Go from 0 to 100 in your OpSec knowledge with our guide covering the why and how of self custody. Learn about the different ways of securing your cryptocurrency holdings and become fully in control of your finances!OutlineWhy Self Custody?How to Self CustodyThe Importance of Free and Open Source SoftwareSmart Contract WalletsHardware WalletsCreating Your Own Hardware WalletThe Glacier Protocol: Taking Paranoia to the MaxInventive Ways of Securing Secret Recovery PhrasesSelf Custody: More Than...

Go from 0 to 100 in your OpSec knowledge with our guide covering the why and how of self custody. Learn about the different ways of securing your cryptocurrency holdings and become fully in control of your finances!OutlineWhy Self Custody?How to Self CustodyThe Importance of Free and Open Source SoftwareSmart Contract WalletsHardware WalletsCreating Your Own Hardware WalletThe Glacier Protocol: Taking Paranoia to the MaxInventive Ways of Securing Secret Recovery PhrasesSelf Custody: More Than...

Welcome to our market review for October, where we recap the biggest developments in the past month, provide some snapshots of the cryptocurrency markets and review the FTX contagion.OverviewNews RecapMarkets SnapshotFTX Contagion Rattles MarketsUpcoming EventsNews RecapFed Raises Federal Funds Rate by 75 Basis Points Again on November 2ndThe benchmark interest rate was raised to 3.75%-4% and the central bank’s projections show that rates will reach a high of 4.75% in 2023. JPMorgan Executes ...

Welcome to our market review for October, where we recap the biggest developments in the past month, provide some snapshots of the cryptocurrency markets and review the FTX contagion.OverviewNews RecapMarkets SnapshotFTX Contagion Rattles MarketsUpcoming EventsNews RecapFed Raises Federal Funds Rate by 75 Basis Points Again on November 2ndThe benchmark interest rate was raised to 3.75%-4% and the central bank’s projections show that rates will reach a high of 4.75% in 2023. JPMorgan Executes ...

This guide will introduce you to sentiment analysis, some tools for tracking sentiment and some tips for incorporating these techniques into your trading.Read our guides on fundamental analysis and technical analysis if you haven’t done so already!OverviewWhat is Sentiment Analysis?Google TrendsGauging Sentiment Using TwitterCase study: Elon Musk and DogecoinDune AnalyticsLunarCrushSantiment’s Social VolumeImplied Volatility and the Put-Call RatioPros and Cons of Sentiment AnalysisWhat is Sen...

This guide will introduce you to sentiment analysis, some tools for tracking sentiment and some tips for incorporating these techniques into your trading.Read our guides on fundamental analysis and technical analysis if you haven’t done so already!OverviewWhat is Sentiment Analysis?Google TrendsGauging Sentiment Using TwitterCase study: Elon Musk and DogecoinDune AnalyticsLunarCrushSantiment’s Social VolumeImplied Volatility and the Put-Call RatioPros and Cons of Sentiment AnalysisWhat is Sen...

Fundamental analysis is popular in traditional finance, but it can also be used in cryptocurrency markets. The idea of this type of analysis is to use all the publicly available information about an asset to help to determine the “fair” or real value. Market prices generally diverge from the true underlying value from time to time, but they will eventually return to their real value. The aim of fundamental analysis is to find assets that are undervalued or overvalued by using a variety of tec...

Fundamental analysis is popular in traditional finance, but it can also be used in cryptocurrency markets. The idea of this type of analysis is to use all the publicly available information about an asset to help to determine the “fair” or real value. Market prices generally diverge from the true underlying value from time to time, but they will eventually return to their real value. The aim of fundamental analysis is to find assets that are undervalued or overvalued by using a variety of tec...

Mango Markets, a money market and perpetual DEX built on Solana, experienced an exploit on October 12th where ~$116 million in funds were siphoned from the protocol. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the exploit, diagnose what went wrong with Mango and detail how Perp manages risk in light of these recent events.How was the Mango Exploit Pulled Off?The sequence of events that led to a deficit for Mango was similar to a price manipulation attack as shown below that has been seen in...

Mango Markets, a money market and perpetual DEX built on Solana, experienced an exploit on October 12th where ~$116 million in funds were siphoned from the protocol. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the exploit, diagnose what went wrong with Mango and detail how Perp manages risk in light of these recent events.How was the Mango Exploit Pulled Off?The sequence of events that led to a deficit for Mango was similar to a price manipulation attack as shown below that has been seen in...

Welcome to our market review for September, where we recap the biggest developments in the past month, provide some snapshots of the cryptocurrency markets and assess different decentralized stablecoins in light of the recent draft legislation in the US.OverviewNews RecapMarkets SnapshotStablecoins Under the SpotlightUpcoming EventsNews RecapFederal Reserve Raises Rates by 75 Basis Points at September MeetingThe Fed continues to take a hawkish stance and raised the federal funds rate by 75 ba...

