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...
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What is Vertex Protocol? – A Complete Guide.
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...
What is Iconic Markets? – A Hxro Parimutuel Protocol
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...
How To Use Handle.fi – A Step-by-Step Walkthrough
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...
What is Bluejay Finance – A Complete Guide.
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...
What is Handle.fi? A Complete Guide.
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...
What is Lyra Finance – A Complete Guide Guide.
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...
How to yield farm on Beefy Finance using MetaMask and Pancake Swap.
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...
What is Beefy Finance? How and where to buy?
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...
How to use Pancake Swap and MetaMask.
This post will go hand-in-hand with our How to find a 100X gem post if you haven’t already read that, you can access it HERE. The 2020/2021 bull market is in full swing and a lot of new folks are coming to the crypto arena looking to get in on the digital gold rush. A...