Systems like Ethereum (and Bitcoin, and NXT, and Bitshares, etc) are a fundamentally new class of cryptoeconomic organisms — decentralized…

View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/15-401F08 Instructor: Andrew Lo This course provides a rigorous introduction to the fundamentals of modern finan...

1/ I just read a great recent (and the 1st?) SoK paper on the "oracle space" ... written by @sbetamc @GreatSaoshyant @catgu_ @PulpSpy I highlight some interesting ideas from the paper below. ▼▼▼

This discussion applies quantitative finance methods and economic arguments to cryptocurrencies in general and bitcoin in particular ---as there are about $10,000$ cryptocurrencies, we focus (unless otherwise specified) on the most discussed crypto

The explosion of activity in DeFi markets over the last year highlighted both possibilities and problems inherent to blockchain systems, including the phenomenon of miner—or maximal—extractable value (MEV). Since January of this year, MEV amounts to at least…

Ethereum 2.0 Specifications. Contribute to NethermindEth/eth2.0-specs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Iron, an under-collateralized-by-design stablecoin, is experiencing a bank run on its algorithmic/Titan portion, similarly to PegsUSD and Dollar Protocol before it. And similar to how Terra had a scare last month. And also a bit similar to Malt just last…

How to allow community to promote EIPs all the way to mainnet without waiting for AllCoreDevs (too much).

MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018
Instructor: Patrick Winston
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Patrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years. Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your…