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PulseChain is quietly heating up again 👀🔥 TVL (Total Value Locked) has climbed back to levels seen at the start of the year, now sitting at $110.69M • +12.14% in 24H • +62.34% in 7D • +138.99% in 30D • PulseChain is now back inside the Top 30 chains by TVL Stablecoin market cap has also risen now: $35.18M Up roughly $3.5M over the last 30 days Bridge TVL is also up 43% over the last 30 days. Capital is moving back on-chain, liquidity is growing, and the numbers are starting to trend in the right direction again 📈 $PLS #PulseChain
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Replying to @hopeandpdai
Outflows are weight neutral, the Redemption section of Introducing Sigma Protocol covers this briefly. To redeem, burn DTF tokens at any time and receive a proportional share of the constituent assets held in the treasury. An example with a user redeeming 1% of a DTF's supply receives 1% of each constituent asset's treasury balance. Since every holding is then reduced by the same fraction, the weights before and after a redemption are the same. The DTF gets smaller, but not out of balance. And it also means a DTF never sells to fund a redemption. Price movement is the only thing that creates drift, inflows are the only thing that corrects it, and outflows are neutral and do neither. TVL and supply fall together and NAV stands still.
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Replying to @RichardHeartWin
∑ security ≫ convenience
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Sigma Protocol retweeted
Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallet hacked. If you generated a seed using it, you can be hacked. Maybe if you used dice or added your own entropy you might be ok, but otherwise you're not. Move your coins to a new safe wallet. Good luck.
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Building index-tracking assets on top of options instead of debt ethresear.ch/t/building-inde… What if the use options as the base of defi, instead of CDPs and liquidations? So instead of extreme price movements creating a sharp and global "you get liquidated" effect, instead your exposure to the index diverges quadratically from your preferred exposure in a smoother way? A key benefit is getting rid of the need for instant oracles, and instead making everything work on top of "slow oracles" (ie. the type that prediction markets use) This design has a significant downside - the need to do regular rebalancing - and an open question of whether and how this rebalancing can be made slippage-resistant enough. But it's worth considering and trying IMO. I would feel much safer holding algostables inside something like this, than in something that depends on an oracle that has to give real-time answers (and therefore could be tricked into giving wrong real-time answers with no time for human recourse).
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1/Σ Uniswap showed that a simple formula could replace the order book. On-chain markets never looked back. Sigma applies the same insight to ETFs and index funds. A DTF (DEX-Traded Folio) is a tokenized basket of cryptoassets and a tradable index of its constituents. It rebalances itself using a mechanism called Flow Rebalancing. Every deposit is a rebalancing event. The Proportional Rebalancing Formula allocates each inflow toward the assets furthest below target, pulling the DTF continually back to its target weights. No rebalance day. No trading desk. No sell orders.
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Happy 11th Birthday, Ethereum! 🎂🎉 In 2015, the network went live and changed everything. A massive nod to the EVM, the quiet powerhouse that turned code into programmable money and opened the door to smart contracts. From that foundation came the building blocks (ERC-20s and beyond), and from those came the products that made DeFi real: Uniswap, Aave, Compound, Maker, and the entire permissionless DeFi stack that followed. And not to forget ethereum:0x2b591e99afe9f32eaa6214f7b7629768c40eeb39 ofc! None of it happens without the vision of @VitalikButerin. Here’s to 11 years of open, unstoppable innovation, and to whatever comes next. #Ethereum ethereum:native #DeFi #HappyBirthdayEthereum
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Anybody like the idea of 180x over the next 10 months? “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme” ~ Mark Twain (And if eHEX does this, what do you think the rest of the RH core is capable of?) 💪🔥💪 Hint: HEX on PulseChain is currently 3x the price of eHEX. If that ratio holds, and HEX does 180x from here, that’s 11 cent eHEX and 33 cent HEX. Combined that’s precariously close to the previous ATH… I predict higher…. much higher. Bookmark it.
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Replying to @cobrabro3 @SIN3R6Y
The allocation will need to be claimed. More info will be released on this over the course of this week. There will also be a testnet first so this will be a chance to use the protocol before mainnet launch.
