Curso abierto de DeFi x boske.org.
Objetivos:
- Revisar el estado del arte y analizar algunos protocolos en profundidad
- Realizar un proyecto en equipo donde se investigue sobre un tópico avanzado y se implemente un prototipo
El repositorio en el que estás actualmente ofrece un overview de nuestras actividades. Podés interactuar con Boske en Discord y en Github. Tenemos canales dedicados en Discord para cada una de nuestras iniciativas y las contribuciones son bienvenidas. Nuestro trabajo es open source y podés seguir nuestro progreso en los repositorios de la organización Boske en github. Además mantenemos encuentros recurrentes: un encuentro semanal con con participantes y mentores del curso, un research workshop bi-semanal y un ´transparency call´ mensual para actualizar a la comunidad sobre nuestro progreso.
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DeFi Tooling
- What are DApps
- Definitions
- Examples
- How can we explore the blockchain
- MetaMask
- Installation
- Setting a testnet
- Assignment: explore blocks and transactions
What is DeFi
- DeFi vs CeFi
- Origin and Future of DeFi
- Financial risk in DeFi
- DeFi is financial lego - Maker DAO, Compound, Zerion, Totle
- Discussion: DeFi Ecosystem
The DeFi Digital Finance Stack
- Decentralized Exchanges - Radarrelay, Loopring, DyDx, Uniswap, Kyber Network
- Decentralized Stablecoins - DAI, USDT, USDC
- Decentralized Money Markets - Compound, CDPs, Maker DAO, Oasis
- Decentralized Synthetics - UMA, Synthetix, Maker DAO
- Decentralized Insurance - Nexus Mutual, Opyn, Convexity
- Discussion: DeFi Digital Finance Stack
DeFi Protocol Deep Dive
- Maker DAO
- Compound
- Assignment: Using the DAI Savings Rate
Research Assignment
- Assignment: Start looking for cool arbitrage opportunities or see what new DeFi building block you want to build, with your team, as your final project.
The State of Defi
- What is happening in Defi
- Let's take a look on chain data
- Black Thursday 12th of March 2020
- MakerDAO during Black Thursday
- Defi Ecosystem - Discussion
Real World Assets on the Blockchain
- Defi needs real world assets
- TheArt Exchange
- Centrifuge
- Get Real World Assets on the Blockchain - Assignment
Become your own Hedge Fund
- What is a hedge fund?
- Interest Rate Swaps Explained
- A Defi Hedge Fund
- Yield Hacking
- Yield Hacking Strategy
Flash Loan Programming
- What is a flash loan?
- Flash Loan Tutorial
- Arbitrage and Flash Loan Tutorial
- Creating Arbitrage Opportunities in Defi
- Flash Loan Assignment/Discussion
Final Project and Next Steps
- We need to check your github, report, slides
- Earn LILA tokens for performance and reputation
- Earn BOSKE signed badges for your Linkedin
- Keep learning, become a mentor or find a job with us
DeFinition:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBYB4W2tqU&ab_channel=Finematics
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btB__oHQ0sU&ab_channel=99Bitcoins
DeFi History:
See here some cool resources to start exploring for yourself:
Some extra resources:
- https://hackernoon.com/dapps-are-they-future-of-the-blockchain-technology-i0713txw
- https://hackernoon.com/what-is-dapp-and-is-it-hard-to-make-it-nh1a3cpo
YEARN.FINANCE https://yearn.finance/ https://github.com/yearn/yearn-finance
When interacting with DeFi applications it is important to understand how to read the blockchain and see and verify your actions, here some of my favorite block explorers.
We will mostly use Etherscan throughout the course
Please install Metamask and be sure to back-up the private key:
Some interesting reading material:
- https://consensys.net/blog/news/2019-was-the-year-of-defi-and-why-2020-will-be-too/
- https://defi.network/
- https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereum-is-an-emergent-structure
- https://www.elev8con.com/centralized-vs-decentralized-finance-how-does-defi-stack-up/
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PnRswYtM6tg0r_0ryszE7VP6tiAIbY27XsNsJAFCB_Q/edit?usp=sharing
Some interesting reading material:
- https://blog.coinbase.com/a-beginners-guide-to-decentralized-finance-defi-574c68ff43c4
- https://consensys.net/blog/news/the-100-projects-pioneering-decentralized-finance/
- https://bankless.substack.com/p/rise-of-the-liquidity-robots-
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vhKB8qABVb1yQxQ4TJgIrdxY9KF52rYsUyClfXaQA8w/edit?usp=sharing
Some interesting reading material:
- https://defiprime.com/defi-rates
- https://medium.com/plutusdefi/risk-in-defi-part-1-3-procedural-hacks-and-how-to-avoid-them-72e7512a91e1
- https://defiscore.io/
All DeFi services are subject to smart contract risk. A bug in the smart contract can place your funds at risk, which has happened in the past.
