ZBTC — Scenario AnalysisIn practice, how will ZBTC behave? Here we analyse 3 scenarios of BTC price action and the resultant ZBTC redemption rate in detail. We…Aug 16, 2022Aug 16, 2022
Dynamic Overcollaterlization — a new model for Stablecoins backed by volatile collateralThe leading decentralised stablecoin, DAI, is facing issues due to the bulk of its collateral being composed of USDC — which as recent…Aug 14, 2022Aug 14, 2022
Modelling ZBTC price action given potential bitcoin price over 2022–2025In our whitepaper, we show via extensive historical modelling how zBTC behaves as a volatility free asset that exploits long term BTC…Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022
Why Bitcoin Is the Ideal Digital Monetary Collateral“The thousands of imitations of Nakamoto’s design are perhaps the sincerest form of flattery, but their continued failure to ever deliver…Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022
Money, Currency Systems, and Monetary Assets — Part II: The FutureCarrying forward from Part I that traced the history of money, this post discusses its future, and constructs the ideal monetary asset.Mar 21, 2022Mar 21, 2022
Money, Currency Systems, and Monetary AssetsTracing the past and future of money, and introducing the ideal monetary asset.Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
xBTC Design Principles — Building a crypto-native reserve assetOur primary objectives while designing xBTC as a crypto-native stablecoin were as follows: (1) Compute a stable USD redemption rate for…Mar 9, 2022Mar 9, 2022