A Quick Take on flexUSD and TerraUSD (UST) “Tempus Edax Rerum” When comparing yields on our stablecoin, flexUSD, we always refer to USDC and USDT that pay 0% at the base layer compared to the variable rate that flexUSD pays no matter where you hold your tokens — currently about…

Who Back Stops the Back Stop? Whilst growing flexUSD on CoinFLEX.com, we have been spending time on looking a few steps ahead to see how best we can make CoinFLEX as trusted and transparent as possible. What are the ways to ensure safety of funds? There are several initiatives we…

DeFi Option Vaults (DOVs), AMMs & Options Selling Selling & trading crypto option volatility has never been easier given the growth in popularity of DOVs and AMMs. …

Triple Halving and the Bull Case for Ethereum Despite all assets pulling back from their contract highs in recent weeks, ETH continues to want to test new highs. One of the reasons touted for this is the theory about the potential “triple halving” that’s in play and due to have…

Is Decentralisation Important? “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried” — Winston Churchill In crypto as we witnessed the growth of both centralisation platforms (CeFi) like CoinFLEX and decentralised platforms (DeFi), I have started to give some thought as to what…

Trading CoinFLEX’s Repo Orderbooks “Nullius in verba” Since we launched the first centrally traded repo market in both crypto and the traditional financial markets, almost $30 billion USD of volume has been traded, with current daily volumes of over $500m. …

Trading Options using LP Tokens on CoinFLEX’s AMM+ Product “When you have exhausted all possibilities remember this…you haven’t” — Thomas Edison As many have pointed out there are several striking (forgive the pun) similarities in creating option strategies between AMMs (automated market makers) set on CoinFLEX.com …

Does hash rate follow price or does price follow hash? “When you have exhausted all possibilities remember this….you haven’t” Thomas Edison One of the interesting questions for me when reading crypto twitters (CT’s) recent surge in discussion about the huge drop in BTC/BCH hash power is the question of whether…

Big Blocks and the Future of Payments “I heard you say once That a lie is sweet in the beginning And bitter in the end And truth is bitter in the beginning And sweet in the end” A great quote from a song, most likely referring to controlled substances and…