The lowdown on decentralised finance
Chainalysis is a company that specializes in blockchain analysis and cryptocurrency investigation. It was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Levin, Jan Moller, and Michael Gronager. The company’s primary goal is to provide tools and services to track, analyze, and investigate transactions conducted on various blockchain networks. Chainalysis offers a range of software solutions that enable …
Aave is an open source liquidity protocol. Essentially a lending platform, Aave facilitates lending and borrowing in a decentralised manner. Aave users can participate on the platform as depositors or borrowers. As a depositor, it is possible to earn yield for putting up money for someone else to borrow. As a borrower it is possible …
Decentralised finance, or DeFi for short, the decentralised banking and financial system that is made possible by cryptocurrency technology. Centralised finance, CeFi, is constituted by a middle man, in which we place our trust, for example a bank or an institution. We trust this actor with our hard earned cash and as a result this …
A Decentralised Exchange, also known as a DEX, is a peer to peer marketplace where transactions take place directly between crypto traders. The idea behind a DEX is to further the implementation of trustlessness on the crypto network. As I’m sure you know by now, the idea behind Bitcoin and other crypto coins being decentralised …
