Impermanent loss is one of the biggest detriments to Uniswap.  In times of high volatility, the associated losses can be a huge deterrent for liquidity providers at large. Over time it will be extremely important for the industry to explore novel mechanisms for...

Over the past year, Ethereum has seen substantial growth thanks to the rise of DeFi. One of the biggest reasons for this success is the notion of composability - or the ability to combine multiple products with one another for unique services. Up until this week, it...

This week we explore the specification release of a MakerDAO & Dai alternative - MetaCoin. Founded by SpankChain CEO Ameen Sol and the MolochDAO camp, MetaCoin aims to be a governance-minimized, single collateral, permissionless stablecoin. This is an interesting...

This week we’ve decided to highlight many of the prominent applications in existence today and why this is ultimately important for ETH in the long-run. Over the past two years, many projects have been gut-checked by what many have come to call “Crypto Winter”. As we...

This week’s article will cover the emergence of token models with productive assets. This means that users can stake capital in the form of the protocol’s native token and earn exogenous rewards like ETH, BTC or DAI for the work they contributed to the ecosystem. In...

With the advent of passive income opportunities using DeFi products, it's no surprise that stablecoins like Dai have seen steady supply growth in the past quarter. The DeFi lending market is led by projects like Maker and Compound, both of which offer noncustodial...

As cryptocurrencies continue to unlock new ways to exchange value on a global scale, it’s no surprise that innovative asset classes are coming to fruition as well. Thanks to the advent of smart contracts, DEXs, and web 3 tooling at large, it’s now possible for...

In a world where open-source code is rarely incentivized, Gitcoin sets a vital foundation for developers, designers and more to get paid for their hard work. Through the issuance of bounties, projects can leverage Gitcoin’s deep network of web 3 specialists to find...

  While many may have considered 2019 a slow year for crypto, we witnessed a number of exciting developments signaling towards growth in the industry at large. There may not have been as many 100x ICO millionaires, but there were ten times as many teams hard at...