DeFi Flash Loans on Ethereum Flash Loans, are instant uncollateralised crypto loans where the borrowed asset (and a fee) is returned before the end of the blockchain transaction.
DeFi Stablecoins - Introduction and Overview The need for a stable value of transfer in the crypto space has always been a desired feature. Stablecoins, as the name suggests, are designed with one thing in mind - minimising price volatility.
Blockchain Blockchain Oracles An oracle, in the context of blockchains and smart contracts, is an agent that finds and verifies real-world occurrences and submits this information to a blockchain to be used by smart contracts.
DeFi DeFi - Compound Finance Explained Compound is, in short, a pooled algorithmic money market protocol running on Ethereum.
Blockchain Friction and Blockchain The Internet removes friction. What happens when you remove friction in the context of blockchains?
Bitcoin Is Bitcoin a Public Good? Bitcoin does not fit the public good definition. Bitcoin is much closer to being a common good where a good is rivalrous yet non-excludable.
Blockchain Germany announced its Blockchain Strategy Germany has released its "Blockchain Strategy" statement. The paper is remarkably comprehensive and friendly towards the blockchain technology.
Libra Facebook's Libra - the Question of Decentralisation Libra is currently as close as a private company could get in terms of decentralisation. Nevertheless, it is much more decentralised as people initially anticipated.
Blockchain Bitcoin's Energy Usage The rise of Bitcoin’s energy consumption in recent years drew the attention of many environmental organisations and publishers.
Blockchain Introduction to EOS EOS is a programmable blockchain offering smart contract computation. Compared to Ethereum EOS introduces a different approach to solving some scalability and usability problems.
Blockchain Cryptography & Blockchain — Part 1 The role of cryptography is to contribute to the security of the blockchain network — by making it hard to manipulate.
Blockchain Scaling Ethereum — List of Proposals If Ethereum wants to reach global adoption, it would need to scale, meaning that it will need to be able to handle 100k transactions per second.
Blockchain Explaining blockchain technology to 7 year olds We hear every day how blockchain will change our lives and how revolutionary it is, but few people try to explain it in a way a non-programmer or non-computer scientist could understand it.