Welcome to our market review for September, where we recap the biggest developments in the past month, provide some snapshots of the cryptocurrency markets and assess different decentralized stablecoins in light of the recent draft legislation in the US.OverviewNews RecapMarkets SnapshotStablecoins Under the SpotlightUpcoming EventsNews RecapFederal Reserve Raises Rates by 75 Basis Points at September MeetingThe Fed continues to take a hawkish stance and raised the federal funds rate by 75 ba...

The Perpetual Protocol Grants Committee received five new proposals for October 2022. Read on to learn more about the proposals received, proposals under consideration, and updates on a number of ongoing grants!Grants Accepted ✅RoboVault Milestone 1RoboVault is building an LP vault on top of Perpetual Protocol V2. We recently approved their strategy and are now looking to start building out the vault itself.Grants Under Consideration 🔎DVolDVol are looking to build two projects on top of Perp...

The Perpetual Protocol Grants Committee received five new proposals for October 2022. Read on to learn more about the proposals received, proposals under consideration, and updates on a number of ongoing grants!Grants Accepted ✅RoboVault Milestone 1RoboVault is building an LP vault on top of Perpetual Protocol V2. We recently approved their strategy and are now looking to start building out the vault itself.Grants Under Consideration 🔎DVolDVol are looking to build two projects on top of Perp...

In this article, we’ll discuss what a trading plan is and why it’s important to have one.What is a Trading Plan?A trading plan is a compilation of rules that provides a trader with discipline and structure, helping you to protect your capital and prevent you from making impulsive decisions. Beginners and more experienced market participants should create a framework of how they want to approach the markets and progress as a trader. Spending enough time making a plan pays off over the long run...

In this article, we’ll discuss what a trading plan is and why it’s important to have one.What is a Trading Plan?A trading plan is a compilation of rules that provides a trader with discipline and structure, helping you to protect your capital and prevent you from making impulsive decisions. Beginners and more experienced market participants should create a framework of how they want to approach the markets and progress as a trader. Spending enough time making a plan pays off over the long run...

It’s been nearly two months since the Merge, the biggest upgrade in Ethereum’s history. In this data deep dive, we examine how the market has been affected, how key fundamentals of the network have developed, the changes to ETH’s issuance so far, and charts related to Ethereum’s staking yields.Market ImpactThe Merge turned out to be a “buy the rumor, sell the news” type event, with the price running up to almost $2,000 in anticipation of the upgrade, only to fall as low as $1,250 around the t...

It’s been nearly two months since the Merge, the biggest upgrade in Ethereum’s history. In this data deep dive, we examine how the market has been affected, how key fundamentals of the network have developed, the changes to ETH’s issuance so far, and charts related to Ethereum’s staking yields.Market ImpactThe Merge turned out to be a “buy the rumor, sell the news” type event, with the price running up to almost $2,000 in anticipation of the upgrade, only to fall as low as $1,250 around the t...

In this guide, we’ll show you how to use a popular trend-following trading system: the Ichimoku cloud indicator. The Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a trend-following trading system released by Japanese journalist Goichi Hosoda in the late 1960s, which means ‘equilibrium chart at a glance’. Western traders only started to understand this powerful technique in the 1990s after being properly translated into English. There are four different components of the Ichimoku indicator that should be integrated t...

In this guide, we’ll show you how to use a popular trend-following trading system: the Ichimoku cloud indicator. The Ichimoku Kinko Hyo is a trend-following trading system released by Japanese journalist Goichi Hosoda in the late 1960s, which means ‘equilibrium chart at a glance’. Western traders only started to understand this powerful technique in the 1990s after being properly translated into English. There are four different components of the Ichimoku indicator that should be integrated t...

The Grants Committee received seven new proposals for September 2022. Read on to learn more about the proposals received, proposals under consideration, and updates on a number of ongoing grants!Grants Approved ✅Perp Funding Rate Execution EngineA funding rate arbitrage tool is being built that will allow users to run funding rate arbitrage trades between FTX and Perpetual Protocol.Crypto N’ CarryCrypto N’ Carry are building a funding rate arbitrage dashboard for Perpetual Protocol, allowing ...

The Grants Committee received seven new proposals for September 2022. Read on to learn more about the proposals received, proposals under consideration, and updates on a number of ongoing grants!Grants Approved ✅Perp Funding Rate Execution EngineA funding rate arbitrage tool is being built that will allow users to run funding rate arbitrage trades between FTX and Perpetual Protocol.Crypto N’ CarryCrypto N’ Carry are building a funding rate arbitrage dashboard for Perpetual Protocol, allowing ...

Technical analysis is the study of past price action to reliably forecast future prices. By studying how price and volume behaved in similar market conditions in the past, technical traders rely solely on this information to find an edge and try to predict how the market may play out in the future.Since technical analysis is a very wide-ranging field, this article only serves to give the reader a solid introduction to some of the most effective technical analysis techniques. Subscribe to our ...

Technical analysis is the study of past price action to reliably forecast future prices. By studying how price and volume behaved in similar market conditions in the past, technical traders rely solely on this information to find an edge and try to predict how the market may play out in the future.Since technical analysis is a very wide-ranging field, this article only serves to give the reader a solid introduction to some of the most effective technical analysis techniques. Subscribe to our ...