If you ask any of your crypto-adjacent buddies about swapping tokens, Uniswap will be their first (and only) stop. And they're not alone. Right now, Uniswap holds the lion's share of DEX volume, accounting for about three-quarters of the total. The closest competitor,...
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...
Must you dare into the deep dark nothingness of the liquidity pools, LP? Beware, for a monster named Impermanent Loss will eat you… To most of us, the concept of an on-chain trading experience without AMMs seems almost unfathomable. But not too long ago, this...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
Just as perps took the crypto world by storm, options have begun to pique users' interests, particularly in these volatile times. If we work backwards and look at what the traditional markets tell us about the relationship between options and derivatives activity, we...
Following on from our Beefy Finance article, this will be a quick walkthrough of how to provide liquidity to their high-interest vaults. If you haven’t read that article yet you can read it HERE. The beauty of Beefy and their vaults is that the daily interest is you...
In the new age of decentralised finance (DeFi), there are new and inventive ways to use the blockchain as opposed to dinosaur/legacy financial instruments that are clunky, slow and yield non-existent returns. Cryptocurrency and in particular the DeFi revolution that...