A Guide to the Omnichain Future Introduction: In the DeFi summer of 2020, we saw the meteoric rise of decentralised finance (DeFi). Ethereum was the undisputed dominant network for DeFi, with the lion’s share of users and capital. Ethereum’s ecosystem was filled with...
Introduction When it comes to traditional financial services, asset management is a core pillar. From high-net-worth individuals to retail participants, a significant subset of the population depends on the external expertise of coveted fund managers. After all, only...
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Introduction to Sturdy If you’re a frequent blocmates content consumer, then you may have read our initial guide on Sturdy Finance. In that guide, we provided a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the protocol and how they’re essentially reimagining traditional...
If you’ve been keeping up with the content at blocmates, then you may have read our recent article covering Maia DAO. Within that guide, we touched upon one of the primary products launched by Maia DAO, the Hermes protocol. In this article, I will further expand and...
Introduction In a previous article, we took a deep dive into Vertex, a decentralised exchange on Arbitrum offering a suite of DeFi products. If you would like to know more about Vertex then check this article, but here’s a quick TL;DR. Vertex is a VERTically...
Introduction Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a significant use case of blockchain technology. The provable scarcity of non-fungible digital assets, on-chain and on an open, decentralised network, is undoubtedly a concept a 5th grader could understand....
Introduction to Layer Zero. One of the major challenges that the web3 and crypto industry will and continues to face is the lack of seamless interoperability between the various blockchains. Through the advent of perhaps Bitcoin maximalism, die-hard communities have...
Introduction to The Problem The cryptocurrency industry was borne out of the 2008 financial crisis. The 2008 crisis highlighted all the issues with the traditional system. The lack of transparency, the lack of efficiency, and the unjust government intervention in...
The battle of the Layer 1's was one of the most popular trades of the late bull run. From Solana, Luna, and Avalanche, to Fantom, Harmony, NEAR and many others, all of them saw a good amount of usage. Now that the tide has shifted, we can see that most of them have...
Background on Sturdy Finance There is no denying the fact that borrowing and lending protocols have played and will continue to play a pivotal role in the widespread adoption of DeFi across the world. I mean, who doesn’t understand the appeal of decentralised,...
A Brief History of Yield Optimisers in DeFi. The fields of DeFi are vast, and over the last 2 years, everybody wanted to become a farmer to harvest their share of the available yield. Yield farming became so popular that even non-crypto native participants were aware...