Retired, finally. I enjoy learning about crypto and sharing my discoveries. Also, I follow the News closely and enjoy discussing current events. I have no political agenda, but advance views based in reality with a slant toward real world consequences.
1 Apr 2021 1 minute read 1 comment kev_nag
Currently there is approximately $43 billion locked in DeFi lending protocols. AAVE is the third largest in this DeFi sector, with both retail and institutional customers, and has a market size of approximately $5.41 billion. Being built on ETHEREUM,...
31 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments kev_nag
As announced on March 26, 2021, ACALA NETWORK secured the first parachain slot on POLKADOT'S Rococo testnet. Parachains such as this are acquired as a result of an auction process whereby different projects bid against each other for the parachain sl...
29 Mar 2021 6 minute read 0 comments kev_nag
INTRODUCTION: "An algorithmic stablecoin is a token that adjusts its supply deterministically (i.e. using an algorithm) in order to move the price of the token in the direction of a price target.... At the most basic level, an algorithmic stablecoin...
27 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments kev_nag
NFT'S may be added soon to POLKADOT thanks to KUSAMA, its canary network. Many of the present initiatives surrounding KUSAMA share a common goal of providing NFT'S on POLKADOT as soon as possible supporting applications in gaming as well as art and m...
26 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment kev_nag
On or about February 11, 2021, HARVEST FINANCE announced its intention to hire two developers to bring the Harvest platform to the BINANCE SMART CHAIN. The HARVEST hope in this endeavor is to demonstrate that cross-chain yield farming is not only pos...
26 Mar 2021 3 minute read 1 comment kev_nag
INTRODUCTION: Currently, the progress and growth surrounding the Cryptocurrency industry moves forward with great speed and due regard to efficiency. Initially BITCOIN was introduced with its demonstrable spike in price. Then, in response to the robu...
21 Mar 2021 2 minute read 1 comment kev_nag
INTRODUCTION: PRESEARCH is an open and decentralized search engine that through the PRESEARCH Browser Extension supports Brave, Chrome and Firefox browsers. The Browser Extension allows for searching privately without the necessity of sharing persona...
19 Mar 2021 3 minute read 3 comments kev_nag
I have to admit that prior to the current writing contest, while I knew of the existence of PRESEARCH, I really knew nothing about it. So, with the goal of submitting an article to the competition, I started researching what PRESEARCH is all about -...
18 Mar 2021 3 minute read 2 comments kev_nag
INTRODUCTION: [ This introduction is reproduced from my prior article entitled "Common Goods Parachains in POLKADOT & The Free-Rider Problem" found at https://www.publish0x.com/kev-nag/common-good-parachains-in-polkadot-and-the-free-rider-proble-xnq...
17 Mar 2021 3 minute read 1 comment kev_nag
By way of introduction, the core of the POLKADOT system lies within its Relay Chain which is responsible for the interoperability of the network and the shared network security all while securing the parachains and parathreads within the protocol. Th...
