[READY] Vesper Finance

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Project name: Vesper Finance

Author name and contact info (please provide a reliable point of contact for the project.): Jordan Kruger jjkru#3032 (Discord), director@vesper.finance (email)

L2 recipient address: 0x32934AD7b1121DeFC631080b58599A0eaAB89878

Which Voting Cycle are you applying for?: Cycle-11

I confirm that I have read the landing pages for the Builders 1 and Growth Experiments 2 Sub-Committees and that I have determined my proposal is best suited to be reviewed by the Growth Experiments Sub-Committee: [Yes/No]: Yes

I understand that Growth Experiments grants are subject to a “no sale rule,” as explained in this post 1, and I have read the terms of the rule: [Yes/No]: Yes

Project Details

What are you building?: Vesper Finance is a multi-chain yield aggregator offering users secure opportunities to generate yield on their crypto assets in a non-custodial manner. Vesper emphasizes safety and simplicity with 50+ smart contract audits and a sleek, intuitive UI.

Why do you believe what you are building is going to succeed?:

We believe DeFi as a whole is still in its infancy, but that in the years ahead it will play a pivotal role in global finance. Everything we build is based upon this premise, and we are constantly trying to create both for what DeFi represents today, and what we envision it will look like ten years from now.

We have focused our energy on three main components: Security, user experience, and competitive yield opportunities.

  • Security: To our knowledge, Vesper is the most externally audited DeFi protocol in existence. We have had 50+ external audits on our code base, and in our two years since launch have never had a security incident where user funds were in jeopardy. If a user feels secure in the protocol they are using, they are likely to continue using it for the long term.

  • User experience: We intentionally designed the user experience to be elegant, functional, and approachable. Vesper is positioned to attract both the DeFi native as well as the newcomer.

  • Competitive yield: With dozens of strategies across multiple chains, combined with a low fee structure, Vesper yields often match or exceed competing protocol’s similar products.

Vesper additionally differentiates itself as “DeFi Middleware” which consists of straightforward integrations for third party projects to pass off yield to their users as well as supporting already-productive assets (ie. LSD) with premium yield opportunities.

Our core pillars above separate Vesper as the premier destination for users and integrations alike. We’ve recently seen growing activity and TVL on mainnet as a result; this is energy we are confident we can carry and grow into the Optimism ecosystem.

How many users does your project have currently? Please include how you arrived at this estimate:

  • As of 2/15/23, Vesper has 8655 unique depositor addresses. This number was calculated using Etherscan wallet holdings across VSP positions and Vesper pool share token positions.

How will receiving a grant enable you to further the mission of maximizing the number of users interacting with Optimism? Please include a step-by-step flow of how you imagine this grant can lead to a greater number of user interactions with Optimism:

By launching on optimism, this grant will help us onboard both existing Optimism users, while simultaneously introducing Optimism to all of our existing Vesper users. We have been impressed with Optimism’s level of adoption in the past year, and are excited to offer it to our existing community.

We will enact a full marketing campaign for every Optimism product we create, along with the initial launch of the chain itself.

Our Optimism grant will also encourage third-party integrations. We’ve already begun conversations with partners on mainnet who are also deployed to Optimism, such as Alchemix.

Step by step flow:

  1. Launch three Vesper Pools on Optimism for beta testing. Initial pools will be OP, ETH, and USDC.
  2. Alert our existing users through Discord/Telegram of the beta testing opportunity
  3. Launch pools to full production once internal testing is complete
  4. Initiate marketing campaign for production launch on all of our socials (Twitter, Discord, Telegram, Linkedin) and publish a Medium article covering the launch
  5. E-mail our existing user base w/ announcement
  6. Set-up quests/tasks through learn-and-earn platforms for users to deposit into new pools, as well as in conjunction with partners on cross-platform quests (i.e deposit to Vesper and use deposit at partner protocol).

