AnkhryptoLesson #3: Synthetics
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 tokens the point of which is to retain the same value as another asset (dollars, euros, gold, stocks, bitcoin, etc...). The idea was originally born because of US regulations, which wouldn’t allow crypto exchanges to take in dollars or permit trading of crypto assets against the dollar without a fin...
AnkhryptoLesson #4: Yield Optimizers
In my previous lessons I mentioned 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 of protocols, so as to generate passive income. The yield comes from protocol usage fees (such as interest from loans or fees on swaps) and the from the distribution of the protocol’s native token.Picking the right tokensTo do so, it is very important you pick the right tokens to farm, as i...
AnkhryptoLesson #2: Lending
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. However, these lending systems can’t send repo men to your house if you don’t pay up, or know your credit score and revenue, and cannot therefore evaluate your reliability as a borrower like a traditional bank would.So how does on-chain lending work?On-chain borrowing usually requires you to provide a collateral equivalent to bet...
DeFi, explained clearly without bells and whistles
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.
An insurance consists of a pool of one or multiple assets covering possible issues in a DeFi protocol, such as funds being stolen due to a smart contract exploit or bug, a stablecoin losing its peg, etc...
Kind of like TradFi up to this point. So how is it different?
Each pool covers a different possible issue. In order to insure themselves, users will pay a fee to a pool periodically depending on how much assets they want to insure and for how long. Additionally, some protocols will allow anyone to deposit crypto into their pools and offer yield in return in order to increase their capacity. This yield comes from different sources depending on the protocol:
Unslashed: The yield offered comes from the fees paid by the users
InsurAce: Funds (including user fees) are deposited in yield farming protocols to generate revenue for the stakers and the pool, and stakers receive bonus yield in the form of governance tokens. However in this case they do not receive user fees, which belong to the pool.
Of course, this is not without risk, as in case of a claim if the pool’s own funds are not sufficient to pay users their due, the staker’s funds will be used.
In case of an insured event, a claim has to be made on-chain by the users, which will then be verified through a governance vote, usually either within the protocol itself or an independent decentralized justice protocol such as Kleros. Majority voters are rewarded with governance tokens for the protocol in question. If the vote is positive then the users will receive compensation for their losses up to the amount they insured.
When it come to picking one insurance over another, the most important is of course the coverage. You must imperatively pick a pool that covers the protocol you want to cover, and carefully read the conditions of what is covered and in what circumstances. Once you have that covered (pun intended), it all boils down to finding the right equilibrium between liquidity and price, in order to have the safest coverage while losing the least possible yield.
Unslashed: Multi-chain insurance protocol
InsurAce: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Nexus Mutual: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Helmet: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Version française disponible sur Muchcoin
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.
An insurance consists of a pool of one or multiple assets covering possible issues in a DeFi protocol, such as funds being stolen due to a smart contract exploit or bug, a stablecoin losing its peg, etc...
Kind of like TradFi up to this point. So how is it different?
Each pool covers a different possible issue. In order to insure themselves, users will pay a fee to a pool periodically depending on how much assets they want to insure and for how long. Additionally, some protocols will allow anyone to deposit crypto into their pools and offer yield in return in order to increase their capacity. This yield comes from different sources depending on the protocol:
Unslashed: The yield offered comes from the fees paid by the users
InsurAce: Funds (including user fees) are deposited in yield farming protocols to generate revenue for the stakers and the pool, and stakers receive bonus yield in the form of governance tokens. However in this case they do not receive user fees, which belong to the pool.
Of course, this is not without risk, as in case of a claim if the pool’s own funds are not sufficient to pay users their due, the staker’s funds will be used.
In case of an insured event, a claim has to be made on-chain by the users, which will then be verified through a governance vote, usually either within the protocol itself or an independent decentralized justice protocol such as Kleros. Majority voters are rewarded with governance tokens for the protocol in question. If the vote is positive then the users will receive compensation for their losses up to the amount they insured.
When it come to picking one insurance over another, the most important is of course the coverage. You must imperatively pick a pool that covers the protocol you want to cover, and carefully read the conditions of what is covered and in what circumstances. Once you have that covered (pun intended), it all boils down to finding the right equilibrium between liquidity and price, in order to have the safest coverage while losing the least possible yield.
Unslashed: Multi-chain insurance protocol
InsurAce: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Nexus Mutual: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Helmet: Multi-chain insurance protocol
Version française disponible sur Muchcoin
AnkhryptoLesson #3: Synthetics
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 tokens the point of which is to retain the same value as another asset (dollars, euros, gold, stocks, bitcoin, etc...). The idea was originally born because of US regulations, which wouldn’t allow crypto exchanges to take in dollars or permit trading of crypto assets against the dollar without a fin...
AnkhryptoLesson #4: Yield Optimizers
In my previous lessons I mentioned 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 of protocols, so as to generate passive income. The yield comes from protocol usage fees (such as interest from loans or fees on swaps) and the from the distribution of the protocol’s native token.Picking the right tokensTo do so, it is very important you pick the right tokens to farm, as i...
AnkhryptoLesson #2: Lending
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. However, these lending systems can’t send repo men to your house if you don’t pay up, or know your credit score and revenue, and cannot therefore evaluate your reliability as a borrower like a traditional bank would.So how does on-chain lending work?On-chain borrowing usually requires you to provide a collateral equivalent to bet...
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