In this blog I cover major public blockchain developments, cryptocurrency shifting from speculation to utility, and personal opinions as to how the space will develop going forward.
18 Aug 2020 4 minute read 2 comments CPix
Yamplify, yammin’, yamma mamma roo! Was this week nuts or what? A DeFi protocol named Yam.finance with a native token $YAM, was built in 10 days, had no formal audits, and within 24 hours had over $500 million locked in the smart contracts. As of Aug...
11 Aug 2020 2 minute read 0 comments CPix
Lately, there has been a lot of discussion regarding Ethereum’s total supply. It seems as though most Ethereum block explorers provide a different amount even though they all read the same block number. This is in part due to how each explorer record...
3 Aug 2020 2 minute read 1 comment CPix
Cami Russo’s new book, “The Infinite Machine”, is a must read. It doesn’t require any knowledge on blockchains or computers before reading. It boils down to a story about a group of people who come together from all parts of the world to accomplish a...
27 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments CPix
Ethereum is about to go on a run against BTC only comparable to the move in early 2017 and you won’t want to miss it. The only question that remains is when new ALL TIME HIGH?? Ethereum’s previous price appreciation and fight for market dominance (c...
20 Jul 2020 4 minute read 1 comment CPix
DeFi Token Performances Aave Lend: +1,200% YTD Synthetix Network: +250% YTD Chainlink: +225% YTD THORchain: +400% YTD Kava: +150% YTD Tellor Tributes: +600% YTD Kyber Network: +350% YTD Loopring: +400% YTD Ren Protocol: +300% Y...
16 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments CPix
In the world of permissionless blockchains like Ethereum, smart contracts execute in an adversarial environment where safety is only guaranteed by propagating deterministic transactions (transactions that can be verified by all nodes). A smart contra...
10 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments CPix
According to a recent Reddit AMA, Justin Drake has given an updated timeline for the launch of Phase 0 of ETH2. Earliest date is looking like the middle of November and a practical later date being the 12th year anniversary of Bitcoin on January 3, 2...
7 Jul 2020 4 minute read 0 comments CPix
In 2017 there was a lot of hype around an event known as “The Flippening”. All this event referred to at the time was whether Ethereum’s Market Cap (Ether Price * Circulating Supply) would become larger than Bitcoin’s Market Cap (Bitcoin Price * Circ...
27 Jun 2020 3 minute read 0 comments CPix
In a recent Harvard Business Review, Marco Di Maggio and Nicholas Platias point out the key difference between a digital asset like Bitcoin or Ether and a stablecoin integrated on top of the Bitcoin or Ethereum public blockchains, “As their name sugg...
22 Jun 2020 6 minute read 0 comments CPix
Mike McDonald recently wrote in a Medium article, “Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools (LBPs): a smart pool template that allows teams to release a project token while at the same time building deep liquidity.” While other Ethereum protocols like Uniswap D...
