Welcome to the intersection of NFT and DeFi. Welcome to Fungify. At its core, Fungify is an NFT Index fund. We all know about index funds when it comes to stocks but Fungify takes it to a whole new level with NFTs. The Fungify protocol is built with three overlapping...
It is a widely accepted truth that building a credit score system for crypto or web3 requires a significant amount of knowledge in the field. Despite the numerous projects attempting to tackle this daunting task, it is still considered a Herculean feat. ...
“It’s the future of finance”, “it’s a digital revolution”, “DeFi will eat TradFi”. These are all statements that get thrown around a lot in crypto circles. While this may be true, we are yet to see DeFi protocols get adoption outside of crypto-native circles. So for...
The guys at LayerZero have been able to raise both 120 million dollars in funding as well as the eyebrows of everyone keen on LayerZero’s venture to solve interoperability issues in the crypto industry. LayerZero’s funding success has put them at the “Unicorn...
Before anything else, “MAIA” is pronounced as [MA - YA]. With that out of the way, to understand what MAIA DAO is, refer to our previous article on MAIA — this pretty much covers everything and is an extensive guide to getting started with MAIA DAO. ...
Introduction It’s well-documented that the DeFi money markets are essential to the continued growth and adoption of DeFi. The idea of permissionless, decentralised, and censorship-resistant lending and borrowing of crypto assets is strong and enables a frictionless...
Background Everyone and their mom are talking about the ongoing banking crisis in the US. Significantly sized banks are faltering in their obligations to their depositors and, as a result, are relying on intervention from other parties to save the day via bailouts and...
It’s no secret that 2022 was one of the most turbulent years in the crypto industry. From the LUNA collapse to Celsius & Blockfi going under, to the 3AC blow-up, and finally the FTX collapse which was the icing on the cake. For all the pain this caused, it taught...
Introduction When it comes to the various DeFi primitives, there’s no denying that liquid staking is one of the major ones. As per DefiLlama, if we divide all the DeFi protocols based on different categories, then liquid staking protocols will come in at a staggering...
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...