Introduction In TradFi, copy trading has emerged as a popular method for novice investors to enter the complex and often intimidating world of trading stocks. As the name suggests, copy trading allows traders to automatically copy the positions of successful traders...
Introduction Bitcoin ordinals have become the hottest show in NFTs. But every project is just a copy of an Ethereum NFT project. What’s the point of that? Cathartes is a brand new art project that will live on Bitcoin with art generated by the community and fully...
Intro Image source: Gaia On January 25th, Doodles announced Doodles 2 would be launching on the Flow blockchain. When asked why they chose Flow, the Doodles team said: “Because we believe Doodles should be able to live everywhere, we wanted a partner for Doodles 2...
Background Lending and borrowing protocols are a crucial piece of the entire decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The numbers are sufficient to prove this thesis. As of writing this article, according to DefiLlama, lending dapps account for ~28% of the total DeFi...
Introduction The prospect of longing and/or shorting certain NFT collections with leverage is a fun one. I mean, some people think the idea of these PFP JPEGs is stupid and lame, whilst some think the next billion-dollar brands will emerge out of this emerging...
Greetings fellow Apes & Degens If you’ve been keeping up with us at Blocmates then you may have seen that we’ve extensively covered Maia DAO and their ecosystem of products. A product made by Maia DAO is Hermes, a Solidly fork. Although we’ve covered Hermes and...
History of Avalanche A group of unnamed enthusiasts known as "Team Rocket" first introduced the Avalanche network on the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) in May 2018. The network was subsequently created by Cornell University academics under the direction of...
Introduction The alternative Layer 1 trade was commonplace during the crypto bull run from 2020-2021. Crypto natives and new speculators alike would jump between up-and-coming blockchains in search of gains, farms, and yield. Traders loved a brand new chart and...
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...
It is becoming increasingly clear that we’re headed towards a multi-chain future. A whole plethora of alternate L1s will and continue to flourish. Optimistic and zk rollups will play a key role in scaling Ethereum, as such, L2s will continue to gain widespread...
Introduction to D-Squared Finance There’s no denying that DeFi on Arbitrum is picking up steam. Innovative protocols are emerging left, right and centre. Something is in the air! Most of these projects are unique. They bring something new to the table, to a crypto...
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...