Flash Loans
Maker DAO Core dev talking about the risk in DAI
After this recording we had a huge crash in the markets the Maker DAO protocol had some technical issues due to Etherum network congestion, price drops and oracle issues ... Basically the perfect storm read here a good recap of what happened.
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jEe0JzOvZcPnC0sWKDg-Br0KPEfc6Ru1nxr8YprRBTk/edit?usp=sharing
Some interesting reading material:
- https://defiprime.com/
- https://defipulse.com/defi-list
- https://medium.com/pov-crypto/ethereum-the-digital-finance-stack-4ba988c6c14b
- https://medium.com/totle/building-with-money-legos-ab63a58ae764
Slides
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pbGDWML518TS7FwDA_KaJ0hDEqPHS6JuodqAcqn3Hjs/edit?usp=sharing
I would like you to explore the DeFi ecosystem for yourself and challenge you to spot new projects in the DeFi space that need to be included in my DeFi Ecosystem overview.
Some interesting reading material:
Some interesting Decentralized Exchanges (DEX’s)
- https://radarrelay.com/
- https://loopring.io/
- https://dydx.exchange/
- https://uniswap.io/
- https://kyber.network/
Slide deck:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lh6DoMAGw_1pwkaJ3nItUKuEjm8OzM_rD_VR9OoJOzs/edit?usp=sharing
Overview of stable coins
Why is DAI the most used in the DeFi space?
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lcL7Tlo3BY3Jdd7W5Gc0uPa9fMeuBiXrR9J0ziR0ev8/edit?usp=sharing
Some interesting reading material:
- https://www.theblockcrypto.com/genesis/13564/compound-the-decentralized-money-market-protocol
- https://www.visualcapitalist.com/decentralized-finance/
- https://blockgeeks.com/guides/decentralized-banking/
- https://defiprime.com/synthetic-assets-defi
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17FYrfGsXO7ba5HSRgQDNpNEBbu4iSnNamyWz5z3zTx0/edit?usp=sharing
Some interesting reading material:
- http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/
- https://medium.com/zenith-ventures/synthetic-assets-in-defi-use-cases-opportunities-19b11f57a776
- https://bankless.substack.com/p/eth-is-irreplaceable
- https://defiprime.com/synthetic-assets-defi
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13MVd0zBRQMm1_hpJs3WiM8szc2BFOE5c57M1UJGb6ZM/edit?usp=sharing
Nexus Mutual
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_9jjvSyats
- https://nexusmutual.io/assets/docs/nmx_white_paperv2_3.pdf
Opyn
- https://medium.com/opyn/opyn-launches-insurance-platform-to-protect-defi-users-fdcabaca7d97
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YsrGBUpZoPvFLtcwkEYkxNhogWCU772D/view
- https://www.coindesk.com/options-protocol-brings-insurance-to-defi-deposits-on-compound
Smart contract hacks
- https://hackernoon.com/parity-wallet-hack-2-electric-boogaloo-e493f2365303
- https://blog.openzeppelin.com/on-the-parity-wallet-multisig-hack-405a8c12e8f7/https://medium.com/iearn/iearn-finance-from-yields-to-curves-weekly-update-817b54ef21b1
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-bwW0KHKwpC0HMM6DhRZcZRlrRzCNBw7s1SXucAQAiM/edit?usp=sharing
Marker DAO fundamentals
- https://makerdao.com/
- https://medium.com/@Rewkang/maker-mkr-valuation-fundamentals-the-case-for-trillion-dollar-maker-9b6e3f0150f1
- https://makerdao.com/en/whitepaper/#abstract
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MakerDAO/comments/5q98b1/%E8%B2%B8_dai/
Maker DAO Tooling
- https://daistats.com/?fbclid=IwAR19-gHjDfIo8M8tOcFT9M5lewu5xoOq84_gTMV6kKrnRJlhwfFdmnmwICg
- https://mkr.tools/
- https://stat.bloxy.info/superset/dashboard/makerdao/
- https://faucet.kovan.network/
- https://oasis.app/borrow?network=kovan
Some questions on how to setup a test network?
