Tech Deep Dives

The crypto industry is rapidly changing — that’s what makes it so much fun, but it can become easy to get lost in the whirl of new technologies. CMC’s tech deep dives are here to help.
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What Is Clover Finance?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into an intuitive blockchain infrastructure that seeks to reduce efforts and costs for developers.
By Kevin Dwyer
2yr ago
3m
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Optimistic Rollups for the Rest of Us
Contributor: Optimistic rollups are a mouthful, and a pretty technical concept for even the most crypto savvy. Let's see if we can break it down here.
By John Adler
2yr ago
5m
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What Is Basic Attention Token?
Basic Attention Token aims to solve the problem of online advertising, putting both choice (and money!) back into the hands of the consumer.
By Andrey Sergeenkov
2yr ago
4m
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A Dive Into Wash Trading
CoinMarketCap's Head of Research explains why wash trading bugs him so much, and how measuring liquidity can even the playing field.
By Gerald Chee
2yr ago
5m
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What Is BarnBridge?
BarnBridge is a DeFi protocol designed to help hedge yield sensitivity and asset price volatility. Learn everything you need to know about BarnBridge in this tech deep dive.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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What Is Pera Finance?
Pera Finance is an innovative yield farming protocol that incentivizes users with a decentralized trading competition. Learn everything you need to know about Pera Finance below.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
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What Is Decentralized Finance?: A Deep Dive by The Defiant
The term DeFi was born in an August 2018 Telegram chat of ETH developers and entrepreneurs.
By Camila Russo
2yr ago
5m
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A Dive Into Ethereum 2.0
The Ethereum Merge is slated to be happen on Sept. 19, 2022, and given how this network is home to the second-largest crypto by market cap in the world, the transition needs to go smoothly.
By Decentralized Dog
2yr ago
22m
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What Is HAPI?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a new project that aims to reduce the fallout from hacks in the crypto space.
By Alexander Geysman
2yr ago
6m
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What Is Quant?
Quant connects the world's distributed ledgers to increase interoperability and further unlock blockchain's potential. Learn how it works, how it's unique and more below.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
4m
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What Is Tron?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into Tron, one of the largest blockchain platforms.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
4m
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A Dive Into Smart Contracts and DeFi
Contributor: smart contracts are essential to the decentralized finance space. What exactly are they?
By Kevin Lu
2yr ago
5m
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What Is ColdStack?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a project that aims to aggregate decentralized file storage.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
4m
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What Is Chainlink?
Chainlink is quickly becoming an important tool blockchains use to gather information from the outside world. Learn more about what makes it unique and how it works.
By Kevin Dwyer
2yr ago
5m
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A Dive Into the Astronomic Growth of Yearn.Finance & YFI
Yearn.Finance blew past $40,000, way above Bitcoin's highest price — what is this new protocol, and why is it what everyone is talking about?
By Lucas Outumuro
2yr ago
5m
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What Is Celer?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into a layer-2 scaling platform that aims to simplify the launch of blockchain applications.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
4m
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What Is Globe?
CoinMarketCap takes a deep dive into an emerging project for crypto derivatives trading.
By Daniel Phillips
2yr ago
5m
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Flipside Crypto
Contributor: Flipside takes a deep dive into Mirror, including what it is, why it matters and how to get involved.
By Brendan Murray
2yr ago
2m