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...
Context With the collapse of numerous centralised authorities and exchanges in crypto such as FTX and Celsius last year, traders looking to speculate on the prices of crypto assets have now turned to on-chain alternatives to reduce their counterparty risk. As such,...
We’re all aware of the immense earning potential in DeFi. Not only from speculating on coins but also by generating yield through yield aggregators, lending protocols, LP’ing, and much more. There is no other market in the world that allows you to become something...
Overview When we witnessed the great implosion of FTX - the second largest cryptocurrency exchange at the time, outcries for using decentralised exchanges instead of their centralised counterparts were heard all over Cyberspace. And I mean, rightly so. Centralised...
Background The Arbi Szn is well and truly underway and is accelerating at full throttle. According to Nansen, token deployments on Arbitrum hit peak numbers in February 2023. As a result, there’s a lot of noise. Mercenaries are going wild on the streets, looking to...
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...
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...