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Simplifying Crypto Structured Products

Simplifying Crypto Structured Products

Overview In Traditional Finance (TradFi), structured products are essentially managed investment products or packaged financial products whose value is linked to an underlying asset or basket of assets such as market indices, stocks, bonds or a mix of these. Structured products have a pre-defined maturity date, different yield-bearing profiles and

Exploring the Web 3.0 Incubator/Accelerator Landscape

Exploring the Web 3.0 Incubator/Accelerator Landscape

Despite the bear market condition🐻, we still see many accelerator programs continuously emerge in the crypto space. Hence, this week with Alpha Academy🎓, we’ll be discussing the Web 3.0 incubator/accelerator landscape, comparing different accelerator programs, including: * Web 3.0 native programs that follow batch structure Alliance DAO

Evolution of Ethereum Scaling Solutions

Evolution of Ethereum Scaling Solutions

Ethereum has been the go-to blockchain for users and developers, with more than $55B TVL across DeFi and NFTs. However, such a high network adoption also brings forth major issues for the Ethereum network especially on its scalability, as the current network can only process an average of 13.5

Tokenomics Design Analysis

Tokenomics Design Analysis

Key Takeaways 1. We recommend using the “Value Alignment” framework to analyze tokenomics design 2. The first step is to break down tokenomics design into underlying tokenomics models. 3. The second step is to analyze the models based on the value alignment of the involved parties – the project, users, and

MEV Analysis 101

MEV Analysis 101

Since summer 2021, DeFi on Ethereum has grown substantially with an enormous influx of end-users and countless numbers of emerging protocols. These new protocols introduce lots of profitable opportunities, such as arbitrages between DEXs and liquidations in lending protocols. The profit available to be extracted is commonly known as MEV.

Things I Wish I Knew When Starting a Crypto Company (Part 1)

Things I Wish I Knew When Starting a Crypto Company (Part 1)

Welcome to Alpha Academy, a cryptopedia for builders. In this article, we'll be summarizing the key takeaways from our podcast on ‘Things I Wish I Knew When Starting a Crypto Company (Part 1)’, with Tascha, Co-Founder & Project Lead from Alpha Venture DAO [https://alphaventuredao.io/]. Haven’t