What is Total Value Locked (TVL)?

TVL shows how much crypto is locked in DeFi marketplaces. The metric…

Report: The Alpha Lab Infinite Minting Saga: Team Controls 96% of the tokens

What to consider before farming yield?

Misleading APY

You should take all the APYs with a grain of salt. You can see some projects estimating their APYS in hundreds of percent. Keep in mind that these yields don’t take into account the value of the fees and tokens rewarded…

How Deus.finance Fixed Its Code Following a DefiYield.info Report

This is an exciting narrative of how…

What is yield farming?

Simply put, yield farming is nothing more than putting cryptocurrency assets into use by earning a return on the capital invested in a DeFi market. There are numerous money markets such as Compound, Curve, and Aave. They provide the most straightforward road to earning a yield. For those…

What are wrapped assets?

Some functions of DeFi require you to trade digital assets that aren’t compatible with a platform you wish to use for a service. This requires a process known as “wrapping”. While nothing is technically being wrapped in a physical sense, it is a descriptive term for creating…

What is DeFi?

DeFi — decentralized finances — is a set of new financial tools based on the decentralized systems and networks. The main goal of this new…

What are pools?

Liquidity pools, in essence, are pools of tokens that are locked in a smart contract. They are used to facilitate trading by providing liquidity and are extensively used by some of the decentralized exchange.

The YFFS Saga: How a Yield Farming Project Was Compelled to Fix Its Code and then Rugpooled

What Is the Annual Percentage Yield (APY)?

The annual percentage yield (APY) is the real rate of return earned on a savings deposit or investment taking into account the effect of compounding interest. Unlike simple interest, compounding interest is calculated periodically and the amount is…