A New Cryptocurrency Project that Could Change...

John Jacques

published in Blogs

Nov 12, 2018

A New Cryptocurrency Project that Could Change Everything

Venture capital money has been flowing into fintech and artificial intelligence in 2018, but cryptocurrencies have been a different story. Investors are keen to back projects dealing with their underlying technologies, like blockchain, but less enthused to hitch their wagon to the inherent volatility of crypto in a still murky regulatory climate.

Now a new kind of cryptocurrency project has emerged – one that ties its price to reserve currencies to mitigate wild price fluctuations. They are called stablecoins, and venture capital kings Andreessen Horowitz believes they have significant potential.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has explored crypto in the past, backing CryptoKitties and OpenBazaar in two separate transactions. Now they have invested (or, in the company’s words, made a “strategic purchase” of) $15 million in Maker, a stablecoin network. That commitment to the MakerDAO project “will offer a16z the rights to govern MakerDAO and the Dai Credit System as it becomes the first decentralized autonomous stablecoin organization,” according to a report from CCN.

The Maker system runs via “a set of autonomous smart contracts…which means that anyone with an internet connection and collateral can create Dai [a decentralized stablecoin] without the need for trusted intermediaries,” said a16z in a statement announcing the deal. “To ensure the system remains solvent, a network of market makers is incentivized to liquidate loans that risk becoming undercollateralized, thereby removing excess Dai from circulation and keeping the balance of Dai to collateral in check.”

This means Dai will always be worth $1, regardless of other cryptocurrency prices. While Dai is currently backed by ether which, like most cryptocurrencies this year, has seen huge drops in price, MakerDAO “plans to introduce a diverse basket of collateral types, which would include tokenized equities and fiat-backed stablecoins” to eliminate reliance on a single type of cryptocurrency.

An additional CCN report indicates that a16z views the investment as a way to receive a “consistent yield return” from the network “due to the unique structure of the Maker blockchain network.” They anticipate an additional revenue stream from price increases with the Maker token “affected by the buyback program of Maker.”

To Katie Haun, a general partner at a16z, “the future economy [will] belong to decentralized stablecoins.” Their ability to mitigate the inefficiencies that plague traditional crypto will, in her opinion, not only increase adoption rates but also be more useful for long-term loans and other transactions. Can stablecoins make good on their promise? Andreessen Horowitz is betting yes.

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Sergey Savastiouk

published in Blogs

Mar 07, 2021

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If the stock market were Major League Baseball, hedge funds and institutional investors would be the pros on championship teams while everyday self-directed investors (SDIs) are the benchwarmers in the minors.It’s how they get ahead, and it’s why 90% of SDIs lose money trying to play (invest and trade) in the major leagues. The 4 tricks we discuss below are rooted in one common theme: they all use Artificial Intelligence and algorithms to generate data and ideas.

John Jacques

published in Blogs

Mar 22, 2018

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Sergey Savastiouk

published in Blogs

Jul 10, 2020

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Edward Flores

published in Blogs

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Alla Petriaieva

published in Blogs

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Is Ethereum’s Bomb about to Explode?

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Sergey Savastiouk

published in Blogs

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When Is the Next Recession Coming?

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Abhoy Sarkar

published in Blogs

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Central banks have been buying $2.4 billion in assets every hour for the past two months

Some $17.8 billion has been poured into bond markets over the past week, the biggest move in more than three months.Around $3.5 billion has been invested into gold, the second largest on record.

Rick Pendergraft

published in Blogs

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Sergey Savastiouk

published in Blogs

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Abhoy Sarkar

published in Blogs

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US unemployment rate jumps to 14.7%, the highest in series history

The U.S. economy’s employment fell by -20.5 million in April. The coronavirus crisis led to unemployment rate soaring to 14.7% in the U.S, the highest rate in the Bureau of Labor Statistics-tracked series history that goes back to 1948. However, the figures were better compared to several economists'/analysts' forecasts of 22 million job losses and 16% unemployment rate. Another unemployment measure that includes those who have stopped looking for work as well as those holding part-time jobs for economic reasons also touched an all-time high of 22.8%.