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OHM Holders Wake Up To Blood, How This OlympusDAO Whale Sank Its Price by 44%

In 2021, Ethereum based OlympusDAO and its native token OHM exploded as the protocol onboarded new users seeking to leverage its high annual percentage yield (APY). At its peak, the price of OHM went from $330 to an all time high of $1,639, but the asset seems to be on a downward trend since October last year.

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OHM trends to the downside. Source: Coingecko

According to Wu Blockchain, a OlympusDAO Whale triggered a cascade of liquidations on the protocol during today’s trading session. This led to a 44% crash in OHM’s price within an hour. At this time, the APY offered to OHM holders stood at around 190,000%.

As reported by NewsBTC, OlympusDAO is an algorithmic currency protocol that was classified in 2021 as high risk, but with the potential to display a “countercyclical” price behavior by research firm Delphi Digital. In other words, OHM’s price could move against the general sentiment in the market.

However, OHM seems to have been unable to meet its potential or at least seems to have failed at appreciating as the crypto market trends to the downside. OHM’s price action has been driven by early investors taking profits on their gains.

User Freddie Raynolds identified the Ethereum transaction used by a “savage” OlympusDAO user to dump $11 million in OHM. The transaction caused a 25% slippage and $5 million in liquidations for this asset, as Raynolds reported via his Twitter account.

Recorded on the Ethereum blockchain 12 hours ago, the OHM holder used decentralizaed exchange SushiSwap to swap over 82,526 OHM tokens for $11 million in DAI. The transaction was tracked down to a pseudonym holder called “el sk”, @shotta_sk, on social network Twitter.

The OHM whale apparently sold part of his funds to “survive” the current crypto market conditions. Via Twitter, he claimed the following:

Derisked some of my OHM to ensure my family can weather any economic outcome. Remaining risk on with the rest indefinitely.

Perfect Time To Get Into OlympusDAO?

OlympusDAO experienced an increase in its number of users, its treasury assets, and total value locked (TVL) during 2021. Thus, some users claimed that today’s OHM crash should be leverage as a buying opportunity.

The protocol and its team behind have set out to create “the reserve currency for DeFi” with their 3,3 mechanism and the introduction of new features, including an incubator and a pro version of the platform. However, the protocol has seen a lot of criticism.

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The CIO of Selini Capital Jordi Alexander published a two-part article on OlympusDAO, OHM, and its 3,3 mechanism. Therein, Alexander refers to the protocol as a “ponzi”. Addressing the possibility that his article affected OHM’s performance, he said:

Only selling affects price, there’s no shorting so only whale holders can sell lots. So, you can ask them if they cared, but I imagine they were looking for an exit anyway- Price has been in a big downtrend for weeks.

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Dog-Themed DeFi Project Mysteriously Loses Fundraised $60 Million

A DeFi project that launched on Thursday had raised $60 million overnight during its token sale. However, the funds seem to have disappeared, and no one is sure exactly how.

On Friday, investors woke up to the shocking news that their funds had disappeared. Around 13,556.36 ETH, which was worth $60 million at the time, was drained from AnubisDAO’s liquidity pool.

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The project, AnubisDAO, was promoted as a fork of OlympusDAO — a cryptocurrency backed by the assets in its treasury. It was based on Anubis, an Egyptian god of death with a dog’s head. This theme is also similar to other dog-themed meme coins.

Although Anubis identified itself as a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), the details of the project were unclear. And even though it did not have an official website, investors still pumped in $60 million worth of ETH into it.

The Project Suffers Mysterious Attack

The token sale started on Thursday, with investors putting ETH into the project and receiving Anubis tokens (ANKH) in return.

However, the token sale, which was supposed to last for 24 hours, lasted only 20. The reason was the removal of the liquidity pool by an unknown entity. And the $60 million in ETH that had been raised in the token sale was then sent to a different address.
Subsequently, the value of the ANKH token dropped to almost zero.