Start building with Maker DAO
Competing/adding value building blocks
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cz5bFSrRoP7WFzweG2NQaMAZC_Ur60vhf0hJPJknzeU/edit?usp=sharing
Compound fundamentals
- https://compound.finance/
- https://compound.finance/ctokens
- https://compound.finance/documents/Compound.Whitepaper.pdf
- https://observablehq.com/@jflatow/compound-the-money-market-protocol
- https://www.coindesk.com/defi-startup-compound-finance-raises-25-million-series-a-led-by-a16z
Interacting with Compound
Deeper into DeFi lending/borrowing
- https://twitter.com/AndreCronjeTech/status/1235572102985584640
- https://y.curve.fi/
- https://antoncoding.github.io/opyn-liquidator/
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hwN7tlYVeBPOk68Dh8el2yspnj8009LfdQ6CYjR9lSY/edit?usp=sharing
#Assignments
DeFi Protocol Deep Dive Let's put what we have learned into practice and open a maker CDP mint some DAI tokens then let's park these DAI tokens into compound, Chai or Oasis or if you just want to test use the kovan Etherum network
When locking Etherum in a Maker DAO CDP and then borrowing you collateral to another protocol do you see any interesting market opportunities? Or do you have any cool ideas of new building blocks that we can build together let's discuss it in this forum thread.
Next Step Now it is time to find your own comfort zone and dive deeper into the DeFi ecosystem and explore its possibilities. Start looking for cool arbitrage opportunities or see what new DeFi building block you want to build?
Let's keep discussing all interesting DeFi projects in the forum and let's see how we as a whole can strengthen this new parallel financial system.
Let's maintain our DeFi Ecosystem overview together.
Did you get excited and need some help with a DeFi project checkout: https://venten.co always happy to hear about exciting new projects or help you out with some Yield Hacking strategies. It is time to build a new financial system!
We recommend to first fully complete DeFi 101 before diving deeper in DeFi 201. Also when we will start yield hacking and Flash Loan programming a basic understanding of Blockchain, Bitcoin, Etherum, Solidity, and trading is needed.
We recommend you first follow the following course before starting DeFi 201:
- DeFi 101
- Ethereum Smart Contract Programming 101
- Blockchain & Bitcoin 101
- Algorithmic Trading & Technical Analysis
Access to an open and privacy preserve financial system is a basic human right
BlackRock Takes Command SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE!
DeFi Wiki
Andreas antonopoulos DeFi QA
The Internet of Money V3
There's nothing like a market crash & global pandemic to expose the weak points of legacy financial systems.
Must watch:
Some of the talks I found most interesting:
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/2 Why is DeFi important?
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/9 The internet of Finance
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/14 DeFiZap’s
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/20 Attack Matrix & Security
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/21 DeFi options
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/24 DeFi trading bots on Melon
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/25 DAI Whale hunting
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/26 Key management
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/28 SEC on DeFi
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/29 The Digital Dollar
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/40 1inch exchange
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/107 PayDrop Decentralized workforce
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/35 0X Consuming liquidity
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/36 dYdX trading
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/41 UMA & Balancer
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/45 Optimistic Virtual Machine
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/50 Prize Linked Savings on Ethereum
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/48 WeGetPwn'dEverydayFi
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/46 Uniswap V2
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/47 The future of stablecoins
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/50 Prize Linked Savings on Ethereum
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/65 From The Goldman Trading Floor To DeFi
List of ETH events during COVID-19 most of them are all free to watch online now :O
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lyX2OP5ijAt9Fn_o3NNbjD6HZVjeFrGhN5ecMGoHOCE/edit?usp=sharing
DeFi Watch
Aleth
DeFi Dashboard:
The Q1 2020 DeFi rapport:
AAVE Watch
Institutions are coming to Ethereum as DeFi works to make them irrelevant
Get a good view of the full DeFi ecosystem:
The Single-Collateral Dai (Sai) Shutdown
See here more in depth discussion:
The official proposal:
The Crypto Credit Report Q4 2019 *https://reports.credmark.com/TheCryptoCreditReport-q4-2019.pdf
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k6Sf1IBqOhtCPldEc2j0GMc8Zxp93icjYLKmVPOgXoI/edit?usp=sharing
