IPOR Protocol's highly capital-efficient interest rate swaps enable access to TradFi-like capital management tools in a Web3 environment. — Quick takeaways: Interest rate swaps are fundamental building blocks of the traditional financial system and enable protection against interest rate volatility. Interest rate swaps have been traditionally available only to large financial institutions but thanks to blockchain technology and IPOR R&D efforts, DAOs, and retail users can now access Plain…

DAOs are the fixed-income funds of DeFi. As such, they need better financial tooling to manage risk and ensure their long-term sustainability. — Quick takeaways: Planning for future expenses is a tough task for DAOs since they don’t have access to risk management tools such as structured products or derivatives. Yields being generated on the largest money markets in DeFi — Aave and Compound — are usually insufficient for DAOs.

The aftermath of a be-all-end-all experiment — At this point, as if there wasn’t enough game theory involved already, Andre Cronje and Daniele Sesta decided to join forces and use their social influence to attempt a new experiment in the Fantom blockchain, the ve(3,3) model, which combines the ve model with the prisioner’s dilemma implemented by Olympus…

The lead up to a be-all-end-all experiment — With the beginning of DeFi Summer in 2020 and the advent of succulent, yet imaginary yields coming out of the juiciest fruit coin around, liquidity mining programs became the de-facto standard for DeFi protocols to bootstrap their liquidity. At first, this method seemed to be vey efficient. …

Price equilibrium, and why the markets fluctuate — After 5 years of preparation, it seems that we can finally expect the Ethereum Merge to take place in a few weeks, specifically on the 15th of September. In spite of the technical complexity involved in what some have referred to as “repairing a plane on the flight”, neither users…

Quick takeaways: The IPOR Protocol AMM for interest rate swaps — Milton — is based on proven quantitative models adapted for market volatility, market trends, and contract maturity. The IPOR Protocol incorporates a conservative approach for its “utilization rate” risk management setting. IPOR AMM liquidity provides have access to multiple revenue streams…

Introducing Compound III Over the past months before coming up with the Compound III proposal the Compound team has been focused on growing the Compound Treasury. Compound Treasury After launch, the core focus has been on scaling the Compound treasury in order to provide an institutional on-ramp to Compound markets. …

Student loans, failed interviews, regretful job experiences, attempts to measure creativity … they all can lead one to break down in tears. That’s only the stress of a situation that also involves “friendships”, “experience”, “maturation”. Personal conditions are the key here, and there is no one external factor that truly…

It sounds paradoxical, but let me explain how logical it is to be skeptical. Everything can be learned, but not everything can be taught. You can’t be trained for specific knowledge once you have become irreplaceable and, as soon as one becomes irreplaceable, they are too busy to be…