How BadgerDAO Becomes the Largest On-Chain BTC Yield Aggregator on the Planet

Fellow Badger,  

This is WasabiBoatResearch writing.

The people have spoken. 

As of 10:47 EDT on 18 March 2022, I have seized control of the BadgerDAO substack account.

What does this mean?

It means that - from time to time - you will be getting short emails from me on what’s happening in the greater Badgerverse. 

These include - but are not limited to:

• Updates on Badger products, partners, stuff we have published, etc. 

• Supplement picks from @spadaboom to get you shredded for beach szn 

• Tasteful holiday greeting cards from @hash_error 

• NFT alpha from $APE millionaire @ZKprof

• Affiliate links to random stuff I see on amazon

• And much, much more :)

But seriously, you WILL be getting somewhat more frequent emails from Badger. 

We're talking one or two per month. 

If you are no longer interested in hearing from us, there should be a button marked "unsubscribe" somewhere around here that you can click.

And with that out of the way, here's a quick recap of what's been going on in your DAO:

1. Badger is Launching a Sub-DAO.

Citadel aims to be the largest BTC hodler on the planet. The people's Microstrategy. 

It will merge OHM-style bonding mechanics with Badger’s yield engine to create a black hole for BTC in defi. 

We’re on track to launch this VERY SOON™

To get the latest on Citadel you can check out the tokenomics deep dive that dropped this week or join ye olde Discord. 

2. Badger is LIVE on Fantom. 

Badger has launched 14 new vaults on Fantom in the Solidly / Solidex ecosystem. 

We are leveraging FTM’s ultra low transaction costs to make something of a ‘vault factory.’ This means more options and control over how your yield is processed.

Do you want to compound your rewards into more underlying? There’s a vault for that. 

Do you want to dump your rewards for BTC? There’s a vault for that too!

Even better, these vaults are powered by 100% organic, grass fed yield sources. Not a BADGER token emission in sight. 

Check out Badger’s Fantom Vaults

3. Huge Updates Coming to bveCVX. 

If you are looking to add to your BADGER stack, you should  take another look at our bveCVX vault. 

BIP 87 recently passed governance and is in the process of being rolled out.

This BIP makes major changes to how Badger will vote with our CVX stack: instead of voting for BTC yields (not economically efficient in current environment) this vault will harvest bribes and sell them for a mix of 25% BADGER and 75% auto-compounding bveCVX.

So you stack more $BADGER and $CVX on autopilot while you continue to hodl the most powerful yield influence token in DeFi today.

Check out the full bveCVX changes on the Forum or deposit via the app as usual.

4.  Want to Work with Badgers? Check out our Gitcoin Grants!

Several times a year, Badger publishes bounties through our partner, Gitcoin. 

These are a chance for web3 devs to get paid to solve some of the most important and urgent problems we’re facing at Badger.

These grants are the primary way we find people to hire as full time members of our dev team. 

If you’re at all interested in a career as a Web3 developer (either on the front end or Solidity side), you should check out our live bounties at https://gitcoin.co/badger-finance/bounties

You can also listen to a podcast I recorded with @AlexTheEntreprenerd where he shares a ton of resources on how to get up to speed fast as a Web 3 developer. 

That’s all I got for today. 

But, look, I know. 

It’s weird out there.

But we are Badgers.  

This means we are physically unable to stop building the future of DeFi.

It’s just our nature. 

If you have been out of touch with the community,  I hope this email gives you a taste of what we’ve been up to.  

And if you’re ready to jump in and help us build, join us on Discord here discord.gg/badgerdao

Till next time, 

Wasabi