DeFi Analyzing the Recent Introduction of Huobi's 'DeFi Addendum' to the DeFi "Movement" This was announced via CoinDesk and a few other entities as well - but Huobi will be acting as a bank (directly) and granting users favorable interest rates (APR) on cryptomedication 9 Sep 2020 • 4 min read
Decentralized Finance Melon Protocol Review (Tech-Side Only): Part One This one has been a long-time coming, but I'm actually kind of excited to dive into this project because it looks fairly interesting (and they provide a lot of open cryptomedication 29 Aug 2020 • 7 min read
Decentralized Finance $HGET Token Research Review Decided to cover this highly anticipated project in lieu of the recent FTX IEO announcement (been a long time since we've seen an 'IEO', right?).Specifics of the AnnouncementBefore we cryptomedication 29 Aug 2020 • 10 min read
DeFi Breaking Down the Maker Protocol and Explaining its Positive Correlation With Ethereum's Price Disclaimer (Important Note!): This was originally written back on July 23rd, 2020 ; so the dates / prices will not be accurate to the time of publishing - this is still a cryptomedication 15 Aug 2020 • 13 min read
DeFi Dissecting How the 'Balancer' Protocol Operates We're not going to dive too deep into the functionality of the 'Balancer Protocol' here, but we are going to take a look at the technical documentation + whitepaper(s) published cryptomedication 15 Aug 2020 • 9 min read
Investigation Ivan and 'LobsterDAO' Defrauded the Blockchain Space With the CRV Token Release For those that don't know, "LobsterDAO" is a meaningless alias given to a fictitious / nebulous group of online 'degenerates' that discuss DeFi prices in random Telegram chats (i.e., t. cryptomedication 15 Aug 2020 • 10 min read
binance Andre Cronje May Be a Binance Employee Back to regular news - is it a coincidence to anyone that when CRV launched (via some mysterious, anonymous entity of sorts...), we saw: BinanceHuobi OKexAll rush to pick it cryptomedication 15 Aug 2020 • 2 min read
soramitsu SORA Research Review (Insanely Review) So this was a long time coming, but a few days ago, I performed a research review on SORA ($XOR). This was for no greater reason than the fact that cryptomedication 10 Aug 2020 • 14 min read
Blockchain Tech Ocean Protocol Review Someone asked about this project the other day and, while intriguing, there were a few points of contention that I brought up with the project's premise and design. Keeping in cryptomedication 9 Aug 2020 • 10 min read
Blockchain Tech Adventures in Blockchain: A Quick ERC20 Smart Contract Audit As we continue to plunge further into the rabbit hole of Ethereum and smart contracts, the importance of smart contract security is becoming increasingly apparent. But how can we account cryptomedication 6 Aug 2020 • 9 min read
$JST $JST Token Review: Tron’s Foray into DeFi Disclaimer: *This isn't financial advice. Not saying that to avoid being sued - but saying that because it isn't. This is an opinion piece on why $JST is a pickup cryptomedication 22 Jul 2020 • 10 min read
Bancor (Proof) Huobi Laundered Millions From Bancor's Hacked Funds Preface: *This research was performed with the assistance of Crystal Blockchain's proprietary on-chain transaction analysis software. Also, this is a re-published version of a (formerly lost) research report that was cryptomedication 22 Jul 2020 • 5 min read
Regulation CFTC Announcement RE: Abra Provides Significant Cause for Concern Just a few days ago from the time of writing, the CFTC published a public press release on its site, demanding that Abra cease and desist its operations immediately. "Washington, cryptomedication 17 Jul 2020 • 9 min read
Markets Kyber Network Price Analysis (T.A.) We've already broken down this token pretty thoroughly on a F.A. level, so let's see what the charts have lined up for us. Let's start off by taking a cryptomedication 12 Jul 2020 • 3 min read
DeFi Quick Look at Kyber Network's First Upcoming Protocol Vote We got invested into this one a little while back in the Discord / Riot (again, paper trading - real financial decisions should be made on your own or with an cryptomedication 12 Jul 2020 • 5 min read
DeFi Auditing the 'Flux' Smart Token Contract: Major Vulnerability Found, $5,000 Bug Bounty Denied With Team Also Refusing to Acknowledge or Patch (Part One) This title, while lengthy, accurately summarizes (precisely) the full nature of my interaction with the 'Flux' token contract from investigation / analysis, to eventual discovery of a relevant vulnerability, divulging said cryptomedication 12 Jul 2020 • 15 min read
DeFi Synthetix Research Report (Brief) Purpose of this write-up will not be to do a complete project analysis like what you see us cooking up with KNC (Kyber Network Protocol). However, we are going to cryptomedication 12 Jul 2020 • 8 min read
