Silvergate was founded by Derek Eisele in 1988 as a tiny community lender in California. It focused on real estate deals in its early days. In 2013, Silvergate began to provide services for digital assets. At the time, cryptocurrencies were rarely accepted by the broader financial community, and even major players on Wall Street knew little about crypto. Silvergate rapidly expanded its business leveraging the crypto boom, but was eventually affected by the collapse of FTX and macro-environmental changes, as well as the improper risk management moves.

Deri Protocol is a perpetual derivative trading platform built on BSC and Arbitrum. It has recently been deployed on the zkSync Era mainnet and offers perpetual futures, everlasting options, and power perpetuals. Its innovative derivative protocol, Gamma Swap, is currently undergoing beta testing. The protocol innovatively introduces the DPMM algorithm to price everlasting options, which solves the liquidity fragmentation problem of options.

As a veteran DeFi star project, MakerDAO has proposed the "Endgame Plan" concept with the goal of restructuring its asset business within the next decade to achieve complete decentralization of DAI. This article provides a brief introduction to MakerDAO's mechanism, elaborates on the "Endgame Plan," and delves into the protocol's ecosystem business changes and current financial situation.

Injective is an interoperable Layer 1 (L1) blockchain dedicated to building DeFi applications, designed to be a truly decentralized, trustless, and publicly verifiable system. INJ, the native utility and governance token of Injective Protocol, plays an important role in protocol and ecosystem governance, derivative collateralization, protocol security, market making, relayer incentives, and protocol fee value capture. In addition, the INJ token has a unique “burn auction” mechanism, which facilitates the value accrual for the entire Injective ecosystem.

Bitcoin Ordinals is a protocol based on the Bitcoin blockchain that provides Bitcoin with non-fungible properties through the use of specified ordinals. It unlocks the potential for Bitcoin NFTs and other applications.

Bitcoin ordinals are unique digital assets on the Bitcoin blockchain with potential use cases in art, gaming, and entertainment, and gained popularity especially through Bitcoin Ordinal NFT collections.

Along with the developing Layer 2, Vela Exchange becomes another derivative protocol similar to GMX in the Arbiturm ecology. They have similarities in both the token economy and LP mechanism. Vela deserves continuous attention in the overall growth of Arbiturm.

The veModel, namely, the vote-escrowed model, has become one of the most widely used models that bring long-term value since it was introduced in Curve. That’s because it is novel in having a weight depending on time. This article will deeply discuss its mechanism and innovation in simple terms.

The NFT lending projects releases illiquid assets and idle capital. It is playing an important role as the number of Web3 users and NFT use cases increases. The two major competitors in the market, BendDAO and ParaSpace, have their own Features. ParaSpace has become a dark horse because it launched a credit lending system. What is the next step for BendDAO - the established NFT lending protocol?

Silo Finance is a lending protocol deployed on Ethereum and Arbitrum. It is unique because it introduced silos and bridging assets to isolate risks, which is conducive to expanding the application scenarios of long-tail assets.

Learn all about Grin Coin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on Mimblewimble technology. This article covers everything from the basics of transactions and block chain state to advanced topics like how Mimblewimble works and security processes.

Many AI tokens have seen incredible gains, and the hype doesn’t seem to have died. This article discusses what AI tokens are and what their future holds.

The blockchain trilemma posits that blockchains cannot simultaneously be fast, secure, and scalable. Can a way be found around it? This article answers that question.

Web3 domains are becoming more popular than ever before. Notably, they are different from regular domain names. So what exactly are they, and what are the benefits of owning one?

Horizen (ZEN) is a privacy-focused blockchain platform offering enhanced security through the use of zk-SNARKs. Learn about its consensus mechanism, ZEN cryptocurrency, and the Horizen Development Environment (HDE) in this comprehensive article. Discover the benefits of staking, voting, and financing platform development initiatives using ZEN.