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Algorithmic Stablecoins Breakdown: Attempting to Fulfill Satoshi’s Dream

When Satoshi first published the Bitcoin whitepaper to the world, he titled it “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Cash System” and although Bitcoin would evolve to adopt the digital gold narrative instead, the dream of creating a fully functional digital cash system has remained. Stablecoins, defined as a subset of cryptocurrencies that are pegged to a specific …

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Five Leading DeFi Aggregators

Leave a Comment / DeFI 101 / By Masha Prusso / April 7, 2021 April 7, 2021 / DeFi 101

As DeFi grows, keeping tabs on all the available products has become increasingly challenging. Even for those individuals who are able to keep track, the scattered nature of the many protocols, each with their own controls and very different user interfaces, makes operating in the sector a challenge. One of the best ways of mitigating this …

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Getting Started With DeFi

Leave a Comment / DeFI 101 / By Cooper Turley / October 5, 2020 November 24, 2020 / Aave, Coinbase, Compound, DeFi 101, MetaMask, Uniswap, Zapper, Zerion

In this guide we’ll be helping you take your first steps into the boundless world of Decentralized Finance, better known as DeFi. DeFi is a growing movement which has the potential to democratize access to financial services. This emerging ecosystem is being built on global, public and distributed networks such as Ethereum, and uses smart …

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What is Decentralized Finance?

1 Comment / DeFI 101 / By Camila Russo / September 29, 2020 February 17, 2021 / DeFi, DeFi 101, What is DeFi

Decentralized finance, or DeFi, is the ecosystem of financial applications being built with blockchain technology and without banks. Money lives in cages: Each financial system is locked within its own geographical borders and even then only some can access it. It’s also a system built on top of ancient technology; all the money transmitting protocols …

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