SVET System Rating:

1. Security: you have to evaluate project’s code vulnerability. Sources of information: search Google for publicly known breaches of its protocol and who — if any — officially audited their code;
2. Velocity: you have to factually check, number (if possible) and appraise platform’s scaling / growth capacity, including, platform’s number of independent nodes, their rate of growth and number of independent developers working with this platform. Sources of information: project’s Technical paper, project’s GitHub, look for a number of registered project developers, their activity and qualification;
3. Engineering: you have to asses platform’s Architecture and compare it to known analogues. …

The Professor of Economics hears someone knocking to his front door at the midst of the night and rushes to open it with his wife in close pursuit thinking that Stanford students, confined for months to their tiny campus rooms, are rioting and he will be evacuated by the National Guard.

Instead, what our Professor gets from whoever interrupted his sleep is the news that he’s received the Nobel Prize. Now, can’t you see the irony?

If you can — you, probably, had taken Investing 101 in your University.

Indeed, the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH), according to which any piece of…

Quote: ‘Decentraland is a virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. … Land in Decentraland is permanently owned by the community … Users claim ownership of virtual land on a blockchain-based ledger of parcels. Landowners control what content is published to their portion of land, which is identified by a set of cartesian coordinates (x,y). Contents can range from static 3D scenes to interactive systems such as games.

Decentraland’s MarketplaceBurner and PassThrough contracts were audited by Nomic Lab. Quote (Nomic Lab): No security issues were found. Some changes were proposed to reduce the risk of potential future human mistakes…

From the point of view of ‘traditional economics’ where prices of all goods and services are supposed to be described by ‘Cobweb models’ and depend on their ‘marginal utility’, and where Money presents itself MoE-SoV-UoA of those values, one of the most baffling issues must be the meme coins.

Here’s the list of the top 10 meme coins ranked by their current MarketCap:

Dogecoin (DOGE) — MarketCap: $46.74B, Price: $0.36162; MonaCoin (MONA) — $202.82M, $3.08563; Hoge Finance (HOGE) — $98.59M, $0.00024; Meme (MEME) — $55.12M, $1,968.43; Banano (BAN) — $17.98M, $0.01479; Garlicoin (GRLC) — $4.36M, $0.06921; Memetic (MEME) — $2.48M…

The state of VC crypto investments in 2021 continues to improve. According to ‘Blockchain Venture Capital Report’ published April 11:

• Quote: ‘There are very few blockchain VC funds for retail investors, even though there is high demand.’;
• Quote: ‘Dedicated blockchain VC funds have significantly outperformed the market and regular VC funds over the past seven years.’;
• Quote: ‘For the most part, correlations between blockchain VC and stocks, bonds, and commodities have been in the 0.00–0.14 range.’;
• Quote: ‘Blockchain VC investments decreased by 13% between 2019 and 2020, while traditional VC investment increased by 18%.’;
• Quote: ‘The total amount invested in…

CoinBase listing might be a turning point after which worlds’ legislators will start to take crypto damn seriously and start to regulate it rigorously, Draconian way.

Let’s see what they can do (+ my comments):

1. Ban all crypto (already tried, f.e. in China and India);
2. Declare all crypto to be regulated stocks (partially, already tried in U.S.);
3. Enforce ‘the travel rule’, when it is required to carry KYC history with every transaction (it is an analog to a ban because there is no way to do it technically without changing all underlying protocols);
4. Require to KYC all wallets, or, as…

The long-term members of this group shall remember that 2–3 years ago I was repeatedly citing PWC Reports on VC investments into crypto-startups. At that time PWC was one of the few main-stream agents addressing crypto market fundamentals.

Today I can go to Bloomberg for that :)

Quote: ‘In the first quarter, 129 startups focusing on the digital technology known as blockchain raised about $2.6 billion … That’s more than in all of 2020, when they attracted $2.3 billion in 341 deals … .’

Compare to my post as of April 2019, which says: ‘PWC concludes that deals market has…

Markets hypes often make us forget that there are some governments agencies which major function is to prevent us from having too many good things at the same time. Thank you, @Stanta, for reminding me that fact!

On March 19 FATF published on its site the ‘Draft updated Guidance for a risk-based approach to virtual assets and VASPs’

Quote: ‘A DApp itself (i.e. the software program) is not a VASP under the FATF standards, as the Standards do not apply to underlying software or technology… However, entities involved with the DApp may be VASPs under the FATF definition. For example…