The USR Stablecoin De-Peg and What It Tells Us About Vaults
The USR collapse exposed how vault curators can allocate users’ idle funds to broken markets. BSKTs fix this by never giving managers power over users’ capital.
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Gauge Weight Voting Explained: How Alvara Directs Rewards
How veALVA holders vote each epoch to direct ALVA rewards to the best BSKTs. The mechanism that ties the entire protocol together.
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State of DeFi Recap
A recap of our X Spaces on the state of DeFi with speakers from Xerberus and DexTools. Covering prediction markets, DAOs, crypto’s real value prop, and more.
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Unlimited Asset Choices: Alvara’s Liquidity Expansion Layer is Live
With the launch of the Liquidity Expansion Layer, we’ve expanded access to all 1inch-aggregated assets for BSKT creation. Thousands of assets, infinite BSKTs.
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Tokenized Index Funds vs Traditional ETFs: What's the Difference?
An honest comparison of BSKTs and traditional ETFs across access, fees, transparency, and composability. Including where ETFs still win.
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ERC-7621 Token Standard Explained: The Technical Deep Dive
How ERC-7621 works at the contract level, the design tradeoffs we made, and what implementers should watch out for.
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How to Create Your First Onchain Basket
A practical walkthrough of building a thematic basket, including a real sample allocation and the mistakes first-time creators make.
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What is Alvara?
Alvara is a decentralized asset management protocol enabling anyone to create and manage their own investment baskets onchain.
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What Are Basket Tokens? A Complete Guide to ERC-7621
What BSKTs are, who they are for, what they do not solve, and why we think they matter. The foundational guide.
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