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What do @UniswapProtocol, @BalancerLabs, @CurveFinance, and @ShellProtocol have in common?
->They're all Constant Function Market Makers!
I've written a Medium post explaining what this means, why it's a 0-to-1 innovation in finance, and how it works:
medium.com/bollinger-investm…
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The new Curve pool is now live. Check out this post for details. blog.synthetix.io/new-curve-…
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Fed fund futures are PLUNGING tonight. All down more than 10 bps (a huge move).
March is saying the effective rate will average 1.05% for March. It is currently 1.58%.
Only way that happens is the Fed cuts tomorrow morning.
(1/3)
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Problems we've had to face and how we resolved them;
#1 Too large to gain yield
#2 Too large to take advantage
#3 Front-running APY
#4 Too big to move
#5 Risk vs Reward
Yield aggregator problem(s) #2 (3, 4, and 5) too large to move. link.medium.com/IQMUw2N9i4
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Meet the petro: Venezuela's own cryptocurrency backed by the country's mineral and oil reserves, launched by none other than President Maduro
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Elon Musk is being sued by the SEC for allegedly committing securities fraud by tweeting he had funding to take Tesla private
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"#Decred is quite different, as we have taken the approach of putting ultimate sovereignty over the network in the hands of the people who actually own the coins." - @jz_bz, $DCR International Ops Lead.
An introduction to on-chain governance through compiled interviews
cointelegraph.com/news/gover…
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Investors are looking forward to Decred's new approach to blockchain governance – in part, because its devs are opening up $20 million in tokens. ow.ly/3yCs30lTLc9
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MacroVoices @ErikSTownsend @patrickceresna welcome Jeffrey Snider @JeffSnider_AIP back for Season 2 of the Eurodollar University series. Part 1-The Lost Dollar Decade bit.ly/2vwrGmT
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Tether Addendum – New data from Puerto Rico
Bank deposits were up 248% to $3.3 billion in the quarter. This extraordinary growth coincides with the recent crypto boom. The data supports our speculation that Noble Bank is Tether's primary reserve bank.
blog.bitmex.com/tether-adden…
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After countless late nights, lines of code, bug fixes, and memes...
We finally released Lightning for bitcoin mainnet!!! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
teapawt.net/lightning/status/97429…
Big day for bitcoin, Lightning goes live on mainnet! ⚡
Announcing the first Lightning beta release for the live bitcoin network, lnd 0.4. Read about it here: blog.lightning.engineering/a… 👩🏻🚀👨🏿🚀🚀
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Diagram of a Bitcoin block
We present an illustration of a Bitcoin block, including the Merkle trees. We explain why the 2nd Merkle tree in the block is necessary. We then take a closer look at some of the negatives of both overt & covert AsicBoost
blog.bitmex.com/graphical-il…
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We're pleased to announce that Circle has acquired Poloniex: ow.ly/VuBT30iClTs
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ShapeShift (2% of Bitcoin Network) is Now Batching Transactions shar.es/1LXkDp #bitcoin @shapeshift_io
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Tether
We do not think Tether is a Ponzi scheme.
We identify a possible candidate primary reserve bank for Tether, based on financial data from Puerto Rico.
We list other pseudonymous USD based online payment systems that were shut down by regulators
blog.bitmex.com/tether/
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The Ripple story
We look over the history of Ripple and examine various disputes between the founders. We then explore the technology behind Ripple & conclude that by default, Ripple.com's server has full control over the ledger
blog.bitmex.com/the-ripple-s…
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the lightning @coinfinityco ATM demo - lightning app & service connectivity coming fast youtube.com/watch?v=jBHYWtd-… the confirm time from EUR note in, to smartphone LN wallet balance is nearly instant :) unfairly fast & cheap! #LightningNetwork
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I love bad random number generators. Thank you Ethereum for giving us several entire new classes of the species! blog.positive.com/predicting…