Liquidity
Dive
Rocket Pool Bets Coinbase Deal Will Help it Catch Lido
Liquidity Staking Race Ratchets Up as Rocket Pool Members Size Up Latest Move
Defiant Premium Story
Arrakis Loses Mojo as User Pulls $300M From Vault Provider
Automated Liquidity Protocol Struggles with 'Incredibly Complicated' Model
Dive
Liquity Breaks DeFi Doldrums With 'Chicken Bonds' Offering
New Mechanism Quickly Amasses More than $5M in Deposits
DeFi Tutorials
What Is Liquidity Providing?
A Step-by-Step Guide to One of the Most Used Practices in DeFi
Op-ed
Why DeFi Should Make Markets Like Wall Street Banks
The DeFi Ecosystem Needs to Solve the Liquidity Challenge
Op-ed
It's Called Incompossibility, It's a Big Problem, and Liquid Staking Protocols Can Solve It
Guest writer Tushar Aggarwal delves into the thorny problem of incompossibility and liquidity staking.
DeFi First Looks
Get Paid to Be a Loser with Dopex Rebates
Dopex is a maximum liquidity and minimal exposure options protocol
DeFi Tutorials
Say ADIOS to Impermanent Loss with Bancor V2
Contrary to other AMM protocols, Bancor uses its protocol token, BNT, as the counterpart asset in every pool. Using an elastic BNT supply, the v2.1 protocol co-invests in pools alongside LPs to support single-sided AMM exposure and to cover the cost of impermanent loss with swap fees earned from its co-investments.
DeFi Tutorials
LP Like a Boss Using Visor’s Uniswap V3 Vaults
Visor allows DeFi participants to utilize NFT Smart Vaults for liquidity provisioning and active liquidity management on Uniswap v3.
DeFi News
Tokemak Decentralized AMM Hits $1B TVL — And It's Not Even Fully Launched Yet
There’s another piece of evidence that the “DeFi 2.0” movement is gaining steam. Tokemak, a project that bills itself as a decentralized market making protocol, has hit $1B in total value locked, less than two months after unveiling what it calls “reactors.” Reactors are a pooled combination of a protocol’s token, like Sushiswap’s SUSHI and…
DeFi News
Team Behind Hummingbot Gives Away Its Code Via Foundation
Sometimes a company can give away their technology and still turn a strong profit. Red Hat became a large company helping businesses use Linux, the classic open source project. It sold in 2018 for $34B to IBM. CoinAlpha is a company that runs on software it created called Hummingbot, a software client that automates market…
DeFi First Looks
Solving the Liquidity Problem: How does TOKEMAK Work?
Tokemak creates sustainable DeFi liquidity and capital efficient markets through a convenient decentralized market making protocol.
Byte
Lido Brings Liquid Staking to Solana, Its Third Blockchain
Staking assets on a blockchain helps to secure the network, but losing that liquidity can be painful for traders and investors. So the team behind the derivatives protocol, Lido, created a staking derivative that allows investors to stay liquid while also supporting the security of the networks they rely on. So far, Lido has enabled…
DeFi Tutorials
How to Enter 3Pool on Mercurial Finance | Solana Tutorial
Mercurial Finance is building the liquidity platform for stable assets on Solana. As the DeFi ecosystem on Solana grows, there will be many different variants of collateralized, wrapped, and synthetic assets in the space. Their most immediate objective is to provide the best liquidity for all the major stable and pegged assets on Solana, which…
DeFi Videos
Live: DeFi 101
Join us for our first ever livestream – Defiant Weekly is our friday deep dive show and where the video department first began. In this special episode we’re going back to basics and doing a live version of Robin’s now infamous Consensus presentation. We’ll cover the basics of DeFi from LP’s to Collateralized debt positions…
DeFi First Looks
Fixed Rate Savings on Element Finance
Element Finance is a decentralized protocol that allows users to buy assets (BTC, ETH, USDC, DAI) at a discounted price. The protocol allows users to create liquidity and trade these discounted assets to allow buyers to earn fixed rates. The Element protocol does not require trusted intermediaries and allows for fast and efficient trading of…
DeFi Tutorials
Liquid + Boosted. Staking Superpowers on Curve with Convex
Convex allows Curve.fi liquidity providers to earn trading fees and claim boosted CRV without locking CRV themselves. Liquidity providers can receive boosted CRV and liquidity mining rewards with minimal effort.
DeFi Tutorials
How to Become a Liquidity Provider on Uniswap V3
In this tutorial we run through how to set up a simple LP position using the new concentrated liquidity functionality in Uniswap V3.
DeFi Tutorials
No Risk Liquidity Providing with LP Royale
Learn how liquidity providing works without the risks. LP Royale is a liquidity provider simulator teaching you liquidity providing in a practical way.
DeFi Videos
Liquidators: The Silent Killers of DeFi
Liquidators are the silent killers of DeFi city. They operate in the shadows patrolling the block to keep the city moving and earning a pretty penny for doing so. Unlike miners or validators liquidators need no capital of their own. This has created a brotherhood of pro-executioners, jacking in from anywhere in the world to…
DeFi Tutorials
The Beginner’s Guide to Being a Liquidity Provider with Uniswap and Zapper
Liquidity providing isn’t as straightforward as you might think. When becoming an LP, you’re asked to provide both of the coins the pool represents. This can become costly for many, although there is a nifty trick we demonstrate in this video that bypasses that hurdle.
DeFi Videos
No Downside!? Deep Dive on Tranches and Structured DeFi
Step into crypto and it can feel like you’re throwing your life to the gods of thunder. I’m here, you say, take me, throw me into the void. And, ape that you are, you keep walking towards that edge.