Shorting Bitcoins: What Beginners Need to Know

Shorting Bitcoins: What Beginners Need to Know

by Jake Wengroff   The concept of shorting, as applied to publicly traded asset classes, is that the investor is bearish and believes that the price of that asset will fall. By shorting and betting that the price will drop, the investor hopes to make a profit....
How to Invest in DeFi: What Beginners Need to Know

How to Invest in DeFi: What Beginners Need to Know

by Jake Wengroff   A Quick DeFi Primer Decentralized finance, or DeFi, refers to financial systems that are enabled by decentralized blockchain technology. DeFi is specifically associated with the Ethereum blockchain and all of the cryptocurrencies built on it....
Crypto 101: Understanding Yield Farming vs. Staking

Crypto 101: Understanding Yield Farming vs. Staking

by Jake Wengroff Yield farming and staking are two DeFi investing strategies gaining in popularity. Though not necessarily for the crypto beginner, they are worth investigating regardless of current investing focus, as they are helping to drive the proliferation of...
Crypto 101: What is Liquidity Farming?

Crypto 101: What is Liquidity Farming?

by Jake Wengroff Liquidity farming (often also referred to as yield farming) is essentially the practice of lending crypto assets in order to generate high returns or rewards in the form of additional cryptocurrency. Liquidity farming is currently the biggest growth...
What Is the Next Step in the DeFi Revolution?

What Is the Next Step in the DeFi Revolution?

by Jake Wengroff If we can email virtually anybody in the world, why can’t we send them money just as easily? Or offer them a loan? These questions are the foundation of the beliefs, activities and objectives fueling decentralized finance (DeFi), notes Bitkom, a...