Risk

The term “liquidity risk” describes the inability to promptly sell or buy a security or asset in order to avoid or reduce loss. Large price swings generally cause it to be reflected. To put it simply, liquidity risk is the probability that a corporation or individual trader won’t be able…

Startups are businesses that are typically in their early stages of operation. While many startups go on to become successful and profitable companies, a significant number of them fail. …

Thesis 1: Every token introduced to a shared-pool lending market confers systemic risk to the entire protocol Background: Shared-pool lending markets such as Aave and Compound pool all deposits into a single pool. Assets that have been whitelisted can be used as collateral to borrow any other token. The nature…

Is Standard Deviation a good measure for Non-Normal distributions? In the financial industry, risk needs to be measured.We sometimes approximate distribution of asset returns as a normal distribution. A classic example of using standard deviation is to measure risk or the amount (like currency) to be kept in reserve. In…

I vividly remember the first time I experienced the internet. It was still in its infancy, and I accessed it through a gopher interface. It was a revelation for a young, tech-savvy adult like myself. I immediately saw the potential for this new technology. A couple of years later, when…

Seeing a picture of these young foreign children on the album cover is a journey. Playing the song, Mi Burrito Sabanero by the Venezuelan band La Rondallita, for my mother instantly, when she realized what song it was, traversed her memory back to the days when innocence was her personality…