Tell us about the users you plan to target with this grant. Include any defining characteristics that will help you identify and target them.:

Location: US and Europe

We’ve identified two separate B2C demographics that we plan to target: DeFi Pros, and DeFi newcomers.

DeFi Pros: An educated DeFi user who is actively involved with yield farming

Profile: $100k+ in crypto holdings, and will actively adjust the strategies they are utilizing always in search of better yield.

Messaging: Earn yield on crypto’s leading assets, and earn additional yield utilizing our advanced strategies. Combined with Metronome, Vesper can unlock significantly increased APY through looped strategies (Smart Farming).

Frustrations: Low protocol liquidity, no governance, lack of LSD support, slippage, high gas fees, lack of network support, and high fees.

What do they want?: High APY, incentives/rewards, high liquidity, range of supported assets, decentralization, LSD exposure, minimal fees, layer 2 support, TVL, and accessible statistics.

DeFi Newcomer: New to DeFi. User holds crypto, but doesn’t know what to do with it.

Profile: $2-100k in crypto holdings, and looking for a safe place to deposit it to earn yield.

Messaging: Want to get more out of your crypto assets? Through Vesper, you can effortlessly generate yield on your crypto holdings while maintaining self custody of your assets utilizing our low risk industry leading automated strategies.

Frustrations: DeFi knowledge, trust, lack of transparency, unsecure protocols, high gas fees, high protocol fees.

What do they want?: Effortless yield, low risk, high reward, utility with tokens, transparency, and security.

We have identified these audiences using tools like Semrush, Wope, GA and similar. Utilizing listening tools to identify the type of content they are engaging with, we can mimic that content through advertising, and with the assistance of influencers, to promote directly to the above personas.

How would these users interact with Optimism? For how long?:

Users would be able to interact with Optimism directly through the Vesper Finance dApp, indefinitely. Users will also be able to interact with Vesper’s Optimism pools through external integrations, such as Zapper. Once the chain and pools are launched they will remain live forever, as long as there is a viable strategy available that we can generate yield for on the underlying assets.

We plan to launch Optimism to production on the 15th of March. Over time, it is our plan and intention to continue adding new strategies and pools, so that the Optimism portion of our dApp is robust and appealing.

Provide us with links to any of the following for the project:

Do you have any metrics on the project currently? (TVL, transactions, volume, unique addresses, etc. Optimism metrics preferred; please link to public sources such as Dune Analytics, etc.):

  • TVL: 17,000,000 USD (1,660,000,000 USD at highest point)
  • Chains Currently Supported: Ethereum, Binance, Polygon, & Avalanche
  • Unique depositor addresses: 8,655
  • Number of Active Strategies: 30+
  • 36 Pools
  • https://dune.com/Vesper_Finance

Who are your competitors, and are they on Optimism?:

Yield Aggregators such as: Yearn Finance (On Optimism), Beefy (On Optimism), Yield Yak (Not on Optimism), Idle Finance (Not on Optimism) to name a few.

Please link to code audits (if any): https://github.com/vesperfi/doc/tree/main/audit/v3%2B

Team

Who are your founders?:

What makes your team well-suited to carry out the project described in this proposal?

Our team has a long track record of successfully implementing and creating the technology of which we put our energy towards. Our founders and our team have been building in crypto / Web3 for many years, with some of us building from nearly the beginning.

We are made up of DeFi natives, with our values and vision deeply embedded in a decentralized future.

Having already launched multiple chains on Vesper, and corresponding pools for each chain, we will easily be able to deliver exactly what we say we will in this grant proposal.

Is this your first Web3 project?:

Our team of founders have launched numerous projects over the years in Web3 and have collectively over 30 years of experience in crypto. Vesper’s parent company Bloq was founded in 2015 and has a suite of sub brands working in various aspects of the crypto industry, such as Lumerin Protocol, Atmos.xyz, Titan Mining, Space Chain, Capsule NFT, Vesper, and Metronome.

