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Fork Defense Strategies in DeFi
Not All Forks Are the Same First, you have to realize that not all forks are the same....From “Fast Follower Forks in DeFi”: Pump & Dump Forks: Forks whose primary purpose is to make a...on the fork archetype....Fast Forks: Deepen Moat and Out Innovate ‘Fast Forks’ are the most common type of fork today, in part...
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Infrastructure
Sep 2020
Beware the Ethereum Post-Fork Hangover
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Layer 1 / L1
Jan 2019
LooksRare Wash Trades, Ohm Forks Fall, ETH 2.0 Staking
Ohm and Ohm Forks Olympus DAO has been suffering large price drawdowns the last few days, largely due...Ohm forks have similarly suffered the same fate, with the top few Olympus forks down 40-70% since the...
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NFT Marketplace
Jan 2022
Informal Forks Tendermint with CometBFT
To avoid confusion, this is a direct fork of Tendermint (more specifically v0.34) and will be swapped...Why the fork?
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Block Production
Feb 2023
TRIBE Volume And Price Spike As Fei Protocol Winds Down
🚨 In Case You Missed It SudoRare, NFT exchange created as a fork of sudoswap and LooksRare, pulls the...🚨 In Case You Missed It SudoRare, NFT exchange created as a fork of sudoswap and LooksRare, pulls the...
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Stablecoins
Aug 2022
Percent.Finance Attracts $125M In TVL In A Few Hours
If you fall asleep, you may miss the fork of the day....Percent Finance has launched a fork of Compound that features a 20M hard-capped PCT supply and aggressive...Closing Remarks The DeFi bull market continues as users are willing to invest in forks of popular projects...
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Spot Exchange
Sep 2020
CREAM Finance: Crypto Rules Everything Around Me ?
This July, CREAM Finance launched; a decentralized money market protocol and fork of Compound to allow...(Source)   Net, CREAM is a fork of compound that leverages regulatory arbitrage to list tokens faster...research.We do note CREAM finance has been slightly derisked since it has been live for over a month and is a fork...
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DeFi
Sep 2020
GMX's Success Spawns Competition, But Can They Keep Up?
Mycelium is a direct fork of the GMX codebase with some changes, while MUX is not a fork – it’s using...But Mycelium, as a direct fork with some adjustments, is not too different from GMX....Mycelium is a direct fork of the GMX codebase with some changes, while MUX is not a fork – it's using...
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Perpetual Futures
Oct 2022
Unforkable Moats in DeFi
...value capture significantly more difficult since any excess rent extraction will result in a cheaper fork...This provides built-in fork resistance as a competitor forking THORChain must not only redeploy the same...incentives, vastly increasing the costs of a potential fork.  ...Strong communities also increase the coordination costs of forking.
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Spot Exchange
Sep 2020
Liquity v2: Evolving Onchain Leverage
Liquity v1 was forked 35 times, with forks achieving an aggregate total of $1B TVL at their peak....Notable forks include Gravita and Vesta Finance....There will be 15+ friendly forks on L2s....Friendly Fork Alignment Liquity friendly forks may experiment with protocol parameters, governance, collateral...
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Debt-Backed (CDP) Stablecoins
Nov 2024
Vitalik's Warning
...brand new makeup, one that could pose a threat to the network that results in the weighing of a hard fork...Thus, each hard fork presents a risk towards Ethereum’s decentralization....Ultimately, any potential Ethereum hard fork will be circumstantial....Do you believe that hard forks hurt ethereum’s decentralization? A3.
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Staking
Jun 2023
The Decentralized NFT Marketplace That You Should Know
Broadhead (@RonanBroadhead) Aug 10, 2022 Exploring ETH PoW Hardfork Regarding ETHPoW: An Ethereum hard fork...This is a follow-up: (i) what is a hard fork (ii) risks of interacting with a forked chain (iii) what...(iv) why would a hard fork happen?
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NFT Marketplace
Aug 2022
ETHW Plummets After Bellatrix Upgrade Is Activated On Ethereum
US Treasury talks Tornado Cash sanctions again, the ETH-PoW token is plummeting even before the hard fork...centralized exchange to deliver an equivalent number of tokens from a potential proof-of-work hard fork...Since such a hard fork has not happened yet, ETHW is a highly speculative token which may not be withdrawn...
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Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2022
Uniswap vs Sushiswap: A Tale of Two DEXes
Sushiswap, which started as a fork of Uniswap v2, has been catching up to Uniswap in terms of liquidity...Sushiswap sought to take on Uniswap by forking it and minting a native governance token to hand over...It’s a simple fork of Uniswap v2....Through these integrations, Sushiswap is cementing a fork-resistant moat and improving organic trading...
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DeFi
Jan 2021
The Verifiable Cloud: How EigenCloud is Unlocking Crypto’s App and AI Era
EigenVerify standardizes this via intersubjective verification: fork-choice rules, challenge mechanics...Forkable trust leverages both the EIGEN token’s forkability and onchain observability of contested forks...From here, the “fork-as-nuclear-deterrent” mechanism comes into play....only accrues long-term value if it remains fork-resistant.
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Infrastructure
Oct 2025
Nouns — Hyperscaling a Brand & Treasury From Zero
Packy outlines the concept of “DAO forking” in his article Go Fork Yourself: “positive sum forks that...If this holds true, the more forks there are, the more valuable Nouns becomes....Today, there are at least 85 related “forks” in the Nouns ecosystem....Number of “soft forks”: Good forks accrue value back to the original token & brand.
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NFTs
Aug 2022
When Vampires Attack: SushiSwap and Uniswap
Uniswap has not launched a token, but plans to, and SushiSwap beat them by essentially forking Uniswap...recently covered CREAM, basically a Compound or AAVE for the long tail of assets, and this project has forked...Anything can be forked and no a community can’t be but that is more powerful when a community is required...
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DeFi
Sep 2020
Investing in DeFi - Passive vs Active Management
The tricky part about passive, on-chain strategies is that they’re easy to fork....New forks can offer higher yields via the issuance of a new token while also competing on fees, thus...one month, has been able to accumulate high TVL, while older yield aggregators have been repeatedly forked...
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Spot Exchange
Mar 2021
ETH Borrow Rate On Aave Rises As Users Position For The Merge
This increase is likely the result of users positioning themselves to profit off a potential hard fork...When the Merge goes through, many suspect that some miners will fork a new chain that retains Ethereum...To profit from such a hard fork, users are borrowing as much ETH as they can in order to maximize the...
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Money Markets
Aug 2022