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$100 Swaps
💰$100 Swaps Daily active addresses on Uniswap are spiking to levels not seen since May 2021....at us for paying exorbitant fees, but we’ll look back on these times with nostalgia for paying $100 swaps...
6 Min
Layer 2 / L2
May 2023
Amouranth's DAO Brings 'SimpFi' to Crypto, and the Why of Token Swaps
CIP-5: This allows users to swap vCOW for COW tokens....A token swap strengthens an already strong relationship between the two DAOs....Eboado asked about the frequency of Balancer token swaps....may be the last swap for a while....Our concern isn’t to disparage token swaps as an idea.
10 Min
DAO
Mar 2022
Boba TVL Grows, CRO Outperforms, & Interest Rate Woes
TVL on Boba Network Climbs on the back of Oolong Swap Liquidity Mining Incentives Boba Network is an...TVL on Boba Network Climbs on the back of Oolong Swap Liquidity Mining Incentives Boba Network is an...
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Nov 2021
CoW Swap Releases "LVR Aware" AMM
CoW Swap debuted their new “LVR Aware” AMM....CoW Swap was first to intent trading, and they’re first (in Ethereum eco as Skip was first in Cosmos)...
2 Min
AMM
Feb 2024
Check the Chain - P2: Voltz Redefining Interest Swaps
A new DeFi primitive for interest rate swaps, that is seeing some pretty strong organic growth, what’...This can be a really good avenue for interest rate swaps to gain traction and definitely something to...How do the swaps work there?   07:43 • Jordan For GLP, you use ETH as margin....We haven’t really seen interest rate swaps take off as a DeFi primitive yet.
15 Min
DeFi
Mar 2023
Jean Miao: The Permissionless Protocol for Decentralized Perpetual Swaps on Arbitrum
But MCDEX is a fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps....So perpetual swap is actually the most popular way to trade cryptocurrencies for now....Because, the price of perpetual swaps is usually [inaudible 00:07:10] packed to the spot market....So, if we use the same logic here that we look at the perpetual swap exchanges.
Infrastructure
Jun 2021
Thorchain Launch Party: The Magic Experience of Swapping Assets Cross Chain In A Few Clicks
...smaller swaps....In the situation when somebody swaps, the swap is gone, the money is gone and then the system is no longer...do that swap....And they don’t care whether one person is swapping a Satoshi or another person to swapping an entire...Atomic swaps will replace this.”...
Infrastructure
Apr 2021
Simon Harman: Chainflip's Cross-chain Swaps Enable Crypto's On-Chain Future
Simon Harman, founder of decentralized cross-chain swap protocol Chainflip, joins us for an in-depth...Ethereum, the technical challenges with supporting Bitcoin, and how ChainFlip achieves fast, no-slippage swaps...
80 Min
DeFi
Feb 2024
MetaMask Revenues, DEX Fee Competition, and Aggregator Wars
DeFi’s Secret Cash Flow Machine In Sept. 2020, Metamask announced its native swapping feature that...Metamask levies a 0.875% fee on each swap, which is exorbitant by DeFi standards....The simple UX of swapping via the Metamask plug-in seems to trump the ludicrous fees the wallet charges...
3 Min
DeFi
Nov 2021
Examining the Design and Traction of GMX's Hybrid DEX
The DEX space is rife with innovative designs that enable efficient swaps across a multitude of assets...GMX specializes in spot swaps and leveraged trading via perpetuals....Spot swaps are structured like an OTC trade between assets in GLP....GLPs spot swap volume is still quite low in relation to margin trading.
13 Min
Derivatives
Nov 2021
Decentralized Forex, Vesta Farms, Friktion Volts
DFX Finance is an AMM designed for forex swaps between multiple fiat-backed stablecoins....XSGD seems to be the most popular as retail users can easily swap XSGD back to SGD....DFX Finance is an AMM designed for forex swaps between multiple fiat-backed […]...
5 Min
AMM
Jun 2022
FEI's Genesis Post-Mortem
...last week, I assumed that FEI at $1.01 would result in the majority of Genesis participants to pre-swap...However, this was not the case, with only around 30% of committed ETH pre-swapped into TRIBE....Watching the pre-swap % over the final hours of the Genesis event, one could probably have seen this...
4 Min
DeFi
Apr 2021
Stablecoin Growth Propels LUNA Forward
In brief, here is how the on-chain swap stability mechanism works during stages of expansion and contractions...Improving On-Chain Swap Liquidity  Until recently, a large portion of stablecoin growth was facilitated...by the Terra Labs Foundation via direct sales from its reserves, instead through on-chain swaps.
6 Min
Stablecoins
Mar 2021
Trader Joe's Novel Take on Concentrated Liquidity
As a result, traders enjoy zero slippage swaps if the trade occurs within the active price bins....This fee is affected by two factors: the frequency of swaps and large swaps spanning more than one price...The variable fee is distributed on a pro-rata basis across bins that the swaps have utilized.
9 Min
AMM
Mar 2023
Lido's Game Theory
Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) enable users to swap ETH in return for a derivative token that represents...The swapped ETH is then staked by the provider and the yield is passed on to the token holder (minus...
5 Min
DeFi
May 2023
Smart Stablecoins and its Emerging Stack
Snow Swap – AMM Exchange for swapping yVaults stablecoins Snow Swap tackles the current liquidity constraint...Based on Curve’s AMM, Snow Swap pools are designed for low slippage stable coin swaps....This allows traders to swap between yTokens without the need to incur the 0.5% withdrawal fee*....yield from Snow Swap trading fees. ...
5 Min
DeFi
Oct 2020
Bridging Fragmented Liquidity: Hop & Connext
Most interop approaches range from Rollups (native crosschain validation), MPC bridges like Ren to 1:1 swaps...A major benefit of this approach is that it minimizes the “free option” problem of atomic swaps....Hop Protocol Another solution that facilitates instant 1:1 swaps across Rollups is Hop Protocol.
19 Min
Bridges
Jun 2021
Sei Network: DeFi-Optimized Cosmos Chain
Not a “pure” app chain like THORChain that focuses solely on cross-chain swaps, but one that is built...
15 Min
Orderbook
Sep 2022
Funding Frenzy, BTC Breakout, & AAVE-BAL Collab
A token swap strengthens an already strong relationship between the two DAOs....Eboado asked about the frequency of Balancer token swaps....may be the last swap for a while....But it’s also apparent that token swaps transfer exotic risk to DAOs and their token holders....Our concern isn’t to disparage token swaps as an idea.
6 Min
DeFi
Mar 2022
Out From Chaos Comes THORSynths
The value flow obviously starts with Swaps....Liquidity Fees are the slip-based swap fees....Average swap sizes across the network grew roughly 2.5x while slip-fees as % of swap size reduced significantly...ETH or buy ERC20) than swaps to Binance with much less volume....In THORChain, all swaps are put in order by the Swap Queue.
21 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Jul 2021