Katana, L2 chain, has generated $2M in revenue in just 3 months of operation. And its been giving that revenue back to the users of the chain.

Katana is a DeFi-focused chain that gives chain revenue back to its users through real-yield liquidity mining, yearn vault donations, and chain-owned liquidity.

Four main revenue drivers for katana:

•  vaultbridge – assets in the bridge are used to generate real yield
•  AUSD Treasuries – yield from off-chain US treasuries
•  chain-owned liquidity – revenue generated from liquidity owned by the chain
•  sequencer fees – txn fees on the katana blockchain

VB Liquidity Mining Campaign/Donation Example Tweets:

Real yield liquidity mining Campaign:

•  Sept 5 – $150k
•  Sept 19 – $135k
•  Oct 1 – $88k

Yearn Vault Donations

•  Aug 26 – $509k (although this was sent directly to users wallets)
•  Sept 24 – $200k
• Oct 3 – $165k

Other Resources:

•  Chain-owned liquidity wallet address (growing and compounding) – currently at $375k
•  KAT/vKAT Tokenomics – veTokenomics for an entire chain
•  Revenue and Chain Analytics – from Blockworks
• Total TVL being used in DeFi – from DeFi Llama