Investors are still in shock about how quickly the whole thing happened. Brian Nguyen, who invested in the project and lost nearly $470,000, spoke to CNBC about the unfortunate event.

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He admitted that he did not investigate the project thoroughly before investing. “We, in crypto, tend to have a ‘buy first, do research later,’ mentality,” he says.

He mentioned that he was interested in AnubisDAO because it was similar to other dog-inspired cryptocurrencies like dogecoin and Shiba Inu, which have surged in popularity lately. The fact that the sale was on popular auction platform Copper Launch also encouraged him to invest.

Also, a crypto influencer who he respected – 0xSisyphus on Twitter – supported the project. “So, I had some conviction on the buy.”

Investigations Begin

Shortly after investors started talking about losing their money, people speculated that Copper Launch was probably compromised. In response, Copper Launch said it was not, “but the Anubis team seems to have compromised their admin keys,” The Auction platform also released a statement yesterday regarding the incident.

There have been many guesses on what really happened. Some suspect it to be a “rug pull.” A rug pull is a common type of crypto scam where a project is created with the specific intention of stealing investor funds.
Others think it could be a phishing attack, where hackers target victims to steal crypto credentials.

DeFi market cap at $152.789B | Source: Crypto Total DeFi Market Cap on TradingView.com

A Twitter user claimed that they may have fallen victim to a phishing attack. They shared a screenshot of an email from someone pretending to be crypto investor 0xSisyphus. 0xSisyphus, however, since denied it, and tweeted on Friday that the 0xSisyphus “account’s namesake is clearly compromised,” They also offered a bounty of 1,000 ETH in return for the lost funds or to anyone who could identify the owner of the receiving wallet.

A Twitter user traced the wallet address to another user named Beerus. Moments later, the Beerus account was deleted.

March 18 @beerus tweets the wallet address that funded today's Anubis hack

1 minute ago @beerus deletes his Twitter account

1k ETH pls @0xSisyphus pic.twitter.com/CvO3YTwCRu

— loldefi // 🥒🦋 (3, 3) (@loldefi) October 29, 2021

0xSisyphus later said that they were certain that the incident was not a phishing attack but instead a rug pull by a “rogue team member,” They further said that Chainalysis was involved in the investigation. And that they are also working with authorities in the UK and US.

Featured image by @AnubisDao on Twitter, Chart from TradingView.com

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OlympusDAO Fundamentals Explode, How OHM Holders Will Benefit

In only three weeks OlympusDAO native token OHM has gone from $812 to $1639, at the time of writing. In the 30-day chart, the token has a 74.2% profit and a 55% profit in the 7-day chart. The protocol’s fundamental continues growing at an impressive pace and could yield further gains.

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OHM moving sideways in the daily chart. Source: Coingecko

Data shared by the OlympusDAO revealed an increase in the number of OHM holders. Under 1,000 at the end of March 2021, this metric has more than double in April and stands at 3,300. In the past 30 days, OHM holders have been growing exponentially.

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Source: Dune Analytics via OlympusDAO

The team also shows an increase in the Risk-Free Value of Treasury Assets metric, used to measure the minimum value of OlympusDAO assets. As the team said, “no matter where the price hoes; this goes flat or up”. The metric stands at 2,807,363 DAI, at the time of writing and has gone parabolic since April 21st.

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Source: Dune Analytics via OlympusDAO

The Market Value of Treasury Assets, related to OHM’s price performance, stands at $25,147,490 million and has seen similar growth in the last month. 90% of OHM’s supply, as the team said, has been consistently staked with the “3,3” as the dominant investment strategy.

In consequence, the protocols Total Value Locked (TVL) has increased after a dropped at the end of March. Since then, the metric rose with the last week seen the fastest growing. OlympusDAO registered $150 million in TVL. The team said the following on potential rewards for investors:

Things don’t look like they will let up for those stakers any time soon; OHM waiting to be distributed to stakers is now 20x more than OHM staked, securing >50,000% APY for the next six months at least.

