One of the biggest questions most founders have in whats seems like a bull-market is often “ Am I doing something wrong”. It looks as though money is falling out of the sky on everyone with a dot finance domain and many founders building on sound economics often get lost…

I wanted to see how traditional credit scores are coming to DeFi today. The challenge with DeFi today is that almost nobody outside the ecosystem can use it. Individuals without tokens cannot deposit collateral and thus cannot get a line of credit. Similarly, those without digital assets cannot offer it…

I dug into stablecoins for the first time in December 2019. If you had told me then that the market-supply of tokens in the space would cross $10 billion and user-count could be close to 100,000, I might have written you off as an optimist. And yet, here we are…

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…

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…

Blockchain Founders Raise over $822 million by Q2 — Despite several strong indicators in both network activity and user growth price continues to lag well behind the highs of 2017–18. The ecosystem is more robust and becoming increasingly professionalised with several new institutional participants All on-chain indicators hint at what is about to come Markets and the weather hold one common attribute — they function in cycles. The token…