Coin Prices

BNB

$230.80

0.20%

XRP

$0.623958

2.14%

OKB

$56.91

-0.44%

EOS

$0.738528

1.41%

Pepe

$0.0000016

-2.54%

Bonk

$0.00000797

24.72%

NEM

$0.03783729

-1.19%

WAX

$0.065349

1.86%

IOST

$0.00950569

-1.27%

Kin

$0.00002085

0.73%

OST

$0.00032524

3.05%
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Kade Garrett

Kade Garrett

Kade Garrett is a crypto thought creator, writer/editor, podcaster, consultant, and enthusiast. He discovered bitcoin (BTC) in 2012. While covering everything from web3 to NFTs to blockchain-based social media, he is particularly passionate about the crypto ethos and the financial promise of P2P cash and DeFi protocols. He has owned crypto since the 2010s, with most of his current portfolio comprising top-50 projects (by market capitalization).

Stories by Kade Garrett

  • How to Use Figment’s Institutional Staking App

    Figment's staking app and its accompanying dashboard are the platform's flagship offering. Through this app, you can stake crypto, track staking rewards, and access a whole host of tools and features. Let’s run through the initial process. On the Figment homepage, you’ll see a sign-up option. Image: Figment You can then sign up as either an organization or an individual. In your inbox, you’ll receive instructions for setting up a password and a supplementary authentication method for enhanced...

  • Figment and the Future of Institutional Staking

    There are two primary parties involved in a staking transaction. A staking delegator entrusts—or delegates—their tokens with a validator in order to earn staking rewards. A validator is generally incentivized to accept a delegator’s tokens in order to increase their staking allotment as they typically earn a percentage of the gross staking rewards. In some ways, you could think of this relationship in the same way one would think of a bank depositor and the bank receiving the deposit into a savi...

  • A Look at Figment’s Institutional Staking Solutions

    Founded in 2018, Figment provides a variety of staking services and infrastructure to institutions that want to stake crypto at scale. At time of writing, it is one of the largest non-custodial staking providers on Ethereum—accounting for nearly 5% of total ether (ETH) staked. In addition to staking infrastructure, Figment provides users with staking data, liquid staking options, developer tools, and a few other offerings that make them stand out from the wider institutional staking ecosystem. I...

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  • Crypto Staking Considerations for Retail and Institutional Investors

    Cryptocurrency staking is practiced by both retail and institutional users, with the two groups having distinct needs and issues to address. While some of these requirements are constant, some of them can also vary—or be ameliorated—by choosing a different staking solution. Crypto Staking Commonalities Before we get into the disparate staking groups and options, it’s worth diving deeper into some of the core staking requirements that retail and institutional users share. Let’s look at a few of t...

  • Getting Started With Crypto Staking

    In the previous article in this series, we explored how proof of stake (PoS) blockchains are secured by users staking cryptocurrency, and how they receive cryptocurrency in exchange for staking with network validators. For aspiring crypto stakers, it may be helpful to think of staking as the crypto equivalent of stock dividends. When you hold dividend-yielding stocks, you can earn more of the stock through the dividend you receive. For example, holding 100 of stock ABC (example ticker) could see...

  • Understanding Proof of Stake and Blockchain Security

    Blockchain networks transmit enormous monetary sums over their networks on a continuous basis. For this reason, they need to be extremely secure in much the same way as banks, credit cards, and financial technology (fintech) apps. Without robust security, both centralized and decentralized networks can be targeted by hackers and thieves that want to steal monetary value by processing fraudulent transactions. Unlike the centralized networks found in traditional finance (TradFi), blockchain networ...

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    Re-Running, Upscaling, Blending With Midjourney

    While Imagine is the most popular prompt to use, there are several other basic prompts that allow you to create image variations, zoom/pan the image, or alter only a portion of an image. Let’s go through these prompts with some visual examples. Reshuffle the Prompt Called “Re-run” or “Re-roll” by Midjourney, you can hit the blue button with the white arrows to generate four new images using the original prompt. While Variation creates new images based on the image you select, Re-run is basicall...

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    Kade Garrett
  • Rodrigo Martinez

    Making Images with Midjourney

    Once you’re signed up and on the Midjourney Discord, the process for making new images is incredibly simple. You don’t need to know AI, programming, or any other specialized information that isn’t commonplace. Midjourney has been praised for its simplicity. With a user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) that is already familiar to Discord users, you can use Discord to simply start creating images. Here’s how it's done:            1. In your direct messages, you should see the Midjourney Bo...

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    Signing Up for Midjourney

    If you want to try to make your own images with Midjourney, it is relatively easy to get started creating. The ease of use is actually one area where Midjourney stands out when compared to its alternatives. Let’s start our Midjourney journey. 1. Midjourney requires users to have a Discord account. It is not only used to sign up, you also use it to generate image ideas, receive those images, and alter them. If you already have a Discord account, you can skip to step 2. If not, go to the Discord w...

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    3 min read
    Kade Garrett
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    An Intro to Midjourney and AI Tools

    Throughout the 2020s, artificial intelligence (AI) has seen a huge explosion in interest, research and development, and user-friendly tools that allow anyone to use AI to generate images, write stories, recognize speech, and a host of other tasks. In particular, 2022 was a groundbreaking year with the release of chatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney.  While chatGPT allows you to generate text with text prompts (to write responses — or write articles), Midjourney allows you to create images b...

