Liquidity

Hong Kong, a vibrant global financial hub, is making significant strides not just in traditional finance but also in cementing its position as a leading Web3 innovation center. A recent announcement from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) regarding its RMB business facility, while seemingly a conventional finance headline, carries subtle yet profound implications for the burgeoning Web3 ecosystem in the region and beyond. HKMA’s Strategic RMB Push: Bolstering Offshore Liquidity The HKMA has announced a substantial expansion of its RMB liquidity facility, doubling it to a staggering RMB200 billion yuan. This strategic move comes in response to overwhelming demand, with 40 banks having already exhausted their initial quotas for offshore yuan (CNH) transactions. The primary objective is clear: to enhance Hong Kong’s role as the premier offshore RMB business hub and to expand the yuan’s international reach, particularly into ASEAN nations and Europe. ...

Solana’s Next Frontier: Unpacking Proprietary AMMs (PropAMMs) The decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape is in a perpetual state of innovation, constantly striving to replicate, and ultimately surpass, the efficiency and liquidity found in traditional financial markets. While Automated Market Makers (AMMs) have revolutionized on-chain trading, their inherent limitations – primarily slippage, impermanent loss, and capital inefficiency – have often left a gap when compared to centralized exchanges (CEXs). Enter Proprietary AMMs, or PropAMMs, a new class of AMMs emerging on high-performance blockchains like Solana, designed to bridge this very gap. ...