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We've been providing automated management options such as liquidation protection for users of MakerDAO, Aave and Compound for 3 full years now, through vastly different market and network conditions as well as a constantly growing defi ecosystem. If you're interested to hear about all the roadbumps such as massive gas spikes, unexpected price drops and constantly growing liquidity needs, I'd love to take you on a behind the scenes tour of our overhauled modular smart contracts architecture, robust backend infra and the frontend that makes it all accessible.
Most web3 applications rely heavily on individual dev teams running their own servers in order to augment their smart contracts with off-chain data and computation. This creates significant centralization and regulatory liabilities for these teams. Today we introduce Gelato Fetch, a general-purpose off-chain data & computation network that aims to help projects enrich their smart contracts without having to sacrifice decentralization and censorship resistance.
Let’s face it: if you are a crypto native, your access to regular financial services is limited. Your net worth is in digital assets, and you work for... uhm what?... a DAO?But now you want to get a roof above your head? That's what mortgages are for, right. So you apply for one. Too bad. You're worthless to a bank. You don’t stand a chance! That's why we've created PWN. PWN’s grand vision is to unlock all the value stored in any digital asset and allow it to be deployed in the real world. This could mean that we, as a crypto native generation, could mortgage our Bored Apes collection in order to buy a house.
Blockchain has contained DeFi’s innovation to protocols based on pools.Pools are liquid, but very inefficient because of the large amounts of inactive liquidity they contain.Morpho brings a completely new approach by combining the capital efficiency of Peer-To-Peer mechanisms with the liquidity and scalability of lending pool models.The result is a new kind of lending protocol that preserves all the nice properties current money markets have: Borrow/withdraw at any time, almost any amount, instant yields, liquidation guarantees… but also improves the yields by matching their users with one another!
Introducing a new methodology for DeFi's lending platforms risk assessment. Taking real world liquidation data of popular assets from centralized exchanges, along with the price trajectory of the assets. We extrapolate the liquidation sizes and price trajectory to the asset we wish to analyze, and simulate the outcome based on the asset’s available DeFi liquidity. This approach eliminates most of the assumptions that are usually made in risk assessments in the DeFi ecosystem regarding user behaviour during market crashes, and makes it more feasible to analyze the risk of a platform prior to its launch, and for multichain lending platforms, where the data for user behaviour is even more sparse.The analysis demonstrates the benefits of backstop liquidity to create a more robust liquidation mechanism in DeFi.
DeFi is at a crossroads. The pace of innovation is dramatically faster than any other evolution in finance, and the current regulatory regime in the US is clinging tight to their comfortable, traditional expectations for how finance is regulated. They’re acting as though centralized entities should come to them seeking authorization to develop Self Regulatory Organizations, spend five years demonstrating how these SROs will comply with regulatory oversight, and then seek approval to launch these new products for the public. Not only are these expectations at odds with how fast DeFi is innovating, but they also intentionally disregard the decentralized aspect of DeFi. But here’s the thing, there are alternative ways of integrating regulation into DeFi. One opportunity that exists is for validators and node operators, who operate at the infrastructural level of blockchains, to work with regulators to self-regulate DeFi. Validators could, for instance, be the administrators that execute Know Your Customer functions on DeFi protocols. This sort of integration of regulations directly into the architecture of blockchains would enable DeFi to maintain the openness and transparency that’s so valuable while bridging the gap for regulators to have their needs met.
The Optimism rollup is scaling with the next mainnet upgrade Bedrock, and building the first L2 rollup ready for ethereum sharding with EIP-4844 support. Learn how Bedrock works on mainnet today and in the future in this talk. Optimism Bedrock is redesigning the rollup architecture for greater ethereum equivalence. Bedrock implements the Merge design by separating the op-node and geth, enabling the rollup consensus to support faster blocks and future shard data, while also supporting all the latest go-ethereum features.
What if you could count on a decentralized group to validate for you using your stake of ETHs? That would be the safest way to participate in the network without the hassle of running a server. And what if you don't even need 32 ETHs to participate?The share of Ethereum PoS validators controlled by centralized parties (which suffer outages, and are targeted by bribes and regulators) is growing every day. ETH holders that don't want to run their own validators didn’t have fully decentralized hardware options... until now. DiVa (Distributed Validator) leverages DAppNode's network of decentralized home Node Runners to safely deploy validators and keeps Ethereum trustless, permissionless, censorship-resistant and completely decentralized
Token Engineers build models of their token design to validate assumptions about pre-defined system KPIs, like system health. These models can never replicate reality, but provide solid insights on vulnerabilities or sensitivities of a token model. In DAOs, where the community should take decisions on system updates, models and simulations are a communication tool. In our workshop, we explore such a model, its building blocks and how DAO policy making can be supported by models. This workshop is one of the results of the DAO Rewards Systems Research Initiative TE Academy ran with Gnosis DAO, Ocean DAO, NEAR, Token Engineering Commons, and BOSON Protocol earlier this year. Target group: Anyone interested in tokenomics/token engineering/DAO data analytics, DAO members Tools: none
In this workshop, attendees will gain hands-on experience with Echidna - an open-source smart contract fuzzer - to build secure smart contracts. Echidna has been used in many professional audits, and fuzzing is a key component to increasing the contracts’ security. Attendees will learn how to define and write invariants and how to use Echidna efficiently. By the end of the session, they will know how to integrate property testing into their development process and write more secure code. Target group: The talk will be for developers, the only requirements is to have some experience with Solidity Tools: Any thing the participants should have setup before coming to the workshop. Nothing to prepare, the talk will be self-contained, and all the material will be available.
Nethermind Ethereum Client is one of four ethereum protocol implementations used on production chains. It is also the only client that would be available during the merge transition of the Gnosis chain. One of its unique features is its ability to be extended with plugins without creating multiple forks. In this workshop we will explore this unique feature. Learn how to utilise it by writing a simple Nethermind plugin. Target group: People who think ethereum nodes are missing an important feature, dapp developers whose product could benefit from it, protocol developers. Anyone who wants to know more about how Ethereum works at a very low level. Tools: If you want to write your plugin you need a laptop with .Net 6 SDK (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0), your favorite IDE with C# support (e.g. multi-os Visual Studio Code and Rider or windows-only Visual Studio, but Vim is fine too) and cloning our repository https://github.com/NethermindEth/nethermind . If you just want to just watch and listen, that is fine too, nothing is needed then.