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    Kade Garrett
  • Rodrigo Martinez Using Fundamental Analysis in the Crypto Investing Space VFC

    Use Fundamental Analysis in Crypto Investing: The "Get Rich Slowly" Approach

    Earn a free on-chain NFT by taking our free course, Crypto Investing: Fundamentals First.  Decrypt will cover gas fees for the first 10,000 mints! Fundamental analysis eschews the analysis of price charts (technical analysis) by looking at a broad set of indicators as well as some well reasoned  — but somewhat subjective — judgements of industry analysts. Before introducing how fundamental analysis relates to crypto investing, let’s look at how fundamental analysis is used in traditional investi...

  • An illustration of Bitcoin sign with blockchain nodes around it c. Rodrigo Martinez

    What Determines the Price of Bitcoin?

    Earn a free on-chain NFT by taking our free course, Crypto Investing:Fundamentals First.  Decrypt will cover gas fees for the first 10,000 mints! The Bitcoin blockchain went live on January 3rd, 2009. At its inception, the Bitcoin network started releasing its own eponymous currency or money. Every ten minutes, the network released 50 BTC to a tiny community of cryptography enthusiasts. Although starting from humble beginnings, its creator Satoshi Nakamoto had an ambitious goal for Bitcoin to be...

  • Rodrigo Martinez Using Fundamental Analysis in the Crypto Investing Space VFC

    How to Invest Using Tokenomics

    Earn a free on-chain NFT by taking our free course, Crypto Investing: Fundamentals First.  Decrypt will cover gas fees for the first 10,000 mints! A portmanteau of token and economics, tokenomics is the study, monitoring, and analysis of a crypto project’s market cap, token (or coin) supply, crypto emission rate, and a host of other measurable and publicly available metrics. Also called cryptoeconomics (cryptocurrency + economics), having at least a cursory understanding of tokenomics can help y...

  • vfc Crypto Investing Tools and Tips

    Crypto Investing Tools and Tips

    In general, many of the tips, concepts, and ideas that are considered solid crypto investing advice also apply, and were often originally developed, in other investing sectors. While diversification, risk management, fundamental analysis, and technical analysis can all have their place when it comes to both crypto and stock investing, there may be a need to alter these tools when investing in crypto — or to use new tools entirely.  Crypto Trading Automation Tools and Orders While crypto trading...

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    Kade Garrett
  • vfc Understanding Risk Management

    Understanding Risk Management

    When you invest, you are taking a monetary risk — and weighing opportunity costs. Even “safe investments” like treasury bills and bonds aren’t totally risk free. However, they are significantly less risky when compared to stocks and alternative assets. Simply holding your savings in U.S. dollars (USD) is also not a risk-free endeavor. For one, you are guaranteed to gradually lose your savings’ purchasing power through the wealth-confiscating effects of inflation.  Some with savings in other fiat...

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    11 min read
    Kade Garrett
  • vfc Crypto Technical Analysis and Trading Indicators

    Crypto Technical Analysis and Trading Indicators

    Technical analysis looks at trading volume, past price trends, and various charting patterns to predict future price movements of an asset. In general, technical analysis counts on price movements and trends to continue – at least in the short term. Further, the adage that “history tends to repeat itself” is also commonly held wisdom with professional traders that use technical analysis. The technical analysis toolkit that has been applied to the stock market is also increasingly being used to t...

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    9 min read
    Kade Garrett
  • Rodrigo Martinez Using Fundamental Analysis in the Crypto Investing Space VFC

    Using Fundamental Analysis in the Crypto Investing Space

    Fundamental analysis eschews the analysis of price charts (technical analysis) by looking at a broad set of indicators as well as some well reasoned  — but somewhat subjective — judgements of industry analysts. Before introducing how fundamental analysis relates to crypto investing, let’s look at how fundamental analysis is used in traditional investing spaces. For stock market investors, fundamental analysts look for stocks that are trading below their “fair market value,” which means stocks th...

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    9 min read
    Kade Garrett

  • How Understanding Tokenomics Can Inform Your Crypto Investing Decisions

    A portmanteau of token and economics, tokenomics is the study, monitoring, and analysis of a crypto project’s market cap, token (or coin) supply, crypto emission rate, and a host of other measurable and publicly available metrics. Also called cryptoeconomics (cryptocurrency + economics), having at least a cursory understanding of tokenomics can help you make better investing decisions. While the interplay between crypto price movement and tokenomic indicators is complex, it is a good way to do a...

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    8 min read
    Kade Garrett
  • How Not To Invest in Crypto Part Two- The Mistakes Continue Kade

    How Not To Invest in Crypto Part Two: The Mistakes Continue

    Crypto Investing Is Easy No, it isn’t. If it was, everyone would do it — and would be cruisin’ around in red Ferrars with “HODL” license plates. The crypto space is considered to have much higher upside potential than the traditional finance (TradFi) investing space of stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). However, it also has far more volatility — and downside risk. If you’re financially conservative by nature, crypto investing may not be right for you.  Or, you may want to only plac...

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    Kade Garrett
  • How Not To Invest in Crypto- Part One Rodrigo Martinez/Decrypt

    How Not To Invest in Crypto: Part One

    Why Do You Want To Invest in Crypto? There are numerous stories within the crypto news ecosystem of people getting huge returns. In some cases, they invested very early into projects like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a host of others; they then patiently held their crypto (or kept buying and accumulating more) for years and then sold some — or all it — later for huge returns. In other instances, they purchased a small-cap memecoin and ended up getting huge returns after a much shorter time frame — som...

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    10 min read
    Kade Garrett
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