shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • 11 months agoFalling Down the DeFi Rabbit HoleAs @khaleelkazi moves the bigger and bigger ship LEO into deeper and deeper (literally) DeFi waters, I thought it might be interesting to look back at my own little story to see…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearWhy I Advise MANTRA DAO, the Community Governed DeFi Platform on PolkadotI've been talking with my crypto frens for years, for as long as I can remember, in fact, about starting a managed fund focused on Proof of Stake coins. I'm a real believer in…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearMy First Day as Wanchain Director of Growth & StrategyIt's been a busy two weeks for me. After a bunch of interviews last week, then that indeterminant haze of busy-ness that always falls over you when you move from one apartment to…shanghaipreneur in #hive-174578 • last yearApple Should Reconsider Exorbitant App Store Commission RateRecently, Apple has faced criticism on a variety of fronts. First, European regulators are looking into their monopolistic practices when it comes to Apple's ubiquitous App…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearAre Options Platforms the Next Big Wave in DeFi?I'm happy to have worked with my colleague Ryan Tian to investigate what we think will be the next big wave of DeFi opportunity in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space -…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearLiquidity Mining Frenzy Continues With Balancer (BAL)Just as yield farming giant COMP made its debut on Coinbase Pro (and subsequently dumped hard), the team at Balancer released its BAL governance token into the wild. They…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearDeFi Yield Farming Goes BigYield farming entered the crypto consciousness this week as the total value of assets locked up under DeFi protocols exploded past its pre-COVID high and will soon hit $2…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearAssets Under Protocol (AUP) - The Best Way to Value DeFi TokensI come from a finance background. In that world, the way we measure success is via AUM, which stands for Assets Under Management. It's an important metric to every asset manager.…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearEther and Bitcoin Are Not the Same, ETH is BetterI've seen this Exponential Investments weekly investor letter making the rounds in the past week. It's an Ethereum FUD piece put together by a couple of Bitcoin maximalists -…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearHow Coffee in China Proves the US Stock Markets Are WhackA couple days ago, I had time for a tipple at the 2nd largest Starbucks in the world - the gargantuan Reserve Roastery at Nanjing West Road in downtown Shanghai. For a time, it…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearThorChain Has Achieved Initial Escape VelocityThis is a shill piece. I want to be up front about that. I own what to me, at this point, is a significant chunk of RUNE, which will become the native token of a project called…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearI Got 99 Problems But a Btc Ain't OneI just realized a couple days ago that the dollar index - USDX, an index that has been around since the Nixon Shock in 1972 set off this forex volatility life - is down around 4%…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearLet's Celebrate Today the $91 Million Story of 2 Bitcoin PizzasIn a Bitcoin Talk Forum post on May 17, 2010, an early Bitcoin experimenter named Laszlo Hanyecz was hungry. His 1-year-old daughter liked pizza and so he decided to try and buy…shanghaipreneur in #hive-174578 • last yearIntroducing the COVID-19 Inverse Hype CycleWhen I teach kids about business strategy perhaps one of the most relevant and interesting topics I can discuss is the Gartner Hype Cycle. For better or for worse, technology…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearSynthetix Inspires Better Token Economics EverywhereI have observed the token economies of a lot of cryptocurrency projects. To be honest, most of them are absolute crap. Sure, you've got your base-layer cryptocurrencies that…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearCheck Out FinNexus' Crypto Supermarket!In a few days, FinNexus launches one of the first post-COVID-19 token distribution events. FinNexus is a collection of open finance protocols built on the Wanchain blockchain. It…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearChina Moves Against Cash With e-RMB"Money habits can be hard to break. It took years for ATMs to replace visits to human bank tellers; now, Americans withdraw cash from them at a rate of some 5 billion times a…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearFor Cross-Chain DeFi, Look to FinNexus!Since this summer, I've been involved in some capacity or another with one of the more interesting DeFi project I've seen out "in the wild." At first, it was just as a friend…shanghaipreneur in #hive-167922 • last yearThe Rigor of Building a DeFi PlatformYesterday I mentioned a DeFi project that had recently been hacked and then almost immediately had all of its funds restored by the hacker. The whole process took a little more…shanghaipreneur in #crypto • last yearThorChain Transparency Is the Best in the BizOne of my favorite projects right now and it's still in its infancy is Thorchain. I've written about it before back when a prominent supporter of their biggest competitor…
:format(webp)/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/66945302/itunes_app_store_icon_field_640.0.jpg){kind=icon}