OlympusDAO OHM
Source: Dune Analytics via OlympusDAO

OlympusDAO Liquidity On The Rise

Additional data points towards a liquidity accumulation on the protocol. The pool for trading pairs DAI/OHM and OHM/DAI have surged and gone from $3 million at the protocol’s launch to $28 million, at the time of writing. 83% of the pool’s liquidity is treasury owned, as the Team clarified. They added the following:

This ownership is to the point that external LPs should feel quite comfortable deploying into the pool. A significant risk on the part of a liquidity provider is that everyone else to pulls and they end up holding the bag. This risk is minimized significantly when the protocol holds a majority share.

Created as an algorithmic currency protocol, OlympusDAO has created a mechanism that employs asset backing as a supply constraint. Their native token OHM is minted by the liquidity provided in DAI or OHM-DAI LP send to the protocol. As anonymous user “Shadow” explained, the protocol has been designed to protect its investors:

OlympusDAO preserves your purchasing power by rebasing your staked OHM. Rebasing is nothing other than minting new OHM which is paid to the stakers. The rebase is shown as a % increase of the staked OHM per epoch (8h). The APY is just the auto-compounded rebase over a year.
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Why this OlympusDAO’s product could be amongst DeFi most lucrative

Taking the market by storm, OlympusDAO’s native OHM is up 95.8% this week alone and 31.1% in the past two weeks. At the time of writing, OHM is trading at $812,76 with 7.3% profits in the 24-hour chart.

With a market cap of just $68 million, OlympusDAO might have gone unnoticed by many investors. However, it has a mechanism called Bonds which promises to be one most important and lucrative in the DeFi sector.

According to research firm Messari, this protocol is attempting to create a stable currency backing every OHM with DAI and OHM-DAI. The objective is to maintain a “fundamental check on inflation” and a currency with an undiluted purchasing power.

Unlike Tether and other stablecoins, OHM is not pegged to any other asset. Its stability is achieved via the DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) when it alters variables to obtain more profitability for stakers.

This is done via the sales contract connected to the protocol’s treasury and a liquidity pool (OMH-DAI) on decentralized exchange Sushiswap, as shown below. Messari explains:

When OHM trades above 1 DAI, the protocol mints and sells new OHM. When OHM trades below 1 DAI, the protocol buys back and burns OHM. In each case the protocol makes a profit. Olympus DAO distributes these profits 90% to OHM stakers pro rata and 10% to a DAO.

OlympusDAO OHM
Source: Messari

How OlympusDAO’s bonds operate

The Bonds are a treasury component to get liquidity with it users can trade Stake Liquidity Provider tokens to get OHM directly with the protocol, as an OlympusDAO developer explained.

Once the trade is completed there is a vesting schedule of 5 days. During this time, the user can redeem the tokens but has incentives to get them at a discount. The latter is determined by the number of bonds in the protocol, more bonds are equal to a lower discount.

Via this mechanism, as the developer said, OlympusDAO restrains its own growth, to have become “steadier”.

The liquidity from a bond is locked in the treasury and used to back new $OHM. That liquidity now belongs to the market and, by extension, the token holders. The more liquidity the protocol builds up, the more confident holders can feel.

The users are basically contributing to OlympusDAO by adding liquidity. In retribution, the user gets a reward in OHM at a much cheaper price during a specific period. That way, both the user and the protocol can benefit.

OlympusDAO offers LP a variety of strategies around OHM which they can leverage to obtain a bigger profit than on the spot market. The developer claims:

All of this serves to create a long-term, sustainable bootstrapping mechanism for the protocol, with participants as the main beneficiaries. A good system shouldn’t offer one opportunity to “make it”; it should offer them in perpetuity with diminishing returns. This is how you produce wealth; slowly, through compounding gains.

Ethereum is trading at $2096,58 with a 1.2% profit in the 24-hour chart, after dropping from its ATH at $2,198.

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ETH with small profits in the 24-hour chart. Source: ETHUSD Tradingview