Decentralized Social (DeSo) Review What is Decentralized Social (DeSo)? A layer-1 blockchain for decentralizing social networks, DeSo – short for ‘decentralized social’ is described as a pioneering blockchain that is custom-built from the ground up in order to power and scale social applications. DeSo stores all of its data on a public blockchain and supports censorship-resistant, end-to-end encrypted group chats. To date, there are over 100 projects operating nodes and…
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Upnup Bitcoin Micro-Investing App Review What is upnup? Upnup is described as Africa’s first passive micro-investing app that allows users to accumulate Bitcoin on autopilot. The app claims to be the first fintech platform in South Africa to make it possible for users to accumulate funds through an add-up or roundup feature. Essentially, **upnup** is responsible for facilitating micro-savings in crypto by adding funds to a user’s fiat savings wallet using automatic rounding.…
Mycelium Perpetual Swaps Decentralized Derivatives Exchange Review What is Mycelium? Formerly known as Tracer DAO, Mycelium builds financial market infrastructure on public blockchains. Mycelium specialises in data provision via the Mycelium Node and a derivatives exchange Mycelium Perpetual Swaps which makes it possible for users to open leveraged long and/or short positions on digital assets. https://mycelium.xyz/…
Vesper DeFi Platform Review What is Vesper? At its core, Vesper makes decentralised finance (DeFi) much easier to use. Products such as its interest-yielding ‘Grow Pools’ attract users who may want to passively increase their digital asset holdings through different strategies. Some strategies can be conservative and others more aggressive but always appropriate to the asset they hold. Vesper’s modular and multi-pool design software architecture is developed in such a way…
Arable Protocol Review What is Arable Protocol? Arable is at its core a platform for farming and trading synthetic assets (synths). Arable gives users access to yield farms on a variety of different blockchain networks all in one place. The platform is designed to eliminate the complexity of cross-chain farming. With Arable, there’s no need to wrap assets and users are not subjected to costly cross-chain bridging. In addition, Arable offers low swap fees and no slippage.…