DeFi & Staking

How Liquidity Pools Work and Why Most People Lose Money in Them AMMs promised “passive yield,” but the math, flow toxicity, and MEV tell a different story. This is a complete, practical deconstruction of CPMM/CSMM/Stableswap/CLMM design, impermanent loss, loss-versus-rebalancing, fee dynamics, and realistic LP strategies across market regimes. Beginner → Advanced DeFi • AMMs •

From Points to Protocols: The New “Airdrop Design” Meta (2024–25) Angle: The post-2023 cycle normalized points seasons as a growth primitive. In 2024–25, those points increasingly convert into live protocols, governance, and long-tail emissions, forcing builders to solve three hard problems at once: ethics, anti-Sybil, and sustainability. This guide distills state-of-the-art design patterns, trade-offs, and

Crypto × Creator Economy (2025): Tipping, Subscriptions & On-Chain Media Creators are rebuilding their income stack around open rails: instant tips, token-gated subscriptions, and collectable media that lives on-chain. This guide is a practical playbook for using Farcaster Frames mini-apps, open ranking feeds (OpenRank-style), and NFT memberships with concrete setup steps, code snippets, pricing heuristics,

DePIN Tax & Accounting: Tracking Revenue, Power Cost, and Depreciation Without Losing Your Mind Running decentralized physical infrastructure, GPUs for compute, disks for storage, radio hotspots, bandwidth relays, means you’re a tiny utility company with crypto rails. That’s cool. It also means real accounting: revenue recognition, cost allocation, depreciation, inventory/basis, realized gains, and clean documentation.

Restaking in 2025: The Complete EigenLayer & AVS Guide (Rewards, Slashing Risks, Best LRTs) Restaking is the year’s hottest but most misunderstood theme in crypto security. This guide explains restaking from first principles: how EigenLayer uses Ethereum economic security to bootstrap new networks known as Actively Validated Services (AVSs), how rewards are generated, what slashing