- Overview
- Lending Protocols
- Dex trading
- Stablecoins
- Bridges
- Oracles
- Indexing
- Insurance
- Governance
- Tools
- Finematics guide to DeFi - a skill tree of DeFi concepts
- Where does yield come from, anyway?
- Lending and borrowing in DeFi (Finematics, Nov 2020)
- Flash loans
- explaining the flash loan concept pioneered by Aave, as well as how it's used in various arbitrage scenarios
- Optional source material:
- Aave whitepaper (Dec 2020)
- Compound whitepaper (Feb 2019)
- Constant Function Market-Makers (June 2020) - a theoretical assessment of the more general version of constant-product market-makers
- Perp AMMs - explaining the vAMM method introduced by Perpetual Protocol and its current pitfalls
- Explaining balancer pools
- UniV3 Simulator
- Serum whitepaper
- technical introduction - describes the orderbook interactions and data structures, as well as how they're implemented. Warning: not updated for DexV3
- Stablecoin Overview - a general overview of the stablecoin landscape and key differentiators for categorization
- MakerDao Whitepaper - the original crypto-collateralized stablecoin
- Terra Whitepaper
- Black Thursday for MakerDao, An Explainer - a general overview of MakerDao's Black Thursday event
- Deleverging Spirals and Stablecoins Attacks - a deep dive into deleveraging spirals, mempool attacks and an empirical investigation of MakerDao's Black Thursday event
- The Iron Finance Exploit Explained
- The Oralce Report of Delphi (June 2021) - overview of the oracle landscape
- Intro to The Graph
- The Graph is a decentralized protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data. It's like a search engine framework, and each 'subgraph' is a domain-specific search engine implementation
- GraphQL API - tutorial on how to query a subgraph using GraphQL
- CRV/CVX part 1 (June 2021) - describing the innovation of Convex (CVX) as a method for controlling valuable CRV governance votes, as well as the more general question of protocol design with respect to 'meta-protocols' like CVX
- CRV/CVX part 2 (Sep 2021) - an in-depth look at the CRV governance war which TokenBrice correctly predicted in part 1.
- Mochi scam and the Curve Wars (Nov 2021)
- Defi Llama - TVL metrics for various DeFi protocols
- Defi pulse - similar, TVL metrics
- DappRadar
- Crypto fees - fees earned by protocol
Use these to track your (or anyone else's) balances/activity across various DeFi protocols.
- Zapper.fi - Eth
- DeBank - Eth
- Sonar.watch - Solana
- Step.finance - Solana
- APY.vision - portfolio tracking / IL analysis / pool analytics
- Multifarm.fi - overview of farms on various chains
- LiquidityFolio - farm finder
- DeFi Rate - comparison of lending/borrowing rates across lending protocols
- apesafe.io - contract comparison
- app.unrekt.net - allowance checker
- RugDoc - AMM emergency withdrawal tool, honeypot checker, LP breaker, etc
- defiyield.info - tools for reviewing where you approved ERC20 tokens, timelocks, etc