Background:
Currently, our utilization rate of TUSD is at 31% and the rest of our idle capital is deposited in Curve for short-term parking. 100% of USDC are idle currently. Curve TUSD pool is currently offering 12.03% APR. Curve 3pool is currently offering 4.45% APR. We may seek for a higher yield for our lenders from other safe options that allow liquid exit.
Suggestion:
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yearn.fi is the largest yield-aggregator with $3.79 billion TVL. It has been battle-tested and has a long track record. No withdrawal fee is collected for its v2 strategy which can allow our liquid exit. 23.99% is offered for its crvTUSD strategy with yveCRV boosted applied and 4.85% is offered for its crvTUSD strategy with yveCRV boosted.
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convexfinance.com is an emerging yield-aggregator which focus on Curve strategy with $508.5 million TVL. It has been audited before its launch and has tight cooperation with Curve. With its cvxCRV boost, 65.34% is offered for its TUSD strategy and 24.99% is offered for its TUSD strategy with cvxCRV boosted .
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If the community prefer minimizing the intermediary risk, another possible choice can be our pool locking a small amount of CRV to veCRV (around 1% of our treasury) for 4 years in Curve ourselves. It can provide us up to 2.5x boost for our deposited capital depending on the ratio between veCRV and our deposited idle capital. The small amount of capital investing will significantly improve our performance without adding much fluctation as it only accounts for 1% of our treasury. No additional contract risk is added to our idle capital in this case.
I sincerely suggest the core team and the community to consider my suggestion. It would improve our long-term APR and make our protocol more sustainable.