This is a blog about the intersection between crypto currency and finance. I have been testing and evaluating various defi (decentralised finance) and opfi (open finance) projects. This includes lending and borrowing markets, decentralised exchanges, automated market making, smart contract wallets, and tools for measuring and monitoring return on investment. All enabled by blockchain technology, with decentralised, opensource and audited smart contracts. These systems are interoperable and composable.
6 Aug 2020 10 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction There are many good ways to pool your assets with other investors, and make more effective use of gas fees. Because of the way Eth network fees are structured, it is more efficient to be able to make small numbers of large transactions t...
28 Jul 2020 4 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction Time to start getting ready. "Proof of stake" networks have been around for a while, but have entered the spotlight more recently since most of the "next generation" of blockchains will be using this method of consensus, instead of proof...
22 Jul 2020 18 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction My previous few posts are about "yield farming" or "liquidity mining", which deal with helping companies to bootstrap liquidity for projects that are up and running, and in most cases have a track record. In return, you earn rewards whic...
18 Jul 2020 6 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction Balancer is another Automated Market Maker / Decentralised exchange and liquidity provider similar to Uniswap, but expands on the features in a number of interesting ways. As per other Balancer article on Publish0x: "Balancer essentiall...
24 Jun 2020 6 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction This a hot new trend involving Defi composability (interoperatbility), and issuance of governance tokens. The assumption is that they will accrue value in the future, since the project governors will vote to allow cash flow earnings to a...
27 May 2020 6 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction These wallets have a number of advantages, primarily for ease of use, so they are good for new users. For example, they make use of ENS (Ethereum name service) for human readable public addresses instead of having to use long strings of...
20 May 2020 3 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction Liquidity pools can be a very profitable way to invest in Defi. But it can also be more complicated, and risky than simply lending or staking your funds. However, you can mitigate the risk by investing in stable coin pairs, and using som...
22 Apr 2020 3 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction I have written a few articles about my current investment strategy in my Defi Blog. There is also a very good article written by the folks from Zerion comparing several investments that they made last year. They go into a fair amount of...
16 Apr 2020 6 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction This article talks about how to invest your bitcoin while you are waiting for it to increase in value, which may take months-years. If you leave it on the Bitcoin chain it will not earn any income in the meantime. However, there are vari...
3 Apr 2020 4 minute read comments fblauer
Introduction I have put together a list of the Defi investments that I have found to be the best, based on a few months of evaluation and testing. I have taken into account things like risk, yield, market conditions etc. I have been honing and improv...
