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LEO$8.99+0.26%From your first block to the finer details. Explore the ideas, people, and systems behind the market—one useful explanation at a time.
Follow a transaction from a key to a shared ledger.
Begin with BlockchainExplore contracts, liquidity, borrowing and the risks between them.
Begin with Smart contractUnderstand what a price, valuation or sentiment indicator can tell you.
Begin with Market capitalizationLearn custody, permissions and how to assess what you sign.
Begin with Hardware walletConnect the original ideas to the incidents that changed the industry.
Begin with A Cypherpunk's ManifestoSeparate technical standards, issuer claims and legal frameworks.
Begin with Howey testA leading overcollateralized lending protocol with isolation modes, flash loans, and many-chain deployments.
Aave Horizon RWA is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum. A specialized Aave lending market on Ethereum, where institutions or other qualified users borrow stablecoins against real-world assets…
Aave V2 is a Lending protocol active on Ethereum, Polygon, Avalanche. Aave is an Open Source and Non-Custodial protocol to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets
A version of Aave's lending protocol with configurable collateral and borrowing controls, including efficiency and isolation features.
Aave V4 is a modular lending protocol on Ethereum featuring a hub-and-spoke architecture
An intents-based bridge that uses bonded relayers and optimistic verification.
Aera V3 is a Onchain Capital Allocator protocol active on Base, Morph, Ethereum. Autonomous onchain treasury management protocol for DAOs, built by the team at Gauntlet.
Aerodrome Slipstream is a Dexs protocol active on Base, Arc. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.
Aerodrome V1 is a Dexs protocol active on Base. A central trading and liquidity marketplace on Base.
Anemoy Capital is a RWA protocol active on Ethereum, Base, Celo. Anemoy is a web3 native asset manager powered by Centrifuge, providing investors with exposure to a broad spectrum of superior assets
An oracle project that first-party APIs sign data, reducing middleman feeds.
An Ethereum scaling ecosystem whose Nitro software powers optimistic rollups, including Arbitrum One, with transaction execution off Ethereum and dispute resolution on the parent chain.
Arbitrum Bridge is a Canonical Bridge protocol active on Ethereum. The Arbitrum Bridge acts as a secure channel connecting Ethereum's mainnet (Layer-1) with the Arbitrum Rollup (Layer-2).
Armitage by Wintermute is a Risk Curators protocol active on Ethereum. Armitage is Wintermute's onchain vault curation arm, applying institutional-grade risk management and trading infrastructure to DeFi yield.
Aster Bridge is a Bridge protocol active on Binance, Ethereum, Arbitrum. Aster is a decentralized perpetual exchange built for everyone.
Aster USDF is a Basis Trading protocol active on Binance. USDF is a yield-bearing stablecoin issued by Aster, convertible with USDT at a 1:1 ratio.
A modular DA project aimed at rollup and appchain data publishing.
Avalanche Core Bridge is a Canonical Bridge protocol active on Ethereum, Bitcoin. Native Bitcoin Bridge. ETH EVM support.
Avalon CeDeFi is a Anchor BTC protocol active on Ethereum. Powering ₿itcoin's On-Chain Capital Markets.
Avalon Superearn is a Yield protocol active on Ethereum. Earn yield with real-time APY.
Avant avUSD is a Basis Trading protocol active on Avalanche. Avant is a DeFi platform established in June 2024 with the mission to create a more inclusive financial system through a DeFi-powered…
A proof-of-stake interoperability chain for general message passing.
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