Mason Marcobello, Author at The Defiant

How Pepe the Frog Was Born a Meme, Survived the Alt-Right, and Became a $4M NFT

Popular Amphibian Has Come Home to Web3 After a Wild Journey

DeFi Essay, Dive / By Mason Marcobello / March 24, 2022 March 24, 2022 / Bitcoin, Bored Ape Yacht Club, Cryptocurrency, CryptoPunks, DeFi, DeFi Token News, Digital Art, ETH, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum News, NFT, NFT Culture, NFT Marketplace, NFT News

Before Bored Apes and CryptoPunks there was Pepe.

DeFi 2.0 Primer: Decentralized Finance is Poised to Expand its Reach But Challenges Loom

DeFi 101, DeFi News / By Mason Marcobello / February 4, 2022 February 7, 2022 / Bitcoin, DeFi, DeFi Token News, ETH, Ethereum, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum News

In this DeFi 2.0 primer, Mason Marcabello explores the next iteration of the DeFi story.

What is DeFi? The Ultimate DeFi 101 Guide to Ethereum, Layer 2s, Yield Farming, and More

DeFi 101 / By Mason Marcobello / December 13, 2021 May 18, 2022 / Aave News, Bitcoin, DeFi, DeFi 101, DeFi governance, DeFi Token News, DeFi Tutorial, ETH, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum burn rate, Ethereum Gas Costs, Ethereum News, Ethereum Scaling, MakerDAO, Markets, NFT News, Play-to-earn, Terra, Uniswap

This updated primer on DeFi explains Ethereum, layer 1s and Layer 2, top projects, and governance.

Fantom Deploys High-Speed PoS to Solve the ‘Blockchain Trilemma’

DeFi Research / By Mason Marcobello / October 19, 2021 October 20, 2021 / DeFi, ETH, Ethereum Blockchain, Ethereum News, Fantom, PoS, Proof-of-Stake

While the ever expansive world of decentralized finance is improving on its traditional counterpart the web3 is not without its problems. For example, to maintain an optimal state of functionality, commonly used assets like Bitcoin need to compromise between one of three core components: scalability, security, or decentralization. This concept is known as the “blockchain …

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