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Aztec Network - a privacy engine for Ethereum
AZTEC is a privacy engine for Ethereum. The team is on a mission to enable data, user, and code privacy on public blockchains. The…

Hegic: On-chain Options Trading Protocol
Hegic is a protocol for on-chain hedging contracts (American options). The first implementation of the protocol focuses on…

What is Handshake (HNS) – decentralized naming protocol
TL;DR: Handshake is a blockchain for immutable top-level domains (examples of TLDs: .com .org .net). On Handshake, anyone can register and…

What is Gnosis?
TL;DR: Gnosis is a decentralized exchange that pools limit orders of different tokens, pays “solvers” to suggest how those orders should…

What is Opyn? DeFi-native derivatives and options infrastructure in DeFi
TL;DR: Opyn is a smart contract based insurance platform built on the Convexity Protocol.

Livepeer – decentralized video protocol
TL;DR: Livepeer is a protocol for decentralized video transcoding.

What is Chainlink and How Does it Work?
TL;DR: Chainlink is trying to introduce secure, sophisticated and scalable oracle services.

What is Aave? – a non-custodial lending protocol
Aave is a protocol for earning interest on your deposits and borrowing assets.

What is tBTC?
tBTC is a protocol that enables BTC holders to trustlessly move their BTC holdings to be used in Ethereum’s DeFi.