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. …

Creating a new paradigm through the $OATH ecosystem — Since May, Byte Masons have been adapting to a new market environment. The evening of Luna’s crash, Goober and I decided to shift our focus from retail products toward infrastructure and delta neutral products, and shortly thereafter our marketing strategy shifted from B2C to B2B. …

An open letter to my favorite group of people in DeFi When I started this organization in the middle of 2020, I never knew I’d one day refer to it as an ‘organization’. The Masons were a rag-tag gang of programmers and professionals with a shared set of values and…

Designing positive feedback loops to ensure long term growth I’d like to start this article out by thanking everyone who has joined us on our Defi journey thus far. Without you, we wouldn’t have made it here without a token. …