Yield in crypto refers to the passive income you can earn by investing the assets you don’t want to trade, through a bunch of strategies which can involve staking, lending or providing liquidity – a process commonly known as yield farming.
APY, or annual percentage yield, allows you to gauge how much your crypto investment will grow over time and, crucially, it factors in the dynamic nature of crypto yield opportunities. Here’s how it works.
Security is as important to our DeFi aggregator as speed. We do thorough due diligence on each new token to ensure it’s totally trustless before you get eyes on it. Here’s how we do it.
You’ve probably read a whole bunch of stuff about the Ethereum Merge already. You know that the Ethereum blockchain is transitioning from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS) validation, and this will make the process of creating new blocks much more energy-efficient. However, this isn’t the full story of the Merge. Not …
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Sharding is a way for blockchains to handle more transactions without fundamentally changing their code or rules. Essentially, the blockchain is broken into several smaller chunks, or shards, so they can be stored on different servers. The concept is most relevant to Ethereum, which is extremely congested and needs a solution that speeds things up …
The question ‘what is TVL’ is one of the most common in all of crypto. Check out our explainer on what the words ‘token value locked’ really means, and what TVL means specifically for DeFi projects.
Blockchain bridges (also known as cross-chain bridges) enable data and value to flow freely between blockchains, and thus play an integral role in the multi-chain universe. However they’ve received fierce criticism over the past few months, following a string of damaging hacks. On August 2nd, just a few days before this article was written, hackers …
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Zero-knowledge (ZK) proofs can prove the legitimacy of a transaction without revealing sensitive details from either party. The technology is fast, secure and is popular among several ‘rollup’ projects on Ethereum layer 2, including rhino.fi. We’re known as ‘ZK rollups’ for this reason.
You may have seen Wrapped Bitcoin or Wrapped Ethereum (wBTC or wETH) pop up when using rhino.fi, and be wondering what these assets are all about. Â Essentially, wrapped tokens are copies of the original asset, created for other blockchains. In other words, they allow assets to be traded on chains other than the one …
A bridge in the digital world functions exactly the same as a bridge in the physical world: it allows you to cross between territories that would otherwise be cut off from one another. In the physical world, bridges are used to connect two pieces of land. In the digital world, they’re used to connect blockchains. …
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