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 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...
Introduction Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have emerged as a significant use case of blockchain technology. The provable scarcity of non-fungible digital assets, on-chain and on an open, decentralised network, is undoubtedly a concept a 5th grader could understand....
I’ve covered the unsuitability of Ethereum in a few previous posts before so I won’t go too far into it. In short, gas fees are ridiculous and multiple efforts to scale the network are also being greeted with added adoption which effectively makes it redundant. I...
This Week in DeFi: The blocmates Alpha Report - News, Opportunities and more… Welcome to the third instalment of This Week in DeFi. We are going to release a weekly round-up newsletter on our website which covers all the current events, opportunities and what to look...
This Week in DeFi: The blocmates Alpha Report - News, Opportunities and more… Welcome to the second instalment of This Week in DeFi. We are going to release a weekly round-up newsletter on our website which covers all the current events, opportunities and what to look...
It is now more apparent than ever that the future of crypto and DeFi is multi-chain. It is now no longer one chain to rule them all… We now know that just isn’t going to happen. The rise of other layer 1 blockchains has been well received after the “gold standard”;...
This Week in DeFi: The blocmates Alpha Report - News, Opportunities and more… Welcome to the first instalment of This Week in DeFi. We are going to release a weekly round-up newsletter on our website which covers all the current events, opportunities and what to look...
If you are reading this it is because you are sick and tired of looking around for a savings account that is actually worth putting your hard-earned capital into. They are tricky to find because there aren’t any… If you are satisfied with 1-2% returns a year then go...