Bitcoin Halvening is about 9 days away - and its interesting to see how markets will react in both the short and far term to this event. The laws of economics state that the higher the demand, the higher

Data storage has evolved from the state of being hyper-local (on computers, disks, storage server, etc.) to the cloud. However, each of these storage mechanisms have a few points of failure (e.g., data

Most governments have been giving their citizens, institutions and others large amounts of stimulus money. For example, the USA provided a large stimulus package. This money comes by two means 1) New amounts

The black swan event of a positive diffusion of the coronavirus, reminds me of the very first Ph.D. seminar in Information Systems. As young doctoral students, we read about analogues of how different

What is DPOS? Delegated Proof of Stake Mining was one of the earliest mechanisms of validating and confirming transactions and generating blocks. In this process, a fixed set of Witnesses who are voted

Traditional Financial Models While we have written quite a few articles about Defi, the risks they pose, the challenges it poses, and such - we have never really written about Defi in terms of deep linking

As much as decentralized finance (deFi) is seemingly an attractive "alternative" but a highly "risky" mode of investment, deFi has its pitfalls. Most recently this was discovered in

The Blockchain Trilemma Most blockchains suffer from a trilemma when decentralization, scalability and security cannot be ensured on the blockchain at the same time. Firstly, decentralization is defined

Recent developments in the Ethereum development community have contributed to a multitude of competing programming languages to write smart contracts that run on the Ethereum virtual machine. What if the

Web3 Web3 is the name given to the decentralized web where applications, services and infrastructure are all hosted decentrally. Some of the protocols that drive the web3 are IPFS and Smart Contract platforms

The GROWTH OF PRODUCTS Among the 100+ products (and growing)- a list of products and services running decentralized finance applications we have these sets of projects that provide deep Analytics for

What is truly amazing about Ethereum Analytics on ethinfo.com is that it provides data backed evidence of all aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. As we're ending 2019 - here are some insights: The network

Unstoppable Blockchain DApps This past week was a revelation after working for 3.5 years in the blockchain space, after listening to Dr. Stephan Karpischek's Keynote speech on "Decentralizing Insurance"

Cryptocurrencies and primarily Ethereum backed ones create new modes of earning interest. What was once an ICO backed increased adoption of cryptocurrencies - after being hyper-regulated, and banned by

Maker DAO bring stability for the blockchain and solving the volatility problem in cryptoeconomics. Hard problems in cryptocurrency One of the many hard problems in cryptocurrency ecosystems is the price

This is an interesting podcast from one of the earliest firms, that started the Decentralized finance revolution. 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier 0x Protocol whitepaper Posted from

The 0X token and protocol is one of the several generalized decentralized token exchange enablers. Their mission has been to decentralize the exchange of value. While this mission per-se is genuinely a

It is well known that stable coins and stable coin issuance has given rise to accelerated adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain finance overall. Nevertheless, the reason for this adoption increase

This was a question posed by Elon Musk to Vitalik Buterin, in what has now become a widely public debate about market creation on a public blockchains. The response of Vitalik spanning across 5 tweets

Nation states such as China India US and Senegal have embarked on an agenda to either propose or start creating cryptocurrency infrastructure to replace existing "note" based infrastructure.