DAOUSDT
DAO Maker / Tether USD
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Well I have been in the market since 2013, my masters was in crypto, what do you want to know? How epic the eth ico was? What the market looked like when eth was open to trade in q4 2015 and was 80 cents? The DAO hack? The ICO mania of 2017? The first mainstream bullrun of 2017 when btc was cca 20k? Not to mention COVID, defi craze...

OG days were 2016 and The DAO. What a time to be alive.

Used to handle payouts for a small DAO and ran into same thing. The quoted number means almost nothing once you leave the main chain, slippage eats you alive and nobody tells you beforehand.

Bridge fees are tricky cause they change depending on liquidity on the destination side, and most processors bury that in the fine print. I started checking every single transaction after losing like 500 bucks on a batch similar to yours.

What worked for me was splitting payments into smaller chunks and timing them when gas is lower, usually late night EST. Not perfect but saved maybe 15-20% on total costs. Still annoying you have to babysit it like this in 2026.

For BTC I can pull 2-6% apy while the position delta is 1 BTC.
I focus on correlated token pairs. Stuff like WBTC/tBTC or cbBTC/tBTC.
Theres also some ways to use single sided LPs which reduce IL pretty dramatically. Stuff like Hydration DeX lets you contribute tBTC single sided LPs with decent apr.
To get more than 3% you really need to concentrate your range aggressively.
For higher yields you pretty much have to assume counterpart risk.
Boosting your Curve farms through stuff like stake DAO can be nice too