Guides

Learn DeFi

Clear, honest guides to liquidity provision and self-custodial social investing on Base. New guides are published weekly, each with a named author, a separate named reviewer, and an honest risk note.

• Automated Liquidity ProvisionHow automation manages a concentrated-liquidity position for you, self-custodially, on Base. The product pillar.
• Self-Custodial Social InvestingFollow and fund on-chain strategy creators while your funds stay in your own wallet. Copy trading without giving up custody.
• Non-Custodial DeFi Asset ManagementAn honest comparison of the category: how it differs from a wallet, what Enzyme, dHEDGE, Arrakis, Gamma, Yearn and Beefy each do, and how to choose.
• Liquidity Provision on BaseThe Base DeFi ecosystem: why gas is cheap, the role of Aerodrome, and how to provide liquidity self-custodially. Includes a step-by-step Aerodrome how-to.
• Impermanent Loss ExplainedWhat it is, the formula, a worked dollar example, a price-vs-loss table, and how fees offset it.
• Impermanent Loss CalculatorSee impermanent loss on your own numbers, with a net-result toggle for trading fees.
• What Is a Liquidity Provider?How a liquidity pool works, how LPs earn swap fees, LP tokens, and the real risks. The DeFi sense, not TradFi.
• Concentrated Liquidity ExplainedCustom price ranges and ticks, capital efficiency, the in-range vs out-of-range trade-off, and higher impermanent loss.
• DeFi GlossaryPlain-language definitions of the terms behind liquidity provision and social investing.