Blockchain Derivatives for Fun and Profit: A Better Way To Trade — What is Perpetual Protocol? Simply put, Perpetual Protocol is a derivatives exchange for perpetual contracts (defined below). Perpetual Protocol lets users trade perpetual contracts with up to 10x leverage on-chain with transactions processed on Optimism (podcast, explainer). In finance, a perpetual futures contract is an agreement to non-optionally buy or sell an asset at…

TL;DR: Web3 moves fast. We need our educational efforts to move faster in order to sustain the ecosystem and for newcomers to contribute meaningfully. Web3 might be the one chance to finally transform education from an underconsumed and underprovided merit good into a new digital public good. Web3’s Shared Challenge: Growing Our Own Timber We need to…

This is a review of the blog post “Spatial Software” written by John Palmer for 1729. tl;dr Spatial software is great for social use cases and the pandemic will definitely accelerate its adoption. …

Review of Spatial Interfaces as part of a task by 1729.com (https://1729.com/spatial-interfaces) tl;dr Applying spatial design to crypto may just help adoption… if its the right context. We talk about the UI of cryptokitties and decentraland and we see how a 3D interface might transform a user’s experience. Article Summary of Spatial Interfaces increasing the…

Here’s a review and short contribution to the article and challenge on 1729.com. You can find said article here. Its a short 10 minute read about how a smart contract platform can level the playing field for new startups as user onboarding is now trivial. Ethereum Login

You can find said article here. This was an article by Jon Stokes, originally published as “Cryptocurrency and the Great Unbundling”. On this same article, there’s a counter-argument in the comments, titled “Why Cryptocurrency Is A Giant Fraud”. Article Summary Here’s a quick summary of what was discussed to serve as a…

You can find said article here. This was first written by John Palmer in 2016 where he published the article as a thought experiment on what software might do to governance systems. Article Summary Consider disruption in the business world, where there may be an existing organization dominating an industry. When a…

You can find said article here. Rather than analyse whether each investor has an accurate crystal ball instead, I’ve decided to use topic modelling to see whether investors as a general crop picked major topics that turned out true. With some help from Topic Modelling for Everyone with Google Colab…

It took 2 afternoons to write this book review. Thanks to the endless number of distractions that come up from the news cycle tracking the state of Singapore’s COVID measures. Stuck at home, many of us are bombarded endlessly by our ceaseless notifications. How might we get anything done? As…