Exploring decentralised finance, from lending and staking to protocols, risks, and real-world applications.
A clear-eyed Australian guide to yield farming: how DeFi returns actually work, a worked AUD income and CGT example, the risks of impermanent loss and smart-contract exploits, and how the ATO taxes what you earn.
An Australian guide to Uniswap and DEXs: how the x*y=k formula, slippage, concentrated liquidity and impermanent loss work, what UNI does, plus worked AUD tax examples and the ATO angle.
An Australian guide to Curve Finance and its stableswap design: how low-slippage stablecoin swaps work, what the CRV token and veCRV do, a worked AUD example, the risks and the ATO tax angle.
An Australian guide to Aave: how DeFi lending, borrowing and liquidation work, the health-factor maths, what the AAVE token does, GHO, the risks and the ATO tax angle.
Restaking has been one of the most-discussed DeFi primitives of the last two years, and EigenLayer is the protocol that introduced the concept at scale
Liquid staking tokens (LSTs) have become one of the most important DeFi primitives in the last three years. Instead of locking your ETH or SOL with a va
A comprehensive comparison of stablecoins for Australian users in 2026 — the major USD-pegged options, AUD-pegged stablecoins, the regulatory direction, risks and the practical use cases that actually justify holding them.
A clear-eyed 2026 guide to decentralised finance for Australian investors — the regulatory direction, ASIC and Treasury position, how the ATO treats DeFi activity, and the practical risks every participant should understand.
How Australian residents should approach staking crypto in 2026 — what staking is, the operational options, validator economics, and the ATO’s position on staking rewards, slashing losses and disposals.
If you spend enough time around decentralised finance, you begin to notice that the projects which matter most are often not the loudest ones. They are rarely the protocols that dominate social media cycles for weeks at a time, nor the tokens that attract speculative excitement simply because they move sharply in price. More often,…