The Power of Leverage Lending protocols in DeFi aim to create decentralized, permissionless loans, which enable capital-efficient strategies for users. These opportunities exist for both lenders and borrowers. Users can…
Subnets: Avalanche’s Scaling Solution
Avalanche’s success and meteoric growth has been no secret. Early, the team distinguished themselves through the introduction of a new consensus protocol – Snow*. This novel architecture combines the best…
Replicated Market Makers: Oracle-Free DeFi
TL;DR: Easy, efficient, secure, and oracle-free covered calls in DeFi. Brought to you by Replicated Market Makers. If there’s one thing that is of tantamount importance to the survival of…
Bancor v3: A Look into the Future
If you missed Part 1, on Bancor’s history, check it out here. Enter Bancor V3 On November 28th, 2021, Bancor officially announced the next iteration of their protocol, Bancor v3,…
Bancor: The History of DeFi’s Founding Fathers
Introduction Bancor is among the most overlooked and misunderstood DeFi native projects, and its complexities can leave even the savviest DeFi natives scratching their heads. With that said, it’s maintained…
LayerZero: Omnichain Interoperability
Let’s be honest, bridging sucks. More than twice in the past week I have accidentally bridged a stablecoin onto a blockchain where it isn’t tradable, or stranded funds on a…
Danksharding: Ethereum’s Scalability Killer
Following up my last piece (where I discussed the role sharding is playing in solving decentralized scaling), it’s time to discuss a novel model that could be the savior of…
Labs Case Study: Using Bonuses for Nodle’s Crowdloan
The Scenario: Our client, Nodle, is a decentralized, IoT platform seeking to formally launch through a Polkadot crowdloan. As part of this process, they needed to effectively incentivize investors to…
Solving the Blockchain Trilemma: On Scaling Challenges and their Solutions
Jump To: On-Chain Solutions, Off-Chain Solutions Evaluations of L2s Highlighted Projects Build Bigger. Build Better. Build Faster. These three tenets challenged humanity to pioneer forward, and have dictated the pace of…
Olympus Treasuries: Zero-Coupon Bonds for Flexible Staking
If you missed our original piece on Olympus DAO, or the piece comparing OHM Fork revenues and dilution, definitely check them out to set the stage. Olympus came up with…