DeFi and Yield-Bearing Assets 💰📈
In a market correction, earning passive income while waiting for prices to recover is a smart strategy. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) platforms allow you to stake, lend, and earn yield, helping you grow your holdings even in a downturn.
🔹 What is DeFi?
DeFi removes banks and intermediaries, letting users borrow, lend, trade, and earn interest directly on the blockchain. It provides:
✅ High APY (Annual Percentage Yield) compared to traditional banking.
✅ Liquidity incentives—platforms reward users for providing liquidity.
✅ Passive income opportunities through staking, lending, and farming.
🔹 Top DeFi & Yield-Bearing Cryptos to Watch:
✅ Aave (AAVE) 🏦 – A top lending protocol where users earn interest on deposits.
✅ MakerDAO (MKR) 🏗️ – Powers the DAI stablecoin, offering staking and lending options.
✅ Curve Finance (CRV) 🔄 – Specializes in stablecoin liquidity pools, with high yield opportunities.
✅ Lido (LDO) 🌊 – Allows ETH staking while keeping liquidity, perfect for passive income.
✅ Uniswap (UNI) 🔀 – The largest decentralized exchange (DEX), where users earn fees by providing liquidity.
🔍 Why Buy DeFi Tokens in a Correction?
Earn While You Wait ⏳ – Instead of just holding, DeFi allows you to generate income during price dips.
Strong Recovery Potential 📊 – Once market sentiment improves, DeFi tokens tend to rebound quickly.
Institutional Interest 🏦 – Major institutions are integrating DeFi for lending, staking, and trading.
🔹 DeFi Yield Strategies for a Market Correction:
💰 Staking – Lock tokens to earn rewards while securing the network (e.g., ETH staking).
🔄 Lending & Borrowing – Lend stablecoins or crypto and earn interest on platforms like Aave.
💎 Liquidity Pools – Provide liquidity on DEXs like Uniswap or Curve and earn trading fees.
💵 Stablecoin Yield – Convert holdings to stablecoins (DAI, USDC) and earn high APY with less risk.
💡 Investment Strategy:
✔️ Diversify DeFi Holdings – Mix lending, staking, and exchange tokens for balanced exposure.
✔️ Monitor APY & Risk Levels ⚠️ – Higher yields may come with greater risks—choose trusted platforms.
✔️ Use Stablecoin Strategies 🏦 – Earn yield while reducing exposure to price drops.
🚀 Bottom Line: DeFi tokens allow you to make money even in a bear market. By staking, lending, or providing liquidity, you can grow your portfolio while waiting for the next bull run!
Liquidity Provision & DeFi Participation 💧💰
In the Berachain DeFi ecosystem, users can provide liquidity using $BERA to support decentralized exchanges (DEXs), lending platforms, and other financial applications. By doing so, they help maintain efficient trading markets and earn rewards in return.
How Liquidity Provision Works 🔄
Adding Liquidity to DEXs 🏦💱
Users deposit $BERA and another token (e.g., stablecoins like USDC or Berachain’s HONEY 💵🍯) into liquidity pools on decentralized exchanges (DEXs).
These pools allow traders to swap tokens without the need for intermediaries, ensuring a smooth, decentralized trading experience.
Earning Liquidity Provider (LP) Rewards 🎁📈
In return for adding funds to a liquidity pool, users receive LP tokens, representing their share of the pool.
LP token holders earn a portion of trading fees generated from swaps within that pool.
Some protocols offer additional staking incentives (yield farming) where LP tokens can be staked to earn even more $BERA or other rewards.
Providing Liquidity for Borrowing & Lending Platforms 🏦🔗
Users can supply $BERA to decentralized lending platforms, enabling others to borrow assets.
In return, liquidity providers earn interest on their deposits.
Borrowers typically provide collateral to secure loans, reducing risk for liquidity providers.
Impermanent Loss Risks ⚠️📉
Liquidity providers face impermanent loss, a situation where the value of deposited assets fluctuates compared to just holding them.
However, trading fees, staking rewards, and incentives can offset these risks.
Why Liquidity Provision is Important? 🏆
✅ Ensures Smooth Trading – Reduces slippage and improves price stability on DEXs.
✅ Earns Passive Income – Users earn fees, staking rewards, and potential yield farming incentives.
✅ Supports the DeFi Ecosystem – Enables borrowing, lending, and financial applications.
✅ Enhances $BERA Utility – Encourages token use beyond simple holding or speculation.
By providing liquidity with $BERA, users play a key role in strengthening Berachain’s DeFi economy, all while earning passive rewards for their participation. 🚀💸
Trader Who Profited $13M from TRUMP, MELANIA, and HARRYBOLZ Secures $4.56M Profit Trading LIBRA
A crypto trader known in the digital world as “LeBron,” operating from a specific wallet, secured $4.56 million profit from trading LIBRA, adding to a series of successful trades in the volatile meme coin market.
The same wallet had previously earned $8.9 million from $MELANIA, $3.2 million from $TRUMP, and $1 million from $HARRYBOLZ, according to Lookonchain blockchain transaction data.
The latest gain on LIBRA highlights this trader’s knack for making big money from quick crypto price changes.
Looking closely, LeBron’s latest profit of $4.56 million trading in LIBRA was netted in a single day.
Blockchain records show the trader purchased 128.8 million LIBRA tokens for $4,807.19, an average buy price of about $0.037 per token. Soon after, LIBRA’s price surged, allowing him to sell in multiple chunks and lock in a multimillion-dollar return.
