This piece has also been posted to the Yam Discourse Forum, join the conversation here. Following a successful relaunch of the audited and fully functional YAM, it is time to turn our eyes towards the future. The relaunch of YAM was meant to largely replicate the initial YAM parameters in…

While it seems like an eternity has passed, Yam was launched just one month ago. Since its release, we’ve seen a proliferation of forking experiments, fair and not so fair launches, and DeFi communities testing long-held assumptions. On Friday Sept 18th, Yam will be re-launching into a landscape it helped…

Disclaimer: I assisted in the launch of YAM, an unaudited, experimental protocol. The ideas you see below are simply my own personal thoughts and don’t reflect the views of the YAM community or any of the other individuals who helped build YAM. It’s important to note that any potential experiments…

Honestly, looking at the UMA website right now filled mainly with explainers and docs extolling the broad design space enabled by their open synthetic asset infrastructure, it’d be easy to think they are a young DeFi upstart hopping on the train. There’s no product interface, no dashboard of market metrics…

This week at DeFi Summit in London, I presented my thoughts on using Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory as a model for understanding DeFi. It’s something that has been top of mind for us at Topo Finance, as we aggregate functionality of underlying protocols to create our interest rate optimization product…

At the height of the hype and fraud of the 2017 ICO bubble, a number of unflattering comparisons were made between ICOs and penny stocks — and not without good reason. Both penny stocks and ICOs have a track record of fraudulent activity resulting from bad actors capitalizing on a…

Security tokens offer a new way for companies to raise capital from a wide pool of investors in full regulatory compliance. The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 includes a provision (section 12(g)) that would mandate that companies must report to the SEC as public companies if their investor base grows…