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Replying to @cobrabro3 @SIN3R6Y
Icosa and Hedron are immutable. They will continue to exist as they do now. As explained here, Sigma first, then chain unity, then these frameworks get applied to the broader HEX ecosystem: teapaw.org/SIN3R6Y/status/2043730… Good news for WAATSA holders is they get allocation in Sigma, as covered in the Intro to Sigma post.
I've been working in silence for quite a while now. Tbh, I don't really even know where to start, so cue the rambling and ranting. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, no one can argue the past few years haven't been politically and economically wild. For crypto as a whole it feels like a never ending game of tug of war. A lot of X content has become toxic, so I just largely am not interacting these days. But I read, I read a lot of it. I think we like to forget history a bit in this community. $PLS launched off the highs, and the SEC swooped in right after. Very few people want to admit it, but it shook confidence immediately. I mean no other crypto project has survived such a thing at the time. But #PLS $PLSX and $HEX did. However, winning doesn't unshake that confidence. And RH during and after that event took social precautions to protect himself and his creations. Thing is, the guy isn't stupid. Someone once asked me if I thought certain aspects of the launch we rushed because he knew it was coming? And honestly, maybe. I'd attribute at least a non-zero probability to it. And If that were the case, im glad it was rushed. That case may have gone differently otherwise. Do I still think #PulseChain, #HEX, etc... all have futures? Yes. RH has had the opportunity to just straight up bounce from all of this. Why hasn't he? You could point to exhibit A, B, C, D, etc... of how he's likely got the funds to do that and we all could relatively do nothing about it. So why is he still around? I think it's pretty simple. The usual answer, he wants to win. It's in his twitter handle for Christs sakes. I'll go a step further and say he likely also wants us to win by extension, arguably not as much as he wins, but I mean that's pretty locked in at the moment 🤣 That's not to say he hasn't long been encumbered. And in that state, at lot has gone on without him. Much of which is / was bad. $pDAI guys... I pointed out from day one how building all this around a protocol in a dangerous state was a risky move. And I was right about that.... on multiple occasions... But does that matter now? I suppose not as much. In its current state, it's seemingly no longer exploitable. No different than a meme token now. (presumably, not like I have deep dove on any further risks since ESM). So I guess just whale risk mainly now? Now a lot of people here are in the anti-pdai camp. Me too for what it's worth. But I don't care as much about it's negative anymore in its current state. A lot of people are still in the #pDAI camp strongly. We view this as tribalism, but it's important to note that makes all of us in the #PulseChain camp universally. So these day I find myself relatively pDAI neutral. If you guys want to send it to $1 do it. Only whales can stop you, they run out eventually. (insert super strong this is NOT financial advice). Hell you can maybe even use Sigma to help? Or maybe it wont help, idk. Depends on how people use the software. Conversely, when looking at chain state overall... Why is there nearly $50M in stables sitting on the sidelines. Why not just bridge it out if you want out of what you think is a dead chain. Surely leaving it there exposes you to bridge risk? Why all these yield movements, why the $HEX dusts.... Something is happening. People are seemingly waiting to see what that something is. Or I am reading into things, NFA as always. This whole post is just ramblings of someone trying to do the best they can and certainly not any kind of advice. When I look at other ecosystems, I see a level of polish we don't have. I see tooling we don't have, I see a fostered developer environment we don't have. So I've just been building it, painstakingly.... Because someone has to if we want to be taken seriously. And what I've been building has allowed me to get Sigma to where it is. Sigma is so close... Really just in UI mode, performance optimization, going through nice to haves. I don't believe in launching in a non-finished immutable state. So yeah, I take my time. As with everything. But my point with all of this, and the "why" #Sigma question.... It's unifying, anyone can participate. Which tribe you're in doesn't matter. And if you don't like it, don't use it. It's just software you can use or not use. As it should be. The years of tooling work to deliver this has been a lot of work for one guy in silence. In that time AI has appeared. My take, every dev should be using it. Given the right direction and context. It will make you better. If you blindly trust it, it will make you worse. GPT 5.4 audits smart contracts better than most auditing services. Especially if you give it the context of what you are trying to do. Anyways I digress, testnet is soon. Soon more meaning a feeling of near completion not always reality. That how software is. I do think Sigma stands to unify the chain in a common goal, and shift liquidity into more meaningful places, but ultimately it up to the people the decide to use the software or not use it. And after these frameworks I've built will be applied to what I am tentatively calling the universal hex UI. More or less something aggregative of every derivative I can reasonably support. With data and analytics we since lost. So not just $HEX, $HDRN, and $ICSA, but others as well. However, that depends on some aspect of $Sigma to exist first, so sigma first, chain unity first. And last but not least, take care of yourselves and strive to do cool things. If we aren't doing cool things then what's the point? Hope you think my UI looks good, I spent a while on it. /rant
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Replying to @vehjt
Correct, the current implementation is native to PulseChain. A DTF holds constituent assets on a single chain. To include an asset like eHEX, you would add the bridged in version like you said.
