Arjun Balaji
Arjun Balaji is the founder of Shomei Capital, an investment fund focused on cryptoassets. He was formerly a software engineer at HubSpot and Flip.
Arjun Balaji is the founder of Shomei Capital, an investment fund focused on cryptoassets. He was formerly a software engineer at HubSpot and Flip.
All coin and product reviews by expert Arjun Balaji.
Binance Coin (BNB) is the best example of a pure tokenized security: $15M ICO -> partial claim on cash flows, future fund returns, etc.
Full review2018-06-04
The path that Zcash and other next-generation blockchains (Tezos, DFINITY, etc.) have taken is to set up incentives and off-chain governance processes to align early contributors and help guide the project from infancy to adulthood. While this trades off early on with decentralization, it allows for independence, time, and resources to be committed to more intensive research questions.
2018-06-28
I love the 0x protocol—trust-minimized, p2p exchange and a team that regularly ships. Digital securities trading is a great idea.
Full review2018-10-11
Bitcoin Cash forking into ABC and SV is a Pyrrhic victory for Jihan and Craig, where the battle inflicts such a devastating toll on the “victor” that it is tantamount to defeat.
Full review2018-11-16
Even assuming AWS and EOS are interchangeable . . . why do I want a "decentralized AWS" run by a cartel? What would I prefer to build there vs. AWS (or Google Cloud Platform or something else)?
I've not only heard of AWS—I've actually used these services. They're great.
Full review2018-12-08
Civic was at the nascent stages of starting a potentially successful identity startup, which could have been a boon to traditional financial services companies. The gluttony of 2017 pushed them and many others to make short-sighted decisions. Not every company needs to become a “project” and embrace the ethos of “Web 3.0. — not that Civic even comes close — Civic’s project isn’t even open-source in counter to the cypherpunk ethos of other self-sovereign identity projects.
Full review2018-12-21
My bullishness [in Augur] is due to (1) a full year elapsing with a working product (2) improved UX/choice of clients (3) increased brand awareness (4) demand in the market for a non-custodial prediction market (5) stablecoin integration and (6) better market-making and liquidity provisioning.
Full review2019-01-01
If you prefer your [Mimblewimble] implementation to have some VC flavor, there’s the Beam project, with a pre-sale and centralized team!
Full review2018-10-07
On-chain governance [as in Decred] is an interesting experiment that'll likely be seen as an over-engineered solution looking for a problem.
Full review2018-05-24
Every Ethereum competitor has to go through the platform and community development Ethereum (2014-18) did to compete.
Ethereum is witnessing some of the community splits and contentious “attacks” Bitcoin encountered now.
This is the public blockchain hero’s journey.
Full review2019-03-26
Virtually nothing is built on Ethereum Classic (https://ethereumclassic.org/powered-by-etc/). It lost.
Full review2018-11-25
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