Staking
Market Analysis
DeFi Staking Players Soar After Kraken Slapped by SEC
Lido and Rocket Pool Tokens Record Double-Digit Surge After CEX Shuts Staking-as-a-Service
Dive
Rocket Pool Bets Coinbase Deal Will Help it Catch Lido
Liquidity Staking Race Ratchets Up as Rocket Pool Members Size Up Latest Move
Op-ed
Why MEV Matters and Other Post-Merge Revelations
PoS Ethereum Will Create Hidden Value But Block Construction is Vital
DeFi News
MakerDAO Token Holders Vote to Add Rocket Pool’s rETH as Collateral to Back DAI
MakerDAO, the largest DeFi lender by total value locked, could soon allow another Ether derivative as collateral on its network.
DeFi News
ConsenSys Pushes Upgrade for Ethereum Validators Ahead of Q3 Merge
ConsenSys, Joe Lubin’s Ethereum software company, has rolled out a new tool it claims will smoothen Ethereum’s transition to Proof of Stake in August, also known as “The Merge.” The tool, “Bonsai Tries State Storage”, came out of early access on May 17. It runs on ConsenSys’s Ethereum client, Hyperledger Besu. State tries are Ethereum…
DeFi First Looks
Are We Unfairly Ignoring Harmony (ONE)?
Harmony is a sharded PoS smart contract platform. It also happens to be Robin’s first blockchain employer so he knows a little bit about it. It’s been growing an increasingly muscular TVL in DeFi thanks largely to DeFi Kingdoms, a gameified farming platform built around NFTs and the $JEWEL token. In this episode we take…
DeFi News
Crypto Stakers' IRS Tax Refund Marks Milestone for PoS Validators
There may be good news ahead for those looking to earn new tokens by providing security to major blockchains that operate using proof-of-stake. Joshua and Jessica Jarrett on Dec. 20 received a letter from the Department of Justice saying that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had approved a full refund of their 2019 taxes against…
DeFi First Looks
Get Paid to Be a Loser with Dopex Rebates
Dopex is a maximum liquidity and minimal exposure options protocol
DeFi First Looks
Auto Staking & Flexible Vesting with Olympus V2 Bonds
Olympus V2 Bonds are here with major upgrades from previous version including auto-staking and flexible vesting.
DeFi Videos
Olympus DAO ($OHM) What Is It and Where Is It Going Next? (with JaLa)
In 2021 no DeFi protocol has quite caught the eye like OlympusDAO. Inspiring a devoted following of Ohmies you’ll have seen the (3,3) meme everywhere. Then there were the forks, sooooo soooo many forks. Single-handedly responsible for DeFi2.0 and its promise of Protocol Owned Liquidity it seemed the project’s gamified model of a reserve currency…
DeFi First Looks
Cross-Asset Yield Folding for 4x Gains? How is this Possible?
Fodl enables traders to utilize leverage for their trades without paying a funding rate. This leverage is derived from existing DeFi building blocks, such as Compound and Aave.
DeFi Tutorials
Acala’s Liquid Tokens – The Great DeFi Unlock
Acala, the Ethereum-compatible DeFi and liquidity hub of Polkadot, has launched Liquid Crowdloan DOT (lcDOT) ahead of its upcoming crowdloan event. The product joins Acala’s suite of derivative products including its recently launched KSM Liquid Staking product (LKSM), now available on Karura, as well as DOT Liquid Staking (LDOT), which will launch on Acala.
Byte
AXS Holders Have $2.5B Staked in Axie Infinity in Two Weeks
Axie Infinity has just under $2.5B of its governance token, staked on its Ronin sidechain. That’s more than a quarter of AXS’s total circulating supply.
DeFi First Looks
What is Olympus Pro? | Can Bonds Really Replace Liquidity Mining?
Olympus is a decentralized reserve currency protocol based on the OHM token. Each OHM token is backed by a basket of assets (e.g. DAI, FRAX) in the Olympus treasury, giving it an intrinsic value that it cannot fall below.
DeFi Tutorials
NFTx Wants to Beat Opensea but How Are They Going to Do That? Deep Dive.
NFTX is a platform for making ERC20 tokens that are backed by NFT collectibles.
DeFi First Looks
Protect Yourself From Smart Contract Exploits with Sherlock
Sherlock is a risk management platform designed to provide DeFi protocols with affordable, reliable coverage against smart contract exploits starting from Day 1.
DeFi Tutorials
How to Earn Fixed Rate of Interest on 88MPH
88MPH is a non-custodial, fully on-chain protocol acting as an intermediary between you and third-party variable yield rate protocols to offer the best fixed yield rate on your capital.
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 First Looks
How to Prioritize Ethereum Transactions with Eden Network
Eden is a priority transaction network that protects traders from frontrunning, aligns incentives for block producers, and redistributes miner extractable value.
DeFi First Looks
The Tranchess Strategy
Fresh on the block, this week for our First Look we are unboxing a brand new tokenized asset management and derivatives trading protocol, Tranchess. Tranches, named after chess pieces… good move. Not built on Ethereum, Solana or Polkadot, this is a Binance smartchain protocol. So let’s check this out and see what it’s all about.
Byte
ETH Staking Service Lido Aims To Go Fully Decentralized
The Ethereum staking-as-a-service company Lido is aiming to go fully decentralized. The project has implemented a skeleton upgradable smart contract for making new withdrawals and new deposits fully non-custodial. The project is still seeking an optimal solution to become a trustless node operator. Lido offers users the ability to stake ETH, which will be utilized…
DeFi First Looks
Sushiswap Trident
Trident was first developed with the core focus of capital efficiency and cryptocurrency volatility protection using powerful, yet intuitive and easy-to-use, tools to provide DeFi with its new protocol standard. Our goal was to reinvent the wheel, without sacrificing user familiarity with Sushi’s newly revamped and consolidated interface.