Black Thursday recaps
- https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/crypto-liquidity-following-black-thursday
- https://www.coindesk.com/black-thursday-distortion-makes-bitcoin-options-look-cheaper
- https://www.coindesk.com/genesis-ceo-details-black-thursday-chaos-in-q1-lending-report
Q1 2020 quarterly lending report
March 12: The Day Crypto Market Structure Broke (Part 1 & 2)
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/17/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke/
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/20/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke-part-2/
DeFi 2020 setbacks so far:
DeFi Security
- https://gauntlet.network/reports/CompoundMarketRiskAssessment.pdf
- https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/20 Attack Matrix & Security
- https://blog.dfinance.co/defi-handle-with-care/
DeFi Status Report Post-Black Thursday
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pu5fKAaO6PtDK7eAwJWhPRu41PBX-0DvyJ-1hTKRalA/edit?usp=sharing
Recent Market Activity and Next Steps
3 Things DeFi can learn from the Financial Crisis
Maker DAO Keeper Pool
Docs
The first MIP (Maker Improvement Proposals)
March 12: The Day Crypto Market Structure Broke (Part 1 & 2)
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/17/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke/
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/20/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke-part-2/
Zero Knowledge technology -Disintermediation without decentralization *https://medium.com/@xmargintrading/zero-knowledge-technology-disintermediation-without-decentralization-f2f2b77a27f1
Operational resilience: concepts, design and analysis
DeFi Explore
DeFi Status Report Post-Black Thursday
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u_f7PQvQiUZXVtOGgFNJQqLZHlNPFXZQAmTcFLkrt7k/edit?usp=sharing
Recent Market Activity and Next Steps
3 Things DeFi can learn from the Financial Crisis
Maker DAO Keeper Pool
Docs
The first MIP (Maker Improvement Proposals)
March 12: The Day Crypto Market Structure Broke (Part 1 & 2)
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/17/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke/
- https://multicoin.capital/2020/03/20/march-12-the-day-crypto-market-structure-broke-part-2/
Zero Knowledge technology -Disintermediation without decentralization
Operational resilience: concepts, design and analysis
DeFi Explore
DeFi Status Report Post-Black Thursday
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u_f7PQvQiUZXVtOGgFNJQqLZHlNPFXZQAmTcFLkrt7k/edit?usp=sharing
The State of DeFi
I would like to invite you to explore the DeFi ecosystem by yourself. I did this as well and made a short DeFi Ecosystem Overview (I did this paper for ongoing personal research into a DeFi/CeFi Bridge I want to build). I would encourage all to do something similar and see what elements in the decentralized financial stack attract you the most.
A Token Curated Registries (TCR) with interesting WEB 3 projects has been created: https://everest.link/ contribute to the ecosystem by contributing to this TCR with your input. It is hard to keep lists a TCR model is a popular crypto economic primitive. Wanne learn more about TCR’s check: https://transform.eoi.digital/token-curated-registries/
Blockchain-based Financial Markets
Codefi Announcement - #EtherealTLV Presentation
On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-based Financial Markets
Blockchain disruption and decentralized finance: The rise of decentralized business models
Big companies are jumping into CodeFi
Lex Sokolin (Global Fintech Co-Head, ConsenSys) announces #Codefi at Ethereal Tel Aviv
How to make DeFinancial products work for you
The Great DeFi Filter
Blockchain disruption and decentralized finance: The rise of decentralized business models
Solidity v/s Move v/s Clarity: the battle of Smart Contract languages
German Neobank Offers Bitcoin Accounts With 4.3% Interest
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YeYfRoDH1HQNN1noTqh-vCEMeRc_aJVig5LJfvxLJf4/edit?usp=sharing
Blockchain-based Financial Markets It’s the settlement assurances, stupid
On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-based Financial Markets
His DeFi paper:
Blockchain disruption and decentralized finance: The rise of decentralized business models
Settlement Assurances and the Protocol Sink Thesis
Staking Will Turn Ethereum Into a Functional Store of Value
DeFi User Survey — The results & insights
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ydVdTrYGlJffzg4nslukVukTptSc2AoDv4kwUABJ6fc/edit?usp=sharing
Blockchain-based Financial Markets
Similar to DeFi 101 I want to challenge you to explore the DeFi digital finance stack to spot new building blocks that are essential to the DeFi digital finance stack. As you see we need a very multitalented pool of people to make this movement into a reality so find your comfort zone in the DeFi stack and become an expert and gain unfair knowledge advantages.
Since it is DeFi 201 Let's dive a bit deeper and let's take our forum discussions to the next level let's read some in-depth scientific articles and let's voice our opinions, ideas, and feedback.