Bloq also provides blockchain infrastructure services such as staking and nodes to private clients and large corporations.

If not, what else have you built? (Share links, Github repository, or any other useful information.):

https://bloq.com/, Bloq, Inc. ¡ GitHub

https://vesper.finance/, Vesper Brewing Co Ltd ¡ GitHub

https://www.metronome.io/, Autonomous Software ¡ GitHub

https://lumerin.io/, Lumerin-protocol ¡ GitHub

https://atmos.xyz/,

https://titan.io/,

https://pure.finance/,

https://capsulenft.com/,

Grant Request

What is the size of the grant request? (250k OP max): 75,000

How do you justify the size of the grant?:

We have a strong commitment to building out further Optimism products over the months and years ahead. This grant will enable that further development, by helping our initial user adoption during the early innings of our Optimism launch.

This allocation is proportionate to the number of users we plan to bring to Optimism, both from our existing community and through new users discovering Vesper during our Optimism marketing campaign and through internal effort.

Roadmap and Distribution Plan

Describe in discrete steps how you will successfully implement your grant plan:

  1. Launch Smart Contract pools for internal alpha testing
  2. Launch one initial strategy for each pool
  3. Internally test Alpha pools (deposits, rebalances, yield generation)
  4. Launch pools to public beta on the Vesper Finance Beta Website
  5. Announce public beta to our existing community, allow testing for 1-2 weeks
  6. Launch additional strategies for alpha > beta testing
  7. Upon successful beta, graduate all pools/strategies to production on main Vesper App
  8. Initiate OP rewards per pre-defined distribution plan
  9. Marketing for production launch

How will the OP tokens be distributed? (please include % allocated to different initiatives such as user rewards/marketing/liquidity mining. Please also include a justification as to why each of these initiatives align with the problem statement this proposal is solving. Distribution should not include the sale of any tokens by the grantee or the use of tokens for compensation, protocol expenses, etc. See the no sale rule here 2):

60,000 OP (80%): Pool Incentives

A majority of the OP will be used to directly incentivize users who deposit into Vesper. The OP will be distributed over a 3 month period, with 25%/25%/50% of the rewards distributed months 1/2/3.

Pools will be incentivized as follows:

USDC

Month 1: 6,000 OP
Month 2: 6,000 OP
Month 3: 12,000 OP

ETH

Month 1: 3,000 OP
Month 2: 3,000 OP
Month 3: 6,000 OP

wstETH

Month 1: 4,500 OP
Month 2: 4,500 OP
Month 3: 9,000 OP

OP

Month 1: 1,500 OP
Month 2: 1,500 OP
Month 3: 3,000 OP

15,000 OP (20%): Third Party Integrations

Vesper will incentivize potential partners with 2,000-5,000 OP through this portion of the grant when they integrate Vesper into their own DeFi application. Vesper is positioned as “DeFi” middleware that works best when integrated into other products. Recently, Vesper has seen TVL uptick on Mainnet through integrations with projects like Frax, Convex, Alchemix, and Metronome.

Over what period of time will the tokens be distributed for each initiative?:

We are planning to distribute all rewards within 3 months following the approval of the grant.

Please provide benchmark milestones for this project. These milestones should guide the Optimism community on the progress of your project throughout your work on the project. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

PLANNED DATE BENCHMARK MILESTONES STATUS COMMENTS
2/20/2023 Launch Alpha Smart Contract for vaETH on Optimism Completed Etherscan Link
2/20/2023 Launch Alpha ETH Strategy (Curve) Completed Etherscan Link
2/21/2023 Launch Alpha Smart Contract for vaUSDC on Optimism Completed Etherscan Link
2/21/2023 Launch Alpha USDC Strategy (Curve) Completed Etherscan Link
2/28/2023 Launch Alpha AAVE v3 Strategy for vaETH Pool Completed Etherscan Link
3/21/2023 Launch USDC & ETH Pools/Strategies to Vesper’s public beta dApp Completed Vesper Finance Beta
4/5/2023 Launch USDC, ETH, OP Pools/Strategies to production Currently Beta Testing Vesper Finance
4/18/2023 Launch Alpha Smart Contract for vaOP on Optimism In Development
4/18/2023 Launch Alpha OP Strategy (Aave) In Development
4/18/2023 Launch Alpha Smart Contract for wstETH on Optimism In Development
4/18/2023 Launch Alpha wstETH Strategy (Aave) In Development
4/28/2023 Add Stargate Yield Strategy In Development
4/28/2023 Add 4th Yield Strategy In Development
5/15/2023 Third Party Vesper Integration In Development

