Overview: Why we need Community Infrastructure — Crypto is a community-first movement. A key innovation of the crypto revolution has been the way communities are leveraged as core growth drivers for projects, ideas, protocols, and chains — and fairly compensated as equals for their integral role in creating this growth. The decentralized, permissionless nature of crypto has…

Debt solutions in crypto have a problem: They lack a digestible, clear-cut framework for quickly understanding their value proposition, use-case, and business model. This lack of clarity manifests into a variety of issues throughout the debtverse: -The value and utility of debt (and credit products more broadly) is poorly articulated …

Tokemak, one of the hottest Defi 2.0 protocols out there, is about to go live with permissionless, aggregated liquidity provision. I’ll overview what Tokemak is, why it was conceived, and how it can be thought of relative to one of its main Defi 2.0 peers. Tokemak in Context Tokemake is a Defi 2.0…

EntropyFi is revolutionizing prediction markets in DeFi — all the dynamism and flexibility of adding futures positions to your portfolio without the risk of devastating liquidation. TL;DR: Entropy lets you participate in prediction markets with zero loss potential, and only upside, leveraging DeFi staking yields from all pooled assets to…

What is Olympus? — TL/DR Olympus is an un-pegged reserve asset protocol that pioneered protocol-owned liquidity (initially for itself, now as a service to other protocols), and is building OHM into a stable, flexible liquidity primitive that is seeding a full ecosystem of DeFi protocols building on its core elements. Functionally, Olympus allows OHM holders…

Gm frens Today I’m going to do my best to distill the ongoing “Curve Wars” that have taken the DeFi world by storm, pitting major protocols against each other to own CRV and dictate CRV rewards for pools on Curve, and hilariously to also own the governance tokens of the…

gm to the 1–2 people who will likely read this — I appreciate you. I’m going to start sporadically writing posts where I try to tie some of the key themes of books I’ve read to my experience in crypto / my perception of the crypto ecosystem more broadly. I’ll…

Payroll Financing for DAOs via Debt DAO Note: This is the second part of Debt DAO’s series on Payroll Financing. If you haven’t had the chance, read part 1 here TL;DR: We’re working on a partnership with Utopia Labs to bring to market an end-to-end Payroll product with pre-approved financing…

A piece commissioned by Ricochet Exchange on the value of DCA / Investment Streaming through their platform Note: This article was co-written with Satvik, and supported by Sunny at Ricochet What’s DCA? 🚰 Section created by Satvik. Dollar-cost averaging is the process of automatically investing or selling fixed amounts at fixed intervals…