A recent article by Emurgo reminded us that there is a massive strength that Cardano has that is somewhat unremarked on and under appreciated; Native Tokens. Unlike all other Blockchains using Smart Contracts to create layer 2 tokens, such as Ethereum which uses the ERC-20 standard for fungible tokens, Cardano allows for Tokens to be…
Category: Musings
Market turbulence
You will likely have seen news over the last few days on the collapse of FTX, the exchange led by Sam Bankman-Fried and the sister company Alameda which was essentially their trading arm. This high profile collapse follows hot on the heels of Terra/Luna (Do Kwon), and Celsius (Alex Mashinsky) and has had similar negative…
Another look at network effects
A recent article in The Economist covering the current health status of some of the tech ‘darlings’ caught our eye: Over the past year, the firms that epitomise these [new tech] business models — Uber and DoorDash; Netflix and Spotify; and Snap and Meta (which has tumbled spectacularly out of the trillion-dollar club) — have…
A metric that matters…
Transaction Bytes per Second (TBPS). This metric measures the total transaction data throughput on chain and it’s been increasing consistently. We think this is a much much more meaningful metric than Transactions Per Second (TPS). Why? On an extended Unspent Transaction Output (eUTxO) chain like Cardano a simple metric of TPS does not reflect the…
On chain metrics
A couple of interesting stats from the latest Kraken Intelligence report. First up is the on chain dominance which as expected shows a weakening of altcoins relative to Bitcoin which is typical of bear market cycles. Note that Cardano (ADA) is performing well against other altcoins, with potential for a stronger performance as we head…