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These pools arrive at a critical moment for DYP, which analysts predict will surge by orders of magnitude in the weeks to come. 

DYP's New Pools

According to a company statement, the Buyback pool will allow users to deposit various cryptos or tokens to begin earning. These include WBNB, BTCB, ETH, BUSD, or CAKE.

Upon deposit, assets are converted into a mix of DYP and iDYP tokens and placed into a staking contract. Users can then earn 30% to 100% APR, depending on how long they choose to lock up their tokens. All rewards are then distributed in DYP upon withdrawal.

Farming will provide another method for users to profit from their WBNB, ETH, or BUSD holdings. After depositing one of the platform's supported assets, users can start earning WBNB, ETH, and DYP as their rewards.

To protect from iDYP's price volatility, all pool rewards are automatically converted into WBNB. However, liquidity providers may also choose to be rewarded in ETH. Upon withdrawal, a user's funds will be 75% returned in the original deposit asset, and 25% returned in DYP.

Finally, staking lets DYP holders earn up to 50% APR with no impermanent loss. Like the buyback pool, the yield rate depends on how long users choose to lock up their holdings. It includes an integrated “reinvest” function, automatically distributing rewards back into the staking pool to compound one's earnings. 

The staking pool also features a referral program, which will grant 5% of the referred party's staked earnings back to the person who referred to the Defi Yield Protocol. This gives users the chance to profit from helping market Defi Yield Protocol to friends and family, at no gas fee.

Altogether, the buyback, farming, and staking pools accrued over $40 million in deposits within a week after launch. As a reward, DYP paid 15,867 AVAX, 7,997 BNB, and 9,032 ETH to its respective, amounting to $44,149,334 worth of tokens at the time, With such lucrative payouts, its clear to see why users – and analysts – would be bullish about the platform.

DYP Ready to Pump, According to Analysts

CryptoBusy and Crypto Hustle – cryptocurrency traders and YouTubers – released a collaborative analysis video earlier this month. They offered their predictions for which altcoins would see the greatest returns during this bull cycle. Trading for about $0.72 at the time, Busy said that DYP was “potentially a 100x altcoin or higher”.

“Great team, great whitepaper, great roadmap, and great technology behind this as well,” said the Youtuber. 

Busy called attention to DYP's anti-manipulation mechanism – which protects against the volatility of platform-native tokens used for rewards, such as BNB and AVAX – among other unique features.

Shortly afterward, DYP was deemed a “gem” investment pick by fellow trader CryptoRevolution, in his mid-November video titled “parabolic altcoin picks”. After investing in early November, the Youtuber personally saw 70% gains in DYP after only ten days.

Revolution anticipated that DYP would reach $1.28, or even $1.56 – over double its current market price. This is due to the large number of updates set to launch on Defi Yield Protocol in the weeks to come, which inspires the YouTuber's confidence in its future success. Besides an upcoming NFTs marketplace, DYP will also introduce NFT dapps, and specialized staking pools on Avalanche and Ethereum, equivalent to their new pools on BSC.

What is Defi Yield Protocol?

Defi Yield Protocol (DYP) is a multi-purpose platform for staking, yield farming, NFTs, and various trading solutions. 

Uniquely, DYP is the first Defi platform to reward users in Ether. It also features anti-manipulation protection that protects the rewarding stability for those being rewarded in not-so-stable platform native tokens, such as iDYP.

The platform primarily functions as a decentralized tool dashboard. It includes decentralized scores, trust vote systems, and yield farm data to help investors make informed decisions.

The protocol is set to release numerous features in the future, including staking, farming, and buyback pools on Avalanche and Ethereum.

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Data on patent acceptances into 2021 confirms that the Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 (‘RtB Act’), which came into effect on 15 April 2013, has had a minimal impact on the rate of patent application acceptance in Australia – and to the extent that an effect is present, it does not run in the direction that might be expected!  Here, I define ‘rate of acceptance’ as the proportion of examined applications that go on to be accepted for grant.  Between 2009 and 2013, the rate at which applications subject to the former (i.e. pre-RtB) provisions were accepted rose from 69% to 72%.  In comparison, the acceptance rate of post-RtB applications has stabilised at around 75% in each year between 2017 and 2021.

Some people may have anticipated that, in raising the standard of inventive step and introducing stricter requirements for enablement and support of claims, the RtB reforms would result in fewer applications being accepted.  I was not one of those people, and I expect that neither were most other patent attorneys.  Those of us who work on behalf of patent applicants are well-aware that, firstly, most of those applicants are seeking patent protection in other jurisdictions that have high standards of patentability, and are not wasting time and money on equivalent Australian applications for inventions that do not meet those standards.  And, secondly, encountering a higher bar to acceptance does not necessarily mean abandoning the application altogether; often it may simply mean settling for a more limited scope of protection.

Perhaps more surprisingly, however, raising standards of patentability has not resulted in applicants making more rounds of amendment to their applications in order to achieve acceptance.  In fact, if anything applications examined under the post-RtB provisions have been, on average, subject to fewer amendments in examination than pre-RtB applications.

