Leverage is a financial tactic that uses borrowed funds to boost an investment’s potential return. In layman’s terms, an investor or trader borrows money to increase his exposure to a particular class of assets, endeavors, or financial instruments beyond what would be possible if he relied solely on his own…

This article was written right after the FTX collapse, and it perfectly fits the discussion around crypto investments in times when crypto is in a bear market and experiences high volatility. There is never the perfect time when it comes to investing in crypto. Trying to time the market is…

An increasing number of project developers and certifiers in the voluntary carbon market are dedicated to mapping certificates as tokens on the blockchain. At the same time, there are efforts to integrate new technologies to provide alternative data sources. This is creating a new market segment in which enormous amounts…

Identifiers such as the International Security Identification Number (ISIN) enable the secure trading of securities and simplify international data reconciliation. With the International Token Identification Number (ITIN), ITSA has created a market standard that enables the same for tokens, be it a native crypto asset, an NFT or an ERC-20…

Ethereum staking was introduced with the launch of the Beacon Chain in December 2020. Staking is the act of depositing 32 ETH to activate validator software on the Ethereum blockchain and has been active for the past two years. Validators have replaced the miners after The Merge in 2022 and…

Enzyme is a decentralized protocol for on-chain asset management, allowing users to create, manage and invest in custom crypto asset management vaults. Before becoming Enzyme the protocol was called Melonport, and it is one of the oldest DeFi protocols running on Ethereum. Founded in 2016 by Mona El Isa, a…

Liquity is a novel borrowing protocol that puts great emphasis on decentralization and immutability. It enables users to provide ETH as collateral and mint LUSD stablecoins in return. The latest product offered by Liquity is Chicken bonds. One of the greatest challenges DeFi is facing is capturing and sustaining liquidity…

Launched in April 2022 Cresent Network is a hybrid decentralized exchange running on Cosmos. The main innovation of the protocol is the maximization of capital efficiency through the Hybrid AMM/Orderbook. Looking back in history, we can see that the first DEX on Ethereum was an order book trading platform. Such…

DeFi has accounted for over 75% of crypto hacks in 2021 totaling $361 million of lost funds. The hacks can be summarized as follows: smart contract code flaw, flash loan attacks, rug pulls, and oracle and network manipulation. As DeFi is expected to grow exponentially in the next years, the…