About 6 months ago, we put out an article introducing Vertex to all of you. An Arbitrum native exchange that's hyper-efficient, scalable, and super fast. When we introduced Vertex to you, everything sounded great on paper but nothing had been released. As we know in...
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Keeping up with the Spartans: Introducing SpartaPad
When a new block gets added to the ecosystem created by the first gamified DEX, SpartaDEX, you know we’ve got to bring it to you. However, if you’re a newbie to the Sparta ecosystem, you can find yourself in the grand scheme of things via our previously...
Introducing: The blocmates Lifetime Access to Research Pass (LARP) NFT
GM!The time has come for blocmates to evolve and become its true self in the form of a degenerate media company. We have no ambitions to compare apples-to-apples and take on traditional media head-to-head. They will die by suicide rather than murder. We have...
Emerging LSD-Fi Projects to Watch
When bear markets rear their ugly heads, there's one hero that swoops in to save the day – liquid staking derivatives (LSD)! Leading the charge is none other than Lido, reigning supreme with a colossal $12 billion fully diluted market cap and a whopping 73% market...
The Current State of DeFi on Bitcoin.
[BTC Daily Transaction Fees, credit Into The Cryptoverse] May 7th, 2023 marked the first time since 2017 that a Bitcoin block contained transaction fees that were higher than the base 6.25 BTC block reward. Despite the overall bearish market sentiment, the development...
Exploring Radix: Enter Ociswap
If you’re a Blocmates fan, chances are you’ve read about Radix DLT, the integrated technology solution addressing common issues that create barriers to DeFi, in our previous articles. Or perhaps you know it as “the only decentralised network where Web3 and DeFi...
YOLO NOLO: The Discord Trading Bot Your Community Needs
Wakey wakey! It’s almost mid-2023 and the topics you would have guessed were going to be centre stage in the crypto environment are not. Instead, madness has set in! One that has left a bad taste in the mouth of decent players courtesy of tweet-driven fundraising...
Is Worldcoin a Ponzi or Do We Need Proof of Humanity?
OpenAI released their ChatGPT platform in November of 2022 and it rapidly took the world by storm. Many a Twitter feed was overloaded with AI threads about its use cases and ways to make it do things that we never thought of as possible before. But with this...
Y2K V2: Everything You Need To Know
FEEL THE RUMBLE...V2. LOADING...▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░🙂💥 pic.twitter.com/IVrSK9MjaI— Y2K Finance (@y2kfinance) May 4, 2023 DeFi is a tumultuous roller coaster. Most know they shouldn’t try it but most often can’t resist. It is only when you’re on the roller coaster that you...
Inside scoop on Lybra Finance V2
If you’re here, chances are you’ve digested the previous article about Lybra. Perhaps, you’ve gone a step further to secure a stash of LBR tokens or maybe you’ve deposited stETH or ETH into Lybra, borrowed eUSD and are now relishing in the juicy yield rewards of 7-8%...
Everything You Need to Know About crvUSD.
A stablecoin from Cosmos seems like the kind of copy my Head of Marketing would like. While not from the cosmos itself, crvUSD is a boon to a market that sees over $112B worth of FDV locked in centralized counterparts. crvUSD is a stablecoin that aims to catapult the...
Exploring Radix: Naming services for the Radix ecosystem (XRD Domains)
Everyone agrees that Blockchain addresses are long, lengthy, boring, and an eyesore. The mere sight of those long strings of letters, numbers and special characters is enough torture for the eyes, and our brains just close themselves to memorizing it. ...