Frequently asked questions

What is Web3

Web3 refers to the latest version of the internet. Web3 is a term that describes a set of protocols and standards that allow decentralized applications (dapps) to communicate with one another, giving users more control over their data and digital lives on the internet.

What is Defi

Defi refers to a set of financial products and services that allow peer-to-peer transactions on blockchains. Decentralized finance (Defi) provides financial services without intermediaries via smart contracts on the blockchain

What is Cefi

Cefi refers to financial services using blockchain technology where users do not have complete control over their assets. Centralized financial institutions operate as middlemen providing cheaper, faster, and secure financial services.

What is Yield Compare

Yield Compare refers to a tool that collects cefi and defi data for different financial services from numerous chains and protocols, normalizes it and provides it to users in an understandable and usable format.

What is Lending

Lending refers to users giving out their digital asset to other users via peer-to-peer transactions using different protocols on the blockchain. Lending could be done using cefi or defi.

What is Borrowing

Borrowing refers to users temporarily taking digital assets from other users via a peer-to-peer transaction using different protocols on the blockchain.

What is Savings

Savings refers to financial services that allow users to increase their savings or digital asset portfolio. Savings are passive earning opportunities for users with a given timeline.

What is Farming

Farming refers to a financial service that allows users to lock their digital assets for a set period to earn rewards and interest on their digital asset holdings, using smart contracts.

What is Staking

Staking refers to a financial process in which participants in a network earn rewards by locking their digital assets to validate network transactions and fortify the network.

What is Stablecoins

Stablecoins refer to a class of digital assets whose value is pegged to another asset class. For example, the most common stablecoin $USDT, is pegged to the value of the US dollar.

What is Xante Flashlights

Xante Flashlights offers users with the latest insights into the digital assets market at a glance. Xante flashlights includes latest news, fundraisers, top Socials, podcasts, gems and airdrops.

What is Total Value Locked (TVL)

Total Value Locked (TVL) measures the total value of all digital assets locked into DeFi protocols consisting of all the assets deposited in all the functions that defi protocols offer, including staking, lending, farming and liquidity pools.

What is Annual Percent Yield (APY)

Annual Percent Yield (APY) refers to the percentage rate you can earn on your digital asset holdings over a year by engaging in any financial service, and it includes compound interest.

What is Minimum Locked Amount (MLA)

Minimum Locked Amount (MLA) refers to the least amount of a digital asset required of a user to become eligible to engage in a financial service like staking or saving.

What is Airdrop

Airdrop refers to the transfer of digital assets from a protocol or chain or decentralized application to its users. There are different reasons for airdrops including marketing and early user reward.

What is Price

Price refers to the current global volume-weighted average price of a digital asset traded on an active digital asset exchange as aggregated by Xante.

What is Market Cap

Market Cap is one of the metrics used to measure the relative size of a digital asset. It is a product of the price and circulating supply of a digital asset.

What is Volume

Volume is the total trading volume of a digital asset across all active digital asset exchanges within a given time, as aggregated by Xante.

Does Xante create all its charts/ data?

While we create some of our charts, others are from the data we aggregate on-chain from multiple sources. We always make our aggregated data very insightful and understandable for our users. From the data we aggregate, Xante stores and represents them graphically with multiple timelines for you to have a better grasp of the data.

How does the yield calculator work?

The Xante yield calculator gives you a calculated insight into market opportunities. Simply select your desired dApp or exchange (like staking, lending, borrowing, saving) choose your favourite digital asset and the token you want to deposit, input your APY and timeline and get an instant result.

How frequently is all the information updated on Xante?

On a flexible schedule, our bots update the data we generate and aggregate. When possible, we update our data utilizing several timeframes and are constrained in our rate of update by the data providers.

Do you provide any API?

Coming soon, contact us for more information.

Can your data be used for commercial purposes?

Kindly contact us directly for this.

How to get a protocol listed on Xante?

You can contact us for protocol listing by sending an application to info@xante.app. Please be aware that Xante retains the right to decide whether or not to list projects on our page at our sole discretion.

How to get a protocol listed on Xante?

Also note that duplicate or repetitive entries may be labelled as spam. Please wait at least 3-5 working days before following up on the team's request in order to prevent adding extra workload and slowing the team down.

How to deposit money into Xante?

Xante does not accept funds.

What are the future plans of Xante?

We are glad you are reading this part of the FAQs, it means you plan to be our customer for the long-term. We plan to continue providing excellent service to the web3 community and digital asset industry with our aggregated data, insights, research, alpha drops, free listing for projects, exchanges, protocols, and more!

Do send us any suggestions or feedback that you may have for us. We would appreciate that! Our team members are always available to reply to your mail.