What Is Liquid Staking?
Liquid staking lets you stake ETH and get a token you can trade or use while it stays staked. How it works, why the token can trade below ETH and the risks.
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Inflationary vs Deflationary Tokens
Inflationary tokens add supply over time; deflationary tokens remove it through burns or caps. How each works, with BTC, DOGE, ETH and BNB examples.
What Is Impermanent Loss and How Do You Calculate It?
Impermanent loss is how much less a liquidity provider ends up with than if they had held. The formula, a worked ETH example and a table by price change.
What Happened to the 2017 ICO Boom?
In 2017 token sales raised about $11.9 billion; most projects failed or were scams and regulators stepped in. How the ICO boom worked and what it changed.
How to Use a DEX for the First Time
Swap tokens on a decentralized exchange safely: set up a wallet, verify the site and token, check price impact and slippage, approve carefully, then revoke.
How to Stake ETH: Solo, Pooled and Exchange Options
Stake ETH by running a validator, joining a pool or liquid staking protocol, or using an exchange. Compare the steps, control, minimums and risks of each route.
The Digital Cash Projects That Came Before Bitcoin
DigiCash, e-gold, b-money and Bit Gold tried to build digital cash before Bitcoin. See what each solved, why they failed and what Bitcoin took from them.
How to Set Up a Hardware Wallet Safely
Buy from the maker, check the device, set it up yourself, write the seed phrase offline, verify addresses on the screen and test a small transfer before more.
How to Recover a Hacked Crypto Account
What to do in the first hour after a crypto account or wallet is hacked: lock things down, move funds, contact the platform, report it and avoid recovery scams.
What Is a Gas Limit and Why Do Transactions Fail?
The gas limit caps how much computation an Ethereum transaction may use. See how gas fees are calculated, why transactions run out of gas and failure costs.
How Funding Rates Are Calculated on Perpetual Futures
The funding rate formula on perpetual futures, how its premium and interest parts work, worked examples of what a position pays or receives and what it signals.
What Happened When FTX Collapsed?
FTX went from a $32 billion exchange to bankruptcy in days in November 2022 after customer funds were used by Alameda. The timeline, trial and repayments.