Please define critical milestones for this project. Critical milestones are meant to show good-faith efforts to accomplish the project. Non-completion of these milestones could lead to revocation of remaining grant rewards. Do not use distribution of the grant itself as a milestone:

PLANNED DATE CRITICAL MILESTONES STATUS COMMENTS
4/5/2023 Deployment of vaETH Pool on Vesper.Finance - Optimism
4/5/2023 Deployment of vaUSDC Pool on Vesper.Finance - Optimism
4/18/2023 Deployment of vaOP Pool on Vesper.Finance - Optimism
4/18/2023 Deployment of wstETH Pool on Vesper.Finance - Optimism
4/28/2023 Deploy 4th Unique Strategy to Vesper (Protocol to be determined)
5/15/2023 Achieve First 3rd Party Integration
6/5/2023 Reach $5 million TVL across all Vesper Optimism Pools, OR 5,000 unique users who deposit into the pools.

If the OP tokens are for direct distribution to users, why will incentivized users and liquidity on Optimism remain after incentives dry up?:

Initially, users will be drawn to the attractive incentivized APY, but in the long run, Vesper will have a positive impact on the entire Optimism ecosystem as we continue to build new industry leading strategies and initial offerings with best-in-class yield opportunities.

As a DeFi middleware, Vesper will see an increase in integrations over time, making it more appealing for users to remain within the application and participate in a variety of new product offerings. Users will be able to take advantage of a “Vesper + XYZ” yield experience, and by interacting with Vesper and other protocols simultaneously, they partake in a complex, nuanced DeFi experience that is intrinsically valuable to the user.

Please provide any additional information that will facilitate accountability (smart contracts addresses relevant to the proposal, relevant organizational wallet addresses, etc.):

https://docs.vesper.finance/,

Organization wallets:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xf4087b7ab24bde9c445ddd0bc4df257f81277214
https://etherscan.io/address/0x4fc50236af16f9642ec6b1f56ecbdf8398ec76dd
Vesper Finance: DAO Treasury | Address 0x9520b477aa81180e6ddc006fc09fb6d3eb4e807a | Etherscan

Smart Contracts: The two Optimism pools below are currently launched in ‘alpha’ for internal testing. The first pool is an aggressive ETH pool utilizing a Curve>sETH>ETH strategy, and the second is an aggressive USDC pool using a Curve>sUSD>UDC strategy.

Optimism ETH Pool:

https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0xccf3d1acf799bae67f6e354d685295557cf64761

ETH Strategies:

https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0xb1458639956402b3f96e514f5a7dbe1bbc58a981
https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0x5cd23c6fcc61fa33fc36abcf696129a85a99db31

Optimism USDC Pool:

https://optimistic.etherscan.io/address/0x539505dde2b9771debe0898a84441c5e7fdf6bc0

USDC Strategy:

Contract Address 0x6a12fa3ed48b1404eb973bcdf2d4df390e497544 | Optimism,

Optimism Relationship

Does your project solve a problem for the Optimism ecosystem? If so how?:

Vesper offers a secure ‘set and forget’ yield farming experience on blue chip crypto assets such as ETH, wBTC, and USDC, allowing users to safely earn competitive yield on their crypto holdings, while maintaining custody of their tokens. With a simplistic yet elegant interface, users of all experience levels are able to have a positive experience on the platform. Yield generated through Vesper is automatically compounded utilizing complex strategies through the most reputable DeFi protocols, such as Aave, Maker, Compound and Curve.

