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…
Field Notes
Aragon Launches First-Of-Its Kind Digital Jurisdiction
On Monday, February 10th, the first term of Aragon Court’s over 200 jurors began. Aragon, the only DAO offering full-stack jurisdiction services, from dispute resolution to governance infrastructure, is in its mainnet…
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…
‘Serfs up! The War On The People
Americans Embattled Some argue that we still live as serfs in a feudal-like society and that the Age of Imperialism never ended. We work for corporations now instead of lords of estates,…
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…
The Wealth Of Nations – Gone But Not Forgotten
Have you read Adam Smith’s The Wealth Of Nations? It should be required reading in high school, and politicians should know The Wealth Of Nations cover-to-cover. There was a time when U.S….
How to Simplify Marketing Decisions
Decisions are the building blocks of business and the maker (or breaker) of fortunes. Successful brands have strong decision-making track records, including corrections as needed. For start-ups, marketing plays an especially critical…
Blockchain and Healthcare Data Privacy
The fragmented healthcare data ecosystem offers cybercriminals a variety of attack vectors. This is not surprising when you realize that the industry’s struggle to adjust to HIPAA privacy rules coincided with the…
Aragon Project: Infrastructure For Digital Jurisdictions & Decentralized Organizations
“In the world of cryptocurrencies, the word ‘governance’ typically refers to a project’s method for paying employees and contractors … In truth, the allocation of resources is only a fraction of what…