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.
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This overview introduces Solana as a blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications and describes its Proof of History and Proof of Stake components. Proof of History is presented as a way to timestamp events and establish an ordered record,…
This overview explains Cardano as a Layer 1 blockchain for smart contracts and decentralized applications. It describes the separation between a settlement layer for ADA transactions and a computation layer for smart contracts, alongside Ouroboros, a…
This conference recap describes several developments in digital asset markets: valuing tokens against underlying revenue and rights, crypto-native venues affecting traditional markets, software agents transacting autonomously, and institutions connecting…
This tutorial explains how to add reusable template libraries to trading strategies and use a cryptocurrency spot-trading library. It demonstrates calling library buy and sell functions from interactive controls, while the template handles details such as…
The document explains manual borrowing of USDC or USDT against supplied HYPE or BTC collateral for supported Hyperliquid account types. Borrow capacity is calculated from collateral quantity, oracle price, and the asset's loan-to-value ratio, with…
This market commentary connects Federal Reserve expectations and stablecoin policy news with volatility in crypto and crypto-linked equities. It focuses on Circle’s post-IPO shares, noting a sharp rise in implied volatility and short-dated call skew, then…
Impermanent loss is the reduction in a liquidity provider’s pool value relative to simply holding the deposited assets. The document explains the setting: an automated market maker holds two assets in a smart-contract pool, and traders’ swaps change their…
The recap compares Bitcoin and Ethereum options markets through realized and implied volatility, term structures, skew, and relative gamma pricing. It describes BTC shifting into contango as front-end implied volatility falls more sharply than longer-dated…
The article outlines ways decentralized finance and smart contracts could alter financial institutions beyond offering new digital asset exposure. It describes decentralized data storage as a possible way to reduce reliance on centralized data centers, and…
This guide explains how a trading platform can connect to Ethereum and TRON through Web3 exchange objects and use RPC calls and smart contract methods. It covers node and key configuration, ABI registration, wallet and token queries, transfers, allowances,…
FUD describes a wave of pessimism, rumors, or uncertainty that can influence investment choices and market behavior. The document contrasts it with FOMO: fear of missing gains can draw investors into rising assets, while FUD may prompt panic selling. It also…
This guide explains support and resistance as price areas where buying or selling pressure may stall or reverse a market move. It recommends starting with horizontal levels drawn around prior turning points, while emphasizing higher-timeframe references such…
This guide explains how to connect OctoBot’s GPT interface to a language model for trading evaluations. For OpenAI, it describes adding an API key in the interface configuration, enabling the GPTEvaluator, and choosing a model through evaluator settings. It…
This community guide explains the structure and workflow of a Hummingbot V1 cross-exchange market-making strategy. It describes how the strategy's periodic tick leads through market-pair checks, order profitability checks, and order creation, and outlines…
The article explains how an Ethereum contract can request off-chain data through Chainlink and use Amberdata as a source for market and blockchain information. It outlines the request lifecycle: fund the deployed contract with LINK, submit a request…
This platform comparison organizes crypto futures venues around practical selection criteria: contract and market availability, fees, leverage, regional access, and security or regulatory status. Its table contrasts several exchanges, while the surrounding…
The article explains why investment managers entering digital assets need consolidated data on markets, liquidity, risk, and blockchain activity. Crypto trading is spread across global venues that operate continuously, with each venue using its own changing…
The newsletter assesses a sharp rise in Bitcoin volatility alongside macroeconomic catalysts and crypto market positioning. It uses options implied volatility and term-structure richness as indicators of stress, noting that a high backwardation reading has…
This overview introduces PayPal USD (PYUSD), a stablecoin launched in August 2023 for the PayPal payment system. It explains the general collateralization model: an issuer holds reserve assets intended to match the value of tokens in circulation. According…
The article introduces staking as participation in proof-of-stake networks, where validators help verify transactions in return for rewards. It outlines three routes: staking through a centralized exchange, delegating through a staking pool, or operating as…
A liquidity miner describes using automated market making on crypto pairs, drawing on a traditional finance background and several years of crypto trading. The approach is pure market making: set spreads, monitor inventory, and adjust parameters as…
This weekly note reviews Bitcoin and Ether options conditions around March 5, 2023. It links falling spot prices to softening implied volatility, describes a contango term structure, and points to the largest roll-down between short dated maturities and the…
This midweek derivatives recap describes a subdued Bitcoin market and summarizes changes in implied and realized volatility, term structure, skew, options activity, and dealer gamma. It reports that Bitcoin’s realized volatility fell by about 10 points while…
This article explains SAFU, short for Secure Asset Fund for Users, as an emergency fund established by Binance to help protect customer assets in extreme situations. It says the exchange created the fund in 2018 and allocated a portion of trading fees to it.…