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November 2026 Q&A Part 1

Welcome Avatar! It’s now time for our bi-weekly Q&A! We’ll be taking your questions on everything DeFi - technology, security, protocols, airdrops/farming, app tokens, and “how-to”. Please aim to get your questions in within 48…

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Quantum Urgency Accelerates

Welcome Avatar! Six months ago research from Google brought forward concerns about quantum computing and its impact on security in the crypto industry. In April we wrote about the quantum risk to Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our view…

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Prediction Markets Are Truly Predicting

Welcome Avatar! 2 years ago people thought the idea that prediction markets would actually create accurate data points for major world events was a meme. At 6pm on November 3rd Americans were starting to get the results of the…

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DeFi Roundup (Oct 25 - Nov 7)

Welcome Avatar! To the latest edition of DeFi Roundup, where we save you time by filtering the market and separating the signal from the noise. You don’t have to spend all week scrolling Crypto Twitter to stay current. Market…

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Crypto “Lost” the Midterms. What Now?

Welcome Avatar! Readers have been asking us about what happens to crypto now that we “lost” the midterms. In today’s post we’ll share our take. Quick Recap & Education Not all our readers are from the U.S. but the U.S. stance…

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AI and Bitcoin at War

Welcome Avatar! AI computing can be broadly divided into two activities - training and inference. Training is simply teaching an AI model by exposing it to large amounts of data. This requires computing resources. Inference is…

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October 2026 Q&A Part 2

Welcome Avatar! It’s now time for our bi-weekly Q&A! We’ll be taking your questions on everything DeFi - technology, security, protocols, airdrops/farming, app tokens, and “how-to”. Please aim to get your questions in within 48…

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Action Plan for Speculative Swings

Welcome Avatar! We talked about speculative excess in our last post. Today we’ll talk about how to actually identify periods where the risk/reward profile of coins has gone too far in one direction. This should help inform when…

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Identifying Speculative Premiums

Welcome Avatar! Picking apart valuations in crypto is a core focus here at DeFi Education. Why is one token worth $1 billion and another is worth $100 million even when the underlying protocol does pretty much the same thing?…

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DeFi Roundup (Oct 11 - Oct 24)

Welcome Avatar! Market Context Crypto markets had a rough two weeks with BTC dipping sub-$80K on Oct 15 before recovering. ETH and most alts underperformed. BTC ETFs saw $229 million in outflows from Oct 12 - 16 then $309 million…

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The Bitcoin of AI..?

Welcome Avatar! Today’s post is a hotly requested AI L1 protocol called Pearl (PEARL/PRL). The token is up 70% in the last 30 days. Note that this is different from Perle, an AI data platform that also uses the PRL ticker. Pearl…

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Papertrade’s blunder

Welcome Avatar! Imagine a casino where every time you lose money, the casino gives you a small claim on the money its future customers will lose. You can get cash distributions on that claim and even sell it to someone else one…

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