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$VERA Airdrop Announcement

Background What is VERA? What’s the problem to solve? * We have observed in previous market cycles, the number of projects always rising exponentially, and it makes it difficult to keep updated with the market while knowing whether an opportunity is worthwhile to consider or not. Our data indicates in

How to Not Be Poor: Understanding nominal yield, token inflation and real yield

How to Not Be Poor: Understanding nominal yield, token inflation and real yield

The key to not become poor, is to make sure you pay attention to seemingly boring things like nominal yield, token inflation and real yield. Increase in wealth is defined by the increase in REAL wealth, not NOMINAL wealth. Read more to find out. Firstly, Lets Start Off with NOMINAL.

No Bullshit Guide into DeFi Lending & Borrowing: Collateral and liquidation

No Bullshit Guide into DeFi Lending & Borrowing: Collateral and liquidation

Collateral and liquidation are significant components of DeFi lending and borrowing. Understanding the two ideas is crucial since collateral is a requirement before borrowing and liquidation is how lenders may make money. 1. COLLATERAL As we have mentioned in the previous article, collateral in DeFi borrowing landscape is usually 100%

No Bullshit Guide into DeFi Lending & Borrowing: Interest Rate Model

No Bullshit Guide into DeFi Lending & Borrowing: Interest Rate Model

DeFi lending and borrowing make up 10% of all DeFi TVL. Understanding how the interest rate model works is important for investors in order to help you choose the best protocol to lend your money or to borrow from. DeFi Loans vs TradFi Loans * DeFi has no intermediary or separate

No Bullshit Guide to Yield Farming

No Bullshit Guide to Yield Farming

What is Actually Yield Farming * Yield farming is a great way to get returns by providing liquidity to AMMs in 50:50 proportion. For example, in an AMM you can provide liquidity on ETH - USDC pair for 0.3% fee per tx. Think of it as acting as market

Uniswap V3

Uniswap V2 * Uniswap V2 was launched in May 2020 as an improvement to Uniswap V1. Uniswap V2 introduced many new features and optimizations, which makes Uniswap V2 one of the largest cryptocurrency spot exchanges in the world within 1 year. * Uniswap V2 works using model of x*y = k with

What is Blockchain

What is Blockchain

What is Blockchain * Blockchain is a distributed database or ledger which is then shared to nodes of computer networks. Since it is shared to many networks, blockchain is not controlled by a single body or institution, which makes it mainly used as a decentralized network. * Data in blockchain is organized

Ethereum: The Merge

Ethereum: The Merge

What is The Merge? * The Merge is an upgrade to Ethereum execution layer, also known as Mainnet, by swapping the current proof-of-work consensus with the new proof-of-stake consensus layer, the Beacon Chain. * After the Merge, Beacon Chain will be the consensus engine for all network data. But, this won’t

Common Issues in DeFi

Common Issues in DeFi

Issues in DeFi * While DeFi solves many issues TradFi is having, this doesn’t mean DeFi itself is without issues. DeFi is still a relatively new technology, which means there are still many issues it has that users need to deal with. These are some of the most common issues

DeFi for Dummies

DeFi for Dummies

DeFi, short for decentralized finance, is a term for financial services that is based on peer-to-peer blockchain technology.

Can You Use Flows to Estimate Price Reversals?

Can You Use Flows to Estimate Price Reversals?

Firstly, you need to understand the difference between total and circulating market cap. Understand that over time, circulating market cap will increase to approach the total market cap.

Introduction to Blockchain Architecture for Beginners

Introduction to Blockchain Architecture for Beginners

A blockchain is simply a list of transactions, or a database, that is NOT controlled by a single institution or a body only, whose past records canNOT be changed, and it is public for ALL to view.

Should you invest in 1,500% APY?

Should you invest in 1,500% APY?

Anything paying out 1,500% or some outrageous percentage APY is unlikely to be a sustainable project.

$LUNA & $UST 99% Crash: Keypoints of What Happened

$LUNA & $UST 99% Crash: Keypoints of What Happened

What You Probably Want to Know on May 8th to May 12th, 2022 — A quick summary.

All about Chains: Layer 1, Layer 2 and Side Chains

All about Chains: Layer 1, Layer 2 and Side Chains

Why the need to have L2s and sidechains? Also, you may wonder why the L2s that we have mentioned so far are all scaling solutions for Ethereum and Bitcoin network, and not for the other L1s.

Gas Fees for Beginners

Gas Fees for Beginners

As beginner, it’s important to understand the concept of gas fees and the tips and tricks related to this. We have touched a bit on the definition of gas fees in this article, and we will go through the concept deeper in this article

The complete beginner resources to DeFi glossary

The complete beginner resources to DeFi glossary

If you are a beginner to Decentralized Finance (“DeFi”), you may find that the space came up with a bunch of its own vocabularies and terms that sound really complex and difficult to comprehend.

Slippage 101

We hear about slippage all the time, but what is slippage anyway? Is it enough to know that high slippage is bad and low slippage is good…

DeFi Resources for Beginners

DeFi Resources for Beginners

Tools/ Platform/ Books * Dune Analytics — https://dune.xyz/browse/dashboards * Defi Pulse — https://defipulse.com/ * Defi Llama — https://defillama.com/ * Real time data analysis — https://www.dextools.io/ * Dexscreener Chart — https://dexscreener.com/ * Defi Calendar — https://www.apeoclock.com/ * MarketCapOf — https://www.marketcapof.com/ * Cointool — https://cointool.app/dashboard * Messari

All about Impermanent Loss

All about Impermanent Loss

Impermanent loss (”IL”) is a concept that exist only in decentralized exchanges with AMM model, in which a liquidity pool is formed by two…

Stablecoins and Stablecoins Farming

Stablecoins and Stablecoins Farming

The concept of stablecoins is actually pretty simple. Think of stablecoins are the “crypto dollars” living in the blockchain.

Yield Farming 101

Yield Farming 101

Yield farming is crypto-speak referring to allocation of capital to DeFi protocols in return of yield, analogous to investing in traditional interest/yield-bearing capital market products like bonds and dividend-yielding stocks, with some key differences.