Bringing US Treasurys onto the chain
Bringing US Treasurys onto the chain

Bringing US Treasurys onto the chain

How Ondo Finance makes investing in US Treasury bonds possible


Nightmare of liquidity providers - impermanent loss

20 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren

What is impermanent loss? Impermanent loss is a term familiar to liquidity providers. It refers to the temporary loss of funds an investor has provided to a liquidity pool. The difference is what liquidity provider’s assets are worth at the moment an...

Structured products of Friktion

19 Jul 2023 7 minute read 0 comments fmiren

Friktion was one of the best passive income protocols in entire DeFi. It's pity that theys shut down it. One of my first articles on DeFi was about Friktion.     Volt #1: Generate Income In this article, I will explain how options work. We will look...

Funding rates

14 Jul 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren

Perpetual futures Perpetual futures are like traditional futures with one important difference: they don’t have an expiration date. You can hold your position without thinking about maturity date and delivery. That perpetuals don’t expire means that...

Commodities, stablecoins, and inflation

13 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments fmiren

This is the second article on DeFi and inflation. One way to protect your portfolio against inflation is hold part of your money in commodities which tend to appreciate with inflation. In DeFi, you can invest in commodity-based stablecoins, i.e., tho...

Trading strategies with leveraged yield farming

7 Jul 2023 3 minute read 1 comment fmiren

Trading strategies Leveraged yield farming can be used for different investing purposes. One of them is holding with leveraged yields. Let’s say, you believe that SOL will outperform; you can express your belief with the leveraged SOL 2X, but you may...

Private equity and VC on-chain - how Investment DAOs work

6 Jul 2023 5 minute read 0 comments fmiren

Introduction One of the fields changed by the blockchain technology is investing. Decentralization disrupts the traditional model of fundraising in which startups depend on external capital, typically from venture capital or private equity firms. An...

I'm on-chain therefore I am. Decentralized identity

23 Jun 2023 6 minute read 1 comment fmiren

Introduction On-chain identity is the digital representation of an individual on the blockchain. The blockchain technology allows individuals to have a digital, decentralized identity without relying on a single identity provider. Being on-chain mean...

Business cycles and fixed income securities

20 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments fmiren

Cycles and bond yields Bond yields have a high and low point throughout business cycles. The best time to be invested in bonds is when long-term yields are at their cycle high because there’s an inverse relationship between yields and bond prices. By...

Business cycles and market volatility

19 Jun 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren

Exogenous factors, such as major geopolitical events (wars, trade wars, regional conflicts, invasions etc.), can and did create significant volatility. For example, a geopolitical tension, even at a regional scale, can disrupt the oil market by decre...

Business cycles and its impact on credit risk

16 Jun 2023 2 minute read 0 comments fmiren

  The level of credit risk varies over and responds to business cycles maybe not very directly but in a systematic way. Credit risk reaches its peak during recessions when corporate defaults are common across the economy. Therefore, credit risk premi...