DeFi

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Top Teams Building DeFi
DeFi is constantly changing, with new projects popping up seemingly every single day. This is by no means an exhaustive list. It’s just the tip of the iceberg. We went with the more tried and tested projects, the ones that have been live the longest and have the most value locked in their smart contracts.…

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Top Tools to Get Started with DeFi
In DeFi, our money is controlled by us, the user, while the apps we use are created by different teams who share one common thread, the blockchain. In most cases that’s Ethereum. The first tool one needs in DeFi is a wallet that interacts with smart contracts in DeFi apps so you can tell the…

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How Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Other Blockchains Fit Within DeFi
DeFi today can be found mostly flourishing on Ethereum. New applications launch faster than you can keep up with.That empire is only going to grow. The network effects of developers working together and building composable tools that can be stacked and benefit one another is a very competitive moat, making it difficult for other smart…

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KYC and Why It’s Not Needed in DeFi
While crypto has been around over 10 years, the most popular apps until the last year have been centralized crypto exchanges. These centralized exchanges like Binance and Coinbase do billions in trade volume daily but also require users to submit personal details like name, email and even physical address. This might seem harmless at first…

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Common Uses of DeFi: Lending, Borrowing, Trading, and Stablecoins
In DeFi, the possibilities of what can be built to replace legacy finance are endless, but there are a few use cases that every newcomer to DeFi will want to know about and explore early on because 1) they’re easy to understand and 2) battle-tested with billions in liquidity and hundreds of thousands of users…

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What is a Dapp and How Does it Use Smart Contracts?
dApps or decentralized applications are applications powered by a public blockchain protocol like Ethereum. When you build a dApp on Ethereum, you’re programming a simple set of rules for an application to follow when it receives money or other inputs from users. Smart contracts are a lot like programming a robot. Smart contracts on a…

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How to Yield Farm – Staking on Aave
Yield Farming can mean many things — it comes in different shapes and flavors. There are many strategies to consider and yes, it’s risky, heady stuff so this video will run you through the essentials to give you a head start.

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How to Trade Stocks if Your Robinhood Account is Frozen (Mirror.Finance)
Did Robinhood freeze your account? Do you want to buy stocks but you can’t? Well, that’s exactly why we have DeFi — it’s permissionless, it’s trustless, no one can freeze your account here. In this tutorial we take a look at how to buy stocks using Mirror Protocol. Mirror Protocol is a synthetics protocol providing…