Introduction to Layer Zero. One of the major challenges that the web3 and crypto industry will and continues to face is the lack of seamless interoperability between the various blockchains. Through the advent of perhaps Bitcoin maximalism, die-hard communities have...
Introduction to The Problem The cryptocurrency industry was borne out of the 2008 financial crisis. The 2008 crisis highlighted all the issues with the traditional system. The lack of transparency, the lack of efficiency, and the unjust government intervention in...
The battle of the Layer 1's was one of the most popular trades of the late bull run. From Solana, Luna, and Avalanche, to Fantom, Harmony, NEAR and many others, all of them saw a good amount of usage. Now that the tide has shifted, we can see that most of them have...
Background on Sturdy Finance There is no denying the fact that borrowing and lending protocols have played and will continue to play a pivotal role in the widespread adoption of DeFi across the world. I mean, who doesn’t understand the appeal of decentralised,...
A Brief History of Yield Optimisers in DeFi. The fields of DeFi are vast, and over the last 2 years, everybody wanted to become a farmer to harvest their share of the available yield. Yield farming became so popular that even non-crypto native participants were aware...
A Brief History of HXRO Network If you’re a regular blocmates reader, then you will know about the Hxro Network. We’ve extensively covered the project on multiple occasions. As rightly mentioned in our first article about the project, it will take us a few months and...
Introduction to Handle.fi The handle.fi protocol is a DeFi native foreign exchange market on the blockchain. The protocol aims to democratise the use of non-USD-pegged stablecoins in the DeFi landscape. In the time to come, as the crypto markets grow globally, demand...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...