April 2022 April 2022 was slower than the recent months for the I.G.C . Due to economic conditions, we have seen a slight downturn in the crypto space as a whole and we believe that this is the leading cause of the slow growth over April. …

Article #7 author: VJ Shade Synthetics: A Privacy-Preserving Synthetics Assets Marketplace If you already have some exposure to synthetic asset protocols, you are likely either: An accomplished financial juggernaut with some well-deserved swagger. You’ve been in the game for a while. A total prodigy who already knows everything (aka — an overconfident…

Article #6 author: VJ Synthesis: Understanding the Core Functionality of Shade’s DAO What determines whether or not an asset has actual value? Your response might touch on wisdom as deep as the philosophy of money, investment criteria, behavioral economics, supply, and demand, or Metcalfe’s Law on network effects. While there are so…

March 2022 saw the I.G.C surpass the 12,000 community member mark! This is an amazing achievement and yet another milestone accomplished by this amazing community. Along with this, we added 5 new community channels! Estonian, Ukrainian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Romanian! During this last month, we saw an approximate 10% increase…

Greetings Secret & Shade Protocol community, Shade Protocol is bringing privacy-preserving SNIP-23 liquid staking derivatives to Secret Network, enabling users to secure Secret Network and other application protocols without exposing their privacy using SCRT! Landing Page: https://shadederivatives.io/ Staking Derivative App: https://app.shadeprotocol.io/staking-derivatives Contract: secret1k6u0cy4feepm6pehnz804zmwakuwdapm69tuc4

Article #5 author: VJ Everything you Need to Know about Stablecoins (and what makes SILK different) Why are you in crypto? For most people, the answer comes down to a couple of ideas. You likely have a deep appreciation of the principles decentralized finance stands for. …

Article #4 author: VJ The Economic Symbiosis of Shade and Silk In nature, “symbiosis” is the concept of a mutually beneficial relationship between two species. Flowers and insects. Trees and fungi. Buffalo and oxpecker. Without the benefits each brings to the relationship, the other wouldn’t flourish. Shade and Silk reflect this symbiosis…

Article #3 author: VJ Research says the average millionaire has seven streams of income. Any time you can capitalize on multiple sources of value simultaneously, that’s a clear win. And it’s that same multi-source value delivery that makes Shade quite interesting as a token. In this piece, we will be exploring the…

Article #2 Author: VJ Privacy Enabled DeFi with Shade Protocol You know when you’re catching up with a friend and you stumble into the fact that you are both deep into crypto? Such a fun moment. But what happens when you bring up the need for on-chain privacy? For me, it often goes like this… Me: I think…