On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-based Financial Markets
Blockchain disruption and decentralized finance: The rise of decentralized business models
Let's take our discussion to the next level. I'm looking forward to debating you on the forum
I did this paper for ongoing personal research into a DeFi/CeFi Bridge I want to build here: DeFi Ecosystem Overview I recommend everyone to also start making a paper like this when you have an idea/project or new career path you want to build.
Real world Assets on the Blockchain
Money Laundry: The Rise of the Crypto Sock Market
Bounding curves
We Need to Expand Access to $256 Trillion in Real-World Assets
Let’s buy some wine
Collateral Status Index
DeFi Whale hunting
ETH and BTC are Economic Bandwidth
DeFi Needs More Value
Ether: A New Model for Money
Seems like we just unlocked another branch on the tech tree.
Open Sea
DeFi Watch
DeFi Explore
RealT
Example: https://v1.uniswap.info/token/0xe5f7ef61443fc36ae040650aa585b0395aef77c8
Unique Asset Technology
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fIWMRPtWjBWgUDMI6hueoEeRpFpXanCLm-yZoUzee7E/edit?usp=sharing
Real world Assets on the Blockchain
Money Laundry: The Rise of the Crypto Sock Market https://medium.com/frst/money-laundry-the-rise-of-the-crypto-sock-market-f979aafc3796
Bounding curves https://blog.relevant.community/bonding-curves-in-depth-intuition-parametrization-d3905a681e0a
We Need to Expand Access to $256 Trillion in Real-World Assets https://futurism.com/need-expand-access-256-trillion-real-world-assets
Let’s buy some wine https://www.wiv.io/will-2020-be-the-year-that-fine-wine-trading-moves-online/
Collateral Status Index https://forum.makerdao.com/t/collateral-status-index/2231
DeFi Whale hunting https://www.crowdcast.io/e/defi-discussions/25
ETH and BTC are Economic Bandwidth https://bankless.substack.com/p/eth-and-btc-are-economic-bandwidth
DeFi Needs More Value https://bankless.substack.com/p/defi-needs-more-value
Ether: A New Model for Money https://bankless.substack.com/p/ether-a-new-model-for-money
Seems like we just unlocked another branch on the tech tree. https://bankless.substack.com/p/ethereums-tree-of-life-market-monday
Open Sea https://opensea.io/
DeFi Watch https://defiwatch.io/
DeFi Explore https://defiexplore.com/
RealT https://realt.co/
Example: https://v1.uniswap.info/token/0xe5f7ef61443fc36ae040650aa585b0395aef77c8
Unique Asset Technology https://www.wiv.io/fine-wine-as-digital-collectibles-faq/
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fIWMRPtWjBWgUDMI6hueoEeRpFpXanCLm-yZoUzee7E/edit?usp=sharing
Real world Assets on the Blockchain
The Art Exchange
Welcome to The Art Exchange!
The Art Exchange released Art Oracles for Decentralized Finance
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vXwomkcInzeeazcV1inNfbCjMoS0BSlgVSXwEM5W3lU/edit?usp=sharing
Real world Assets on the Blockchain
How DAI gets to $300B
Introducing Decentralized Asset Finance: Onboarding the World to DeFi
Centrifuge, MakerDAO - Tokenized Real World Assets In DeFi with Tinlake
What is Invoice Financing?
ConsolFreight and Centrifuge
DeFi in the Coronavirus Pandemic: From Blockchain to the Supermarket
How We Worked With Centrifuge And The Maker Foundation To Advance $60,000 Worth Of Spotify Revenue
The OS for the Financial Supply Chain with Lucas Vogelsang
Freight Shipping Invoices originated by ConsolFreight:
Music Streaming Royalties by Paperchain:
Centrifuge Chain — the Gateway for Real-World Assets to the Blockchain Multiverse
Shottle One + Centrifuse
Centrifuse
Centrifuge Tinlake: Adding real-world assets to MCD.
Bridging Real-World Assets to DeFi (Online Panel Discussion)
Polkadot, Substrate and Ethereum
Built on Substrate: Centrifuge Chain
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PPvFTs8Hahta0fdsx_X39WLMcIworfs5DQYFUmfYhIA/edit?usp=sharing
Real world Assets on the Blockchain
How DAI gets to $300B
Introducing Decentralized Asset Finance: Onboarding the World to DeFi
Centrifuge, MakerDAO - Tokenized Real World Assets In DeFi with Tinlake
What is Invoice Financing?
