Project Overview Primary Goal:  Polymarket aims to provide a decentralized platform where users can predict outcomes of various events, including politics, sports, and entertainment, by trading shares that represent potential outcomes.  Problem Addressed:  It seeks to...

Category Overview — What are Farm Protocols? Farm protocols are decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms that allow users to lock (or “stake”) their assets—usually stablecoins or major cryptocurrencies—in exchange for a reward token issued by the protocol itself. This...

Liquid restaking is an innovative concept in decentralised finance (DeFi) that maximises the utility and returns of staked assets. While traditional staking involves locking up cryptocurrencies to support network operations in exchange for rewards, liquid restaking...

Pendle is a project in the Yield Protocol category, which means it focuses on helping users manage, trade, or improve their returns (or "yield") from crypto assets. Pendle allows people to split their yield-bearing tokens into two parts: one for the original token...

Ethena USDe (ENA): The Future of Decentralized Stable Assets: Understanding the Category: Synthetic Stablecoins in DeFi Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has revolutionized the financial ecosystem by providing open, permissionless, and transparent alternatives to...

Project Overview The main idea behind Restaked Bitcoin is to make BTC more useful. Bitcoin just sits in wallets doing nothing. But with restaking, you can lock your wrapped BTC into staking systems (like Ethereum validators or security protocols) and earn yield. It...

Project overviewLido is a platform that offers liquid staking. This means you can stake your crypto (like ethereum) to earn rewards, but instead of locking it up, you get a token in return (like stETH) that you can still trade, use, or move. It solves the problem of...

Tornado Cash is a decentralized, non-custodial privacy solution on the Ethereum blockchain that enhances transaction anonymity by keeping the link between deposit and withdrawal addresses through the use of smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs Project Overview: ...

Category: Yield Aggregator, Project: DeSyn Liquid Strategy A yield aggregator is a type of DeFi protocol that automatically moves users' crypto assets between different yield farming strategies to maximize returns. Instead of manually switching between platforms like...

The derivative category A derivative is a financial contract whose value depends on (or "derives" from) the price of something else (like stocks, gold, or currencies). In DeFi a derivative is a token or contract that gets its value from the price of another asset. It...

AAVE token - Lending category Category Lending protocol – Aave lets users lend and borrow crypto without intermediaries, using smart contracts. Project Overview 1. What is the primary goal or use case of the DeFi token?Lending and borrowing 2. What problem does this...

Managed Token Pools are investment vehicles in the DeFi space where assets are actively managed to optimise returns. As of now, the total value locked (TVL) in these pools stands at approximately $4.05 billion. Notably, Veda dominates this sector, accounting for over...

Project Overview The goal of EigenLayer is to let users restake their ETH or Liquid Staking Tokens (LSTs) and use that restaked capital to secure other decentralized applications or services, called Actively Validated Services (AVSs). These can include rollups,...

Project Overview Uniswap enables decentralized trading of ERC-20 tokens through automated market makers (AMMs). The UNI token powers the protocol’s governance system. It removes the need for centralized intermediaries in crypto trading. UNI allows users to...

Project Overview What is the primary goal or use case of the DeFi token? The wrapped BTC token is a stablecoin that converts BTC to an Ethereum token. It is backed by a one-to-one principle (one BTC as a collateral for one wBTC). It permits its users to interact with...