DeFi First Looks

Designed to generate returns in volatile market conditions while offering protection on deposited principal. Combines yields from lending (interest payments) and tail risk protection from volatility products (options) into a single, powerful DeFi product. Performs best in rising interest rate and high volatility environments.

The Degen Trilogy is a 3-part interactive film series featuring the Bored Ape Yacht Club and Apecoin communities. In today’s Hot Stuff, director Robin Schmidt dissects everything wrong with the first part

FACEBOOK FOUNDER MARK ZUCKERBERG DUMPS CRYPTO screeches the headline from the Mail Online. META IS PULLING THE PLUG ON ITS CRYPTO PAYMENTS WALLET burps Tech Crunch. Yes, Novi, Meta’s crypto wallet is now No pulse, dead, kaput, finito. Yet more evidence of the artist formerly known as Facebook’s ham-fisted attempts to co-opt the values of…

NGRAVE have made what they claim is the most secure hardware wallet ever made. The only financial product to be rated EAL7. This is our review.

We are at Apefest. How are people reacting to the Bored Ape Nazi Club video? What did Amy Schumer do to piss off the BAYC? Coming up in this week’s Hot Stuff.

Another day another dump. And more bad news as the true picture of just how few clothes our beloved Emperors truly had. After Celsius now it’s Coinbase and 3 arrows capital to face the painful unveiling of their nether regions. Brian Armstrong painfully acknowledging massive layoffs and Su Zhu tacitly acknowledging that, yes, there is…

In this week’s Hot Stuff we’re covering three metaverse stories

When the bear market bites the knives come out and it’s been telling how much savage critique we’ve witnessed right across the board. From VC’s being flogged for selling assets at the bottom to influencers being outed for all the wrongdoings they may or may not have talked about on Telegram. Nate Chastain arrested and…

SEXN: web 3.0 sexual app that implements the sex-to-earn concept. SEXN is designed to give users two of the indispensable things that humans love most: sex and money.”

Catalog is a secure, decentralized platform that makes it easy to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more.

After UST’s fall, we are starting to see a shift in preference between stablecoins. In this video we take a look into where the big players are allocating their capital.

It’s been less than 24 hours and things have changed, for the worse. UST went as low as 22 cents, Luna goes under 1 dollar, Do Kwon announced a recovery plan, and team Azuki is on the move.

Bend is a decentralized non-custodial NFT-backed borrowing and lending protocol where users can participate as depositors or borrowers. Depositors provide ETH liquidity to the lending pool to earn a passive income, while borrowers are able to borrow ETH through lending pool using NFTs as collateral instantly.

“The @usddnetwork will provide custody service for the $10B worth of highly liquid assets raised from blockchain industry initiators and use them as an early-stage reserve.”

Mars is a credit protocol for the future: non-custodial, open-source, transparent, algorithmic and community-governed.

Welcome. It has come to my attention that you out there, you want more actionable intel. More alpha. Well, you’ve been heard. The show you used to know as First Look has now been transmogrified into a fire-breathing monster of a… okay, not really. We decided we’d rather cover more projects in one go, or…

4:00 pm CEST, 10:00 am EST we go live with someone that is, and this is NOT a stretch to say, one of the leading digital artists in the world right now. Any ideas? One things for sure, this man eats data for breakfast.

Stepn is a web 3 lifestyle app with social-fi and game-fi elements. Players can make handsome earnings by walking, jogging, or running outdoors

Token Faucet is a list of token contracts deployed on all testnets with deterministic addresses. Anyone can mint tokens from these contracts or create new tokens easily.

The Aave Protocol is decentralised non-custodial liquidity protocol where users can participate as suppliers, borrowers or liquidators. Suppliers provide liquidity to a market and can earn interest on the crypto assets provided, while borrowers are able to borrow in an overcollateralized fashion. Borrowers can also engage in one-block borrow transactions (”flash loans”), which do not…

The Defiant team are on tour! We have wandered to the winter wonderland of Svalbard way up in the Artic circle. But this Northern settlement has far more to it than meets the eye and in its history, dwells a rich self sustaining economy, one that is very reminiscent of our beloved DeFi.

Metacard is the first metaverse savings card. It is an NFT card that is metaverse-ready, comes with automated DeFi Savings, and a crypto debit card.

XDEFI Wallet is a cross-chain wallet extension. You can store, send and receive all your digital assets from a single place.

Today we are diving into Nebula Protocol. Is this the future of passive investing? It could well be, and also could easily not be, but that’s what we are here to find out. But if Nebula does what it says on the tin, it could be the holy grail of crypto investing.

The Idols is a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs living on the Ethereum blockchain. Similar to other projects, Idol NFTs will serve as a proof of membership to a special community (The Idolverse). Unlike a standard NFT mint, no ETH raised from The Offering will be paid to the founding team. 100% of funds raised…