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Staking, Shaken Not Stirred: Marinade Finance Deep Dive
It is your third day into the crypto world. You have just come across this snappy Blockchain called Solana. All of a sudden, you hear these terms called ‘Staking’ and ‘Liquid Staking’. You feel like throwing up and never coming back to this dark side of finance. You gather some courage, do a quick google…
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What is Borrowing and Lending in DeFi?
Decentralized Finance is a burgeoning niche under crypto industry. Within a short span of 12 months, the industry size grew from $20B locked in value to $250B. This validates the hypotheses that crypto is here to stay. Not only that, it also proves that Decentralized Finance is going to play an important role in the…
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Top 5 Borrowing and Lending Platforms in DeFi
Decentralized Finance or DeFi has broken all records of rationality in the past year. The overall ecosystem grew from a measly $17 billion on December 31st, 2020 to $252 billion on December 31st, 2021. Not only this gives an idea of the longevity but also highlights various use cases to come in DeFi. Decentralized finance…
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EasyFi: Where DeFi Meets CeFi (WazirX Listing)
The cryptoverse in 2021 was dominated by a few keywords: NFTs, GameFI, Metaverse. But there was one niche that jumped into the mainstream without much attention. Yes, I am talking about DeFi. I know a lot of you would say that DeFi was extremely hot topic throughout the year. As per defillama, the total value…
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What are Degen Yield Farms: The Crypto Gambling
A few days ago, I talked about what yield farming is. We discussed methods like liquidity provision, lending/borrowing, staking etc. to farm for free crypto rewards. This time, we’re back with another method of yield farming. I didn’t include it in the previous blogpost because this is basically gambling and nothing else. In essence, it…
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What is Fulcrum? How Can You Use it To Multiply Your Gains?
Trust me, if you stay long enough in the crypto space, money would become a side gig for you. No, I am not referring to the gains here. I am talking about the endless learning opportunity at hand that you would start caring lesser about money and start viewing the big picture. Think of it…
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What is a DEX Aggregator? Example of 1inch
The year 2021 has seen an exponential growth of Decentralized Ecosystem. I was checking defillama a few days ago and I realized that TVL (total value locked) in DeFi was about $29B on 30th December 2020. This figure was hovering over $250B on 3rd December 2021. With this gargantuan leap, the tools that powers this…
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What is Stablecoin? Types of Stablecoin and Uses
I have been writing about blockchain and crypto for a while now. Every time I push the agenda of jumping into cryptoverse, I definitely get this from my beloved normies (someone who doesn’t invest in crypto): Raghav, it’s very volatile. And they aren’t wrong either. In my active investing journey of crypto, my portfolio has…
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What is Yield Farming in Crypto?
If this were a college Viva, I would have said that farming for more yield is called yield farming. Lucky for you, this isn’t one. So I am going to break down every piece of this seemingly complicated topic, in such a way, that you can become smarter version of yourself when you finish reading…
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5 Ways to Avoid Impermanent Loss
Oh come on! This is the third blogpost this week on the likes of impermanent loss already. While I prefer keeping all my blogposts between 1000-1500 words so that our readers don’t feel bored or less informed at the same when they finish the topic, but impermanent loss is different. You see, for a new…
