A path to tap Terra’s liquidity incentives, drive demand for RPL, and put idle capital to work.
The Opportunity
Right now Eris Protocol and the Terra Liquidity Alliance (TLA) offer amplified yields on LUNA liquid staking and stablecoin pools. We’re talking APRs that hover around 100% when you factor in token emissions and bribes. The Rocket Pool community holds serious assets: RPL, rETH, ETH. That capital sits idle in many wallets. What if a portion of it started working across chains, earning outsized returns, and then funneling value back into the RPL ecosystem? That’s the core idea.
The Core Loop: Borrow, Deploy, Earn, Repeat
You don’t need to sell your RPL or ETH. You use them as collateral on mature lending markets to borrow stablecoins cheap, then put those stables to work in the high yield environment on Terra. The steps break down like this.
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Collateralize and borrow below 10% APR. Supply RPL or ETH on Aave, Compound, or Maker. Borrow DAI or USDC. Current stablecoin borrow rates on Aave V3 for ETH collateral sit around 2% to 4% variable. Even during spikes, a 10% average cost is easy to maintain with careful monitoring. Your RPL and ETH stay in your control, earning staking yield or just sitting as collateral.
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Bridge your borrowed stables to Terra. Use Wormhole or Axelar. Move USDC or DAI into Terra’s ecosystem. You now hold stablecoins in a high yield environment.
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Deploy into Eris Protocol’s amplified pools. Eris offers liquid staking for LUNA (ampLUNA) and liquidity pools that farm TLA rewards. Deposit your stables into an ampLUNA-stable LP. The base swap fees plus TLA incentives and Eris emissions push APRs well above 100% for extended periods. Check current Eris farms—you’ll find numbers like 120% to 180% depending on the week.
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Harvest and compound. Claim your rewards daily or weekly. Reinvest back into the pool to snowball, or split the returns. A portion of those returns repays your borrow position, and the excess is profit. That profit then either buys back RPL on the open market or gets added to the Rocket Pool treasury or distributed to stakers. The loop becomes self funding.
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Loop the position. As your collateral value rises with RPL price appreciation and your debt stays stablecoin denominated, your health factor improves. You can choose to borrow more against the same collateral and deploy fresh capital into the Terra side, compounding the return stream. The infinite loop creates a flywheel.
Why This Benefits the Rocket Pool Ecosystem
The profit doesn’t just sit in someone’s wallet. It creates buy pressure for RPL. When the community executes this strategy in a coordinated way, even a small percentage of the harvest used to market buy RPL adds consistent demand. More RPL leaves exchanges. More RPL goes into node operator collateral, strengthening the protocol’s security. The whole network benefits.
Liquidity for RPL also expands. If we use the loop to seed a Terra-native RPL-LUNA , we create a new venue for RPL trading, insulated from Ethereum gas costs. That attracts new users from the Terra ecosystem who otherwise might never interact with Rocket Pool. They discover rETH, they become node operators. The community grows.
Convincing TLA to Whitelist RPL
The whitelist is the key that unlocks the biggest rewards. TLA provides incentive emissions to whitelisted assets, effectively subsidizing their liquidity on Terra. If RPL gets whitelisted, the protocol receives direct token incentives, which can then be distributed to liquidity providers or routed into the loop. Here’s why it’s a no brainer for TLA to onboard RPL.
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RPL brings a battle tested, high TVL community with deep pockets. Rocket Pool manages over $2 billion in TVL. Its holders are long term aligned, not mercenary farmers. They will stick around and provide sticky liquidity, not dump tokens instantly. TLA wants protocols that contribute lasting value.
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RPL collateral opens up a new primitive on Terra. Whitelisted RPL can be used as collateral on Mars Protocol or other Terra money markets. That creates a fresh borrowing demand for RPL itself. Users will bridge RPL to Terra, lock it up, and borrow stables against it. That reduces circulating supply and adds a permanent sink for the token. Terra’s DeFi gains another quality asset.
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Cross chain synergy with rETH. Rocket Pool’s liquid staking token, rETH, is the best collateral on Ethereum. Once RPL gets a foothold on Terra, it paves the way for rETH to be whitelisted in the future. Terra could host rETH lending markets, bringing Ethereum’s staking yield to Terra users. The integration becomes a two way street that benefits both ecosystems.
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The loop directly feeds TLA’s incentive flywheel. When Rocket Pool’s community deploys into Eris pools using borrowed stables, they add deep liquidity, increase volume, and generate fees. TLA’s incentive program works better when large, sticky capital providers participate. RPL holders become active liquidity managers, making the entire TLA more attractive for other protocols to join.
Getting It Done: A Community Play
This doesn’t require a central authority. A few dedicated community members can start small: borrow against their own RPL, deploy on Eris, show the numbers. Build a case study. Share it on the Rocket Pool forum and Discord. The DAO then votes to allocate a modest treasury amount—say, 1% of the treasury’s stablecoin holdings—to test the strategy in a controlled way. As the track record grows, the scale increases. A formal proposal to pursue TLA whitelisting for RPL gets drafted, backed by the data from the live loop.
The Terra Liquidity Alliance wants active, committed partners. The Rocket Pool community offers exactly that a disciplined, long term focused group that can pour millions in liquidity into Terra without destabilizing it. Whitelisting RPL is a strategic move that brings Ethereum’s top decentralized staking protocol into Terra’s incentive orbit. The benefits flow both ways.
The building blocks exist right now. Low cost borrowing. High yield pools on Eris. A bridge. And a community ready to innovate. The time to start the loop is now.