“Whale” is a word used to describe investors with an enormous amount of cryptocurrency, especially those with enough money to affect the market.
Individuals or organizations with substantial crypto holdings are called whales. Due to their immense riches, whales may influence the market. Sell barriers reduce the price of a coin, enabling whales to make inexpensive purchases. Buy barriers compel investors to increase the cost of...
Olympus: goodbye Defi 2.0, hello “Real Yield”?
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Olympus, a DeFi protocol with more than $200 million in total value locked up, will reduce the sky-high yield that holders of its native token have enjoyed over the past year and a half as part of its “bond-centric future.”
$OHM has now lost more than 99% of its value from its all-time high and is currently worth less than $11.
OHM’s staking used to provide double-digit annual returns. OHM’s staking on Thursday...
What is Cardano’s Vasil hard fork?
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A hard fork causes a network to break into two, each of which may then function independently; one version of the network continues with the same set of capabilities and rules as before, while the other runs on with newer, more advanced capabilities.
Cardano‘s long-awaited Vasil update went live on September 22 after facing a number of hurdles. From the outside, it would seem that the hard fork’s goals are to increase the...
How to avoid the risks of cryptocurrency yield farms
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Crypto Yield Farms have the potential to be an excellent method to make passive income; but, investing in them is not without its associated dangers.
What is Yield Farming?
Yield farming is a means for any digital asset or cryptocurrency owner to earn passive income as incentives or interest. Depending on whatever crypto farm services you use, your deposit interest may be constant or fluctuate over time.
Yield farming requires...
New narrative: What is “Real Yield Defi”?
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Real yield is the yield earned by the creation of real protocol income, like as trading fees. Token holders on the system may earn a portion of this yield, similar to dividend stock. In the narrative of decentralized finance, real yield would be the third evolution of Defi, or Defi 3.0.
Thus, betting on a “real yield” protocol means relying on its ability to maintain its user base and transaction volume, its value, in short,...






