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Linn's Leverage #1086

Crypto Alpha, Macro and everything in-between - Possibly/Probably will make you rich but Not Financial Advice.

Aug 14, 2026
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Pendle:

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Pendle@pendle_fi
Loop bigger, earn bigger 🔥
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Pendle @pendle_fi
PT Looping incentives are now live. Get extra 2% APY on top of your PT Fixed APY while looping with Pendle. At an 10x loop, that's +20% APY on your position. Limited time only 👇
12:58 AM · Aug 14, 2026 · 2.47K Views

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Tindorr 🌯@0xTindorr
I’m rebuilding my ethereum:0x808507121b80c02388fad14726482e061b8da827 thesis around one idea: Global finance is moving onchain and its yield will need somewhere to trade. @pendle_fi captured two major yield cycles already. I think the third could be much larger: - In 2024,
9:04 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 13.6K Views

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Pendle@pendle_fi
$PENDLE incentives. Live. 27.84% APY. For depositing $USDC. 27.84% APY.
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Pendle @pendle_fi
The Pendle Ecosystem USDC vault is now live on @Morpho 🦋 Co-curated by Pendle and Armitage, @wintermute_t's vault curation arm. Deposit USDC, earn yield from PT borrow demand, plus a share of 7,500 $PENDLE weekly!
7:44 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 33.3K Views

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RightSide@Rightsideonly
So like you loop up to 30% APY And... Get additional 2% APY Things cannot get anymore juicier
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Pendle @pendle_fi
PT Looping incentives are now live. Get extra 2% APY on top of your PT Fixed APY while looping with Pendle. At an 10x loop, that's +20% APY on your position. Limited time only 👇
1:16 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.29K Views

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Boros:

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Boros@boros_fi
Our new P2P Marketplace is live! You can now negotiate sized swaps directly with a counterparty instead of trading through the order book. This means you can now trade on Boros with any size, on your terms, with no price impact, on any market.
7:01 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 3.2K Views

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Smartmoney_Detective@NaveenCypto
Two Projects from $PENDLE in top 10 Mindshare in Defi. @pendle_fi and @boros_fi Data - @_dexuai
4:07 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 688 Views

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DeFi Saver:

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DeFi Saver@DeFiSaver
Need some bullish encouragement? Someone just added $5M in leverage to their $ETH long on Maker. Done in one transaction using Boost on DeFi Saver. Curious what actually happens under the (Boost) hood? Check out the steps below 👇
10:56 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.49K Views

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Theo:

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Theo@Theo_Network
July CPI landed in line at 3.4%, and September hike odds fell. Markets read it as cover for the Fed to stay put. Theo CIO @iggyioppe told @YahooFinance, @CoinDesk and @TheBlockCo why a hold isn't neutral. Read the full articles below.
6:12 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 2.02K Views

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Maple:

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Maple@maplefinance
"Maple's becoming the credit engine inside other people's distribution." @syrupsid on Robinhood, Kraken, and syrupUSDG in this month's community AMA, alongside July's numbers and the questions the community sent in. Full call below.
5:09 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 4.3K Views

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Nomatic@Nomaticcap
A nice August revenue month is loading on ethereum:0x643c4e15d7d62ad0abec4a9bd4b001aa3ef52d66 ... I'd say this pace puts August around $1.57M - $1.6M range. Which would be 3 months of positive revenue growth. Starting to get interesting 👀
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Nomatic @Nomaticcap
When should I buy ethereum:0x643c4e15d7d62ad0abec4a9bd4b001aa3ef52d66 ? I wrote about exactly this two weeks ago in my Maple deep dive and laid out what I wanted to see before adding: “The loan book just hit an all time high, and a good chunk of that growth has not shown up in
3:07 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.44K Views

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Chainflip:

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CHAINFLIP@Chainflip
Two weeks after the curve update, stablecoin yields on Chainflip Lending are moving up: USDC APY: 15% (7‑day avg) vs 9% (6‑month avg) USDT APY: 12% (7‑day avg) vs 10% (6‑month avg)
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CHAINFLIP @Chainflip
For every asset except BTC, we're moving two parameters in the Chainflip Lending rate curves: Target utilisation: 95% → 80% Rate at target: 4% → 7%
9:55 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.61K Views

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Mantle:

