Editors' notes from Grant - First of all thanks to Shaurya for this monster of an article and thanks to ELi5 DeFi for letting us use your incredible graphics. I want to start by saying when we were looking at interesting projects to cover that were currently being...
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What is Bluejay Finance – A Complete Guide.
If you’ve interacted with the crypto industry in any way, chances are that you’ve used stablecoins. At the time of writing, the stablecoin sector has a total market cap of $146 billion which is 17.4% of the total crypto market cap. A sizeable portion to say the...
What is Chikn NFT? – A Beginner’s Guide.
Note: We will cover the game's dynamics in more detail in our Chikn Strategy Guide which is coming soon ™. Introduction to Chikn I think I speak for everyone in that I have spent way too much money on useless jpegs. As a consequence, I have bought a lot of...
Understanding The Metis Governance Model & Reputation Power System
Introduction The emergence of crypto, blockchain tech, and web3 has allowed people to perform various on-chain and some off-chain actions. Swapping tokens on a DEX, participating in a governance vote, minting an NFT, deploying a smart contract, and more. These actions...
What is Handle.fi? A Complete Guide.
Introduction to Handle.fi If you have a basic understanding of financial markets, yes we are talking Markets 101, then you may have heard of foreign exchange trading or forex trading for short. It’s a market where various fiat currencies can be traded. Forex is...
How to Onboard to Radix – Bridging and Staking Tutorial.
Background Radix is an open-source decentralised public ledger that is built to support the development of DeFi dapps and other decentralised applications. For consensus, Radix uses a new algorithm called Cerberus, which helps secure the network and allows for a high...
What is DFX Finance? – A Complete Guide.
Introduction As you read this, the global stablecoin market cap is ~ $150 billion. This accounts for approximately 16% of the total cryptocurrency market cap of ~ $950 billion when writing this article, according to CoinMarketCap. Interestingly, a majority of...
What is Y2K Finance? – Doomsday Is Near…
A wise man with a wealth of wisdom once said “Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn” - Drake. On May 7, 2022, the tables turned for UST as it depegged from 1$, and by May 13, 40 billion had evaporated from thin air. On May 15, 2022, DEI depegged and...
Where is the Best Place to Buy HXRO?
We recently wrote an idiots predictions model to work out the fair value for the HXRO token and since then we have had a lot of questions from the community asking where is the best place to buy HXRO? It is a little confusing I’ll admit as liquidity is pretty...
What is dYdX, DYDX Token and the dYdX Chain?
Introduction Here at blocmates, we’ve covered a lot of DEX platforms as of late. HXRO, GMX, and PERP to name a few. However, none of these combined come close to doing the daily volume of the current king of DEX platforms dYdX. Year to date, dYdX has done $330 billion...
What is Lyra Finance – A Complete Guide Guide.
Just as perps took the crypto world by storm, options have begun to pique users' interests, particularly in these volatile times. If we work backwards and look at what the traditional markets tell us about the relationship between options and derivatives activity, we...
What is Wombat Exchange – A Complete Guide…
Stablecoins are amongst the most popular sectors within crypto. They make up 14.2% of the total crypto market cap which is no small feat given how vast the crypto landscape has become over the last few years. The sector is populated with a plethora of stablecoins with...