If you missed our webinar with Maple Finance, Centrifuge, and Goldfinch last week, check it out here. The financial industry is on the verge of transformation. DeFi is slowly expanding…
Arbitrum Nitro: Fueling Scalability
It is often said that innovative products get built in bear markets. This summer was a far cry from 2017’s “DeFi Summer”, but major developments in the layer 2 front…
MEV: An Intro to Value Extraction
Ethereum’s nature to forever grow increasingly complex is also its curse. This complexity is facilitated by its core development: smart contracts. This new, radical tool enabled developers to chart boldly…
Danksharding: Ethereum’s Scalability Killer
Following up my last piece (where I discussed the role sharding is playing in solving decentralized scaling), it’s time to discuss a novel model that could be the savior of…
Mina: The Succinct Blockchain
About a decade into the blockchain industry’s development, early adopters realized that a hidden form of centralization was taking place. As a chain grew utilization, it became longer, which decreased…
True Network Value: A Novel Throughput Metric
At their heart, blockchains are trust machines. Evaluating trust, let alone a chain’s performance, is not a routine task. Amongst the many tools used to quickly evaluate a chain’s performance,…
De-Risking DeFi: Analyzing Systemic Risk in Decentralized Systems
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to avoiding financial catastrophes. Systemic risk can only be partially handled in an unpredictable society. Economic conditions, technology, and human behavior all vary over time,…
The Zero Knowledge Frontier: On SNARKs, STARKs, and Future Applications
Jump to: Why ZK Proofs Matter ZK Protocols Current Applications Future Applications “I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing” – Socrates There has been a lot…
Private Airdrops – A Framework for Zero-Knowledge Privacy
Jump to: Airdrops Explained The Problem The Solution Crucial to the development of early projects, airdrops grant a promise that’s as old as civilization itself: start early and invest in…
Subnets: Avalanche’s Scaling Solution
Avalanche’s success and meteoric growth has been no secret. Early, the team distinguished themselves through the introduction of a new consensus protocol – Snow*. This novel architecture combines the best…