Establishing a framework for understanding tokenomics for future application to the OATH Ecosystem — With the launch of Oath Governance, it has become especially important for our community to develop a common understanding of tokenomics. To this end, I will be writing a few articles to explore the subject both generally and in the context of OATH. Let’s start this article with a brief…

Creating DeFi analogs to TradFi business models — Introduction For close to a year now, our team has been laser-focused on shipping software and less-so on communicating why. We spend a lot of time studying history, analyzing trends, and investigating top businesses in finance to create simple yet ambitious strategies that solve some of DeFi’s biggest challenges. In…

Giving DeFi back to the people through $GRAIN and grain.sale — Do you remember 2020? If you don’t, it was a magical time in DeFi. The prospect of being able to own a piece of the future was exhilarating, with projects like Yearn, Uniswap, and Compound handing over huge swaths of their governance power over to the community.

Kicking off 2023 with a bang! — The Ethos Reserve team has been showing off their work for the last few months, and is proud to announce launch is a few short weeks away. A testnet environment will be deployed soon on Goerli as the Ethos crew continues to polish UI and devops. Expect an open beta…

How Granary will define the future of DeFi Lending — Bear markets are times of opportunity, with less downside, more serious users, and more breathing room. The Granary team has spent this bear market with their heads down, focused on building a product which addresses common DeFi pain points and pushes the space forward. Read more about it here. The…

Reliquary is giving DeFi an edge it’s needed for a long time — DeFi and bonding go together like water and oil. Tight jeans and Thanksgiving dinner. Discrete math and concussions. To be a bit more clear, floating rate bonds don’t make sense in an industry as volatile and accessible as crypto. Whether Curve’s voting escrow, Olympus’ (3,3), or some other bonding system…

Generate unrivaled passive income with $BOO and Magicats — If you read our veVelo Voting Vault breakdown, you probably know Byte Masons are playing for keeps. We have one of the best engineering teams in the industry, and our strategy is to write software that nobody can compete with. To this end, we’ve re-designed our single-sided $BOO strategy to…

A new paradigm for veNFTs — Since the launch of Velodrome on Optimism, the Reaper team has been researching and developing an efficient and scalable auto-compounding solution for veVELO NFT holders that maximizes their returns from bribing whilst minimizing the risks inherent to pegged assets and market-making that come with typical Convex models. Leveraging the knowledge…

A brief history of Granary and what to expect with Granary V2 — The idea behind Granary sprang to life in mid-2021, when its founders saw unfairness in the world of DeFi. High fees, lack of revenue sharing, and inflexible control structures meant the average user wasn’t getting a fair shake. Beyond that, many of our soon-to-be competitors seemed more like pump-and-dump schemes…