WHAT IS A SMART CONTRACT?
A smart contract, like any contract, establishes the terms of an agreement. But unlike a traditional contract, a smart contract’s terms are executed as code running on a blockchain like Ethereum. Smart contracts allow developers to build apps that take advantage of blockchain security, reliability, and accessibility while offering sophisticated peer-to-peer functionality — everything from loans and insurance to logistics and gaming.
Just like any contract, smart contracts lay out the terms of an agreement or deal. What makes smart contracts “smart,” however, is that the terms are established...
What Is Ethereum?
Ethereum is the world’s second-largest crypto project by market capitalization and was the first to introduce smart contract functionality to the industry.By Alyssa HertigSep 9, 2021Crypto Explainer+
Ethereum is a blockchain-based software platform that is primarily used to support the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization after Bitcoin. Like other cryptocurrencies, Ethereum can be used for sending and receiving value globally and without a third party watching or stepping in unexpectedly.
Value exchange is the main use case of the Ethereum blockchain today,...
What is blockchain?
Learn the basics of blockchain technology and why it can enhance trust in both record keeping and financial transactions.
Blockchain is a system of recording information in a way that makes it difficult or impossible to change, hack, or cheat the system.
A blockchain is essentially a digital ledger of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the entire network of computer systems on the blockchain. Each block in the chain contains a number of transactions, and every time a new transaction occurs on the blockchain, a record of that transaction is added to every participant’s...
What is Liquidity mining?
Liquidity mining is a term used in decentralized finance (DeFi) applications where users supply liquidity to decentralized financial applications and receive rewards for doing so. In the context of Uniswap, liquidity mining refers to users (Liquidity Providers, or LPs) supplying both assets to a given trading pair market so that the protocol can execute trades.
Whenever liquidity is deposited into a pool, special tokens known as liquidity tokens are minted to the Liquidity Provider’s address, in proportion to how much liquidity they contributed to the pool. These tokens are a representation...
What is Yield farming?
Yield farming crypto can generate passive returns on holdings using decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols — but participating in it is very rarely a passive endeavor. Yield farmers often execute complex strategies, moving crypto assets between platforms to maximize liquidity mining returns. More recently, leveraged DeFi yield farming protocols have begun to issue under-collateralized loans to liquidity providers and yield farmers. Through this mechanism, users borrow crypto assets to increase exposure to risk and reward.
The rapid growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) has been...
What is leverage/futures trading in Crypto?
Futures, or futures contracts, are an agreement to buy or sell an asset at a later date for a fixed price. They are typically used by traders as a way to hedge other investments or to lock in profits when trading in volatile markets. The prices for Kraken’s futures are based on aggregated indices that represent the demand for each cryptocurrency from a variety of exchanges, so pricing is always clear and transparent. There are a number of benefits to this type of trading:
Hedge Price Risk
Investors who are holding digital assets can mitigate the risk of a falling price...
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