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The 19 best decentralized exchanges in 2025

During the early stages of cryptocurrency, centralization was still a significant aspect of the sector. While crypto projects sought decentralization,
Jul 30, 2025
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What is MANTRA? The Layer-1 blockchain for real world assets

Blockchain technology is changing constantly, but it faces challenges like interoperability and compliance. MANTRA aims to address these issues by sim
Dec 27, 2024
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What are real world assets (RWA)? The bridge between DeFi and TradFi

Can cryptocurrencies and their disruptive technological foundations bring change to traditional financial systems? With news of BlackRock's digital f
Apr 24, 2025
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Top 9 Bitcoin DeFi projects to watch in 2024

How does decentralized finance (DeFi) work with Bitcoin ? And, what's next for Bitcoin? As we gear up for the next Bitcoin halving in 2024, these q
Apr 22, 2025
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What is Sky? Exploring the MakerDAO rebrand

Sky is the new name for MakerDAO, a decentralized finance platform. Alongside its rebrand, Sky will be introducing a new stablecoin USDS (Sky Dollar)
Jan 29, 2025
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What is Raydium (RAY): a must-know for Solana DEX traders

In the dynamic world of cryptocurrency trading, decentralized exchanges (DEXs) have emerged as powerful platforms for onchain trading. By eliminatin
Jan 29, 2025
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What is a prediction market: the power of crowdsourced wisdom

Prediction markets pose an age old question: are the many truly smarter than the few? With prediction markets like Polymarket and Drift Protocol’s
Jan 29, 2025
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DeFi

What is AAVE: exploring the community-governed liquidity pool

Aave , formerly ETHLend, is a decentralized non-custodial borrowing and lending protocol that lets users deposit assets into liquidity pools to earn
Sep 3, 2025
Intermediate
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Aave flash loan tutorial: How to create a flash loan using Aave

In traditional finance, a borrower must deposit collateral and pass credit checks before receiving a loan. However, with decentralized finance (DeFi),
Aug 27, 2025
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Top 11 crypto lending platforms in 2024

Crypto lending platforms are one of the most revolutionary additions to the crypto industry. Although they’ve been around for a while, crypto loans be
Apr 22, 2025
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9 leading DeFi DApps to try in 2024

Blockchain technology has changed the way we interact with digital assets and financial services, offering greater transparency and security in a dece
Nov 21, 2025
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What Is Celo?

![What Is Celo A](//images.ctfassets.net/4nqoo8goeymu/7n5zmgmUMV3Bg6zfj8XnmK/2cc8c4e6819de86786fb5e58fb5a8850/What-Is-Celo-A.png) CELO is a mobile-fir
Sep 2, 2024
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What Is Balancer Exchange?

Balancer is a decentralized and permissionless exchange powered by an automated market maker. The goal of this project is to provide a crypto asset ex
Sep 2, 2024
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SUI explained: the future of asset ownership?

SUI is a permissionless Layer-1 blockchain that adopts a unique object-oriented data model and purpose-built programming language, Move, to support tr
Sep 18, 2025
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Solana ecosystem guide: what are the best SPL tokens to watch?

At the time of writing, Solana remains among the top five largest cryptocurrencies by market value. That status is thanks in large part to a rebound
Sep 18, 2025
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Your comprehensive guide to the Avalanche Protocol (AVAX)

The Avalanche Protocol is a groundbreaking, open-source platform designed to launch decentralized applications (DApps), custom blockchains, and intero
Jan 16, 2025
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What is transactions per second (TPS) in crypto?

Transaction speeds are one of many real-world issues cryptocurrency looks to solve. When you need to send a payment, being aware of the transaction ti
Apr 17, 2025
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What is an automated market maker in crypto?

Automated market makers (AMMs) are a form of decentralized cryptocurrency trading platform that uses smart contracts to enable token swaps and value e
Sep 26, 2024
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What is a blockchain oracle?

Blockchain technology has gained significant popularity in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize virtually every industry in some way. Ho
Jun 4, 2025
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What is crypto lending and how does it work?

Crypto lending and borrowing has revolutionized the financial landscape by enabling individuals to lend their digital assets and earn interest from th
Jul 15, 2025
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Yield farming and staking
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What is liquid staking and how does it work?

Liquid staking, also known as soft staking, is a more advanced form of traditional staking that's available on many new-generation smart contract
Apr 22, 2025
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What is Augur?

Augur is a decentralized protocol where users can launch prediction markets powered by smart contracts. It provides the technology required to bet on
Sep 2, 2024
Intermediate
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What’s next for post-merge Ethereum?

This is an OKX — Okcoin research partnership. Adam Bloom is a Content Writer, podcaster, and yield farmer based in Los Angeles. Now that Ethereum ha
Apr 24, 2025
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What is BEP-20? Exploring the token standard

In the infancy of cryptocurrency, generating a new token was a complex task. It required either the creation of an entirely new blockchain or the use
Jul 21, 2025
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