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.
23 Oct 2019 3 minute read 4 comments fblauer
Intro As soon as I finished writing the article about my Defi investment strategy, I discovered some new products that I hadn't heard about. Its really hard to keep up with everything that is goiing on in the Defi space, and each couple of days I hea...
21 Oct 2019 8 minute read 13 comments fblauer
Intro My goal is to leave a strong financial position for my kids, and grand kids. So, my time horizon is medium to long term, and I am not looking to get rich overnight. I want to keep my risk at a manageable level. My main strategy is to have a div...
15 Oct 2019 7 minute read 2 comments fblauer
Intro You will need to provision an EOS account, and install Scatter (the EOS equivalent to Metamask for people who are familiar with Ethereum), if you havn't already done so. I won't go into the details of how to do that in this article, since I wan...
9 Oct 2019 4 minute read 6 comments fblauer
Introduction I just read an interesting article about the upcoming release of Makerdao 2.0, with multi-collateral Dai, Dai savings rate, and a lot of other improvements to the existing project. This has been a ground breaking project for the Defi spa...
23 Sep 2019 5 minute read 2 comments fblauer
Introduction Personally, I think that short term trading of Crypto currencies is being overhyped. My understanding is that 95% of short term traders won't beat the market. The ones that do are a very small group of experienced traders, or algorithms....
12 Aug 2019 1 minute read 4 comments fblauer
As a follow up to to my previous article on lending and borrowing platforms, I have decided to provide an update. I have been using mostly Compound and Nuo for lending Dai and USDC stable coins (pegged to the US dollar) and earning pretty good rates...
16 Jul 2019 1 minute read 0 comments fblauer
This list was compiled by Clayton Roche on the Defi Facebook group - (worth joining): https://www.facebook.com/groups/DeFiUsers/ List of 3rd Party DeFi Tools: dex.ag - See the best decentralized exchange for your trade. Compares rates on 10 decentral...
28 Jun 2019 1 minute read 2 comments fblauer
I have been following Cosmos, since I have invested in their atom tokens and staking at 12% yield. In addition to the coin going up in value, including the rewards. I am starting to get an appreciation of the kinds of Inter-blockchain bridges that ar...
7 Jun 2019 2 minute read 3 comments fblauer
Introduction There have been a number of articles written about Proof of Stake consensus, and how to earn rewards by staking your coins, voting and delegating to validators. So I will refer to some of those guides below. A good meta site for listing...
3 Jun 2019 5 minute read 1 comment fblauer
Introduction This article discusses some of the defi and opfi lending and borrowing services that I have tested and evaluated. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list, since there are so many products and services in the defi space, and is rapidl...
