The topic of today’s post is the Ampleforth (AMPL) token, a very interesting algorithmic stablecoin. It uses an interesting elastic supply mechanic as it’s method of rebasing to maintain it’s peg. There

Today I am going to take a look at how money markets work in Decentralized Finance (DeFi). These are the places you can borrow and lend crypto and either make returns or pay interest, depending on which

It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll see

For today’s article I am going to take a look at what derivatives are and how they handled in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) world. These are relatively the same as their centralized counterparts, but

Today I am going to explore Chainlink, a blockchain service that allows a Decentralized Application (DApp) to get real world data from a decentralized oracle service, instead of needing to rely on a

Today we are going to take a look at what happened with Iron Finance, and why the events that played out mirror a bank run in the traditional finance world. For the usual disclosure, I am not a financial

Today I am taking a look at a flash loans, a feature in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that lets people borrow very large sums of crypto, for very short periods of time. For the usual disclosure, I am not

It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll see

For today’s post I am going to take a look at the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a smart contract enabled blockchain that is modelled after Ethereum’s. It offers greater transaction throughput, and cheaper

Today’s article is going to explore The Graph, which provides an indexing protocol for blockchains. It provides a way to search data that is stored in the ledger quickly, without having to rely on a

The topic for today is going to be Thorchain, a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) that allows for doing swaps between different native cryptocurrencies. And it does it without the use of a wrapped version of

For today’s topic, I am going to explore Ethereum (ETH) and the upcoming changes to it’s network that make up the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. These changes are set to solve a number of issues that the Ethereum

It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll see

} The topic for today’s post is going to be vampire attacks. These are an interesting event that occurs in [Decentralized Finance (DeFi)]( when one protocol drains liquidity from another. These are not

The topic for today’s post is going to be vampire attacks. These are an interesting event that occurs in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) when one protocol drains liquidity from another. These are not necessarily

In today’s article, I am going to explore the upcoming change to the Ethereum (ETH) network that will bring a number of changes to the way transaction fees work. It is a pretty big change, and has a number

In today’s post, we are going to take a look at the Lightning Network, a layer 2 blockchain technology that aims to become the payment network for cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC). The goal is to provide

In today’s post we are going to take a look at what gas prices are on a network such as Ethereum (ETH). Gas powers the transactions and is how you pay your transaction fees, so it is important to understand

It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll see

For today’s article, we are going to take a look at a useful technical indicator, the Bollinger bands. These are a useful indicator that can give you a good visual reference to how volatile the price action