What Are Layer 2s? A Complete Guide to Ethereum Scaling Solutions Paid Members Public
What Are Layer 2s? If you have spent any time in crypto over the past few years, you have almost certainly encountered the term “Layer 2” or seen network names like Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, and zkSync appearing alongside Ethereum in DeFi applications. Layer 2 networks (L2s) are a category of
How to Evaluate a DeFi Protocol Before Using It Paid Members Public
How to Evaluate a DeFi Protocol Before Using It With thousands of DeFi protocols in existence and new ones launching regularly, knowing how to evaluate a protocol before depositing funds is one of the most important skills a DeFi user can develop. The space has seen hundreds of exploits, rug
Understanding DeFi Governance: How DAOs and Token Voting Work Paid Members Public
Understanding DeFi Governance: How DAOs and Token Voting Work Governance is one of the defining features that separates decentralised finance from traditional financial systems. In conventional finance, decisions about how a bank sets interest rates, how an exchange lists new assets, or how a fund manages its portfolio are made
Stake DAO on The DeFi Drop: Liquid Lockers, Vote Markets, and the Infrastructure Behind DeFi Governance Paid Members Public
Guest: Hubert, Core Contributor at Stake DAO Host: Edward Ward, Portals.fi In this episode of The DeFi Drop, Edward Ward sits down with Hubert, core contributor at Stake DAO, to unpack how one of DeFi’s most important governance infrastructure layers actually works. Stake DAO has quietly become a
How to Bridge Tokens Across Chains: A Complete Guide Paid Members Public
If you've ever tried to move tokens from Ethereum to Arbitrum, or from Polygon to Optimism, you've encountered one of crypto's fundamental infrastructure challenges: blockchains don't natively talk to each other. Your ETH on Ethereum and your ETH on Arbitrum exist on
Ethena Labs: How USDe Works and What Makes It Different From Other Stablecoins Paid Members Public
DeFi has no shortage of stablecoins, but most fall into familiar categories: fiat-backed (USDC, USDT) with dollars in a bank, or crypto-collateralized (DAI) with overcollateralized on-chain loans. Ethena takes a different approach entirely, building a synthetic dollar backed not by bank deposits or traditional overcollateralization, but by a delta-hedged crypto
EtherFi: How Decentralized Liquid Staking Works and Why It Matters Paid Members Public
Liquid staking has become one of the largest sectors in DeFi, with tens of billions of dollars locked across protocols like Lido, Rocket Pool, and Coinbase. But most liquid staking solutions share a common concern: the node operators who actually validate transactions are selected by the protocol team, not the
Euler Finance: The Modular Lending Protocol Reshaping DeFi Paid Members Public
Most DeFi lending protocols force every asset into a shared pool, creating systemic risk where one bad collateral type can threaten the entire platform. Euler Finance takes a fundamentally different approach. Built on isolated, modular vaults, Euler lets anyone create permissionless lending markets with custom risk parameters while keeping each
