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INVESMENT OPTIONS IN THE DIGITAL ASSETS/CRYPTOCURRENCY SPACE - Part 1

•  SMART CONTRACTS; Ethereum, waves, ontology, algorand, cosmos, polkadot, cardano etc. •  TOKENS; xlm, xrp, Bitcoin Cash(BCH), etc •  DEFIS; Terra, Nexo, USDN, DAI, •  Stable Coin and Algorithmic Stable coins; USDT, USDC, USDN, etc. KEY CONSIDERATIONS IN MAKING A CHOICE •  Asset Fundamentals •  Rate of adoption •  Products and services  •  Partnerships •  Incentives TYPES OF INVESTMENT OPTIONS Passive income. Example, DAI, USDN, Waves, Ethereum, Nexo, Terra, Sia etc Buy and Hold aka Hodler: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, XLM, XRP etc Trading (Scalping, swing, day and Position Trades). Bitcoin,Litcoin, Ethereum, BCH, etc Loans: Nexo etc TYPES OF INVESMENT – PASSIVE INCOME •  PASSIVE INCOME: Algorithmic stable coins can provide daily in system referred to as Decentralized Finance Eco system (DEFIs). Examples; USDN implement a typical CBN policy for T-bills and Bonds. By implement such monetary policy, investors are presented with a ver...

DECENTRALIZED FINANCE; WHAT IS IT? – Part 1

      More than t en years gone down the lane, the block chain industry is yet to disappoint with it ever changing nature. Since the early adoption, the industry has since recorded a slow but progressive changes with the latest being the Decentralized Finance also referred to as Defi. What Decentralized Finance? ‘’DeFi is essentially just conventional financial tools built on a blockchain’’-blocknomi. These were previously built on the Ethereum network, but there is a growing number of players in this space such as Waves and Cosmos. ‘’ They are mostly predicated on open-source protocols or modular frameworks for creating and issuing digital assets and are designed to confer notable advantages of operating on a public blockchain like censorship-resistance and improved access to financial services’’ Example of a growing number of Defi Dapps on the waves platform is the Neutrino token - https://beta.neutrino.at/neutrino/usd-n ...

In Banking Wealth is Controlled by Providers, in Blockchain Wealth is Controlled by Owners

There is increased talk in the blockchain industry about  #DeFi  or “decentralized finance”, which is enabled by systems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum Classic. However, much of that talk refers to performance, e.g. achieving similar transaction capacity as traditional centralized systems, lowering barriers for new entrants, doing regulatory arbitrage, or using tokens to “incentivize” particular behaviors in users. Although many of those goals are certainly possible using blockchains, the conversation has geared away from the true parading shift that blockchain brings: Trust minimization. The paradigm shift is that customers regain control of their wealth. In the traditional banking industry, customers don’t really have control of their financial assets, they really have IOUs from financial providers. Trust minimization in the financial industry means this level of trust in providers is not necessary and the transfer in custody to the customer...