Reports21 results
The Current State of Crypto Insurance
The emergence of DeFi opened up yield-generating opportunities across many protocols. But as protocols gained traction and saw increasing deposits to smart contracts, this created lucrative opportunit...
10 Min
Asset Management
Nov 2022
The State of Undercollateralized DeFi Lending
Unsecured lending is one of the best ways to unlock capital efficiency in DeFi, and various protocols have tried their hand at developing robust systems to earn the trust of crypto lenders. In this re...
10 Min
Unsecured Lending
Oct 2022
How Nexus Can Incentivize Auditors
DeFi needs a solution that gives auditors and white hat hackers skin in the game, so they are incentivized to act honestly rather than maliciously. We believe Nexus is in a unique position to deliver...
7 Min
Insurers
Feb 2021
The Launch Of Armor Protocol
In this piece, I take a look at what products Armor is launching and how it’ll coexist with Nexus Mutual....
4 Min
Insurers
Jan 2021
Nexus - A Sleeping DeFi Blue Chip
Due to ETH's recent rise, the $ value of Nexus' capital pool is hovering around all time highs and the market price of wNXM is trading at only an ~11% premium to its book value. Is Nexus ready to awak...
4 Min
Insurers
Jan 2021
Aave Token Architecture V2: Towards Aave As An Insured Credit Protocol
On November 10th, we put forth a proposal to fundamentally revise Aave’s current token architecture. Having received excellent feedback from the community, we are thrilled to present V2 which incorpor...
1 Min
DeFi
Dec 2020
Crypto Investing Framework: Why Insurance Is Relatively Undervalued
In this piece, we outline the stacked risk framework analysis required by crypto investors and how it differs from traditional investment. We then use this framework to analyze the exchange and insura...
7 Min
Insurance
Dec 2020
Crypto Investing Framework: Why Insurance Is Relatively Undervalued
In this piece, we outline the stacked risk framework analysis required by crypto investors and how it differs from traditional investment. We then use this framework to analyze the exchange and insura...
7 Min
Insurance
Dec 2020
Bancor v2.1: IL Insurance Check-In
Bancor recently upgraded to Bancor v2.1 - which uniquely featured Impermanent Loss insurance facilitated by elastic BNT supply. Let’s take a look at how Bancor’s v2.1 has gone so far....
4 Min
DeFi
Dec 2020
Nexus Mutual Update and Outlook
We analyze the significance of the MCR% decline on recent outflows from the Capital Pool, along with what’s being done to potentially curb that outflow and expectations going forward....
1 Min
Insurers
Nov 2020
Bancor v2.1: Can’t Solve Impermanent Loss? Ok, let’s insure it
AMMs and IL are hot topics on crypto-twitter at the moment. With that in mind, let’s look at Bancor’s new v2.1 AMM design....
5 Min
DeFi
Oct 2020
Nexus Mutual Proposal Aftermath
Our proposal to pause MCR has been successfully accepted. We walk through what happens next....
3 Min
Insurers
Oct 2020
Nexus Mutual Proposal to Pause MCR Growth
We propose to pause the programmatic growth of MCR after taking into consideration the amount of cover capacity that will be opening up shortly, the current state of the market, and the amount that MC...
3 Min
Insurers
Oct 2020
Aragon Court
In our recent report on Nexus, we discussed the opportunity and importance of smart contract insurance to hedge technical risk. There are other forms of risk in need of mitigation as well though, and...
1 Min
Insurers
Oct 2020
How NXM Accelerates With Scale
In this post, we explore how NXM transitions from a programmatically grown MCR to a gearing factor-based one. Few understand what this means long term for Nexus....
9 Min
Insurers
Sep 2020
How NXM Accelerates With Scale
In this post, we explore how NXM transitions from a programmatically grown MCR to a gearing factor-based one. Few understand what this means long term for Nexus....
9 Min
Insurers
Aug 2020
Nexus Mutual Bonding Curve Model v1.1
This model accompanies the research report on Nexus Mutual, published on July 27th, 2020. Version 1.1: Corrected Supply, Updated Historical Data....
1 Min
Insurers
Aug 2020
Nexus Mutual
While lending and liquidity protocols have attracted much of the attention in DeFi recently, there are other, more creative ways to bet on DeFi's future....
1 Min
Insurers
Jul 2020
Nexus Mutual Bonding Curve Model v1.0
This model accompanies the research report on Nexus Mutual, published on July 27th, 2020....
1 Min
Insurers
Jul 2020