Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey discuss how most DAOs are lying to you
Tag: DeFi
Episode 45 — Bitcoin’s Black Swans (feat. Doomberg) — Crypto Critics’ Corner
Bennett Tomlin and Cas Piancey are joined by the illustrious chicken Doomberg to find out exactly how the sky might fall
$ALCX: Alchemix Cannot Turn Lead to Gold
There is a brand new DeFi protocol that lets you immediately take out a loan for half your collateral and the protocol will automatically pay back your loan. Financial magic, involving transmuting one coin, into another, while depositing one in a pool, magically you can get a loan and have no risk of liquidations (not … Continue reading $ALCX: Alchemix Cannot Turn Lead to Gold
FEI Protocol Analysis
This is one of my most in-depth analyses yet. You can find the interactive version of this article here: note this may take a minute or two to build, but it allows you to manipulate my code and see how I worked through the assumptions. Otherwise I will do my best to recreate it below: … Continue reading FEI Protocol Analysis
My Second Appearance on Keyword Crypto: $MKR, $DAI, and $USDC
First appearance This time we discuss black swans, USDC, and my recent article about MakerDao. You can find show notes and links to the show here.
Dai and MKR: So Close
I wrote a piece about Dai in which I suggested it was vulnerable to certain black swan events that I felt were not being given appropriate consideration. I do still feel that those are accurate opinions, however, I have also come to appreciate more of the ethos surrounding Dai. Contents: Why Dai?What's Dai?How does Dai … Continue reading Dai and MKR: So Close
A Conversation about the Future of Finance
This story was inspired by this tweet. https://twitter.com/PsychoOnWallst/status/1289338638518558720 "Bro, you gotta get in on this. I think I have discovered the future of finance." "What is it?" "It's this thing called AuthorityPunks, it's these random digits on computers all around the world that say I own this collection of pixels." "Okay? Can you do anything … Continue reading A Conversation about the Future of Finance
$FEW Care About This
If there is one thing that crypto can regularly provide it is drama. Today, the controversy (or at least one of them) centers around a token called Few. The token seems to have started when Sam Ratnakar decided to invite a small number of influential people from cryptocurrency to work on an "Experiment". Each would … Continue reading $FEW Care About This
Learning about Kimchi
There is an obsession passing through crypto over 'yield farming'. I have very little idea what yield farming is. In order to learn what it is I am going to look into a coin that recently launched that I saw people tweeting about called Kimchi. I chose this coin as it came out the same … Continue reading Learning about Kimchi