A Blueprint for Community Management and Growth — In a competitive market like crypto, retaining a moat is difficult. A strong community can represent a vital competitive advantage required for establishing your project as a long-term leader. …

Token vote locking has been all the rage for quite some time now. Pioneered by Curve, protocols like Ribbon, Yearn, Hundred Finance and many more adopted the model. While there are definitely advantages, the downsides are rarely talked about. …

A DeFi blue(berry) chip in the making? — GMX is a perp and spot exchange on Arbitrum with unique protocol mechanics and tokenomics. Demand-side: GMX offers traders decentralized derivatives, a highly-demanded product. BTC and ETH perpetual futures contracts have a monthly trading volume of ~$2T. In comparison, spot volume is roughly 7x smaller, with ~$300B per month. dYdX…

How to stake FTM? All you need to know — This guide will show you how to securily and easily stake your FTM using the official Opera wallet. Update: The guide has been updated to account for the new version of the wallet. Token swaps using a bridge are no longer necessary 4 Steps: 1. Create an Opera wallet 2. Transfer your…

Providing a scalable and fast consensus layer for blockchains and DLTs — Are blockchains ready for adoption? Blockchain projects are currently facing two major challenges that hinder adoption — transaction throughput and finality. Fantom provides scalable and fast consensus-as-a-service for blockchains to help tackle these obstacles. Blockchain layers In general, the blockchain stack consists of layers for networking, consensus, sybil control (e.g. PoW, PoS) as well as middleware…

From a market niche to changing the perception of the masses — Technological innovations displace incumbent companies. The slogan “Software eats the world” is an embodiment of this phenomenon. And this trend seems to accelerate. While in the 1950s the average lifespan of S&P 500 companies was 60 years, it decreased to less than 20 years nowadays and is projected to sink…

Understanding the basics of blockchain — This article outlines blockchains in general, from a non-technical perspective. It is aimed at beginners, providing a basic explanation of blockchains and introducing essential terms.