Last week there was a public debate between Aave and Morpho, two DeFi lending protocols. Paul Frambot, the founder of Morpho, countered some of the claims made online by the Aave community with the following tweet: So. Aave is attempting to prevent the growth of Morpho by introducing Merit, a
Read moreTokens represent a stake in decentralised networks and serve as a tool to align and incentivise network participants. Different networks can have different token designs. One of the main components of token design is the total token supply. A lot of networks today opt for setting a fixed token supply
Read moreThe way I currently see it, the DeSci value chain can be broken down into 3 main parts: the funding of research, the execution of it and the publishing of results. Funding There are two main funding gaps across early stage scientific research today. The first is at the basic
Read moreIn just a few years DeFi has evolved into a parallel financial universe, handling billions of dollars of value. However, DeFi still has a limited user reach with its products primarily used by the same group of people. There are several reasons for that. For one, the products have been
Read moreI just finished the book We are Bellingcat, which documents the origins and work of the investigative journalism group Bellingcat. Bellingcat, a name derived from the fable Belling the Cat, is notable for relying almost exclusively on open source materials such as social media content, satellite imagery, maps and other
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