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An Ape-Friendly Guide to DeFi Yield Derivatives

Generating passive income using DeFi is one of the most attractive things for a newcomer. The interest rates of these protocols are often promoted to be in the range of hundred to thousands % APY, putting the bank interest rates to shame –– but that’s somewhat misleading as returns are calculated on an annual basis, …

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Ethereum’s Value Extracting Bots: Explainer and Project Map

The ability to write flexible smart contracts in Ethereum and to create composable money lego’s out of it is one of the main reasons why decentralized finance has seen such explosive innovation and growth. But the complexity that is brought by stacking these blocks creates an opportunity for blockchain miners to extract value by excluding, …

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Red Flag Alert: A Framework for Vetting Crypto Projects Part III

Hey there! 👋 Welcome to the final part of the series. Give yourself a pat if you’ve made it so far! In this three-part series, we have provide a framework to help identify red flags in crypto projects. Part I analyzed tokenomics, Part II analyzes team, social media and backers and Part III will analyze …

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Red Flag Alert: A Framework for Vetting Crypto Projects Part II

With hacks and exploits breaking every week in DeFi, participants are undoubtedly asking where to look for red flags, how to protect their investments and how to vet projects. In this three-part series, we provide a framework to help with just this. Part I analyzed Tokenomics, Part III will analyze mental frameworks, and Part II …

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Red Flag Alert: A Framework for Vetting Crypto Projects

Let’s start with a story, Jean was just chilling on a Sunday afternoon and her phone buzzes, she picks up his phone and sees a bunch of messages by her friend who’s a so-called crypto expert.  After some more back and forth with her friend, she finds out that they offer 1% daily compound interest. …

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