidity into different fund pools and pledges them in Convex above), users can earn CRV + CVX + CNC. The agreement reached a TVL of 65 million within 1 week.

Driver:

· High Yield Band

·  additional assets

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dopex

· rDPX v2: Synthetic Token can be minted with rDPX as part of the collateral (deflationary pressure of rDPX), the first asset will be dpxETH (not LSD).

· Dopex OpFi products: DeFi products that utilize on-chain options in the background.

< h4>Polygon Labs

Polygon is building various chains:

· Polygon Supernets

· Polygon Avail

· Polygon Zero, Miden & zkEVM

· Polygon Nightfall

zkEVM will launch on mainnet on March 27th.

dYdX

dYdX

dYdX is launching their own Appchain (v4), built with the Cosmos SDK, Create a performance similar to a centralized trading platform in a decentralized manner, including:

·  No Gas is charged for transactions Fees

·  for validators to run off-chain order books

· DYDX as native Gas Token

< a href="https://twitter.com/CurveFinance">Curve Finance

< p> As stablecoins gain wider adoption, Curve will benefit greatly as the largest on-chain stablecoin liquidity center.

crvUSD launch is approaching, which creates additional income for Curve/veCRV.

Camelot

Camelot

·  more protocol integration (start panels and liquidity pools)

· The improved version of xGRAIL has so-called "plugins"

Lyra

Lyra recently launched their 'Newport' upgrade (which integrates GMX perpetual contracts and is deployed on Arbitrum above), and added ETH and wBTC options trading.

DeFi options have a lot of potential long-term, and Lyra could be one of the main protocols to benefit from it as adoption expands.

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Cosmos

A few days ago, the first part of the Interchain Security (ICS) upgrade was approved by governance and will launch on March 15th.

ICS allows the application chain to borrow the Cosmos central validator set to ensure security, without the need to start its own validator (fee required).

MakerDAO

MakerDAO

Maker is advancing several projects including:

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· Spark Protocol: The first product is Spark Lend, inspired by Aave V3, with a direct Maker line of credit (coming live in April )

· EtherDAI: native ETH LSD to support DAI

Gains Network

at After launching on Arbitrum and adding new assets such as commodities and indices, gTrade has become one of the leading decentralized perpetual contracts, experiencing a huge spike in trading volume. While there is no official roadmap, there is plenty of teaser info on Discord.

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Aave

Aave is launching their native stablecoin GHO:

· Overcollateralized by assets on Aave

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· Asset supply is controlled by "facilitators" (entities elected by the DAO)

< p>· AAVE stakers have GHO minting discount

Treasure

· Game Builder Program with Arbitrum ( GBP): Incentivize Game Developers to Build in the Treasure DAO Ecosystem

· MagicSwap v2: The Future of In-Game Economy , support ERC-20Token and NFT pool, plan to launch in the second quarter of this year

Uniswap

Uniswap Recently announced their upcoming mobile app.

Uniswap remains the leading DEX, with roughly 50,000 daily users as of March.

Mobile applications can better attract users to join.

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Filecoin

Filecoin will launch the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) and Filecoin EVM (FEVM) on March 14th.

FVM will allow custom smart contracts to be built on the basis of Filecoin, opening up various new use cases, such as Tokenized data, data DAO, etc.

Kwenta

Kwenta

· Since the release of V2 in February , a large increase in number/users

Some upcoming features in Q1/Q2:

· Lyra Partnership

· Cross Margin v2

· Kwenta SDK

· Staker Fee Switch

· UI/UX Revamp

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...and more

Note: The second protocol and its update in the original text are no longer visible, so there are 29 protocol update introductions in total.

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