Utilizing our methodology of yield and existing community, Vesper will contribute to the capital efficiency of the assets on Optimism and the broader Optimism ecosystem.

Vesper offers a safe application to store assets and gain stable yield. Utilizing the OP grant, Vesper aims to boost participation in select pools and further provide a comprehensive solution for yield aggregation across multiple chains. By depositing assets into Vesper, users can earn rewards on their idle funds without the hassle of individually searching for yield-generating opportunities. The Vesper vaults simplify this process and enable easy diversification of exposure to multiple protocols with a few simple clicks.

The proposed pools are as follows:

  • (OP, ETH, USDC) - These are just the initial pools that will be launched within the first 30 days, with additional pools to be added based on demand.

Why will this solution be a source of growth for the Optimism ecosystem?:

Vesper utilizes many protocols to offer yield to its users, and as Vesper grows on Optimism, so will the other protocols that Vesper uses for its Optimism pools. This will likely give benefits to platforms like Curve, Aave, and Stargate. Users will also be able to gain exposure to yield generating opportunities that they might otherwise not have known to exist. By going through Vesper, users are exposed to more complex strategies that if re-created, would otherwise be less capital efficient.

As Vesper matures within the Optimism ecosystem, it is also intended to work as “DeFi Middleware”. Other protocols can permissionlessly leverage Vesper pool positions within their own protocol. Existing integrations with Optimism protocols already exist on mainnet, such as Convex and Alchemix, where projects improve the service they provide through Vesper’s risk-adjusted yield product and users benefit from a “Vesper + XYZ” user experience.

Is your project Optimism Native?: No

Confirmations

I understand that I will be required to provide additional KYC information to the Optimism Foundation to receive this grant: [Yes/No]: Yes

I understand that I will be expected to following the public grant reporting requirements outlined here: [Yes/No]:
Yes

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Alchemix has worked with Vesper to integrate yield strategies on Mainnet and would look to do the same on Optimism. I personally enjoy working with the Vesper team and believe they have built a solid yield aggregation service with unique abilities to combine different yield opportunities throughout DeFi.

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Hello and thank you for your proposal! Throughout the application process, this forum thread will be one of the official means of communication. Please be sure to monitor it for updates over the course of the review period.

I’ll provide some feedback on this proposal, and note that all changes will need to be in by Monday to ensure they’re properly reviewed by other proposers.

First question - Just to be 100% clear, Vesper is not on Optimism yet right?

Just a quick one here, this is a very high OP grant request for a protocol with approx ~$20M in TVL, and isn’t live on Optimism right now, so there’s not any Optimism specific data to work with. We could probably compare this to Avalanche / Polygon, which only has approx $600-700K liquidity total, this grant would be almost more than TVL on competing chains. I would recommend scaling it heavily downwards.

Please be aware of the no-sale rule, so these sorts of publication / social media campaigns and other protocol expense items couldn’t be reimbursed / paid for with OP tokens. As this would violate the rule. Please restructure this to make sure you’re following it. I’ve included a quick summary of the no-sale rule below.

I’d recommend improving the milestones by including some unique users / tvl under management / other KPI metrics that could be used to gauge the proposal, and the success in the future. Here’s the milestone assessment explainer to learn more - Milestone Assessment

I believe that predominantly distributing OP as a bonus will only attract mercenary capital that will only stay as long as the rewards. This is especially an issue for yield farming protocols. Is there anything you could do here to improve this to better incentive align users, and vesper, to ensure that people stay on Vesper without the users?

Maybe this is better asked as - Is there a way to achieve the yield that are being temporarily increased (due to OP tokens) without the OP rewards in the future?

Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.

