Update log:
The DeFi Den
By Tommy Schreiner
May 14, 2021
First update: launch article 5.2.2021
5.27.21 update: hyperlinked table of contents, major re-work on categories, added 29 resources (refer to tweet for newly tagged sources
Welcome to the DeFi Den, hub of all things DeFi. Below is a list of contents, which I will be continuously updating with relevant topics and other ecosystems as I find them (and become familiar with them!). Please don’t hesitate to send me interesting sources for any chain or category to add to this list by emailing me at tommy@thetie.io or by pinging me on twitter @7ommyZero.
All the tools provided are at your own risk and are not endorsements nor do they guarantee the safety of your funds. Trading DeFi is inherently risky. You could lose up to and including 100% of your funds, so have fun and stay safe!
Intro + Intermediate Video Playlists:
Beginner DeFi Guides:
Ecosystem and Protocol Deep Dives:
Tools for Liquidity Providers (LPs):
Ethereum Yield Aggregators:
Ethereum DeFi Resources:
Solana DeFi Resources:
Binance Chain DeFi Resources:
Avalanche DeFi Resources:
Terra DeFi Resources:
Advanced Topics:
Decentralized Options Protocols:
Yield Tokenization Protocols:
EIP-1559, Layer 2, and Rollup Discussions:
Miner Extracted Value (MEV) and Flashbots:
Impermanent Loss (IL) Calculators:
Yield Farming Compounding Calculators:
Compilations of DeFi Resources:
DeFi Metrics Resources:
DeFi Wallet Trackers:
Podcasts:
Blogs:
Intro + Intermediate Video Playlists:
Name: The Defiant
Type: Playlist
Level: Beginner
Example: DeFi 101, Impermanent loss, What is a dApp
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDcID4s1KronHMKojfjwiHL0DdQEPDcq
Name:Finematics
Type: Playlist
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Example: What is yield farming? How do liquidity pools work? Lending and borrowing explained.
Name:Taiki Maeda @TaikiMaeda2
Type: Playlist
Level: Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced
Example: How to yield farm in a bear market? Why AAVE’s borrow rate on USDT is so damn high? How to be a profitable yield farmer.
Beginner DeFi Guides:
A beginner’s guide to DAOs by Linda Xie - Mar 12th, 2021
A beginner’s guide to DeFi by Linda Xie - Jan 03, 2020
Decentralized Lending: An overview by Antonio Juliano - May 21, 2019
https://medium.com/dydxderivatives/decentralized-lending-an-overview-1e00fdc2d3ee
DeFi overview of the ecosystem and major protocols by alethio - Apr 25, 2019
Intro to Yield Farming by William M. Peaster - Jun 22, 2020
https://defiprime.com/defi-yield-farming
List of all DeFi-ecosystems with graphs
Uncommon Core #23: Where do the Yields come from in crypto? by Su Zhu and Hasu - Apr 5, 2021
DeFi Beyond the Hype by Wharton Blockchain and Digital Asset Project - May 2021
Ecosystem and Protocol Deep Dives:
Tweet thread on OHM and how it works by @xh3b4sd - April 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/xh3b4sd/status/1383883938490294275?s=20
DeFi Llama blog: Deep dives on Unit Protocol, Alchemix, KeeperDAO and Polygon
Ethereum The Triple Halvening (79 page mega-paper on ethereum) by @SquishChaos - April 27, 2021
Long tweet thread on the future of Sushiswap and upcoming developments by @CroissantEth - May 18th, 2021
Tweet thread on Polygon and future developments by @sassal0x - May 18, 2021
Deep dive into the Solana ecosystem by @Bitdealer at @TheTIEIO - May 24, 2021
Tools for Liquidity Providers (LPs):
https://apeboard.finance/dashboard - Multi-chain wallet and pool dashboard
https://parsec.finance/ - advanced modular dashboard with incredible flexibility and breadth of data
https://zapper.fi/dashboard -- DeFi dashboard for LPs
https://defi.instadapp.io/ - Dashboard for Maker, Compound, Aave and Uniswap
https://apy.vision/ - All-in-one liquidity pool analytics and yield farming rewards tracking tool with both free and pro membership tools.
https://www.yieldwatch.net/ - Yield dashboard for Binance Chain LPs
Ethereum Yield Aggregators:
https://vfat.tools/ - great tool for finding yield across multiple ecosystems (HECO, BSC, POLYGON, AVAX, FANTOM, xDAI, etc…)
https://harvest.finance/ - gas-saving yield aggregator and auto-compounder with $FARM rewards and a yield-bearing token $iFARM.
Ethereum DeFi Resources:
https://pentacle.ai/ - Ethereum blockchain explorer map
https://defiyield.info/ - general resource for IL calculator, audits, TVL data and farm APY
Solana DeFi Resources:
https://solanaproject.com/#/ - All new, current and upcoming Solana projects
https://solfarm.io/vaults/ - Solana yield aggregator and autocompounder with extra rewards paid out in $TULIPs
https://apeboard.finance/dashboard - Multi-chain wallet and pool dashboard (works with Solana)
https://test.step.finance/#/dashboard - Solana account aggregator
https://pentacle.ai/solana - beautiful solar-system style map of the Solana ecosystem
Binance Chain DeFi Resources:
https://pancakeswap.finance/ - Largest DeFi protocol on Binance Chain. Swaps/Pools/Farms/Lottery/Collectibles/Battles
https://app.nerve.fi/ - Additional DeFi protocol on Binance Chain.
