Author: Connor
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What is the Tellor (TRB), and How Does It Achieve True Decentralization?
Tellor (TRB) is a decentralized blockchain oracle service, a vital part of a healthy blockchain ecosystem. Learn why LL and PLS need oracles.
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What are Decentralized Blockchain Oracles?
Truly decentralized blockchain oracles are essential for many DeFi protocols. Centralized oracles can break them. Learn the difference.
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What Are Blockchain Oracles and Why Are They Necessary?
Unsure what blockchain oracles are? Learn here about what they are and why they are vital to blockchains and smart contracts.
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Stablecoin Yields: Passive Income without Counterparty Risk
Stablecoin yields can be safe and steady passive income or risky and turbulent losses. Click here to learn the difference.
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Fundamentals of Crypto Staking
We compiled a list of all the basics fundamentals to know about crypto staking. Find out more by reading here.
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Dumb Money vs Smart Money: Using Debt to Get Richer
If you are somebody who cares about money (everybody does, even if they say they do not), then you must understand the difference between dumb money vs smart money. One of the cornerstone difference lies in understanding what debt is and how to use it properly to enhance your finances. On the one hand, debt…
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Automated Market Maker: Key to Decentralized Exchanges?
An Automated Market Maker (AMM) is a tool used on decentralized exchanges to allow for the automatic trading of digital assets. This is done by the use of liquidity pools rather than conventional buyer and seller markets. In our recent article on liquidity pools, we likened automated market makers to robotic lifeguards overlooking concrete swimming…
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What is Liquid Loans? The Premier PulseChain Lending Protocol
How often do you visit your local bank branch these days? Probably not very often. And when you do go there, what are you going for? The reality is that we hardly ever need to go to the bank anymore because we can take care of almost all our financial tasks online. We can pay…
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Why are Ethereum Gas Fees So High? (Minimize Costs 2023)
Transacting on the Ethereum blockchain requires users to pay transaction fees known as ‘Gas fees’. Gas fees are paid in Ethereum’s native currency (ETH) and are denoted in GWEI which equals 0.000000001 ETH (10^-9). In traditional finance or ‘TradFi’, we often pay fees to transfer funds overseas or when we withdraw cash from an ATM.…
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What is Decentralized Finance (First Principles of DeFi)
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is an emerging digital alternative traditional financial systems. Learn the important features of DeFi here.