Without liquidity, you have no value. It is a make-or-break factor for almost all trading products/instruments. Without it, you see high slippage and poor execution which makes for a lacklustre user experience and therefore, lower volumes across the board. In an...
Taking a crypto loan is straightforward; you deposit collateral and receive the required capital. However, managing your debt positions, including finding and optimizing for the best interest rates, is far from simple. Imagine having to check each liquidity...
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...
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...
First of all, thank you to ELI5_DEFI for allowing us to use your infographics from a recent thread. Go check out their work! Let’s get to it: What are crypto options? Options, options, options… Let's be honest the average crypto-ape does not know the first...
GMX is a decentralised spot and perpetual exchange allowing trading without the need for a username or password. You arrive at the website https://gmx.io/trade and you trade through your wallet like Meta Mask. It really is that easy. GMX is currently active on the...
Nothing in this article should be taken as investment advice. Please always do your own research and never invest more than you can afford to lose. We are literally, idiots so don’t listen to us. Timing is a virtue and how we see it you have to be in it to win it - I...
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...
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...