Spool is the infrastructure for institutional DeFi. It enables institutional investors to create bespoke DeFi yield solutions, called “Smart Vaults”, for themselves and their clients to use. …

In 2008 the world faced a global banking crisis. Due to fractional reserve methods, combined with cheap and lax lending practices, the banking system started to fail due to sub-prime mortgages, and we saw scenes globally of people unable to access their money or pay for the basic essentials. Centralised…

It seemed like just another “hack” in the DeFi space. This time it was Mango Markets, a DeFi trading platform operating on Solana, that someone took a $117 million bite out of. …

The blockchain trilemma: decentralisation, scalability, security. The idea simply is that you can only focus on two out of the three functions, and to increase the third, you need to partially sacrifice one of the other two. Traditionally in DeFi, scalability is the final hurdle projects need to face, but…

“Farming is a profession of hope.” The above is a quote from Canadian poet and writer Brian Bett. While originally written about more traditional farming, it could just as easily have been said about the current models of yield farming in DeFi. …

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In terms of the wider web3 and crypto ecosystem, DeFi appears to be doing well. Although TVL (Total Value Locked) has dropped across the board following recent bear markets, it peaked at over $170 billion in October and November 2021. However, those numbers are relatively low in terms of global…

At Spool, our goal has always been to create a true DAO, leading the industry in decentralised governance. With the support of our legal partner, a renowned Swiss legal firm, we are ensuring that this continues and enable the DAO to interact flexibly and legally compliant with external partners through…

Every DLT, DAO and cryptocurrency project has a similar issue when they first launch. Until they achieve natural decentralisation, they are subject to takeover risk. In the case of a DAO, a single financially significant player could come into the project, buy up a majority supply of governance tokens, and…