Blockchain mining networks are often victims of their success. The two contemporary realities that demarcate the mining landscape and cause blockchains to fall short of what they promise are 1) the ongoing technological arms race driven by inherent competitive greed; and 2) the rising energy costs associated with proof-of-work (PoW) mining. Blockchains built on the PoW … [Read more...] about Crypto mining needs to be redefined before simply casting it away
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Finance Redefined: Fundamentals, not FUD! May 12-19
Synthetix launches THREE new tokens, and multiple projects tweak their tokenomics in this week's Finance Redefined. Source link … [Read more...] about Finance Redefined: Fundamentals, not FUD! May 12-19
Grifter season in DeFi-land, and Uniswap v3 is here! Finance Redefined 4/28-5/05
Lots of cons, no artistryIt’s grifter season: scams and opportunists run amok, and it’s harder than ever to tell who to trust. Case and point: over the weekend, an influencer by the pseudonym “Crypto Spider” was found to have pumped-and-dumped a meme coin, $SELON — while publicly claiming that he had joined his followers in taking a loss. step 1: @linkpadvc make a Doge fork … [Read more...] about Grifter season in DeFi-land, and Uniswap v3 is here! Finance Redefined 4/28-5/05
Money Legos keep stacking! Finance Redefined 4/21-4/28
Happy Wednesday fellow DeFi degens! I was expecting to spend a large portion of this edition of Finance Redefined analyzing Aave's liquidity mining program. There was some anxiety from investors that the emission of 2,200 $AAVE per day (which would translate to roughly 5% of the ecosystem reserve fund of 2.8 million AAVE per year) might end up dragging down the token's price as … [Read more...] about Money Legos keep stacking! Finance Redefined 4/21-4/28