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Trader Joe�$JOE

04/18/2023

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“One-Stop Decentralized Trading”

  • Trader Joe is a multi-chain DEX, money market, bridge, and NFT marketplace�
  • JOE began on Avalanche, and has since launched on BNB Chain and more recently, Arbitrum

  • Their premier product is v2 of its DEX which they call "Liquidity Book"

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Liquidity Book (LB)

  • Joe’s “Liquidity Book” aggregates liquidity positions vertically into price bins, rather than horizontally as Uniswap does�
  • This improves UX by allowing for concentrated liquidity in specific price ranges and enables zero-slippage swaps within active price bins

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Key Features of Liquidity Book

  • Zero Slippage
    • Traders can swap tokens with zero slippage within bins.�
  • Surge Pricing
    • Liquidity Providers earn additional dynamic fees during high market volatility.�
  • High Capital Efficiency
    • Liquidity Book can support high volume trading with low liquidity requirements.�
  • Flexible Liquidity
    • Liquidity Providers can build flexible liquidity distributions according to their strategy.

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Protocol Statistics

  • $231m MC�
  • $334m FDV�
  • $117m TVL�
  • $54m annualized fees�
  • $957k annualized revenue

30 day changes:

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Swap Volumes

  • Trader Joe saw a huge surge of volume post-ARB airdrop�
  • 50% of all swap volume is currently happening on Arbitrum�
  • ~21% of all time volume has come from Arbitrum in just the last 30 days

Last 30d:

All-Time:

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Active Users

  • 9.6k daily active users

  • DAU grew 150% in the last 30 days�
  • 269k cumulative unique users using LB (ARB & AVAX)

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Fees Earned

  • 60% increase in fees earned in last 30 days�
  • Arbitrum chain is already producing ~50% of fees collected�
  • ~16% of all on-chain $ARB trading in the first 7 days happened using LB�
    • More than Sushi, Camelot, and Balancer combined

Total fees (Last 30d):

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Fees Earned vs. Competitors

  • JOE is #3 highest fee earning DEX in the last 30 days (ahead of SUSHI, BAL, 1INCH)

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Relative Market Cap to Competitors

  • Trader Joe is still worth only ½ of BAL, and nearly ⅓ of 1INCH, despite having a better product and earning more fees.

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Relative Market Cap

Comparison

  • JOE token would 2x if it reached the valuation of 1INCH�
  • 2.85x to reach CAKE�
  • 20x to reach UNI

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Unlocks

  • $JOE token is more than 96% emitted�
  • Only 3.3% of total supply left to distribute between now and Feb 15, 2024

Allocations

Vesting Schedule

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Main Thesis

  • JOE is a good pick for double exposure to current ARB & AVAX narratives
    • Resurgence of Arbitrum ecosystem
    • Received 900,000 $ARB tokens - incentives may be coming
    • Amazon blockchain on Avalanche rumors
    • AVAX Summit coming up May 3-5�
  • More than 96% emitted is bullish for token price and yields�
  • Liquidity Book is basically Uniswap v4 - good tech, concentrated liquidity with zero slippage is a superior product�
  • Undervalued versus main competitors�
  • Based team rapidly innovating and expanding to new chains
    • Deployments on Mainnet, Optimism, and future chains ie. ZKSync could have similar effect to the surge of activity from Arbitrum�
  • TLDR: JOE LB product is superior to competitors and helps position JOE to capture significant market share