In this analysis, I’m taking a look at an idea for making the Anchor yield reserve self-sustainable. Here’s the idea: Post Columbus-5 upgrade, all of the seigniorage is being burnt. What if a part of this seigniorage can be captured to bolster the Anchor yield reserve? But first… What Is Seigniorage? For the…

Normally, to swap between tokens a user has to do it on a centralized exchange (CEX)like Binance or a decentralized exchange (DEX) like Uniswap. However, because Terra has a special relationship between LUNA and Terra stablecoins, Terra has a special swapping capability built into its core. In Terra station, this…

In this article, I take a look at some of the important metrics one needs to review while selecting a validator. Before going further, let’s do a quick review on validators. Validators Terra relies on delegators and validators to keep the network secure, where delegators are users that delegated any amount…

Each of the protocols on Terra accomplish a specific task. For e.g. Mirror Protocol allows trading stocks for more specifically “mirrored assets”. Anchor Protocol acts as a savings account which offers “high and stable yield”. Mars Protocol will offer a “money market”. Levana Protocol will allow the use of…

In this analysis, I’m going to be focusing on the native USDC and the Ethereum-bridged version of USDC i.e. USDC.e. For the longest time, USDC.e was the only available form of USDC on Avalanche blockchain. In December 2021, Circle launched native USDC on Avalanche.

# What is Avalanche? Avalanche is a layer 1 blockchain that was launched in September 2020. Like many other L1 protocols trying to resolve the Scalability Trilemma, Avalanche has its own vision and an idea of how to solve it. Avalanche’s mainnet is made up of 3 separate blockchains: Exchange Chain (X-Chain), Platform Chain…

# What are users up to on Flow? Buckle up friends, this is going to be a good one! It started as a simple question about looking into a Flipside Crypto swap table on Flow. ## There’s an AMM/DEX? 😲 The first question I asked myself was — People swap on Flow? Thought it was a NFT focused chain Turns out, there is…

# What is Optimism & Layer 2? While still one of the most heavily used networks in the space, Ethereum suffers from high transaction fees and confirmation times. This prevents it from its full vision of being a network for finance. …

# Intro Celsius is a popular decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform that pays high returns on customer deposits. Most recently, Celcius had around $11.8 billion in assets, offers interest-bearing products to customers who deposit cryptocurrencies with its platform. It then lends out cryptocurrencies to earn a return paying up to 8% on…