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Guides, deep dives, and analysis on basket tokens, onchain portfolios, and decentralized finance infrastructure.

Gauge Weight Voting Explained
Technical

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
Recap

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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Liquidity Expansion Layer
Announcement

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
Comparison

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
Technical

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
Tutorial

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?
Education

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?
Education

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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