ConsolFreight and Centrifuge
DeFi in the Coronavirus Pandemic: From Blockchain to the Supermarket
How We Worked With Centrifuge And The Maker Foundation To Advance $60,000 Worth Of Spotify Revenue
The OS for the Financial Supply Chain with Lucas Vogelsang
- https://chorusone.libsyn.com/35-centrifuge-tinlake-the-os-for-supply-chain-finance-with-lucas-vogelsang-0 Freight Shipping Invoices originated by ConsolFreight: https://forum.makerdao.com/t/cf-drop-mip6-application-consolfreight-drop-tokenized-freight-shipping-invoices/2214
Music Streaming Royalties by Paperchain:
Centrifuge Chain — the Gateway for Real-World Assets to the Blockchain Multiverse
Shottle One + Centrifuse
Centrifuse
Centrifuge Tinlake: Adding real-world assets to MCD.
Bridging Real-World Assets to DeFi (Online Panel Discussion)
Polkadot, Substrate and Ethereum
Built on Substrate: Centrifuge Chain
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PPvFTs8Hahta0fdsx_X39WLMcIworfs5DQYFUmfYhIA/edit?usp=sharing
Real world Assets on the Blockchain For the overall ecosystem growth, it is important that more users start to understand, trust, and use protocols that interface real-world assets (RWA) with blockchain. Let's make this the new normal ;) I assign all to find interesting new protocols that interact with the real world and show proof of purchase in the forum thread. For now, you can use https://opensea.io/assets/wiv but soon many more will follow.
Also, there is an ongoing debate if we need to be whitelisted KYC/AML embed in a token/protocol to make Real-World Assets on the BlockChain work. what do you think? In my opinion, we should strive towards a system where KYC/AML is not needed since I see Access to an open and privacy preserve financial system is a basic human right
If you find any new protocols that bring real-world assets to the blockchain, let's list them on the forum and discuss their technical architecture of how they bridge CeFi/DeFi.
Become your own hedge fund Hedge Fund
Long Position vs. Short Position: What's the Difference?
When Genius Failed
Rajat Gupta insider trading cases
Opium Network
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_FIWs1AxHrwEyRSz0Qzc-v01xMzJDzDLJl2xgZPuQCQ/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund Hedge Fund
Long Position vs. Short Position: What's the Difference?
When Genius Failed
Rajat Gupta insider trading cases
Opium Network
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_FIWs1AxHrwEyRSz0Qzc-v01xMzJDzDLJl2xgZPuQCQ/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund Interest Rate Swap Definition
Credit Default Swap (CDS) Definition
Why Decentralized Finance totally needs interest rate swaps!
Earning passive income: DeFi and CeFi
Interest Rate Swaps: now for Aave! Hedge yourself or trade with 10x leverage…
How to: make 10x returns on Compound.finance
ERC-721o: a token standard for financial derivatives
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ydDVk0TPjXZOOWZDRNPrZjlsktEXdoHtGe0kOA0-snE/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund Interest Rate Swap Definition
Credit Default Swap (CDS) Definition
Why Decentralized Finance totally needs interest rate swaps!
Earning passive income: DeFi and CeFi
Interest Rate Swaps: now for Aave! Hedge yourself or trade with 10x leverage…
How to: make 10x returns on Compound.finance
ERC-721o: a token standard for financial derivatives
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ydDVk0TPjXZOOWZDRNPrZjlsktEXdoHtGe0kOA0-snE/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund How to Start a Hedge Fund (CeFi)
Melon Port
The initial team were all selected for a range of unique reasons described by Melonport’s CTO Jenna Zenk at M1. If you’d like to read more about Melon’s governance, you can find out more here You can read more about this in our Melonomics series part I & part II ASH Finance on the Melon Stack
Prime XBT
Multichain asset managers association
Token Sets
SW Capital
Leveling the Playing Field with Decentralized Finance
Interview with Mona El Isa CEO and Co-Founder at Melonport https://defiprime.com/melon-protocol
BE Token
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1reIaKbj3czSBVEdrKnl9_WX4wuGFFBs6AUZjI6HPC8g/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund How to Start a Hedge Fund (CeFi)
Melon Port
The initial team were all selected for a range of unique reasons described by Melonport’s CTO Jenna Zenk at M1. If you’d like to read more about Melon’s governance, you can find out more here You can read more about this in our Melonomics series part I & part II ASH Finance on the Melon Stack
Prime XBT
Multichain asset managers association
Token Sets
SW Capital
Leveling the Playing Field with Decentralized Finance
Interview with Mona El Isa CEO and Co-Founder at Melonport
BE Token
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1reIaKbj3czSBVEdrKnl9_WX4wuGFFBs6AUZjI6HPC8g/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund You can check recommended gas prices on ⛽ EthGasStation, Or read 📑 EthHub Docs on Ethereum Transactions to learn more about gas.
