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.
610 documents
The document describes how institutional Solana strategies combine concentrated SOL treasury holdings with staking rewards. It cites examples of firms pursuing dedicated Solana treasuries, buying or accumulating SOL, and using staking as a source of yield.…
The document introduces DeFi staking as depositing crypto in smart contracts to support network operations and receive token rewards. It describes liquid staking, where users receive a tradable token representing their staked assets, and restaking, which…
The article describes an exchange feature for eligible VIP users that aims to earn lending yield on idle crypto balances while keeping them available for trading margin. It says the feature can also apply when users run grid or Martingale bots, and that…
The document describes Liminal, a protocol in the Hyperliquid ecosystem that automates delta-neutral strategies, primarily for institutional users. It says the approach seeks to limit exposure to underlying price changes while earning derivatives funding…
The document describes a European spot margin offering for institutional clients. It explains that trades use a USD spot orderbook and that leverage is provided through USDC borrowing against supported spot assets. The stated maximum leverage is 10×, and…
The document explains how an exchange-mediated on-chain yield product connects users to Proof-of-Stake staking and DeFi strategies. It distinguishes network or protocol-generated returns from yields paid through a centralized platform, and outlines the basic…
The document describes Falcon Finance as a decentralized stablecoin protocol that issues USDf against a multi-asset collateral pool, including cryptoassets and tokenized real-world assets. It says the protocol uses over-collateralization and operates across…
The document explains Ethena USDe’s synthetic dollar design, which pairs crypto collateral with short perpetual futures positions intended to offset changes in collateral value. It describes a basket that may include ETH, BTC, liquid-staking tokens, and…
The article describes Pendle’s model for separating a yield-bearing asset into principal tokens and yield tokens. Principal tokens represent the underlying principal, while yield tokens represent future yield, allowing users to trade those exposures…
The document introduces custodial crypto staking through OKX and distinguishes Simple Earn from On-chain Earn. Simple Earn offers flexible or fixed terms, with rewards added automatically; On-chain Earn delegates assets to Proof-of-Stake networks and…
The document explains Ethereum proof-of-stake and compares solo validation, pooled staking, and centralized exchange products. Validators stake 32 ETH, while pools and platforms can lower the entry amount. Rewards are paid in ETH and vary with the total ETH…
The article explains Pendle’s yield-tokenization model, which divides a yield-bearing asset into a principal token and a token representing future yield. This separation allows users to trade principal and yield exposure independently, creating ways to…
The document introduces Boros as a DeFi venue that turns perpetual futures funding rates into tradable Yield Units. It describes using those units to hedge funding-rate exposure, hold fixed or floating rate positions, and seek returns from changes in rates…
The document describes an exchange feature that automatically lends eligible USDT balances through a lending marketplace while leaving those balances available for trading and margin use. It frames the feature as a way for active traders to seek yield on…
The article describes Pendle’s separation of yield-bearing assets into Principal Tokens and Yield Tokens. PTs provide exposure to principal and can support fixed-yield approaches, while YTs represent future variable yield. It then outlines a strategy…
The document describes OKX Earn as a lending product for eligible European customers holding assets such as USDC, BTC, SOL, and ETH. Deposited assets supply liquidity to spot margin traders; borrowers pay to use that liquidity, and the resulting demand-based…
The document surveys several DeFi themes through Aave, Lido DAO, and wallet access. It describes Aave as a lending and borrowing protocol and cites total value locked and year-to-date fee figures as indicators of activity. Lido is presented as a liquid…
This document describes a read-only scanner for comparing perpetual futures funding rates across centralized and on-chain venues. It converts rates with different settlement intervals to annualized values and an equivalent eight-hour spread, then pairs the…
This article explains a one-times-leveraged short position in a coin-margined perpetual contract as a way to seek funding payments while keeping the position’s dollar value relatively stable. It describes how fixed-value contracts change the amount of coin…
This update reviews how competition has altered a cryptocurrency perpetual funding-rate arbitrage approach. It reports that positive entry premiums and extreme negative premiums had become less common, while slippage made attempts to capture premium…
The document explains how perpetual futures funding payments help keep contract prices near spot prices, then describes a market-neutral carry trade: short a perpetual contract and buy the same asset in spot to collect positive funding. It outlines screening…
This document describes a cryptocurrency strategy that shorts currency-margined perpetual contracts to seek funding payments. It explains that these contracts are denominated in fixed-value units and that, in the author’s example, the coin balance changes…
This document outlines a utility for collecting and monitoring perpetual futures funding rates across several exchanges. It assigns a worker thread to each platform, applies platform-specific request delays, and uses different retrieval methods depending on…
This document describes a monitoring tool that collects perpetual futures funding rates from several exchanges, stores results separately for each platform, and displays them in a shared table. Exchange-specific polling intervals and market lookup methods…