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Convert gas to USD (Ethereum) Understanding gas cost can be tricky because there are three components at play: the gas price, the price of ether, and the units of gas. The "gas price" that you might...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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How Compound V3 Allocates COMP Rewards Compound issues rewards in COMP tokens to lenders and borrowers in proportion to their share of a market’s lending and borrowing. The algorithm is extremely...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
cUSDC V3 (Compound V3) as a non-standard Rebasing Token, CometExt.sol The Compound V3 contract behaves like a rebasing ERC-20 token. A rebasing token is a token which has an algorithmically adjusted...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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DeFi Lending: Liquidations and Collateral In TradFi, when someone defaults on a loan, the creditor has the right to seize assets or garnish wages. In DeFi, when someone defaults on a loan it isn’t...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
DeFi Interest Rate Indexes: Principal value and Present Value in Compound V3 The intuitive way to track lender deposits is to record the amount of USDC they deposited and the time they deposited....
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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The Solidity Engineer Salary is a Myth !Stack of gold bars owned by a blockchain engineer Is gold in your future if you study blockchain? There is no shortcut to a high solidity developer salary This...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
EIP-1167: Minimal Proxy Standard with Initialization (Clone pattern) !clones Image from https://pixabay.com/photos/stormtrooper-star-wars-lego-storm-2899993/ Introduction EIP-1167, which is also...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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EIP-150 and the 63/64 Rule for Gas Introduction EIP-150, or Ethereum Improvement Proposal 150, is a protocol upgrade for the Ethereum blockchain. It was proposed on March 18, 2016, and implemented on...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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EIP-2930 - Ethereum access list Introduction An Ethereum access list transaction enables saving gas on cross-contract calls by declaring in advance which contract and storage slots will be accessed....
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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ERC-1363 Standard Explained ERC-1363 enables a smart contract to detect and respond to an incoming transfer of tokens. !Cover Image for ERC-1363 Standard Explained article by RareSkills What problem...
Last updated on Sep 24, 2025
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The constant product formula in Uniswap v3 Our goal is to derive the constant product formula based on real reserves for a segment, given by $$ L^2 = (x_r+\frac{L}{\sqrt{p_u}})(y_r+L\sqrt{p_l}) $$...
Last updated on Sep 15, 2025
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How the TWAP Oracle in Uniswap v2 Works What exactly is “price” in Uniswap? Suppose we have 1 Ether and 2,000 USDC in a pool. This implies that the price of Ether is 2,000 USDC. Specifically, the...
Last updated on Aug 29, 2025