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Education
Uniswap V3
Uniswap v3 introduces concentrated liquidity, giving individual LPs granular control over what price ranges their capital is allocated to, and multiple fee tiers, allowing LPs to be appropriately compensated for taking on varying degrees of risk.

Education
Defiant Degens: How to Farm in DeFi’s First Protocol for Push Notifications
This is a weekly tutorial on the most compelling opportunities to consider yield farming, written by our friend DeFi Dad, an advisor to the Defiant and the Chief DeFi Officer of Zapper. The goal is to expose more Defiant readers to new DeFi applications and their associated liquidity mining programs. Background on Protocol: When you…

Hacks
Red Flag Alert: A Framework for Vetting Crypto Projects Part II
With hacks and exploits breaking every week in DeFi, participants are undoubtedly asking where to look for red flags, how to protect their investments and how to vet projects. In this three-part series, we provide a framework to help with just this. Part I analyzed Tokenomics, Part III will analyze mental frameworks, and Part II…

Hacks
$22 Million Was Stolen From Three Defi Platforms Last Weekend
While most of the DeFi community had their eyes glued to the ETH rally over the weekend, hackers took the opportunity to steal mooning assets through several protocol exploits. From Wednesday through Saturday, exploits occurred across three different protocols—Rari Capital, Value DeFi, and within Larva Labs’ Meebits NFT project—resulting in over $22M worth of stolen…

DeFi
ETH Hovers Around $4k as Traders Prepare for a Pull-Back
Ethereum’s cryptocurrency has shot up, almost doubling in price in one month and piercing through a record $4,000 on Monday. But some traders are preparing for a pull-back. Short interest is at the highest since the depths of the bear market, while options traders are buying contracts to protect against a drop. ETH has been…

DeFi
Global Report on Women, Cryptocurrency and Financial Independence
By Marina Spindler and Paulina Rodriguez According to a recent study, the total number of global cryptocurrency users has surpassed 100 million for the first time. The highly specialized crypto landscape is increasingly diverse. Exchange platform surveys indicate women make up 15-55% of crypto users, depending on the region. Tonya Zhang, head of marketing of Hong…

Education
Gasless Money Legos with DeFi Saver
DeFi Saver is an advanced one-stop management solution dashboard for decentralized finance protocols, including MakerDAO and Compound. It offers options to create instantly leveraged positions in DeFi lending protocols, as well as tools to leverage, deleverage or fully close down a position in 1-transaction. It also includes loan shifting or refinancing tools for anyone looking…

Podcast
"Identity is The One Vulnerability Being Exploited Across All Systems. It’s the Mother of All Battles:" Santiago Siri
In this week’s podcast we interview Santiago Siri, who has been working on improving the way democracy works for over a decade. He started from the inside, co-founding a political party in Argentina, his home country, but realized traditional politics would change him before he could change politics. So he started building better representation for the…

Research & Opinion
Red Flag Alert: A Framework for Vetting Crypto Projects
Let’s start with a story, Jean was just chilling on a Sunday afternoon and her phone buzzes, she picks up his phone and sees a bunch of messages by her friend who’s a so-called crypto expert. After some more back and forth with her friend, she finds out that they offer 1% daily compound interest.…

NFTs & Web3
Meet the Meebits: CryptoPunks of the Metaverse
I bet you’re wondering… what the hell is a Meebit? Well, I will tell you. It’s a collection of 20,000 3D characters, each unique but assembled from a randomly generated collection of attributes of varying degrees of scarcity and hence desirability. Sounds like CryptoPunks? Well that’s the idea. That model has been the undeniable party…





