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"The point of this essay is to show how value flows from users to shareholders in both companies and decentralized protocols and give the reader a mental model for making sense of profit share tokens."

beginner Cryptoeconomics

"The Aroon Indicator was invented by Tushar Chande. Aroon means “Dawn’s Early Light” in Sanskrit and was designed to be an indicator to identify incoming trends before they happen."

intermediate Cryptoeconomics

"We all know what app coins/tokens are. These are the coins that fire up various applications and they have existed before the blockchain. An excellent example of this is in-house currencies in online multi-player games."

beginner Protocols Tokens

"Our objective is to show how a critical reframing of economics enables token integrity to be explained and managed."

intermediate Cryptoeconomics

"Every crypto era has its driving force. The first was Bitcoin, then came Altcoins, then the utility tokens and platforms. The next era is being led by traditional financial institutions, banks, and even central banks."

beginner Cryptoeconomics

"Most people think #Bitcoin’s PoW is “wasteful.” In this article, I explore how everything is energy, money is energy, energy usage is subjective, and PoW’s energy costs relative to existing governance systems."

beginner Protocols

"Narratives are an immensely powerful tool, so much so, that experts generally attribute civilization’s rapid development to humans’ ability to efficiently tell stories. Due to their impact on human behavior, narratives can significantly affect our perception of value. In the current crypto market climate, reality is often overlooked in favor of narrative propagation. As such, it is important to evaluate the accuracy of popular beliefs, and separate the signal from the noise. Let us delve deeper through an analysis of Litecoin."

beginner Altcoins

"In this paper, we examine the extent to which anonymity is achieved in the deployed version of Zcash."

advanced Altcoins Privacy Whitepaper

"Classifying cryptocurrencies has proven to be difficult. Here is a proposed dimension that cryptocurrencies live on."

beginner Altcoins Cryptoeconomics

"Despite its success and widespread use for writing smart contracts on Ethereum, Solidity is a relatively new programming language, naturally susceptible to bugs and some high-level logical faults. Out of the demand for smart contract creation and improved security methods for writing them, programming languages Vyper and Scilla have emerged."

intermediate Code Ethereum Smart Contracts

'This article is about the “store of value” myth and how those who promote it are blind to the gaps in their logic.'

beginner Bitcoin Cryptoeconomics

"The below is a deep dive into the technology powering instant settlement at sparkswap, a new way to trade cryptocurrencies without depositing assets on an exchange. It is a technical article, and it is recommended that readers be familiar with the Lightning Network and Atomic Cross-chain Swaps."

advanced Protocols