Passive Investing Strategies with Cryptocurrency

How to build a program that cannot do the wrong thing (illustrated with Typescript)

With any task, how to make things work concerned me the most. Learning to do test driven development (TDD) comes a long way to help me make sure the code works as I intended - for both positive and negative examples. However, as I come across the "Representable/Valid Principle" introduced in James Koppel's Advanced Software Design Web Course, I found out that I can write code that that not just does the right thing but also can't do the wrong thing.

Comparing different ways to signal intent from multiple participants on the blockchain

Multisig wallets presents a way for different participants to issue a transaction on the blockchain but is that the only way? In this article I explore various options to represent the signalling of the intent for a transaction that requires more than one participant to agree on.

Decentralized Food Distribution Organisation

This post is a thought experiment of how we might design a scalable food distribution program that encourages philanthropy, protects the identity of the vulnerable and be resistant to fraud.

Running a Peer Promotion Nomination

The last thing the leaders want is to promote someone in the team who does not have the desired behavior or values of the team or organisation. How do you do that in a team of over 100 people?

Electronic Transferable Record on Blockchain

In this paper I outline how we can built an application leveraging on consensus mechanisms of blockchain to fulfill MLETR requirements.

Passive Investing Strategies with Cryptocurrency

You have purchased your first Bitcoin or Ether, now what? In this post I’ll share some of my favorite ways of making the cryptos work for me.

ZKP in Civic Tech - Re-imagining Identity Infrastructures

In this article, I share how ZKP can be used in CivicTech to create the next generation of public goods where government, businesses and citizens can better infrastructure to collaborate with one another. Specifically, I will explore 3 use cases where ZKP can be applied.

“Another feature” will not sell your product

Ever heard from sales that the customer will buy your product if you will add just one more features into the product? In this post, I'll take you through a fictitious story and see how a feature could be a distraction to other bigger problems.

Dissecting Risk in Defi Projects

With interest rates (or yield, or APY) over 100% on every other Defi projects, one might overlook the level of risk associated with investing in Defi projects. In this post, I will explain breakdown different components of risk associated with Defi products, using models and theories borrowed from business finance. 

I've lost $5000 over the last two weeks in decentralized finance farming yield. Here's my story.

Decentralized finance has been quite the hype for the past few months and I've finally decided to get my feet wet two weeks ago after my friend repeatedly prompted me to. Here's what I've learned after losing ~$5000 on yield farming.