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.