Facing the challenges of mass adoption, Waves, as an ecosystem, must step it up a notch, working on liquidity, scalability and post-blockchain DLT vision. The road to Waves 2.0 will take us a while, but the path is clearly defined. There will be 3 stages on the road to Waves…

Automatic market makers really revolutionized crypto, taking it from simple value transfer to more complex algorithmic decentralized fund swaps, effectively questioning the very existence of centralized crypto exchanges. Parallel to innovation in on-chain value asset transfer we have experienced the emergence of another asset class on the blockchains, inspired by…

2020 has been a difficult year, but at least one good thing has happened: the bear market for crypto came to an end. Since 2018, the crypto space had been in a situation similar to the dot-com crash, and only recently the market turned obviously bullish. …

Approaching the launch of decentralized Forex (DeFo), it is time to tweak the mechanics of Neutrino System Base Token (NSBT). Financial instruments often come in pairs, such as, for instance, USD and treasuries, stable assets and their governing tokens etc. There is a “target” instrument whose behavior we’re trying to…

There are actually more than two things you can’t escape in life, not just death and taxes. There’s another force of nature, which is probably no less imminent — volatility. We’ve learned to live with it, but it is always with us. Everything fluctuates — be it prices, new daily…

Since 2014, I have been heavily into blockchain. I remember when it was something very niche and the community was tiny. …

Blockchain technology provides a method to make data immutable, and by this I mean set it “in stone” so to say, make it resilient to attempts to change it or forge it. It should be noted that data can be basically anything, it doesn’t have to be payments transactions only…

Dear Waves Community, Today, I have the pleasure of looking back on 4 years of history and progress at Waves, but also to the future and what I believe will potentially be the most defining period of our industry. However, before I dive right in, I’d like to take a…

Waves mechanics is deflationary by default. Leasing allows to effectively lock a solid chunk of the total stake in mining. If the network grows mining profits grow as well, which creates an incentive to lock more stake, and, correspondingly, more stake locked. …