With all the new finance protocols hitting the market, some are of course insecure. This has lead to a large quantity of losses over time (see Rekt.news for examples). As such, an existing financial product was introduced to DeFi: insurances. How does insurance work in DeFi? An insurance consists of…

With this flurry of new projects and ideas appearing in crypto, a new problem arose: these projects, not necessarily big or connected enough to be VC-backed, needed a way to raise funds for their operations and development, as well as to provide inital liquidity for their token on AMMs. At…

All these AMMs have different prices and fees! How do I know the best place to swap my tokens? Due to slippage and differences in swap algorithms, arbitrage, fees and available pairs, different AMMs usually have different prices and costs associated to swap between two specific tokens, especially since one…

How can I get the best yield on my assets with minimal efforts? I my previous lessons I mentioned in the previous lessons the concept of “yield farming”, but what is it exactly? The practice of yield farming consists of providing liquidity (in other words depositing crypto) to different types…

It’s nice to have all these financial systems, but wouldn’t it be better if we could use them without going through all these weird imaginary computer currencies? What are synthetics? Synthetics are cryptos the point of which is to retain the same value as another asset (dollars, euros, gold, stocks, bitcoin, etc…). The…

The second step to decentralizing finance is, of course, on-chain lending. There are now lending systems on the blockchain, which are often built on smart contracts. …

DEXs & AMMs The first step to decentralize our financial system is, of course, to be able to exchange coins on the blockchain, eliminating the need for a CEX (centralized exchange). To fulfill this need many DEXs spawned, functioning with order books the same way a CEX would, like Cryptobridge for example, which…