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Replying to @cobrabro3 @SIN3R6Y
No, Sigma Protocol is its own thing. Check out the literature on this post and the latest posts for a brief rundown of what it is and how it works.
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Replying to @ToTenDollars
Just posted about Flow Rebalancing, the core mechanism behind DTF rebalancing. More literature coming over the next few days, followed by testnet and full docs before launch.
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Fair point on the PLS correlation. TradFi has both SPY and QQQ, which are heavily correlated, share most of the same top holdings, but both exist because they express different methodologies. A DTF is similar. It lets you define and maintain a specific allocation using a specific weighting methodology, automatically. The mechanism is the interesting part more than the basket concept itself. Even correlated assets drift at different rates. Every deposit into a Sigma DTF corrects that drift automatically without selling, by allocating deposits asymmetrically. More on that mechanism here: teapaw.org/_SigmaProtocol/status/… Re Phux, great product but fundamentally different. A Phux pool token is a multi-asset LP position with impermanent loss and returns shaped by arbitrage and trading fees. A DTF token is direct proportional ownership of the underlying assets at NAV. No LP dynamics or IL.
1/Σ Uniswap showed that a simple formula could replace the order book. On-chain markets never looked back. Sigma applies the same insight to ETFs and index funds. A DTF (DEX-Traded Folio) is a tokenized basket of cryptoassets and a tradable index of its constituents. It rebalances itself using a mechanism called Flow Rebalancing. Every deposit is a rebalancing event. The Proportional Rebalancing Formula allocates each inflow toward the assets furthest below target, pulling the DTF continually back to its target weights. No rebalance day. No trading desk. No sell orders.
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2/Σ The formula goes deeper than allocation. It produces a property called Dilution Asymmetry, which proves that every DTF deposit rebalances each existing holder's original capital toward target. The exposure shift is mathematically identical to buy low, sell high rebalancing. Nothing is ever sold. Rebalancing toward fixed weights as prices mean revert earns what TradFi calls the Rebalancing Premium. Traditional index funds pay for it with sells, fees, and taxable events. A Sigma DTF collects the premium through allocation alone.
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1/Σ Uniswap showed that a simple formula could replace the order book. On-chain markets never looked back. Sigma applies the same insight to ETFs and index funds. A DTF (DEX-Traded Folio) is a tokenized basket of cryptoassets and a tradable index of its constituents. It rebalances itself using a mechanism called Flow Rebalancing. Every deposit is a rebalancing event. The Proportional Rebalancing Formula allocates each inflow toward the assets furthest below target, pulling the DTF continually back to its target weights. No rebalance day. No trading desk. No sell orders.
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Introducing Sigma Protocol #SigmaProtocol is a fully decentralized set of persistent, non-upgradable, self-executing smart contracts on the PulseChain blockchain, designed from the ground up for the creation, management, and trading of a novel DeFi concept: the DTF (DEX-Traded Folio). What is a DTF? In its simplest form, a DTF is a tokenized basket of cryptoassets represented by an ERC-20 token. This token can be minted and redeemed directly through the protocol and traded on a decentralized exchange (DEX) such as PulseX or Uniswap, with each token representing a proportional share of the underlying constituent assets held trustlessly in the DTF. Anyone can deploy one, permissionlessly, with no intermediary.
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