Typically, DeFi projects seek to provide some sort of decentralized financial infrastructure, or to create an ecosystem of decentralized financial services. Over the last two years, the decentralized finance sector has seen…
Category: Cryptocurrencies
A Brief Introduction To OKEx Options Trading
In this author’s experience, many trading strategies are best understood through option analysis. For example, the classic strategy of rebalancing a Permanent Portfolio to preserve wealth and maintain a fixed-leverage ratio can…
Exchange Token $OKB: Utility & Value In Review
In Valuing Exchange Tokens – Is OKEX’s $OKB A Winner?, I wrote that the $OKB token seemed undervalued based on circulating versus total token supply, trading volume, marketing, and TVEV values. In…
Valuing Exchange Tokens – Is OKEx’s $OKB A Winner?
In a recent article titled, “OKEx: Defining Blockchain and Redefining Finance,” OKEx wrote that “the number of crypto exchanges has been booming rapidly, recording over 20,000 exchanges globally…” That’s an amazing number…
Algorithmic Stablecoins Beyond Seigniorage Shares: An Introduction To Ampleforth
I recently had a conversation with Ampleforth Founder and CEO Evan Kuo on the stablecoin’s business, cryptography, and plans for adoption. I was interested to find that, although an algorithmic stablecoin, Ampleforth…
Comparing Crypto Exchange Tokens: Part 5 (Fee-Sharing Exchange Tokens)
Throughout this series I have focused on a core group of nine Crypto Exchanges that also have their own token. To review, those exchanges include: Bancor Bibox Binance COBINHOOD COSS.io Huobi IDEX…
Comparing Crypto Exchange Tokens: Part 4 (The Exchange Matrix)
Throughout this series I have focused on a core group of nine Crypto Exchanges that also have their own token. To review, those exchanges include: Bancor Bibox Binance COBINHOOD COSS.io Huobi IDEX…
MakerDAO: The Future Of Finance
Stablecoins have been gaining in prominence during this 2018 cryptocurrency bloodbath: Investors seek to stop the bleeding, while traders seek to de-risk their portfolios without having to move to fiat currencies. In…
Comparing Crypto Exchange Tokens: Part 3 (Valuation & Tokenomics)
How does one value Crypto Exchange Tokens? That’s the million-dollar question to which there are a million answers. Why such difficulty, though? Cryptocurrencies are difficult to value because the industry is relatively…
Comparing Crypto Exchange Tokens: Part 2 (Token Utility)
Cryptocurrency exchanges are developing some of the most exciting advancements in the crypto space. Exchange tokens not only facilitate these advancements, but also capture the value of an exchange’s level of adoption…