Notes from a panel on the cryptocurrency derivatives market in 2020, featuring our Head of Research Ori Cohen. Amber: In recent years, the world has seen many macro-changes, including Brexit, oil price changes, protests, Covid-19, etc. What’s going on? Ori: The world has become crazy, and volatility is how we measure the craziness. Crypto volatility is historically very high. The options market is the only tool that can protect an investor…

A New hedging product for Bitcoin miners — Recently, FTX released its new product: hashrate futures. The arrival of exchange-traded futures presents an interesting tool for miners to be able to hedge out changes in future difficulty and also gives speculators the ability to bet on the future of Bitcoin’s mining difficulty. According to FTX, hashrate futures are…

Notes from a panel on the state of the derivatives market, featuring our CEO Roei Levav Challenges in the Industry Black Thursday Death spiral situation because it was collateralized in BTC High leverage OSL Perspective — OSL’s parent company is a publicly listed company, audited by PWC. …

How Bitcoin fits into the Austrian Business Cycle and Monetary Framework — Austrian economics and Bitcoin have been tied together since the very early days of the Bitcoin community, largely because they both draw in a libertarian-leaning audience. In fact, I first became interested in Bitcoin because of my passion for Austrian economics. Since then, Bitcoin and crypto have seen a huge…

Efficient Frontier is proud to announce that we are opening our Hong Kong office with our new team member, Justin Leung. Until recently, our primary focus was on Western markets, as we come from the traditional capital markets and wanted to play in more familiar waters. In the recent two…

Reflections on Meridian, Mexico City and real-world impact — Going to Meridian, the first-ever Stellar conference, I honestly had no idea what to expect. Before attending, I knew little about Mexico City, the Stellar ecosystem, and the Latin America cryptocurrency ecosystem. I can only say I was pleasantly surprised by the vibrant community and the kind people I met…

Reviewing and reflecting on last year’s Crypto-Economics Security Conference — If you haven’t yet heard, the Cryptoeconomics Security Conference is happening again from October 10–11, 2018 as part of SF Blockchain Week! Last year, Blockchain at Berkeley began CESC as part of an effort to bring a more academic presence to the space. We were tired of all these business…

Exploring areas of intersection between Islamic Finance and Blockchain — By Andrew Tu and Maaz Uddin Just as blockchain technology shows great promise for the financial services industry in general, it could also significantly improve processes within the Islamic finance industry. …