Posts from May 2019

Ostraka: Blockchain Scaling by Node Sharding

scaling sharding May 27, 2019 at 10:00 AM Alex Manuskin and Ittay Eyal
Ostraka is a node blockchain node architecture, with scale-out properties.

On Stablecoins and Beauty Pageants

stablecoins ethereum May 07, 2019 at 09:30 AM Amani Moin and Kevin Sekniqi
Some algorithmic stablecoins have proposed incorporating price feeds by asking their token holders. In this post, we point out that this mechanism is broken because of a fundamental incentive misalignment.