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Mantle@Mantle_Official
With @xStocksFi, high-demand equities went onchain, unlocking 24/7 access beyond market hours. Building on that foundation, Mantle took it further, expanding distribution, access, and productivity to a wider global audience. In three phases: → Access: reach US equities from an
3:09 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 8.34K Views

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Trezor:

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Trezor@Trezor
We have some difficult news to share. Unfortunately, one of our shipping providers has experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive order data. This affects new customers in the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal who received an order within the 90 days
12:54 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 141K Views

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Mezzanine:

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Mezzanine@mezzanine_fi
Mezzanine is the infrastructure layer that can take a product that's lost some public interest and give it a new shape entirely. A product might have real trust behind it. A track record, an audited codebase, a team people already believe in. What it might not have anymore is
2:22 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 4.31K Views

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Clarity:

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The Rollup@therollupco
Matt Hougan and Ryan Rasmussen of @Bitwise share their takes on why CLARITY will unleash a wave of entrepreneurial energy and why two very different bull markets are running at the same time. https://t.co/BMllSjriwZ
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The Rollup @therollupco
Bloomberg says the SEC has major crypto plans coming. @Bitwise CIO @Matt_Hougan on what they actually are, and why they're bigger than people think: "This is the bypass road on the CLARITY Act." "CLARITY is legislation, slow. The SEC can act through regulation. In about a https://t.co/0INpIvHZA1
11:36 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.29K Views

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Neutrl:

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Tindorr 🌯@0xTindorr
Another one paused. I hope this does not turn into another Main Street situation. My takeaways: - Reputation and credibility do not equal safety. I never expected this from Neutrl because the team seemed legit to me. - The Accountable dashboard was less useful than I assumed.
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Neutrl @Neutrl
Neutrl has temporarily paused minting, redemptions, and other protocol functions following circumstances affecting protocol reserves. These measures have been taken in the interest of our users, after advice from legal counsel, to preserve an orderly process while the impact is
1:51 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 7.74K Views

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cryptographic 🦞@cryptographicas
Neutrl clearly has an issue with offchain reserves/ one of its positions, minting and redemptions have been paused, liquidity in the main curve pool was removed just before they announced and then the pool itself was denylisted, effectively killing the main onchain exit. The
4:10 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.81K Views

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Latest Developments:

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The DeFi Investor 🔎@TheDeFinvestor
The latest developments in DeFi 👇 EtherFi introduced ETHFI buybacks and stock trading Hyperliquid is lobbying US regulators for a legal path to expand to the US Jupiter launched Jupiter Lend v2 on Solana, which is powered by Fluid tech Pendle launched the Pendle USDC Vault
2:13 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 5.95K Views

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ETHFI:

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DCF GOD@dcfgod
Holy send it Amazing work - an unruggable buyback Based on historical volumes this is $1.3M a month Expected to only increase from here. Mike saying “dwarfed” by future revenues Have another big announcement for the token but aren’t ready yet Want to ensure the token is
3:01 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 6.3K Views

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Stuff Rekt is looking at:

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rektdiomedes@rektdiomedes
Cypto + Macro Stuff I'm Looking At Today ... - Inflation data comes in slightly medium to weak, with odds around upcoming Fed actions turning more dovish as a result (more thoughts on this below) - Long-end of yield curve still at massive high's though, with 10 year at 4.619%
3:23 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 3.18K Views

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Ethena:

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Ethena@ethena
Ethena has partnered with FalconX, a leading digital asset prime broker, as an insitutional lending partner. As part of the partnership, Ethena will invest in stablecoin lending arrangements to @FalconXGlobal on an overcollateralised basis as part of our institutional lending
2:14 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 22.6K Views

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Buybacks:

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DCF GOD@dcfgod
Lighter buys back $1.8M a month at a $2.4b fdv and VCs still need to unlock VVV buys back $0.5M a month at a $1.4b fdv and still has emissions Etherfi buys back $1.3M a month at a $0.4b fdv and there's no vesting overhang One needs to re rate note: dcf cap holds ethfi and lit
4:20 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 34.8K Views

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Andy@andyyy
🎯🎯🎯
6:11 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 9.5K Views

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Re:

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Re@re
reUSD is live on @kamino. Users can deposit reUSD as collateral into Kamino’s $2.2B+ credit market on @solana & receive 5x Re Points. Re brings onchain capital to the real economy, supporting a diversified $510.5M portfolio across policies held by 700,000+ U.S. policyholders.
5:03 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 6.12K Views

