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DeFi

By mr mittens | 14 Dec, 22 |

DeFi's volatile rates and lack of yield curve creates friction for financial adoption. Because borrowing requires a stable cost of money.

By mr mittens | 1 Dec, 22 |

A moral and logical framework to draw a distinction between a DeFi hack, a sophisticated trading strategy, and a short squeeze.

By mr mittens | 21 Nov, 22 |

Your risk, their reward. Rehypothecation is actually a standard TradFi practice that DeFi must stop. The DEX solves this.

By mr mittens | 14 Nov, 22 |

For Ethereum to support a network with billions of people it must be effectively scaled. ZK-rollups, specifically STARKs, solve this.

By mr mittens | 13 Oct, 22 |

What makes DeFi decentralized is its open existence onchain. Claiming a website disproves this is either naive or arguing in bad faith.

By mr mittens | 30 Sep, 22 |

Why do we want info stored in a blockchain over a database? There are many differences between them, let's review their advantages.

By mr mittens | 19 Sep, 22 |

Information is a critical component to markets. We love the AMM but it's an informationally poor liquidity source. The orderbook solves this.

By mr mittens | 6 Sep, 22 |

If you lose your keys how do you recover your assets? If you die, often your crypto passes away with you. Account abstraction solves this.

By mr mittens | 24 Aug, 22 |

Just like there are layer 1 and 2 blockchains, there are layers of money that act as building blocks for more money.

By mr mittens | 21 Jul, 22 |

We believe in a multichain future, but imagine a world where you could reasonably not know what chain you're using. What would that look like?