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Hi Matt -

Thanks for the feedback. I have updated the above grant proposal per your suggestions. I will also answer each of your questions below so that you can easily detect the changes.

  1. Optimism is currently live on our beta site https://app.vesperdev.net/en/optimism/pools
    This beta went live recently, and we are currently doing internal testing to make sure everything is performing as expected. Our target date for full production launch to the main Vesper app is scheduled for April 5th, 2023.

  2. Our grant request has been changed to 75,000 OP

  3. We fully understand the no sale rule, and will be paying 100% of marketing expenses out of pocket. We will not use any OP tokens in the process. All OP tokens will be distributed as updated in the grant.

  4. Critical milestones now includes a TVL / # of unique users metric

  5. Vesper has two defining advantages versus other DeFi Yield aggregators:

Productive Assets - Vesper emphasizes support of already-productive assets to offer an “APY+” experience. Initially, we will support wstETH. We plan to support other LSTs and other types of productive assets (such as LP pairs and yield-bearing governance tokens) as part of Vesper’s roadmap.
Third-party integrations - With a positioning as “DeFi middleware”, Vesper works best when paired with something else. Other DeFi applications are encouraged (and per this grant, incentivized) to incorporate Vesper’s yield aggregator on the backend of whatever they are doing: offering users a more powerful experience within their own application.

Both of these distinctions make Vesper unique from other yield aggregators. There are not ample opportunities for set-and-forget APY on tokens like wstETH (despite lots of demand). With third-party integrations, users can achieve very competitive yield, even in the absence of incentives/subsidies.

For example, on mainnet, Vesper TVL has seen a net increase of deposits on pools like FRAX, USDC, and stETH. All of these pools have powerful integrations elsewhere:
FRAX deposits may be staked into Convex through the Frax gauge for additional FXS yield.
USDC deposits can be routed through Alchemix to generate a self-repaying loan.
stETH deposits can be used as collateral on Metronome for LP APY opportunities and looping yield strategies.

Most notably, Metronome launched to beta in January, without any subsidy/token incentives, and has over 2.5mm TVL attributed to Vesper collateral. Metronome is a sister protocol that requires Vesper for its core product offering and will additionally be deployed once Vesper is spun up.

These efforts have been wholly focused on mainnet, not Polygon or Avalanche, and can be argued to show success despite the multiplying gas costs of increasingly complex yield strategies. We feel that these strategies will keep users around Vesper as we are ramped up and integrated throughout the broader Optimism DeFi ecosystem. The grant is intended to bootstrap our spin up into Optimism and help to set our footing with integrations.

Please let me know if you have any more comments or suggestions!

Thanks

Michael

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As a reminder while grant evaluations are being finalized, grant distribution is as follows:

Should a grant plan be approved, the applicant will receive 40% of total funding. In order to unlock the remainder, critical milestones must be met. Please make sure that you are comfortable with your critical milestones and that they will be easy to verify. It is also advised (where appropriate) to be prepared to submit documentation that the milestones have been met to avoid delayed disbursement of the remaining funds.

If you are comfortable with your critical milestones, then no action is needed.

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We have updated the OP distribution in the grant proposal to properly reflect the 40% initial funding based on your note above. The first two months now reflect that 40% distribution, with the remaining 60% for month three.

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Giving a vote up for this proposal. Been using Vesper since the days they had $1.6B tvl that was used by CEX(s) to generate yield. Impressed with the speed of their roadmap to bring their unique yield aggregation to OP as my preferred L2.

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Optimism Grant Council!

Wanted to flag that we’ve erroneously used a mainnet multisig address for the OP receipt. We do not control this same wallet on Optimism, please reference this address instead:

Michael will update the proposal ASAP

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Hi Optimism Grant Council

Per our critical milestones, the vaOP pool is now live on our beta site and will stay in testing for 5-7 days before we push it to production.

