Are you ready to dive into the world of flash loan arbitrage using Aave and Hardhat? If you’re looking to leverage the power of decentralized finance (DeFi) to profit from price discrepancies, you’re in the right place. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll guide you through the process of setting up…

We are the flash boys: we have made the first flash loan ever on Blockchain 🔥 This post is about Flash Loan and we will introduce ArbitrageDAO | Flash Boys in details in another post. In the world of trading, arbitrage is a strategy of taking advantage of price differences…

Earn 27.12% APY on $sAVAX deposits with CIAN’s leveraged staking strategy, built on Aave. — Introduction I’ve previously written about CIAN and their Avalanche-based leveraged staking strategies in my Earning AVAX with AVAX series, back in early December of 2022: Earning AVAX with AVAX #4 — CIAN Leveraged Staking Introductionmedium.com This focused on the $sAVAX folding strategy built on BENQI, however CIAN offer several other leveraged staking strategies on Avalanche as well:

GMX’s initial version distinguished itself by offering a decentralized spot and perpetual exchange that supported low swap fees and zero price impact trades, an attractive proposition for both casual and professional traders. The backbone of the GMX trading infrastructure was GLP, a unique multi-asset pool, that allowed liquidity providers to…

Uniswap has undergone multiple iterations, with each version bringing forth enhancements and novel functionalities. In its initial release, Uniswap V1 facilitated token swaps between ERC-20 tokens and ETH or ERC-20 to ERC-20 requiring two separate swaps. Building upon its success, Uniswap V2 expanded the horizon by allowing users to establish…

Introduction Hubble Exchange is a trustless and composable trading system for perpetuals. Engineered at the intersection of derivatives and application-specific VMs. Hubblenet is a perp-specific chain; customized to embed a fully Decentralized Limit Order Book and its Matching Engine. These perp-specific customizations enable Hubblenet to be the foundation of a…

A hands-on guide — Compound is a decentralized protocol which establishes money markets with algorithmically set interest rates based on supply and demand, allowing users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of Ethereum assets*. Compound V2 is one of the most important protocols on EVM chains. …

We review how DeFi protocols facilitate borrowing and lending. This post is the first of a series of three, discussing how DeFi lending protocols work — their key components, formulae, and use cases. In doing so, we’ll highlight how, despite different and creative nomenclatures, protocols tend to reuse, iterate and…

Important Disclaimer TLDR — I have been super confident with crypto, earned a great % and equally blind to the huge risk of keeping my capital in a super volatile currency pair. I may have earned an APY when crypto prices were relatively less volatile and green, but with huge dumps and…

Crypto investors, and web3 entrepreneurs should develop a deeper understanding of liquidity pools on decentralized exchanges (DEX) to maximize their success. Decentralized Exchanges Exchanges are meant to match buyers and sellers for any products or assets to be exchanged. In the case of currencies, the exchange is the middleman between the two…

Where they come from and what can be done about them — Liquidity providers to the Uniswap exchange and other Constant Function Market Makers such as Curve.fi and Balancer.io are known to suffer from “impermanent losses” — a phenomenon where certain trading patterns result in a loss of value of the liquidity pool, despite its growth from trading fee income. …

Web3 projects are big on using tokens. With good reason. Beyond decentralization, adding ‘money’ to the internet is one of the big innovations crypto has brought to the table. But when do tokens make sense and when don’t they? Why use a token? Web3 is built around decentralized systems. That means that the core…

How much token liquidity is needed in a liquidity pool? What are the considerations you need to take into account a when setting up a liquidity pool? How do liquidity pools work anyway?? Liquidity pools are a key part of web3 projects and I’ll be answering all of these questions…

This article was originally posted as a Twitter thread, you can check it out here. MakerDAO is the largest decentralized stablecoin protocol with 6.4 billion DAI outstanding, collateralized by over $8 billion of crypto and real-world assets including USDC, USDT, ETH, BTC, and stETH. …

Maker DAO is the protocol for supporting the stable token, DAI. This article is the description of the protocol based on the real examples of transactions, illustrated by graphs from bloxy.info web site. — Introduction The protocol is implemented as smart contracts: Sai Tub: https://bloxy.info/address/0x448a5065aebb8e423f0896e6c5d525c040f59af3 which accepts wrapped Ether ( WETH ) as the collateral for DAI debt, and

DeFi gets increasingly crowded. Retail investors need heavy, independent curation in order to navigate the complex landscape of protocols. With over 18,000 crypto-assets, millions of smart contracts, and dozens of decentralized exchanges (DEXs), it has become increasingly difficult for retail investors to navigate the DeFi space. Every day, hundreds of…

Know how the top DeFi protocol works under the hood — Welcome to the in-depth DeFi series! This series will be composed of several posts; each one will consist of an explanation of an individual protocol. The main purpose of this series is to understand from a first-principles approach how the top DeFi protocols work under the hood. We will review…

Build a decentralized lending protocol from scratch with hardhat, Solidity and Typescript. Introduction Today we are going to learn how to build your own lending protocol, using Solidity, Typescript and Openzeppelin. First, I have to explain exactly what we are going to build and then jump right into the code. Second…

The decentralised finance space has grown at a staggering rate. Widely considered the main use case for the Ethereum blockchain alongside the burgeoning NFT movement, DeFi has brought almost $100 billion of value locked on the network. Without a doubt the biggest catalyst for DeFi’s growth has been the emergence…

Correction: In the original article, I talked about how the hacker profited by crashing the price of WBTC — in reality, the hacker actually crashed the price of WETH and a few details in this article have been corrected accordingly. …