Token Economics and Design
Reading Time: 2 minutes I started looking at Bancor years ago, because it had the same name as the world currency John M. Keynes had in mind. Their math fascinated me, and that’s how I got started with the AMM rabbit hole! This episode, we focus on what Bancor V2.1 is. The Bancor V1 token economics analysis report is …
EP 30: Insurance for Impermanent Loss with Bancor V2.1 | BNTRead More
Reading Time: < 1 minute BarnBridge is a new defi product in the market. Unlike the existing defi products, BarnBridge goes to a new level of mixing the various existing protocols. Listen on Google, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify This is unlike the usual episodes we cover. Usually, it’s very economics design focused. This time, it’s more of financial design focus. This …
EP 29: Token Design and Financial Design of BarnBridgeRead More
Reading Time: < 1 minute Today, we continue part 2 of the economics of insurance. This episode is a deep dive into Nexus Mutual, $NXM. I’m not saying that DeFi is all about bonding curve……. but I’m 100% going to talk about bonding curve. Listen on Google, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify **Note: This bonding curve is DIFFERENT from the AMM bonding …
Reading Time: < 1 minute Crypto/DeFi is more than just the economics, mechanisms and code driving it. One of the other cool things is the innovation in business logic, systems and products. Being in the digital space opens up more opportunities to mitigate inefficiencies and create ways to increase value-add. Today, we are joined by Victor Lee, the CEO of …
Reading Time: < 1 minute We are going to cover the Economics of Insurance Industry. This is more than what you will learn at your economics class in university, unless you are into econometrics. The insurance business is one of the oldest in the world. Today, it’s worth over US$5 trillion. Online insurance is only capturing US$31 billion. And in …
EP 26: Economics of Insurance Industry (1/2) | Nexus MutualRead More
Reading Time: < 1 minute DEXes are eating up the trading volume of centralised exchange. We covered many areas of DEX, from understanding the mechanism behind to understanding the various math formulas. In the comments, people were asking how to calculate impermanent loss and the risks available. Listen on Google, YouTube, iTunes, Spotify So in this video, we cover 3 …
EP 25: Calculating 2 Risks in DEX, Price Slippage and Impermanent LossRead More
Reading Time: < 1 minute In this episode, we chat about what is ponzi in defi, what ponzinomics really is about, the 10 ponzinomics mechanisms, 2 case studies of scams and how you can protect yourself from ponzinomics scams! The plan for this week is to do a deep dive for Sushiswap. But friday happened and the weekend happened. A …
EP 24: Special Episode on Ponzinomics in Defi and CryptoRead More
Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve talked about bonding curves so many times. You’d think I’ve exhausted the content. HAH! Not a chance. Today, we have with us Jeff Emmett from the Common Stacks team, sharing with us about augmented bonding curves, generalised bonding curves and various “behind the scene” concepts of bonding curves. Absolutely follow him on twitter at …
