What is Blockchain?
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Blockchain is a technology that has sprung into popularity in the last decade alongside the rise of cryptocurrencies and other…
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What are Cryptocurrencies?
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Cryptocurrencies are peer-to-peer, digital assets that operate on decentralized blockchain networks. Just like the US dollar or other government-issued currencies,…
What is Proof of Work?
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With government-issued currencies (fiat currencies) like the USD or EUR, a central authority such as a government or a bank…
What is a Decentralised Market?
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A cryptocurrency market is typically decentralized, which means that the technology enables participants to directly deal with each other instead…
What is a Centralised Market?
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The main point of centralized markets is that all orders are led to one central exchange with no other competing…
What is Bitcoin?
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Bitcoin (BTC) is the first widely known cryptocurrency, and was released in January 2009. It was invented by a pseudonymous…
What is Ethereum?
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Ethereum is a cryptocurrency network that was launched in 2015. Its currency is known as Ether (ETH), and much like…
What is Proof of Stake?
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Ethereum is currently transitioning to Proof of Stake (PoS). This means that the network is secured not by lots of…
What is a Smart Contract?
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The main innovation that Ethereum brought over Bitcoin is the idea of the smart contract. Smart contracts are sets of…
What is Gas?
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Gas is a term used to refer to the amount of computational work required to validate a transaction. This work…
What are Dapps?
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A Dapp (or a decentralised application) is a software application that is built on top of smart contracts that reside…
How can I buy and sell crypto?
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You can buy and sell cryptocurrencies in mainly two kinds of places: Decentralised Exchanges (DEXs) and Centralised Exchanges. Decentralised Exchanges…
How do Keys and Addresses work?
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An address is a unique location on a blockchain network, which can receive, hold and send tokens. Every address consists…
What is a Wallet?
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A wallet is a piece of software that can hold cryptocurrencies by storing their private keys, which are used in…
What are the different types of Wallets?
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Desktop wallets were made to be used on a desktop computer or laptop and can be installed on many operating…
What is DeFi?
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Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, is an umbrella term describing open financial products and services that aim to provide an alternative…
What is a Stablecoin?
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A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to an asset. This asset can be another cryptocurrency…
What is a DAO?
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A DAO, or a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation, is basically a new way of how communities can come together to create…
What is a Decentralised Exchange?
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Centralized exchanges, both in traditional markets and in crypto, operate by means of the order book model. This means that…
What are Liquidity Pools?
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Liquidity pools, at their simplest, are a collective pool of funds which are used to provide liquidity for a given…
What is a Central Limit Order Book?
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A Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) is the basis for the earliest type of exchanges, specifically stock exchanges such as…
What is an Automated Market Maker?
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Some decentralised exchanges rely on liquidity pools to provide a liquid market for a given pair of tokens. This works…
How do Lending and Borrowing work in DeFi?
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DeFi lending protocols differ from banks in that the whole protocol is entirely on-chain and not controlled by any centralized…
How do Interest Rates work In DeFi?
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An important difference between DeFi and CeFi (centralised finance) in lending and borrowing is that the interest rates are usually…
How can I start in DeFi with Stake DAO?
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Stake DAO makes it really simple for anyone to start participating in DeFi, with our email-based login experience. The first…
What are the Risks involved in DeFi?
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DeFi removes most of the risks associated with traditional finance due to its radically different design. Since DeFi protocols are…
What is Staking?
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Staking, in general, refers to the process of locking up funds in secure smart contracts to benefit the network in…
What is Layer 2?
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Layer 2 is the generic name given to the space of projects which are dedicated to scaling the use of…
What are NFTs?
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An NFT, or a ‘non-fungible token’, is a particular type of blockchain token that cannot be divided into smaller fractions…
What are the different Tokens on Ethereum?
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The Ethereum blockchain was designed to support the development of decentralised applications by many different parties at the same time.…
What is Interoperability?
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Interoperability is an umbrella term which refers to a category of technologies and projects that aim to make distinct blockchain…
What are Wrapped Tokens?
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Wrapped Tokens are a type of cryptocurrency, whose value is pegged at a 1:1 ratio to another cryptocurrency. Wrapped…
What is Slippage?
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Slippage is a characteristic of modern, high speed financial markets, where the price at which an order is requested is…
What is Yield Farming?
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Yield Farming, also known as Liquidity Mining, is the financial strategy where users lock up their funds in a liquidity…
What is APY and how is it calculated?
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APY stands for Annual Percentage Yield, and is a figure which represents the real financial gain in percentage per year,…
What are Flashloans?
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A Flashloan is a type of loan in DeFi where you are not required to lock up any security or…
What are Synthetic Assets?
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Synthetic Assets are a form of crypto-assets which derive their value from some other asset in the ecosystem, which may…
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