NFT rich and USDC poor? Fortunately for you, lending markets have popped up — you can deposit your NFT and borrow against it. Alternatively, if you want instant liquidity and no one has a buy offer, deposit the NFT into an NFT ETF and sell the ETF share. NFTs or…

How to reason about the evolution of cross chain future Ever take the wrong bridge and ended up in the wrong place and had to backtrack to get to your final destination, but ran out of gas so you got stuck? As more protocols for blockchain interoperability reach mainnet, this…

A Uniswap grants 💎🤝 Compound grants collab In collaboration with Uniswap grants and Compound grants, we are excited to announce a joint competition — Suprememe. Memes are some of the most effective ways of conveying information and breaking down complex ideas into digestible pieces. …

Liquidity mining (LM), incentivized pools, yield farming — all terms to describe a strategy where a user provides capital to a protocol in return for its native token. Although liquidity mining is common in crypto, it by no means originated there. Electronic markets since the late 1990s have offered rebates…

How delegating (aka proxy advisors) will take over blockchain The general election in America is a pretty big deal. The president has a lot of powers and has a great effect on the global geopolitical landscape. With stakes this high, one would expect voter turnout to be higher than only…

Why there will never be another ETH Classic — By Leland Lee and Haseeb Qureshi After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called…

How many steps does it take to claim that kitten? The official guide from the creators of CryptoKitties instructs users to first install Metamask before purchasing Ether, followed by many additional steps. This shows how terrible Blockchain UX is. Users are helpless without having the underlying protocol token. …

How close can a centralised company get to having blockchain properties (permissionless, immutable, censorship resistant, etc) without actually using blockchain? We’ve seen both Ripple and TRON announce 100MM USD funds to invest into the blockchain gaming space. The interest and capital is here. How will the centralised incumbents respond? If…

How have blockchains become more usable starting from the protocol layer and surrounding infrastructure. To help censorship resistant, immutable, and permissionless blockchains gain wide spread market adoption, a lot of changes have to be made. Every individual layer of the ecosystem needs to become more usable from the base protocol…