61 docs tagged with "DeFi"

AAVE provides money markets with algorithmically set interest rates based on supply and demand.

Provides money markets with algorithmically set interest rates based on supply and demand.

Airdrops are FREE crypto tokens given away to accounts that have been active on a service as reward for patronage.

The capacity of an investment strategy to beat the market, or its edge, is referred to as alpha.

Non-custodial token swaps.

The rate you can earn on an account over a year and it includes compound gains.

Leverage information asymmetry. Arbitrage is the practice of buying and selling assets over two or more markets as a way to take advantage of different prices.

Fixed income by lending assets to a protocol treasury. The asset loaned need not be the protocol token and is determined through treasury governance. Similarly, interest payments are not limited to just the protocol tokens.

Borrowing and lending of crypto assets. Crypto providers are able to earn an interest by depositing crypto to a specific pool. Borrowers are able to take out loans by collateralising crypto. By allowing collateralisation and lending across various cryptos, users are able to mix-and-match their current and borrowed assets according to their liquidity preferences.

Purpose

Compound provides a savings account where you can earn interest without trusting a third party with your funds.

Algorithmic Trading.

Curve Finance is a decentralized exchange for trading cryptocurrency that focuses on efficient stablecoin trading.

DeFi's Fight for Liquidity.

Ethereum based stablecoin governed by Maker DAO

Bonding Curve Fundamentals

DeFi concepts.

Source Code

https://docs.scaffoldeth.io/scaffold-eth/examples-branches/defi/aave-ape

How to become a DeFi Llama Pro

Banking Lego: The building blocks of the DeFi ecosystem whereby each protocol offers a specific financial function.

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Protocols can implemennt one or more primitives, such as lending, borrowing, trading, etc.

Source Code

DeFi is a term used to describe a variety of onchain applications that are geared toward disrupting traditional financial services.

DeFi derivatives allow investors to limit their exposure to risk and benefit from underlying assets' price movement in a trustless environment.

KPIs

A tool that allows you to query the blockchain and create dashboards to visualise the data.

Dutch Auction is an oppen descending price auction

dYdX.exchange enables Margin Trading

Purpose

Eigenlayer value and impact on Ethereum?

The tokenomics of Ethereum.

A flash loan enables you to borrow assets from a smart contract pool with no collateral.

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Impermanent Loss happens when the price of your tokens drop compared to when you deposited them. The larger the change is, the bigger the loss.

Chain Analysis and Metrics

Risk management of assets by purchasing insurance coverage in the event of asset loss (hacks, smart contract bug, etc.). Underwriters are able to select protocols/events to underwrite in exchange for a fee. Based on the insurance pools, a user is able to insure themselves by paying a premium to that pool. Payout determination can be either through a voting process or event driven code.

Trends

Solve the liquidity problem of staking crypto to secure blockchain transactions.

Liquidity Pools are the backbone of many decentralized exchanges (DEX).

Marketplaces facilitate the peer-to-peer discovery and trading of assets. The asset traded usually takes the form of NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) whereby each asset is unique and therefore requires significant amount of information and price discovery.

Optimisers maximise returns on other DeFi protocols.

Traditional orderbook trading process for swapping tokens. In addition to the traditional order matching, most orderbook DEXes will also search for opportunities for orders to be settled on AMM DEXes.

When transactions are sent to Ethereum, the amount of gas given as a charge for performing each transaction determines the order in which they are executed.

Solana valuation.

Trends

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The layer at which a transaction is settled.

Uniswap allows users to trustlessly trade (swap) ERC20 tokens or stablecoins.

Details

Evolve a DEX from basic to more complex as understanding grows.

Automated yeild 2with Yearn Finance.

Yearn

https://github.com/yearn/yearn-finance-v3

Lending cryptocurrency is also known as yield farming or liquidity harvesting.