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Re@re
Onchain reinsurance continues to expand within the @pendle_fi ecosystem. PT-reUSD is among the selected markets. Another step for RWAs becoming core DeFi collateral.
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Pendle @pendle_fi
The Pendle Ecosystem USDC vault is now live on @Morpho 🦋 Co-curated by Pendle and Armitage, @wintermute_t's vault curation arm. Deposit USDC, earn yield from PT borrow demand, plus a share of 7,500 $PENDLE weekly!
3:57 PM · Aug 12, 2026 · 4.38K Views

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STRC:

Robinhood:

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Nazar@ustyianskyi
this is why I barely pay attention to early projects on Robinhood feels like the same person created all these projects and every single one follows the same two accounts why not follow your own team if you're actually building something serious? cuz of this, I can't help but
6:42 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 899 Views

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Defillama:

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Llama@llama
Don't forget to check out these premium features in LlamaAI. A simple X search call for cost around $0.006 (0.6 cents).
7:05 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 289 Views

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0xngmi@0xngmi
DefiLlama is launching a new offchain attestation/verification service, where we'll attest stuff such as bank account balances and other offchain bits that we will audit If any team is interested, DM me
6:50 PM · Jun 25, 2026 · 78.4K Views

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🉐 Crypto Linn@crypto_linn
truly @llama is incredible people that are not using it are missing out:
7:41 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 7.43K Views

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Tether:

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USDT0@USDT0_to
Imagine being able to move millions of dollars worth of gold, at the click of a button. 1,000 XAUT sent → 1,000 XAUT0 received. The oldest store of value enters the future. @tethergold, everywhere.
3:56 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 5.43K Views

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Aylo@alpha_pls
Wow. The day has finally come. There is no more Tether fud. Tether truthers are dead forever (RIP bitfinexed). Tether has passed its first full financial audit by KPMG with flying colours. Huge for the biggest stablecoin in the world, and for the industry.
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Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino
Wen Tether audit? nOw. Today Tether announces its first full financial audit for Tether International, conducted by KPMG U.S. which resulted in an unqualified clean opinion, marking the highest result possible. An unqualified opinion is the best possible audit opinion an
7:43 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 10.8K Views

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USDT0@USDT0_to
Partner @Mantle_Official has topped $2.2B inbound USDT0 volume, making it our 7th largest destination chain. Nearly $1M USDT0 moved there in the last 24 hours alone. One of the most credible L2s in the market, now with deeper dollar liquidity.
3:43 PM · Aug 12, 2026 · 4.32K Views

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Hyperliquid:

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The DeFi Investor 🔎@TheDeFinvestor
What's next for Hyperliquid? In this blog post, I cover three of the biggest upcoming Hyperliquid catalysts. Check it out here:
thedefinvestor.com
🔍What’s next for Hyperliquid?
3:06 PM · Aug 13, 2026 · 3.47K Views

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pmm:

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nairolf@0xNairolf
"bro wat is pmm?" An explanation of @meleemarkets Parimutuel Market Maker, in (very) simple terms. 🧵
11:57 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 5.6K Views

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X Layer:

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X Layer@XLayerOfficial
The strongest agents do more than demo. They solve real workflows, create clear user value, and feel ready to scale. Meet our winners for Best Product 🧵👇
6:56 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 20.1K Views

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Protocol f(x):

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Smartmoney_Detective@NaveenCypto
15 minutes of liquidation protection. Best place to trade high leverage trades. @protocol_fx
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whiz @0xWhizMiz
I tried to get liquidated on this 100x $LINK long on @FX100Perp yes I wanted to get liquidated but every position gets liquidation protection for the first 15 minutes on FX100 protection expired but LINK ripped $237 → $1,148 +371% Wen mainnet? https://t.co/4DMrPEqoRY
3:05 AM · Aug 13, 2026 · 1.2K Views

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Hixon:

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Hix0n@PhilMrlo
🉐 Today's Hix0n's Confidential (fresh outta the oven) features a little special combo of @delpho_labs X @NestExchange 💲If you're looking for something super early and want a proper stablecoin yield, this is for you. (+ $NEST ofc) 👉Read and subscribe for free:
5:00 PM · Aug 12, 2026 · 1.02K Views

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