After a continuous plunge, the cryptocurrency LUNA price has fallen from $119.5 on April 5 to close to zero (and still in the process of oscillating downward), from 119.5 all the way down, the “moon goddess” finally went down the altar. While everyone is concerned about LUNA’s crash, yesterday, Vitalik…

This is a rough draft I’m looking for feedback on. Please let me know if you find something amiss or would like to discuss it! Easier to view the equation in docs: [Triangular Arbitrage] [Accompanying tool: Triangular Arbitrage / Trading Sheets] Triangular arbitrage is to be utilized when an opportunity…

0x01 What is Arbitrage? Arbitrage trading has nothing to do with flash loans or blockchain. When the same two assets have different exchange prices on two different exchanges, such arbitrage transactions exist. For example, let’s look at two exchanges: Uniswap, Sushiswap, they run the same contract code. Although they are two different exchanges, we…

Using Gas Price Analysis of the Global TX Mempool and Front-running for sending TX This is a quick example of getting all pending transactions from a Global TX mempool and filtering those sent to the Uniswap V2 Router. …

Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw interest-free loans against Ether used as collateral. Loans are paid out in LUSD (a USD pegged stablecoin) and need to maintain a minimum collateral ratio of 110%. In addition to the collateral, the loans are secured by a Stability…

I recently found an elegant way to earn BNB with DeFi using a smart contract. The smart contract will automatically locates any liquidity added to a BSC token, immediately buy and sell at profit on PancakeSwap. Current parameters of this contract is that 10% of profit automatically reenters the front-run…

Damn Vulnerable DeFi is the war game created by @tinchoabbate to learn offensive security of DeFi smart contracts. Throughout numerous challenges, you will build the skills to become a bug hunter or security auditor in the space. Challenge #10 — Free rider A new marketplace of Damn Valuable NFTs has been released! There’s been an…

By Sumi Maria Abraham, Research and Development Engineer Kerala Blockchain Academy. Today many organizations have started experimenting with Blockchain potential, and many sectors are constantly urging the need to build blockchain-based solutions for their in-house operations. The high degree adapters are the financial sector that they thumb Blockchain to cover…

All You Need To Know About Uniswap V3 — Uniswap, one of the world’s most popular DEXs, is one of the leaders in the race to surpass centralized institutions. After getting to one of the highest TVLs among all DeFi projects, the Uniswap team launched a new version of this famous DEX — Uniswap v3. …

Learn how to fork Uniswap v2 on Remix and run your own Decentralized Exchange (Dex). Whether building your own enhanced platform to compete with Uniswap or providing a custom solution for your investors, in the rapidly evolving Decentralized Finance (DeFi) market, it can be helpful to be able to deploy…

This article will help you understand Aave’s smart contracts and how to use them in your DeFi applications. What is DeFi? DeFi stands for Decentralized Finance, a term used to define financial technology that leverages decentralized ledgers to provide financial services without the centralized control of Banks or other financial institutes. DeFi offers…

Damn Vulnerable DeFi is the war game created by @tinchoabbate to learn offensive security of DeFi smart contracts. Throughout numerous challenges, you will build the skills to become a bug hunter or security auditor in the space. Challenge #8 — Puppet There’s a huge lending pool borrowing Damn Valuable Tokens (DVTs), where you first…

Know how the top DeFi protocol works under the hood — Welcome to the in-depth DeFi series! This series will be composed of several posts; each one will consist of an explanation of an individual protocol. The main purpose of this series is to understand from a first-principles approach how the top DeFi protocols work under the hood. We will review…

Last week I received a DM from Hats Finance, a Decentralized smart bug bounty marketplace. The DM was referring to a challenge where I signed up during DevConnect Amsterdam. It was talking about some security challenge to solve. What a great way to pass my evenings and weekend :D If…

A central component of Liquity is the Stability Pool - the system’s first line of defense against liquidations. It acts as a kind of shock absorber: when a Trove gets liquidated, the debt is soaked up by the LUSD in the Pool. The Stability Pool is open and permissionless …

Over the past 3 days, we saw tremendous volatility of both Luna and UST price triggered by the general risk-off sentiment in the risky assets. UST depeg happens again and as of this writing it trades below 0.8. …

March 10, 2022 — Not Financial Advice. https://twitter.com/MBApesNFT Section 1: Summary Executive Summary: $JOE is the token of the Trader Joe decentralized finance platform on the Avalanche blockchain. The platform offers decentralized trading, borrowing / lending, staking, yield farming and soon an NFT marketplace. I believe $JOE is undervalued as the market 1.) does not fully recognize…