Category: DeFi
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Secret Network – Data Privacy For Web 3
Enigma Migrates To Secret During the course of 2020, Enigma holders were able to swap their ENG for SCRT on a 1:1 basis. Enigma migrated to its own Cosmos SDK-based chain, Secret Network, which has performed rather well since its inception. With an all-time low of $0.25 and an all-time high of $10.38, SCRT clearly…
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Leofinance – A Realistic Look At Where We Are In The Journey
New Projects Are Always Exciting The launch of PolyCUB has been rather exciting, especially from a tokenomics point of view. How it plays out long-term is still anyone’s guess. With the price of PolyCUB rebounding to the dollar zone after briefly hitting $0.67, it has managed to surprise many. The true test however is once…
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ChainLink Ecosystem Experiences Explosive Growth!
Oracles Floating Under The Radar In my recent post, “Oracles – The Forgotten sector”, I mentioned how projects such as ChainLink and Band Protocol seem to have been excluded in the bull run of 2020 and 2021. There were very modest gains in the oracle sector as a whole and yet ChainLink, in particular, has…
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PolyCUB – Zero Distraction & Patience
The Predictability Of DeFi It always begins with euphoria and a massive pump. As the yields proceed to drop, investors begin dumping their holdings on DEXs, as they move on in search of the next “opportunity”. This is the rinse and repeat cycle of typical DeFi investors. They are making money and you can’t hold…
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Crypto – The Latest Trend Of Geo-Blocking
Canada Triggers A New Trend Ever since Canada recently began freezing bank accounts, financial censorship has been on the rise. I know geo-blocking is by no means something new but it is definitely experiencing a surge and especially among large Crypto entities. As recently mentioned, Bitcoin was designed so as not to be politicized and…
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DEXs Losing Supremacy As Regulation Tightens
The Trend Continues Utilizing DEXs in 2021 as opposed to centralized exchanges became the default choice of traders and Crypto enthusiasts. Due to countless hacks, users felt safer not having to entrust their coins to a third party. This trend has in many ways continued and is the preferred choice of transacting in 2022. Although…
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Reflections & Current Thoughts On DeFi
DeFi Season Kicks Off In 2020 we had the initial DeFi craze that saw many small and unknown projects taking off by simply leveraging the term “DeFi”. If a project was said to offer some type of DeFi service, it was automatically sent to the moon. This was obviously unsustainable, especially since many of these…
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Great Opportunities Opening Up For POS Projects
DeFi Is Great But POS Still Has Benefits With the shift to DeFi over the past year or two, POS coins have taken a bit of a back seat. POS (proof of stake) projects do however have benefits in that they are generally a lot more stable, provided you select the blue chips. Recently Hive…
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CUB Finance – Compounding Against The Curve
Launch Day Nostalgia I am not sure how many of you were actively engaged when CUB launched back in early 2021. It was quite a tremendous blast-off, I can remember that much! CUB managed to breach $12 within the first 48 hours, completely outperforming my own and many others’ predictions. The APY was absolutely insane…
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