"Automated Liquidity" by Hayden Adams, Uniswap | Fluidity 2019
Understanding Uniswap Returns
Uniswap: A Good Deal for Liquidity Providers?
How to make DeFinancial products work for you
sUSD Curve pool vulnerability & next steps
Beginner’s Guide to FURUCOMBO
Introducing Strike — Decentralized Perpetual Swaps for Every Asset
ParaSwap quickstart: everything you need to know to swap like a pro
Zapper Dashboard
DeFi ZAP
Uniswap pool stats
Token Setstats
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n5D3lST7Gh8MKwSerwgoJJOf4Qx0AGl9GxcQtTGFzbc/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund You can check recommended gas prices on ⛽ EthGasStation, Or read 📑 EthHub Docs on Ethereum Transactions to learn more about gas.
"Automated Liquidity" by Hayden Adams, Uniswap | Fluidity 2019
Understanding Uniswap Returns
Uniswap: A Good Deal for Liquidity Providers?
How to make DeFinancial products work for you
sUSD Curve pool vulnerability & next steps
Beginner’s Guide to FURUCOMBO
Introducing Strike — Decentralized Perpetual Swaps for Every Asset
ParaSwap quickstart: everything you need to know to swap like a pro
Zapper Dashboard
DeFi ZAP
Uniswap pool stats
Token Setstats
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n5D3lST7Gh8MKwSerwgoJJOf4Qx0AGl9GxcQtTGFzbc/edit?usp=sharing
Become your own hedge fund As we all got this far I assume we understand we need to become our own bank but as said at the start we can go deeper than that. By becoming your own Bank you also have the freedom to manage your own funds and thanks to DeFi we now all have financial superpowers and capabilities that are normally only for the 1%. Let's use our new knowledge wisely and discuss, explore, and test Yield Hacks together. As Andrey Explained to us always be aware of the risk you're taking or trading with, do not be too greedy and ignorant.
Let's start an in-depth forum discussion on cool Yield Hacking Strategy I will be publishing some of my personal strategies soon: * https://forum.ivanontech.com/t/become-your-own-hedge-fund-yield-hacking-strategy-discussion/16638
Lets hack Flash Loans
The Flash Loan Attacks Explained (for Everybody)
Should Flash Loans be considered harmful?
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ Attack
How Decentralised is bZx?
Announcing DeFi Audits & The Holistic bZx Post-Mortem)
Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal
Flash Loans, one month in
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
The Decentralized Financial Crisis: Attacking DeFi
bZx Exploiter contract
bZx Hack Full Disclosure (With Detailed Profit Analysis)
A First Look into DeFi Oracles
Atomic Transactions (Explained by Example)
Linearizability (Explained by Example)
Exploiting The Laws of Order in Smart Contracts
Atomicity (database systems)
Linearizability
M. Herlihy and J. M. Wing, “Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects,” vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 463–492, 1990.
First Flash Lending proposal Article:
- https://medium.com/marbleorg/introducing-marble-a-smart-contract-bank-c9c438a12890 Code:
- https://github.com/marbleprotocol/flash-lending
- https://gist.github.com/amadeobrands/8955c792c720f6ea97b14eb09ae0b112
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gae4CshlL7LZ_dH2xk8FHG9XW8nGuG73kUwLSEiWwI4/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
The Flash Loan Attacks Explained (for Everybody)
Should Flash Loans be considered harmful?
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the DeFi ‘Flash Loan’ Attack
How Decentralised is bZx?
Announcing DeFi Audits & The Holistic bZx Post-Mortem)
Flash Loans: Why Flash Attacks will be the New Normal
Flash Loans, one month in
Attacking the DeFi Ecosystem with Flash Loans for Fun and Profit
The Decentralized Financial Crisis: Attacking DeFi
bZx Exploiter contract
bZx Hack Full Disclosure (With Detailed Profit Analysis)
A First Look into DeFi Oracles
Atomic Transactions (Explained by Example)
Linearizability (Explained by Example)
Exploiting The Laws of Order in Smart Contracts
Atomicity (database systems)
Linearizability
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearizability M. Herlihy and J. M. Wing, “Linearizability: A correctness condition for concurrent objects,” vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 463–492, 1990.