Interestingly, in the transition between the two legal regimes, the earliest applications to be examined under the provisions of the RtB Act had acceptance rates in excess of 90%, while acceptance rates of the last applications to be examined under the former provisions fell to below 50%.  These effects are most likely attributable to the respective applicants’ strategies in pursuing early examination of post-RtB applications, and in persisting to the bitter end with some pre-RtB applications.

Another interesting observation is that expedited examination has become increasingly popular in the years since the RtB reforms commenced, rising from just under 6% of all cases in 2014/15 to over 8% in 2020/21.  In particular, expedited examination under the Global Patent Prosecution Highway (GPPH) program rose from just 2.7% of cases in 2013/14 to 5.1% in 2019/20.  In fact, GPPH requests were the majority of all expedited examination requests in every post-RtB year except for the first (2013/14).

Finally, the most recent data confirms (once again) that the duration of patent prosecution (i.e. from examination request through to acceptance, in successful cases) has reduced significantly – from a median of over 600 days, to a little more than 400 days – since commencement of the RtB reforms.  This has been due, in almost exactly equal parts, to the tighter time constraints imposed on applicants, and to reductions in Patent Office delays in commencing examination after a request has been filed.

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-- Recently crowned #1 launchpad by average ROI, Starter (https://starter.xyz), today announced it will host the Initial Dex Offering (IDO) of StripFinance (https://www.strip.finance/), a decentralized platform protocol for easing liquidity in the NFT space. 

As the Non-fungible token (NFT) space continues to vastly expand on the blockchain, hundreds of thousands of creators and enthusiasts interact daily, creating millions of dollars in value within the NFT space. The growing transfer and value of NFTs has created a liquidity challenge in the market that will be solved by StripFinance. The protocol will allow users to provide loans against the value of NFTs as collateral and unlock millions of liquidity currently locked away in ‘Blue Chip NFTs.'

“StripFinance will be offering something we have yet to see normalized in the NFT space: NFT collateralization. Their DeFi protocol will add another staple to NFT utility by allowing lenders and borrowers to use NFTs to conduct transactions and provide additional utility, “said Lionel Iruk, special counsel at Starter. “It's great to be a part of StripFinance's process to see how the protocol will further push the boundaries of the blockchain!”

Within the DeFi protocol, lenders will be able to provide stable coins as liquidity, matching lenders to borrowers who are interested to borrow against their valuable NFTs. The lenders will have control over the interest rate and the Loan-To-Value (LVT) they are willing to offer borrowers. 

The value of the collateralized NFT will be directly retrieved from the NFT Marketplace, creating a fair and transparent collateralization process. Once accepted, the NFT will be transferred and held in escrow. If the installments are paid within the timeframe, the NFT will be returned to the original owner. However, If there is a default, the ownership rights are transferred to the lender. 

Additionally, users will have the option to opt for a pool, where investor and lender funds and NFTs will be pooled and create a stronger collateral and better security for all parties involved. 

StripFinance is founded by veterans of the industry including Varun Satyam, Yuvraj Chhibber and Yash Jejani. So far, the protocol has recently completed a $1.5 million raise so far from LD Capital, Old Fashion Research, Nothing Research, Tenzor capital, Exnetwork Capital, Valhalla capital, Block0, Shima Capital, Lancer Capital, MEXC Global Exchange, Kryptos Research, The NewField Fund, ZBS Capital, Starter Capital, J10M Capital, Wave 7, among others. 

During the Initial Dex Announcement (IDO), $STRIP tokens will be made available for purchase at $0.40 USD. The tokens will offer additional leverage value in the event of the NFT price reduction into the risk threshold. Additionally, $STRIP will function as a native platform utility token to pay fees for other platform services and will be considered within the project governance regarding decisions for project updates, airdrops, burn schedules and developer and community grants. 

Starter's community has provided hassle-free funding to many well-known IDO launches and now adds StripFinance to its list. For more information on Starter's IDO launch of StripFinance, please visit https://starter.xyz/.

About StripFinance

Strip Finance is building liquidity easing solutions for the NFT space, initially launching a collateralized NFT borrowing and lending platform on Binance Smart Chain. The platform's ability to collateralize NFTs through its liquidity protocol enhances the value proposition for both asset owners and yield-seeking investors. 

The idea was conceptualized in response to the global explosion of interest in digital ownership by a team that comprises experienced crypto entrepreneurs, operators, and stalwarts of the crypto industry as advisors and investors. 

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Starter (https://starter.xyz) is the leading IDO launchpad, incubator, and investor network for @0xPolygon, $ETH, $AVAX, $FTM, and #BSC, having raised over $25M for 40+ projects, including Cake Monster, Wall St Bets, Nasdex, and Enjinstarter. Starter provides projects access to funding opportunities without the hassle of bureaucratic hurdles or complex KYC requirements. Starter's suite of products include a venture arm Starter.capital, launchpad Starter.xyz, and token vesting and liquidity locking StartVesting.xyz.

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