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#STONchronicles. OMNISTON: TON Liquidity in One Service⚡️ Stonfiers! At The Gateway conference, we announced the Omniston protocol, which will solve the problem of liquidity shortage by combining TON liquidity within TON Space. It’s time to tell you more about the future protocol. What is Omniston? Omniston is a decentralized liquidity protocol that uses market makers instead of traditional liquidity providers. The RFQ mechanism will allow traders who have created a swap request to get the best price request among market makers’ offers — and then make a deal directly, without bridges or centralized services. Our smart contracts guarantee that only the transaction participants will have acce
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Rug Pull Tactics. A Common Practice of Fraud in Crypto SpaceCryptocurrency space is well known for its mass of fraudulent activity. The malignant players of cryptocurrency space resort to a great number of fraudulent schemes to trick users into giving their money away. One of the most common types of fraud that cryptocurrency space is known for is called the rug pull tactic. What Is a Rug Pull Tactic? A rug pull is when the development team of a project suddenly vanishes, abandoning the project, and instantly sells off its native assets, or drains available liquidity. The name of the tactic comes from the malignant trick of pulling a rug out from someone’s feet, essentially making them lose thei
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A new perspective on farming from STON.fiIn our development, we follow the rule of "perfecting familiar necessary mechanics." Farming, which has recently become available and has already attracted a lot of attention to our project, is no exception. In this text, we will tell you what makes farming on STON.fi unique and why it may somewhat determine the future of TON and perhaps even the entire DeFi space. For those who are new to the concept of farming: farming is the process of earning additional passive income by providing funds to a liquidity pool and locking assets thereafter. But what is the innovation and advantage of farming specifically on STON.fi? We were the firs
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Impermanent Losses on DEX Platforms – The How And WhyDecentralized asset trading, or liquidity pooling in decentralized finance services, is inextricably connected with the risk of losing funds due to the inherent price volatility of cryptocurrencies. One of the most common reasons for the deterioration of profits and portfolios on decentralized trading platforms is the risk of impermanent loss. Impermanent Loss Explained Impermanent loss is the potential loss of value or profits sustained as a result of the price difference of an asset within the timeframe when it was provided to a liquidity pool and the moment it was withdrawn. The loss will depend on the size of the difference in price
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Annual Percentage Yields – The How and Why on DEXsCrypto space is determined by profitability, making select projects attractive from a financial point of view. One of the most important indicators determining the profitability of a project or liquidity pool is the APY – Annual Percentage Yield. What Is APY? The APY is a formula that calculates the rate of returns one can expect to receive from the funds they deposit into a liquidity pool or farming platform. The APY usually includes compounded interest, making the returns users can expect to receive rather considerable over a period of time. Most platforms and liquidity pools indicate high returns of APY for advertising purposes. Howe
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Liquidity providers on DEXesA liquidity pool is a basis for DeFi that does not have an exact equivalent in the classical financial system. In simple terms, a liquidity pool is a smart contract where a certain number of tokens is blocked so that any DeFi participants can use them for exchanges, crediting, blockchain games, profitable yield farming, and other operations. Decentralized exchanges (DEX) that use automated market making (AMM) work on liquidity pools. The providers who bring liquidity to the pool receive compensation when traders use their funds. Liquidity pool users get immediate access to the tokens they exchange. There are no intermediaries in this proce