Greetings to all, especially my LSD enjoyooors out there. It’s been a couple of months now since we introduced you to Swell so we hope you took advantage and have been enjoying those juicy yields. If you haven’t, then don’t worry, there’s still time. If...
Decentralised Exchanges
PepperDex: Bringing the CEX Experience to Solana
We love David and Goliath stories. An underdog taking on the power-players in the ecosystem. For some reason, these stories have become quite relatable with most protocols in DeFi. The centralised power players keep exerting their power over the larger DeFi ecosystem,...
How MakerDAO is revolutionizing DeFi one SubDAO at a time
MakerDAO is a name that resonates without the need for an introduction. However, for the sake of clarity, they proudly hold the title of being the largest and most established decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Comprising individuals from across the globe,...
Getting Started on Tenet Protocol: A How-To Guide (pt.1)
In my usual way, I went through the thorough laydown of what Tenet protocol entails in the previous article written by a fellow ooga booga at blocmates, and I arrived at the conclusion that: Tenet equates to Layer 1s or 2s on steroids! Here’s why: Tenet protocol is an...
Summer.fi: The best place to borrow and Earn in DeFi
Many apps have grown from the roots of established predecessors in the DeFi landscape, Summer.fi, which sprouted as Oasis in 2016 as an extension of the “OG” DeFi pioneer, MakerDAO's DAI, is currently drawing significant attention and interest within the space. Now,...
Thales: The architecture for parimutuel markets and derivatives
If you asked a good sample size of crypto natives what crypto’s biggest use case is, you are likely to uncover a myriad of perspectives and responses. However, while doing some research to bring today’s discourse to your plate, a particular reply showed up multiple...
Arcton: Democratizing Startup Investments
There aren’t many of us who are still around. Those of us who still are can pretty certainly be called crypto natives. As crypto natives, we do love our crypto games. The yield farms, the everchanging shitcoin metas, our LSD protocols, our looping strategies, and so...
Immutable — The Infrastructure of Web3 Gaming
Building games is hard. Like, really hard. On average, developing a AAA-quality game takes anywhere from 3 to 5 years. Moreover, the gaming industry is incredibly competitive. The hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue you see from games each year come from only a...
Increasing DEX:CEX Dominance with Unstoppable Finance!
An unfortunate truth in our decentralized & permissionless world is that Centralised Exchanges (CEXs) are still the most dominant platforms for trading by a country mile. The limitations of a blockchain do not burden them which is why they can offer a...
ZooDAO: Where DeFi, NFTs, and Degens Collide for Future Yield
The reality of a bear market is that it sucks out all the fun and, at the same time, has no mercy for your bags! Interestingly, token holders (excluding shit tokens) have options: they can easily sell their assets and move to more stable ones, deposit them into...
Introducing Mori: Revolutionising Stable Assets Within DeFi
Stablecoins have emerged as the cornerstone of the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape. As the space matures, a plethora of options have sprouted, each offering unique solutions while grappling with their own sets of challenges. I mean, as a % of the total...
100x Bribe Efficiency with Hermes V2
Another day, another article on the brilliant Maia DAO. You would think we would eventually run out of things to write about them, but the chad devs simply don’t stop, so we can’t either. Today however we take a slightly different turn to what most of you...