NinjaWingnut

@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Fresh back from the long weekend it’s time to take a look at a project that has been getting a lot of attention lately, and break down why it is exploding and what makes it tick. I am of course talkin...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

VeChain

For today’s article, I am taking a look at VeChain , a different kind of project as it’s blockchain is used to store data, as opposed to just being a ledger for transactions like most of the other...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Potential Community DeFi Project

Today’s post is going to be a little different than what I normally put out. I am not looking at an existing project, discussing the inner workings some some part of blockchain technology, or any of m...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Dark Pools

Today we are going to take a look at a scary sounding place that crypto trading happens, the dark pool. While having an ominous name, there are actually quite a few legitimate reasons that these “priv...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Arbitrage

For today’s article I am going to take a look at arbitrage, a way of making profit off differences in prices across different exchanges. It’s not a way that really works for most people, as bots rule...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Poly Network Hack

While I was on vacation, the largest cryptocurrency hack took place, where the Poly Network was hit for over $600 million dollars in crypto, spread across three different blockchains . I figured th...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Rug Pulls

For todays article, we are going to take a look at one of the darker parts of crypto, how they work, and what you can look for in order to help prevent yourself from falling victim to one of these sca...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Rollups

With all the hype around Ethereum (ETH) with the London hard fork being in place and the fee burn happening, I figured it was a good time to take a closer look at one of the Layer 2 Scaling solu...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Yam

Today I am going to take a look at the first version of the Yam protocol, which, due to some nasty software bugs, managed to have a meteoric rise and fall over a span of just a couple of days. It’s so...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Uniswap V3

For today’s article I am taking a look at the changes that Uniswap has made to it’s protocol when it launched V3 back a few months ago. They made some interesting changes to how the liquidity pools...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Polygon Commit Chain

In yesterday’s article about Layer 2 Scaling , I eluded to the fact that Polygon uses it’s own flavor of the plasma framework, and today I am going to explore that a little deeper, because it’s bec...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Layer 2 Scaling

For today’s article, I am going to take a closer look at layer 2 scaling. I’ve mentioned it a number of times in previous articles, as one of the ways to help increase transaction speeds and lower cos...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Sushi

Today I am taking a look at Sushi , a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) protocol that is more than just a DEX. It has a number of interested features kicking about the platform, and I think it’s worth t...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Why Is DeFi Expensive

In a previous article, I talked about gas prices , I talked a little bit about what determines how much gas you pay for a transaction. Earlier today, I was talking to a friend, who was complaining ab...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Ampleforth

The topic of today’s post is the Ampleforth (AMPL) token, a very interesting algorithmic stablecoin . It uses an interesting elastic supply mechanic as it’s method of rebasing to maintain it’s peg....

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

DeFi Money Markets

Today I am going to take a look at how money markets work in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) . These are the places you can borrow and lend crypto and either make returns or pay interest, depending on w...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

DeFi Derivatives

For today’s article I am going to take a look at what derivatives are and how they handled in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) world. These are relatively the same as their centralized counterparts,...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Chainlink

Today I am going to explore Chainlink , a blockchain service that allows a Decentralized Application (DApp) to get real world data from a decentralized oracle service, instead of needing to rely...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Iron Finance

Today we are going to take a look at what happened with Iron Finance, and why the events that played out mirror a bank run in the traditional finance world. For the usual disclosure, I am not a finan...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Flash Loans

Today I am taking a look at a flash loans, a feature in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) that lets people borrow very large sums of crypto, for very short periods of time. For the usual disclosure, I a...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Binance Smart Chain (BSC)

For today’s post I am going to take a look at the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a smart contract enabled blockchain that is modelled after Ethereum’s . It offers greater transaction throughput, and...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

The Graph

Today’s article is going to explore The Graph , which provides an indexing protocol for blockchains . It provides a way to search data that is stored in the ledger quickly, without having to rely on...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Thorchain

The topic for today is going to be Thorchain , a Decentralized Exchange (DEX) that allows for doing swaps between different native cryptocurrencies. And it does it without the use of a wrapped vers...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Ethereum 2.0

For today’s topic, I am going to explore Ethereum (ETH) and the upcoming changes to it’s network that make up the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. These changes are set to solve a number of issues that the Et...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Vampire Attacks

The topic for today’s post is going to be vampire attacks. These are an interesting event that occurs in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) when one protocol drains liquidity from another. These are not n...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Ethereum Fee Burn (EIP-1559)

In today’s article, I am going to explore the upcoming change to the Ethereum (ETH) network that will bring a number of changes to the way transaction fees work. It is a pretty big change, and has a...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

The Lightning Network

In today’s post, we are going to take a look at the Lightning Network , a layer 2 blockchain technology that aims to become the payment network for cryptos such as Bitcoin (BTC) . The goal is to p...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Gas Prices

In today’s post we are going to take a look at what gas prices are on a network such as Ethereum (ETH) . Gas powers the transactions and is how you pay your transaction fees, so it is important to un...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Weekly Bitcoin Analysis

It’s time for my weekly look at the Bitcoin (BTC) price action for the week and try to make some sense of it all, and maybe make a prediction or two. It’s been an interesting week so far, so we’ll s...

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@NinjaWingnut · 3 years ago

Bollinger Bands

For today’s article, we are going to take a look at a useful technical indicator , the Bollinger bands. These are a useful indicator that can give you a good visual reference to how volatile the pric...

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