Published in Soluna

·Pinned

Introducing Soluna, the gateway to Anchor interest-bearing assets on Solana.

After much anticipation, we are excited to announce Soluna, a cross-chain protocol to access stable, high yields on Anchor assets from Solana. The protocol allows anyone to forward their interest-bearing assets deposited on Anchor (Terra blockchain) to the Solana blockchain. Best of all, it is done in an entirely permissionless…

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Introducing Soluna, the gateway to Anchor interest-bearing assets on Solana.

Published in Dahlia Labs

·Mar 21

NewForm, Social Capital, and Flori headline a $1M seed round in Dahlia Labs.

Dahlia Labs is excited to announce that we have raised $1M in seed funding from New Form Capital, Social Capital, Flori Ventures, Allegory Capital, 3SE Holdings, Smith Aaker Family Trust, Rene Reinsberg, Marek Olszewski, Ryan Berkun, and Outlet Finance to engineer the open financial system. The creators of the Soluna…

Crypto

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NewForm, Social Capital, and Flori headline a $1M seed round in Dahlia Labs.

Published in Soluna

·Mar 1

solUST staking is live!

We are excited to announce that anyone can now stake their solUST into the Soluna protocol to earn a percentage of the Anchor yields directly. The staking mechanism works like this: The user connects their wallet and then inputs the amount of solUST that they want to stake. The protocol then deposits the solUST in a…

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solUST staking is live!

We are excited to announce that anyone can now stake their solUST into the Soluna protocol to earn a percentage of the Anchor yields directly.

The staking mechanism works like this:

The user connects their wallet and then inputs the amount of solUST that they want to stake.
The protocol then deposits the solUST in a…

Published in Blockchain at Michigan

·Mar 3, 2021

RAI — An Autonomous Reserve Asset for a Decentralized Financial System

Executive Summary Built on Ethereum, RAI is a low volatility reflex index with minimal governance for decentralized financial applications to use. Utilizing an on-chain proportional-integral-derivative controller, the protocol is designed to react to various market pressures to maintain a stable market price that is within a small margin of what…

Reflexer

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RAI — An Autonomous Reserve Asset for a Distributed Financial System

Feb 26, 2021

Why you should short Bitcoin.

Let me begin by stating the obvious, we are in the midst of one the most speculative markets in recent history. Excess liquidity with topped out equity valuations and low interest rates have worked as the quiet undertone to what is a brewing disaster. To no surprise, folks have flocked…

Bitcoin

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Dec 20, 2020

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mining Bitcoin in Western Massachusetts that accounts for electricity consumption, hash rate power concentration in a mining pool, and capital costs as a T-5 industrial consumer.

Process Decided to test three different concentrations of hashing rates (computing power) to determine which concentration would be most profitable. Calculated the total cost to run a mining unit for a year and adjusted the calculation to match the desired concentration. The benefits were calculated using a projection of possible future…

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mining Bitcoin in Western Massachusetts that accounts for electricity…

Dec 20, 2020

A digital synthetic hegemonic currency answers the call for a new international payment network.

“The relatively high costs of domestic and cross border electronic payments are encouraging innovation, with new entrants applying new technologies to offer lower cost, more convenient retail payment services.” Note. Quote from Mark Carney, Governor of Bank of England, Speech at the 2019 Jack Hole Economic Symposium. At the 2019…

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Jul 22, 2020

Non-custodial DeFi systems and Economic Risk

While DeFi shows tremendous hope for the formation of a new financial system that can be independent of institutional trust, many of the most popular DeFi systems that exist today still rely on the very same institutions they are aiming to replace. An example of this is using a partner…

Defi

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Dec 9, 2019

Lendvie: A decentralized USDC lending application built on the Ethereum network.

About 220 million people in the United States have a credit score. Of them, roughly 68 million are categorized to have a “poor” rating of 601 or below. This means for a large segment of the population, their credit score affects their ability to lend money that sometimes could be…

Blockchain

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Lendvie: A decentralized USDC lending application built on the Ethereum network.

Introducing Soluna, the gateway to Anchor interest-bearing assets on Solana.

NewForm, Social Capital, and Flori headline a $1M seed round in Dahlia Labs.

solUST staking is live!

solUST staking is live!

The staking mechanism works like this:

RAI — An Autonomous Reserve Asset for a Decentralized Financial System

Why you should short Bitcoin.

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mining Bitcoin in Western Massachusetts that accounts for electricity consumption, hash rate power concentration in a mining pool, and capital costs as a T-5 industrial consumer.​

A digital synthetic hegemonic currency answers the call for a new international payment network.

Non-custodial DeFi systems and Economic Risk

Lendvie: A decentralized USDC lending application built on the Ethereum network.

Robert Leifke

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Mining Bitcoin in Western Massachusetts that accounts for electricity consumption, hash rate power concentration in a mining pool, and capital costs as a T-5 industrial consumer.