We previously compared how funding trends have performed in Q1 2020 in comparison to the previous first quarters. Since looking at the first quarter by itself is not going to help much, I have spent time exploring what the trend has been for the past 15 months. I believe a
March 2020 may have been the worst month to be in blockchain-related ventures since February 2014. The last time I had observed so much fear and pain, Mt Gox was going down after months of reported insolvency. Ironically, six years later, another exchange (Bitmex) played just as crucial a role
Ethereum set out to be the world computer. On the way, it has choked trying to trade kitties, needed a reset due to a colossal hack, enabled dissent against authoritarian regimes and created a new financial infrastructure. A sweeping statement suggesting it is money, a failure, a mutable ledger or
Bitcoin’s rising price has often been both a boon and a bane. A boon because it incentivises individuals to connect to the network. A bane because it inevitably forces individuals to look at a single metric when it is far more than “number go up, number go down”. It
Note : I personally have no relation to the team or exposure to Synthetix. This is not investment advice and should not be treated as such. My massive synthetix bag as of writing this is worth $1.50 which was purchased with the intent of taking the Mintr app for a
Note : This was originally written in June 2019. Much has changed for DeFi since then. Putting it out in the open because I want to see this being built. Introduction Faster the flow of money, across economies, better the rate of innovation and social progress. Many of India's leapfrog moments
Note : If I were to be idealistic, I'd likely have only DAI in this data-set. However, markets don't really care about my idealism. As much as there is controversy around USDT today - fact remains that it is a crucial component of the stablecoin ecosystem. I would appreciate it if
The past decade may have seen more changes in job trends than the past 200 years combined. Improvements in connectivity through mediums like the internet, reduction in cultural differences through shared consumption of media (like Netflix) and access to global markets have disrupted what we think of as “jobs”. The
Note : I have no commercial relationship with InstaDapp. I've known the team since 2018 and have followed them since. Market places are interesting due to how they bring networks to commodities. Produces that may not sell individually often find buyers when they are listed alongside other goods that go well
Decentralised applications are hailed as the pathway to massive adoption. It seems the hype around much of them has been slowly dying out. The present status of DApps are very similar to the state of the internet before the launch of Netscape and sadly enough, Brave's rapid growth may not
If you were born after 1995 and grew up in a developing economy, odds are high that Facebook has encompassed the vast majority of your digital life. The platform hit a billion users right around the time you were 13 (2008), leveraged network effects of Mobwars and Farmville to keep
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