Progress
23 Apr 2024
Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich in the quarter finals of Champions League the other night.
Immediately after the loss, some were quick to label Arsenal’s season a failure and question whether Mikel Arteta, the manager, was making enough progress with the club. Since Arteta took over in late 2019,...
Unlocking Bitcoin
04 Apr 2024
Bitcoin, the oldest and most valuable crypto network, is experiencing a renaissance. Over the past few months there’s been a public market rally of the Bitcoin network’s native token, BTC, and the release of the first BTC spot ETF, which has been the fastest growing ETF in history....
Playing long term games
15 Mar 2024
Crypto markets serve as a reminder for how quickly things can change. Just a few months ago I wrote about navigating the silence across the industry as an investor. Crypto prices may have bottomed a little earlier in the year, but when I wrote the post in September it felt...
DeFi: a continuously optimising financial system
01 Mar 2024
Last week there was a public debate between Aave and Morpho, two DeFi lending protocols. Paul Frambot, the founder of Morpho, countered some of the claims made online by the Aave community with the following tweet:
So. Aave is attempting to prevent the growth of Morpho by introducing Merit, a...
Token supply caps
13 Feb 2024
Tokens represent a stake in decentralised networks and serve as a tool to align and incentivise network participants. Different networks can have different token designs. One of the main components of token design is the total token supply.
A lot of networks today opt for setting a fixed token supply...