Synaptic Health Alliance
Why the Alliance: The Synaptic Health Alliance is a unique collaboration between industry-leading companies with various roles between vendor/client, provider/network, and competitors within the healthcare ecosystem. The alliance is committed to build a framework to solve widespread data management issues within the healthcare ecosystem through the use of blockchain technology. The Problem The Synaptic Health Alliance was formed by Humana, MultiPlan, Optum, Quest Diagnostics, and United Healt...
Synaptic Health Alliance
Why the Alliance: The Synaptic Health Alliance is a unique collaboration between industry-leading companies with various roles between vendor/client, provider/network, and competitors within the healthcare ecosystem. The alliance is committed to build a framework to solve widespread data management issues within the healthcare ecosystem through the use of blockchain technology. The Problem The Synaptic Health Alliance was formed by Humana, MultiPlan, Optum, Quest Diagnostics, and United Healt...
The daily 110: GMX/Yield-Bearing Stablecoins
One thing I learned today: GMX is one of if not the largest DeFi protocols on Arbitrum One. GMX is a large defi protocol that allows you to trade perpetuals in long and short positions. GMX allows traders to enter a long position without an expiry date. So, traders can long an asset at a large leverage (up to 100x) to maximize their profits based on the collateral they they input. What is a Perpetual Contract? A perpetual contract is a type of derivative that allows you to buy or sell the val...
The daily 110: GMX/Yield-Bearing Stablecoins
One thing I learned today: GMX is one of if not the largest DeFi protocols on Arbitrum One. GMX is a large defi protocol that allows you to trade perpetuals in long and short positions. GMX allows traders to enter a long position without an expiry date. So, traders can long an asset at a large leverage (up to 100x) to maximize their profits based on the collateral they they input. What is a Perpetual Contract? A perpetual contract is a type of derivative that allows you to buy or sell the val...
Early and Often: BNY Mellon -> Offchain Labs
Recently, I made a big life decision, one that was extremely stressful and exciting. The decision to leave BNYM Digital Assets and join Offchain Labs was one that left me feeling like I was the rope in a tug-of-war fight. Ultimately, I decided to join the extremely talented and innovative team at Offchain Labs. First, I’d like to thank everybody at BNYM Digital Assets for taking me in and not only making NYC feel like home but creating a workplace environment that fostered curiosity and growt...
Early and Often: BNY Mellon -> Offchain Labs
Recently, I made a big life decision, one that was extremely stressful and exciting. The decision to leave BNYM Digital Assets and join Offchain Labs was one that left me feeling like I was the rope in a tug-of-war fight. Ultimately, I decided to join the extremely talented and innovative team at Offchain Labs. First, I’d like to thank everybody at BNYM Digital Assets for taking me in and not only making NYC feel like home but creating a workplace environment that fostered curiosity and growt...
The Daily: Prism Liquidity
SubscribeOne thing I learned today: I cam across a defi platform today that provides liquidity to people who have private shares locked up in a private company. In a nutshell, Prism found a problem in how people with equity in private companies were highly restricted to accessing the liquidity in value of those shares. As working for a startup can be extremely enticing due to the opportunity to impact an industry it also comes with the opportunity for common stock. But as employees continued ...
The Daily: Prism Liquidity
SubscribeOne thing I learned today: I cam across a defi platform today that provides liquidity to people who have private shares locked up in a private company. In a nutshell, Prism found a problem in how people with equity in private companies were highly restricted to accessing the liquidity in value of those shares. As working for a startup can be extremely enticing due to the opportunity to impact an industry it also comes with the opportunity for common stock. But as employees continued ...
The Daily 108: Reward Curve with Tempered Issuance pt.1
SubscribeOne thing I learned today: On one of the last episodes of the Infinite Jungle by galaxy research they mentioned a research post by Anders Elowsson from Ethereum Foundation on the economics of eth staking issuance. The research report is quite lengthy so will be going into it over multiple blog posts. https://ethresear.ch/t/reward-curve-with-tempered-issuance-eip-research-post/19171 Let’s break it down from the overview perspective first: Problem: High staking issuance is leading to u...
The Daily 108: Reward Curve with Tempered Issuance pt.1
SubscribeOne thing I learned today: On one of the last episodes of the Infinite Jungle by galaxy research they mentioned a research post by Anders Elowsson from Ethereum Foundation on the economics of eth staking issuance. The research report is quite lengthy so will be going into it over multiple blog posts. https://ethresear.ch/t/reward-curve-with-tempered-issuance-eip-research-post/19171 Let’s break it down from the overview perspective first: Problem: High staking issuance is leading to u...