Avalanche DeFi Resources:
Coming soon!
Terra DeFi Resources:
Coming soon!
Advanced Topics:
What constitutes actual healthy DeFi protocol fundamentals growth? By @CometShock - Apr 9, 2021
CFMMs (constant-function market makers) and pool curvatures in Curve and Uniswap by Alex Evans and Tarun Chitra - Nov 24, 2020
A framework for assessing DeFi risk by Rafaella Baraldo - Mar 31, 2021
Understanding Automated Market-Makers, Part 1: Price Impact
By Hasu - Apr 19, 2021
Web3 Thematic: The emerging valuenet and “Wallstreet API” by MapleLeafCapital - Dec 16, 2020
https://twitter.com/MapleLeafCap/status/1339346115322376192?s=20
Index of Bridges between chains
Constant Function Market Makers: DeFi’s “Zero to One” Innovation by Dmitriy Berenzon - Apr 23, 2020
A thread On AMMs and different protocol solutions to IL by @0xminion
Opinions on Web3, liquidity as new oil, dap as pseudo banks, liquidity loyalty by @mewn21 - May 18, 2021
https://twitter.com/mewn21/status/1394740154732978176?s=20
Mapping the Metaverse by @_Kaspar__ - May 18, 2021
Staking Design Patterns for Sustainable Yield by @safetyth1rd - May 26, 2021
Decentralized Options Protocols:
Things you should know about @HegicOptions by @CryptoDragonite - May 18, 2021
On on-chain AMM pricing for options (Hegic/Siren/Dopex/Charm/Potion) by @cindyleowtt - May 10, 2021
Yield Tokenization Protocols:
An Ape-Friendly Guide to Yield Derivatives by @DefiantNews - May 24, 2021
Covers Pendle and APWine
Deep dive on Pendle by @adamscochran - May 1, 2021
Deep dive on APWine by @corleonescrypto - May 26, 2021
Deep dive on Element by @ChainSafeth - May 6, 2021
EIP-1559, Layer 2, and Rollup Discussions:
EIP-1559 does NOT deliver. By Taylor Monahan - May 26th, 2021
Making Sense of Rollups, Part One: Optimistic vs. Zero Knowledge by @benjaminsimon97
A note on bridges & layer-2 protocols by @stonecoldpat0 - May 23, 2021
Optimism vs. Arbitrum! Tweet thread by @krzKaczor - May 21, 2021
Miner Extracted Value (MEV) and Flashbots:
Flashbots: Frontrunning the MEV Crisis by Alex Obadia - Nov 23, 2020
MEV -- "Miner Extractable Value with Phil & Georgios" by Georgios Konstantopoulos & Phil Daian - Oct 14, 2020
Ethereum is a Dark Forest: (Attempted whitehat rescue of Uniswap LP tokens worth $12k accidentally sent to the Uniswap contract) By Dan Robinson and Georgios Konstantopoulos August 28, 2020
Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Transaction Reordering, and Consensus Instability in Decentralized Exchanges by multiple authors - April 10, 2019
Wrecking sandwich traders for fun and profit by Nathan - Mar 19, 2021
Excellent resource of MEV related articles by @Dogetoshi - updated April 28, 2021
FlashBots: How to make $1m per month as a Solidity developer with Stephane Gosselin & Robert Miller (video) by @thegostep - May 26th, 2021
Impermanent Loss (IL) Calculators:
Advanced IL calculator
COPE IL calculator
Why IL calculators are wrong and how to stop doing it by DeFI Yield.info - Nov 5, 2020
Yield Farming Compounding Calculators:
Calculator for compounding interest and APR by @Buck in Alchemix discord - Mar 12th, 2021
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16OYPRTkNEz9a-seeDB26CfzuGwifJfA9pQ9A1TDUQLw/edit?usp=sharing
0xdef1's Compound Frequency Calculator by @0xdef1
Tweet - https://twitter.com/0xdef1/status/1384607438461079555?s=20
DYOR: ALCHEMIX Loan Calculator by 0xdef1
Calculator - https://dyor.fi/alcx/calculator
Compilations of DeFi Resources:
DeFi articles and videos by baraldor - updated Mar 14th, 2021
Hub of advanced topics by Gauntlet Network
DeFi.WTF | The Power of Asking (compilation of articles and videos) - by CarboClanC - Sep 2, 2019
DeFi Metrics Resources:
Debank (all ecosystems, TVL, categories, loans, liquidations, etc…) https://debank.com/ranking/locked_value
Defipulse (Ethereum project TVLs and categories): https://defipulse.com/
Token Terminal (another hub of DeFi metrics for multiple chains): https://terminal.tokenterminal.com/
Dune Analytics (1000s of user-powered dashboards for everything on-chain): https://duneanalytics.com/browse/dashboards
DeFi Wallet Trackers:
https://www.nansen.ai/ -- Premier DeFi wallet and coin movement tracker, exceptional insights into wallet movements.
https://www.dextools.io/app/ - not quite the same level of service as Nansen, but good wallet tagging for any individual coin you are tracking or trading, and free.
https://uniwhales.io/ from @uniwhalesio on twitter - not tested. Seems similar to Nansen but there is a free access portal. The paid model requires you buy their $UWL tokens (currently need $3000 for pro membership) for lifetime access.
Podcasts:
Uncommon Core by Hasu and Su Zhu
Solana Podcast by Anatoly Yakovenko
Blogs:
Token Brice - DeFi blog
DeFi Prime Blog
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