The Smart Contract can be found here: Contract Address 0x19382707d5a47E74f60053b652Ab34b6e30Febad | Optimism

The strategy can be found here: Contract Address 0xd7c751fa32590451548b100c4f6442f062c9bc8e | Optimism

Development for the vawstETH pool and strategy has been completed on our end, however this strategy is utilizing AAVE which is currently capped out for wstETH on Optimism. We are hopeful they will raise these caps soon, and will explore other yield strategies for this pool if for some reason they do not. We are holding off on sending this pool to beta until the caps are lifted so that the product is usable

Thanks

Michael

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Hi Optimism Grant Council -

4/28 update on our milestone progress.

As of today we have completed 2 strategies on Sonne finance for Optimism. We are currently working on a third strategy as well. The strategies are currently being internally tested and we expect to deploy them sometime late next week. These strategies will be usable on the vaOP, vaUSDC, vaETH, and vawstETH pools, and should offer increased yield opportunities over what we are able to currently achieve from our AAVE and Curve strategies.

In total once the third Sonne strategy is completed, we will have 6 separate strategies live on OP across our four pools. The Sonne strategy will also enable us to launch vawstETH pool into beta.
We are still exploring a strategy utilizing Stargate but we have run into an issue with it for the time being.

Stay tuned for more -

Michael

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Hi Grant Council,

Quick update: vawstETH pool launched for alpha testing today, utilizing a Sonne finance strategy

Pool:Contract Address 0xdd63ae655b388cd782681b7821be37fdb6d0e78d | Optimism

Strategy: Contract Address 0xa7f92bdd0c468d91861445eb30446a3700fc94ca | Optimism

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Hi Grant Council,

The vaOP pool has launched to full production on Vesper’s app.

As of today, our vawstETH pool is live to the public for beta testing on our beta app.

Michael

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Hi Optimism Grant Council

I just updated the L2 recipient address inside our grant proposal to the following:

0x32934AD7b1121DeFC631080b58599A0eaAB89878

I will email as well just to be sure this doesn’t get overlooked

Best

Michael

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ATX DAO likes the vesper team :+1:

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Greetings,
Thanks for updating your proposal. I have briefly chacked your DEFI application, and it seems neat. The earning rate seems extravagant, or it is how it is? Besides that, would you explain that the differences between earning rate on OP and USDC? For example on the GROW POOL, the USDC pair has 37% earning rate, and only 7% is for USDC, and the rest is for OP.

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Hi @cryptoAYA -

Each pool uses a distinct strategy which you can view if you open the details of the individual pool. APYs will vary based on how the strategy is performing, which depends on market factors (demand) for the borrow/lending of the token for each pool.

You can read more on the Vesper strategies and how the protocol works here: Overview of Vesper Strategies - Vesper Documentation

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Greetings,
Thanks for this valuable info. I will check the details.

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Hi Optimism Grant Council

Giving an update on critical milestones for this grant - all critical milestones have now been completed

All four pools were launched to production on the main Vesper app (vaETH, vaUSDC, vaOP, vawstETH)

There are currently four unique strategies live for these pools using Sonne, Curve, Aave, and Yearn. A 5th strategy using Stargate has a small fix that will soon be deployed, and we are working on a 6th strategy now incorporating Velodrome.

For third party integrations, Metronome Synth (metronome.io) has integrated Vesper’s Optimism Pools, giving users the opportunity to loop their positions and multiply their yield generated. A proposal has also passed through Alchemix’s governance to incorporate Vesper’s Optimism pools ( Snapshot ), but actual integration has not yet been completed on Alchemix’s end.

The final critical milestone was recently completed. Vesper Optimism as of 6/18/23 has had 7,504 unique depositing wallets. Highest TVL to date was $4.2 million. While this final critical milestone was either 5,000 unique depositors OR $5 million TVL, we believe that both conditions will likely be met in the near future.

Please let us know if you have any questions!

Michael

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Hi Opimism Grant Council

We broke above $5 million TVL yesterday further completing our final critical milestone

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