Currently, the wallet linked to “LeBron” still holds over 500 different tokens. That includes a substantial Solana balance of 1,636.69 SOL (roughly $332,500), along with $5.17 million in USDC.
On-chain records show that “LeBron” consistently targets meme coins with strong market activity, often holding positions for short periods before selling at a profit.
“LeBron’s” trading pattern suggests the plan is to get in early on promising tokens and get out fast when the hype is high.
Related: Whale’s $2.5M Meme Coin Bet: Big Win, Bigger Loss. CZ Dog Coins in Focus
Recent transaction data reveals that the trader earned $8.9 million from MELANIA with a return exceeding 1,000%, secured $3.2 million from TRUMP with a 109% gain, and made $1 million from HARRYBOLZ.
These kinds of gains signal a trading style that’s all about high-risk, high-reward, playing on market trends and hype.
Big-time traders like “LeBron” can actually move token prices, especially in smaller markets like meme coins.
A sudden buy or sell from such wallets can trigger price swings, attracting attention from retail investors and institutional players.
Related: Dump Alert: Bitcoin Traders Unload Over $4 Billion in Profit to Exchanges
The success of “LeBron” raises questions about whether the trader operates alone or as part of a coordinated strategy. Some market traders speculate that connections to insider information or complex trading algorithms are helping fuel such incredibly profitable trades.
Disclaimer: The information presented in this article is for informational and educational purposes only. The article does not constitute financial advice or advice of any kind. Coin Edition is not responsible for any losses incurred as a result of the utilization of content, products, or services mentioned. Readers are advised to exercise caution before taking any action related to the company.
After the Argentine president issued Meme coins and then denied it, public outrage ensued. Who profited and who was cut?
Author: jk, Odaily Planet Daily
This morning around 6 AM Beijing time, Argentine President Javier Milei posted a tweet on his official X account that shook the market: he announced the launch of the Meme coin Libra and revealed the related smart contract address.
Once the news broke, the market reactions were very diverse, some people thought the Argentine president's account was hacked, while some Meme players rushed into the market (the old players have been sufficiently educated that authenticity doesn't matter). Previous reports indicated that the price of LIBRA briefly surpassed $7.8, with a total market cap reaching $3.5 billion at one point. Soon after, Milei's Instagram account also posted a screenshot of the same tweet, quickly dispelling the theory of hacking (as the likelihood of both Instagram and X accounts being hacked simultaneously is very low), further intensifying the market's attention on Milei's coin launch.
However, the subsequent market trend slapped all investors in the face. Unlike the longer rising cycles of Trump Coin and Melania Coin, Libra followed the classic route of cutting leeks. After rising above $4, Libra began to plummet like a waterfall: it fell from $4 to around $2, then encountered a brief plateau around $1, finally dropping to about $0.16 now. It can be said that Libra is now completely done for.
Subsequently, the president himself deleted that tweet and claimed he "didn't know much about the project."
The trend of Libra, source: GeckoTerminal
According to President Milei's tweet a few hours ago, the project associated with Libra (Project Viva La Libertad) mainly aims to promote the Argentine economy by funding small projects and local businesses, supporting those who seek to develop enterprises and contribute to the country's development. The project's website also indicates that any private enterprise in Argentina can apply for investment by filling out a form.
At the bottom of the website, a small line states that the project is a private initiative, developed by Kip Protocol. Later, Kip Protocol also emphasized that the LIBRA token is part of the "Viva la Libertad" project, which is entirely operated by private enterprises, and that Argentine President Milei was not involved in its development.
While investors were cut, it inevitably means that someone profited. Who are the ones profiting? Data points to the team behind it and early speculators. According to blockchain analysis platform LookOnChain, eight wallets associated with the LIBRA team have cumulatively cashed out 57.6 million USDC and 249,671 SOL (approximately $49.7 million) through liquidity addition, liquidity removal, and transaction fee collection, totaling $107 million.
As for early speculators and insider trading, on-chain data analyst Yu Jin monitored that insiders of LIBRA profited at least $20.18 million. This address operated in the hours before the tweet was released, withdrawing USDC and SOL from CEXs like Binance, Bybit, and Kucoin to prepare funds; they bought in the first second after the Argentine president's tweet was posted; and sold off in batches after the market pushed LIBRA up. Among them, at least three addresses operated in unison.
Thus, the anger of investors is currently mostly directed at Kip Protocol; it's no wonder they posted on the X platform stating, "Libra is a success."
Tweet, source: Kip Protocol X
It is still unclear whether the team behind Libra only refers to Kip Protocol. Meanwhile, some netizens have dug up that Kip Protocol may also have certain connections with Animoca, but Animoca immediately clarified that it has no relation to the issuance of Libra tokens.
At the same time, some community members pointed out that a significant number of investors rushed in initially because the token address for Libra could be searched on Moonshot. However, this was actually a misunderstanding; unlike Trump, which was officially certified and could be searched and purchased, the LIBRA token was not officially certified by the Moonshot platform but was displayed using the platform's latest "token registration feature." The Moonshot platform allows users to search for projects via contract addresses but does not verify them, and it has a risk warning on the page. If one only searches for the name Libra, it cannot be found.
Additionally, against the backdrop of severe market fluctuations, Solayer team member Chaofan Shou posted on the X platform that he and team engineer @tonykebot lost over $2 million in LIBRA trading, along with a list of core members of KIP Protocol, hinting that action might be taken. Shou also captioned: "Let's see what two hackers and a free weekend can bring us."