A short memo on why I believe LDO is a must-have token for a long term-strategy — General LDO is the governance token of Lido Finance, the premier solution for liquid staking. Lido Finance allows users to stake their tokens and issues IOUs in exchange, which can be used in DeFi application. So you can earn additional yields without missing out the opportunity cost of not staking. Lido…

A practical guide to using Aave and Lido Finance to enhance your Ethereum yields (and more!) — Do you want to learn how OG crypto users trade their cryptocurrencies? Well, you are in the right place. By reading this article you will learn a simple strategy that allows you to leverage the rebasing rate of Ethereum while lending on Aave with little price risk and essentially earn…

A practical guide to milk the funding rate on Mango Market — Here is how I made 6’400 USDC in the last 30 days by trading on Mango Markets with no directional risk. I will explain you how to do the same trade that market makers do not want you to know about. This is called “funding arbitrage”, take out your notebook…

We don’t want it — as of now — Hello all, Crypto_notte here. I am very active in the Solana DeFi ecosystem and have holdings of both SBR, SUNNY and COW so thanks for having this conversation on the forum and allowing myself to hop in the discussion. …

UXD is an interesting idea, but I will pass on UXP (its governance) — UXD is an interesting idea, but I will pass on UXP (its governance) I love analyzing new projects and I think it is important to call out the bad one. UXD Protocol caught my attention for three reasons: I often trade the delta neutral basis Stablecoins is an exciting area …

Do market makers manipulate the markets? Let’s break some myths. — Every time you buy or sell stocks, cryptocurrencies or place a bet there is a counterpart. Many times the counterpart will be another user, but most of the time it will be a market maker. Who are they and what do they do? A market maker (from here onward shortened…

Sorry, but this is the harsh truth. — Many of you have already heard about Olympus DAO or seen the “(3,3)” on Twitter. Do you know what that means? If not, then I will explain its meaning and how it affects you later on in this article. I am going to spend little time explaining what Olympus DAO…

A case study and tutorial on bridging memecoins and making money out of it — First of all what is Wormhole? The formal definitions is “a cross-chain interoperability protocol connecting high value blockchains”, in layman terms it is a bridge for transferring tokens from one blockchain to another. What is arbitrage? It is simply the practice of buying one asset on a venue and sell…

An analysis of crypto-inequalities — Recently Marinade has started their retroactive token (MNDE) claim for early adopters and they released the data for the first batch of users, let’s do some quick statistical analysis and search for other hints. Marinade is a platform for liquid staking, it allows users to stake any amount of SOL…