DeFi Strategies for Q4 2022 Bear Market

Buy when there’s blood on the streets, even if the blood is your own. — Nathan Rothschild

Not a lot of people know this, but when Nathan said this quote, he literally meant “buy property when there is war in the streets and people are dying”. I think we can safely say, that with the death of 3AC and FTX/Alameda — we’ve faced some serious deaths and there’s enough blood to get back into the market.

There are really a lot of things you can do in DeFi nowadays. The ecosystem has exploded since the term was coined. Even in a bear, or shall we say, crab market, opportunities are everywhere, and CT is swarming with folks shilling various airdrop-degen-highly-efficient trading strategies. Did you miss Aptos? Here are five more blockchains launching. Didn’t get $OP? Don’t miss the Arbitrum airdrop. And what’s the hottest yield farming strategy with double-digit APY? If you’re not aping, are you even doing something in DeFi…?

Let’s tone it down a notch, though. Not everyone wants to ape in the next Terra and Luna. And, if anything, the number of people burned this year only grew more since then. According to Chainalysis, October 2022 was the biggest month in the biggest year in terms of hacking activity, with $718 million stolen from DeFi protocols across 11 different exploits. “At this rate, 2022 will likely surpass 2021 as the biggest year for hacking on record. So far, hackers have grossed over $3 billion across 25 hacks.” Closing the month, The Defiant cites an even bigger figure, concluding that…