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/78969.78972
First Flash Lending proposal
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Article: https://medium.com/marbleorg/introducing-marble-a-smart-contract-bank-c9c438a12890
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https://gist.github.com/amadeobrands/8955c792c720f6ea97b14eb09ae0b112
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Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gae4CshlL7LZ_dH2xk8FHG9XW8nGuG73kUwLSEiWwI4/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
Github Repo
Performing a Flash Loan
AAVE Market:
ETH Kovan Faucet
AAVE Kovan Faucet
AAVE Kovan Pool address
AAVE Test net Kovan
Kovan DAI address
My Coding Journey: Beginner to Pro
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MaLb2qH6liMNCQIFnwLG9gwnjIKgAAoXDXs5Py0XJHU/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
Github Repo
Performing a Flash Loan
AAVE Market:
ETH Kovan Faucet
AAVE Kovan Faucet
AAVE Kovan Pool address
AAVE Test net Kovan
Kovan DAI address
My Coding Journey: Beginner to Pro
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MaLb2qH6liMNCQIFnwLG9gwnjIKgAAoXDXs5Py0XJHU/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
What is an arbitrage?
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage: A Lucrative Trading Strategy
How to Arbitrage the Forex Market – Four Real Examples
Uniswap Whitepaper
Uniswap Docs
A Graphical Guide for Understanding Uniswap
Uniswap: Understanding the Decentralised Ethereum Exchange
Understand Uniswap Exchange in under 10 Minutes
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
Uniswap ROI calculator
Uniswap V1
Uniswap V2
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xAM2uraAkIHv04PEr_25yRhIs4YrTgeXGQije6dIjlw/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
What is an arbitrage?
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage: A Lucrative Trading Strategy
How to Arbitrage the Forex Market – Four Real Examples
Uniswap Whitepaper
Uniswap Docs
A Graphical Guide for Understanding Uniswap
Uniswap: Understanding the Decentralised Ethereum Exchange
Understand Uniswap Exchange in under 10 Minutes
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
Uniswap ROI calculator
Uniswap V1
Uniswap V2
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xAM2uraAkIHv04PEr_25yRhIs4YrTgeXGQije6dIjlw/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
What is an arbitrage?
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage: A Lucrative Trading Strategy
How to Arbitrage the Forex Market – Four Real Examples
Uniswap Whitepaper
Uniswap Docs
A Graphical Guide for Understanding Uniswap
Uniswap: Understanding the Decentralised Ethereum Exchange
Understand Uniswap Exchange in under 10 Minutes
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
Uniswap ROI calculator
Uniswap V1
Uniswap V2
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AXzbSE7J35CLsvpvWihF9ZnyBqyq1fZ6E-z--MrARPQ/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans
What is an arbitrage?
Cryptocurrency Arbitrage: A Lucrative Trading Strategy
How to Arbitrage the Forex Market – Four Real Examples
Uniswap Whitepaper
Uniswap Docs
A Graphical Guide for Understanding Uniswap
Uniswap: Understanding the Decentralised Ethereum Exchange
Understand Uniswap Exchange in under 10 Minutes
Hayden Adams: Uniswap – An Automated Decentralized Exchange for Ethereum
Uniswap ROI calculator
Uniswap V1
Uniswap V2
Slides:
- https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AXzbSE7J35CLsvpvWihF9ZnyBqyq1fZ6E-z--MrARPQ/edit?usp=sharing
Lets hack Flash Loans Now you have all the knowledge to execute Flash Loans by yourself. There is a lot of opportunity in the market that can result in massive gains but remember that every gain you generate is because you took a risk.
If you're feeling prompt go to our Github page and perform all three assessments and share your experiences and gains in the forum. The clones and code is set up on a first come first serve basis lets see how stable both Uniswap V1 and Uniswap V2 markets will get ;)
Github:
Uniswap V1:
Uniswap V2:
Also let's discuss all interesting use cases for Flash Loans today Flash Loans are mostly used for arbitrage. But flash loans have other more compelling use cases in DeFi. One example is refinancing loans. Say I have a Maker vault (CDP) with $100 of ETH locked in it, and I drew a loan of 40 DAI from it—so I’ve got a $60 net position minus my debt. Now say I want to refinance into Compound for a better interest rate. Normally I’d need to go out and repurchase that 40 DAI to close out my CDP, which requires some up-front capital. Instead, I can flash borrow 40 DAI, close out the $100 CDP, deposit $60 of my unlocked ETH into Compound, convert the other $40 of ETH back into DAI through Uniswap, and use that to repay the flash loan. Boom, atomic 0-capital refinancing.
Let me know the results of your assessment and let’s discuss Flash Loan use cases in the forum.