Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
144 documents
This guide explains how decentralized finance yield farming works: users supply crypto assets to liquidity pools, lending markets, or other smart contract applications in exchange for trading fees, interest, or token rewards. It distinguishes liquidity…
The article describes an EU consultation on possible changes to MiCA, covering crypto assets, token issuers, crypto service providers, and areas left outside the first framework. It explains how stablecoin classification could shift regulatory attention…
The article explains how proof-of-work mining validates transactions and rewards miners, tracing the shift from home computers toward large operations using specialized ASIC hardware. It describes mining as increasingly difficult for small participants as…
This crypto trading blog page presents a comparison of two trading-bot services and frames the choice around whether a trader wants to build strategies or follow existing ones. It also summarizes a broader point: a bot automates execution, but the quality of…
The document explains how candlesticks summarize open, high, low, and close prices for a chosen time frame. It describes how bodies and shadows show the range between opening and closing prices and the extremes reached, and how traders may read their shape…
The article organizes technical indicators into trend, momentum, volatility, and volume groups, describing the market data each uses and the questions it may help traders examine. Trend measures, commonly moving averages, smooth price fluctuations to show…
This introductory guide explains that Bitcoin trading takes place across exchanges, over-the-counter markets, and derivatives platforms, with markets operating around the clock. It outlines basic setup steps such as selecting a platform, registering and…
The document outlines the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, a framework for crypto-assets outside existing financial-services rules. It describes requirements for public token offers, including clear disclosures, white papers,…
The document explains how Bitcoin can be represented as an Ethereum ERC-20 token backed by BTC held on another network. This structure is intended to combine Bitcoin’s liquidity with Ethereum smart contracts, allowing the token to be used in decentralized…
This introductory guide recommends spreading a crypto portfolio across multiple tokens and varying allocation sizes. It frames diversification as a way to avoid relying on a single asset and suggests researching a project’s market capitalization, roadmap,…
This overview describes meme coins as cryptocurrencies whose popularity often depends on humor, online communities, and attention rather than a distinct practical use. It gives examples including Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, Pepe, and Bonk, and notes that tokens may…
This article outlines an architecture for crypto trading agents that separates market research from order execution. A read-only market data MCP supplies prices, order books, candles, and context for an agent's analysis; a REST trading API carries out orders…
This general guide links crypto market volatility to small market size, speculation and sentiment, regulatory developments, and changes in the global economy. It recommends researching trades, learning from past mistakes, following a plan, and accepting that…
This introduction explains stablecoins as crypto tokens designed to maintain a relatively steady value, often against a fiat currency or another asset. It describes three approaches: fiat-collateralized tokens backed by reserves of traditional currency;…
The document explains stop losses as planned exits for positions that move against a trader. Long positions generally place them below the entry price and short positions above it. A stop level can follow the trading strategy, such as a level near a recent…
This guide explains what OHLCV candles record and how traders can use candle histories for crypto market analysis. Each bar summarizes the opening, highest, lowest, and closing prices plus traded volume within a fixed interval. The article compares…
This article introduces decentralized science, or DeSci, as an effort to apply blockchain tools, tokens, and decentralized organizations to research funding, publication, peer review, data access, and intellectual property. It argues that open participation…
This primer explains three common crypto market data formats and the questions each can answer. A ticker summarizes current price, top bid and ask, recent volume, price change, and range, making it useful for broad scans and cross-market comparisons. An…
The document presents five basic practices for controlling risk in cryptocurrency trading: keep position size appropriate to one's experience and comfort, limit leverage, cap planned loss on an idea using a 2% capital rule, place a stop loss, and favor…
This overview explains decentralized finance as blockchain-based financial services that can operate without conventional central intermediaries. It describes three ways crypto holders may seek income: yield farming, staking, and lending. Yield farmers…
This introductory guide explains supply and demand trading as an approach to locating possible price reversals in cryptocurrency markets. Instead of treating support or resistance as a single price, it treats a zone as a range where buying or selling…
This document describes a forex expert advisor that uses two moving averages to determine trade conditions. If price moves against an open position by a configured pip distance, the system opens another trade in the original direction and repeats the process…
The article surveys ways crypto holders may seek income: proof-of-stake staking, lending through centralized or decentralized services, yield farming, automated market-making pools, interest-bearing accounts, NFT guild rentals, yield-bearing tokens, and…
The article explains a confirmation approach that pairs MACD with one other technical indicator. MACD line and signal-line crossovers provide directional signals, while the Stochastic oscillator or RSI supplies overbought and oversold readings. With…