Simulating collateral price shocks’ effect on protocol economics — Introduction In our previous post, we explored the reasoning behind building the Maker Risk Dashboard and how it’s used for Computer-Aided Governance. In this post, we dive deeper into Collateral Risk Model which is used to propose Risk Premium and Debt Ceiling, two key governance risk parameters. This can then be…

A Tool for Computer-Aided Governance — Introduction DAO governance involves decentralized community members coming together and going through the political process of compromise in order to make decisions. These decisions ideally optimize for some mission/vision which is best stated explicitly. Decentralized mechanism design enables us to align incentives across different stakeholder groups even if their views diverge…

Exploring computational finance with Streamlit — Note: nothing herein is financial advice. This article is made only for informative purposes, not to be used for investment decisions. Introduction When researching different methodologies in computational finance, I found a lack of tooling that would enable me to interactively play with different parameters and observe the changes in the…

Predicting Ethereum investor profile with AWS SageMaker — TL;DR This project aims to connect the Ethereum dataset, machine learning, and cloud technologies in a single project. The outcome is an unsupervised ML data product, accessible through a web UI. It predicts the investor profile (cluster) based on the features constructed on-the-fly with the provided Ethereum address and its…

Ecosystem overview for data scientists — Note: nothing herein is financial advice. This article is made only for informative purposes, not to be used for investment decisions. Key Points Crypto protocols with their native assets provide an open and data-rich asset class with venture-scale economics and advantages of public market liquidity We still don't have established…

From newspapers to crypto-economic networks — TL;DR The information that we consume determines the decisions that we make both individually and as a collective. The capitalist, market-based economy enables an efficient allocation of resources but often at a price of misaligned market incentives and societal values. There are clear examples of this in our information diet. …

The non-scalable tribal collaboration “Homo sapiens rules the world because it is the only animal that can believe in things that exist purely in its own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights.” Yuval Noah Harari Human beings are social animals that have for most of our history (up until about 12000…

From user acquisition spend to MAU — Introduction Startup = Growth. As growth is clearly the essential characteristic of each startup or scale-up, it’s also important to be able to model it in order to better understand the levers that govern a certain product business model. The model presented in this post is a result of modeling the…