Akropolis Weekly Updates

September 17th, 2021

Data as of September 17th, 2021 📈: 

$11.72M TVL      2,829 Members       

Hello!
Welcome everyone to another round of Akropolis weekly!

Flash News ⚡

• >20% APY for TriCrypto vault & yvBOOST vault

• Over 60 exchanges to stop operations in South Korea

• Arbitrum’s TVL exceeds $1B

• OpenSea admits to insider trading by Head of Product

• China expands hunt for crypto miners

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ICYMI: Opinion 💬

• How Bitcoin Can Immunize America From Cancel Culture

• Coinbase's Brian Armstrong Shows Crypto, Bitcoin Lessons Are Being Forgotten

• Unbank The Banked

Sven Henrich @NorthmanTrader

Nice to know that the banks get non public inside information from central banks way ahead of time. It's not like the banks can use this information to trade on. Or in the Fed's case some Fed officials in their personal accounts. No wonder banks pay big for zoom speeches.

Li Jin @ljin18

everything is already financialized, but today people who contributed value aren't being compensated it. web3 unlocks people owning the product of the financialization of everything.

jacobpeters.eth ⚡️✌️ @J__Cub

web3 unlocks the financialization of everything. but is the financialization of everything healthy?

Holger Zschaepitz @Schuldensuehner

#China’s nightmare Evergrande scenario is an uncontrolled crash: China junk bond yields are at highest since March 2020 as concern is mounting over the troubled developer’s fate. Beijing faces pressure to intervene amid signs of contagion.

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Akropolis Updates 🔔

• Last week, ICYMI: Ana discusses her move from TradFi to DeFi 🎈

• We fixed the Metamask bug that Ledger & Trezor users faced when performing transactions using the EIP-1559 gas parameters 🔧

What we’re also working on 🔧

• [in progress] We continue to work on new vault strategies in house and hope to bring in new strategy makers. 🤑

  • We’re continuing to research & work on strategies on Polygon.

  • We are working with existing Yearn community members in the YFI Boarding school! 🎓

  • Again, if you are an interested developer please reach out to us in our discord or telegram channels!

• [in progress] Zaps - we’re working on adding “zap” functionality to deposits to improve user experience & add ability to deposit different tokens into Vaults (not on LP tokens).

For the Community 👪

We are still hiring! Please take a look at the position information below if you are interested in working with the Akropolis team!

• Solidity Developers - this role includes:

  • Identifying & implementing complex yield-generation strategies on different chains;

  • Work with development team, product owner, and designers to turn vision into a functional software while following deadlines;

  • Develop high-quality code by following best practices in the space & make it maintainable, performant, accessible and precise;

  • Perform internal code reviews & audits ;

  • Being proactive & contribute to the team engineering processes and workflow;

  • Collaborate with relevant DeFi projects to discover optimal solutions for our needs;

  • Keep yourself updated with DeFi ecosystem updates & contribute ideas relevant to the product.

If you are interested in any of these positions, please email your CV, along with your GitHub profile to team@akropolis.io with the subject line:  

Akropolis Team | “Job Title”

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As always, feel free to reach out to us on our social media channels and thank you for your continued support!