Published in Struck Crypto·Oct 31, 2022Why We Invested: Shardeum (L1)Case for why there is still room for a new L1 What is Shardeum? Shardeum is the first linearly scalable EVM-based L1 blockchain with cross-shard composability. Shardeum uses dynamic sharding, autoscaling, and many more innovations to solve the Blockchain Trilemma problem. Is there room for another L1? A paper titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data…Venture Capital8 min readVenture Capital8 min read
Published in Stellar Community·Oct 16, 2020Announcing the Winners of the First Kelpbot StellarBattleThe Kelpbot StellarBattle has finally come to a close! This August, we announced a contest for the Kelp trading Bot using the StellarBattle platform with a total prize pool of 20,000 XLM. The contest called for people to create educational content based on their experiences using Kelp. …Technology2 min readTechnology2 min read
Published in Stellar Community·Aug 19, 2020Join the StellarBattle contest to create content about the Kelp trading botThe Stellar Development Foundation is kicking off a contest in collaboration with StellarBattle to encourage users to create educational content for the open-source Kelp automated trading bot. The contest gives you — the Stellar community — an incentive to learn more about the Stellar Decentralized Exchange (aka the DEX), as…Stellar2 min readStellar2 min read
Published in Coinmonks·Aug 18, 2020What is Bitcoin? (make it simple for me)Bitcoin confuses a lot of people because they get lost in the jargon (decentralized, validator, etc.). In truth, you only need to understand the high-level idea behind why Bitcoin exists. In this blog post, I break it down into a few fundamental questions with simple answers. Note: When I say…Technology11 min readTechnology11 min read
Published in The Startup·Jul 16, 2020Member-onlyAbstractions in Software Are Like BoxesSoftware projects start off small. As the code grows it becomes complex and eventually spirals out of control. Good software developers focus on writing simple code. As the codebase grows they refactor the code to keep it simple. This makes things easy to reason about, debug, and grow. One of…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Jun 20, 2020Bitcoin vs. AltcoinsThis post compares Bitcoin with some Altcoins that I follow (Ethereum, Stellar, Z-Cash). The post highlights key differences and includes references for further learning. The goal is to summarize the use-case and tradeoff choices of these blockchains. Bitcoin (BTC) Use Case: Decentralized Money Trust: People with the most computing power Consensus: PoW …Bitcoin2 min readBitcoin2 min read
May 11, 2020Kelp GUI for Stellar: Nightly builds now availableIn order to serve the Stellar and Kelp community better, we are making nightly builds of the Kelp GUI available. See our recent post from last week about releasing the Kelp GUI v1.0.0-rc1 on the Stellar test network. The goal of this nightly build is to make bug fixes available…Stellar1 min readStellar1 min read
May 7, 2020Kelp: Pre-release of Kelp GUI Automated Crypto Trading Bot (v1.0.0-rc1)We are happy to announce that the first pre-release of the Kelp GUI is now available for download here. Check out the video tutorial for how to use the GUI. This is a repost of Kelp GUI: Your First Automated Trading Bot from the Stellar Developers Blog What is Kelp? Kelp is a…Technology3 min readTechnology3 min read
Published in Stellar Developers·Jul 19, 2019Kelp: Why We Built It — The Liquidity ProblemTL;DR Stellar has a near-zero-fee Decentralized Exchange built into the protocol, which allows you to trade any token pair and list your tokens without any listing fees or restrictions. Like all exchanges, the Stellar Decentralized Exchange is faced with the liquidity problem: there have to be enough people putting out “maker”…Stellar7 min readStellar7 min read
Aug 29, 2018Smooth Startups: Y-Combinator’s S18 Batch — Day 1My favorite startups from YC’s S18 Batch — Day 1 Y-Combinator recently had their Demo Day for the S18 batch. After reading about these startups I thought I’d list my favorites with short descriptions of each startup. I’m generally biased towards technology startups so there may be a larger proportion…Startup2 min readStartup2 min read
