https://stanleytejakusuma.com/ Stanley Tejakusuma. I live and breathe data: statistics, modeling, and the tools that act on it. https://medium.com/@boilerblockchain/its-time-to-think-sui-a-deep-look-into-the-sui-blockchain-b6490c236e74 https://medium.com/@boilerblockchain/its-time-to-think-sui-a-deep-look-into-the-sui-blockchain-b6490c236e74 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT External Boiler Blockchain article preserved as a link-out row. https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mev-sandwich-mitigation-protocol/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mev-sandwich-mitigation-protocol/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT A research paper proposing a contract-layer mitigation of sandwich attacks on Uniswap V4 using action hooks. https://medium.com/@boilerblockchain/ftx-saga-part-iii-unraveling-the-downfall-court-drama-and-cryptocurrency-market-impact-85cf1d75b42f https://medium.com/@boilerblockchain/ftx-saga-part-iii-unraveling-the-downfall-court-drama-and-cryptocurrency-market-impact-85cf1d75b42f Fri, 07 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT External Boiler Blockchain article preserved as a link-out row. https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/enablement-of-mev-and-the-morals-of-extracting/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/enablement-of-mev-and-the-morals-of-extracting/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Notes on the ethics of MEV extraction — who bears the cost, how searchers and proposers split the value, and whether outsourcing extraction is defensible. https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fundamentals-of-mev/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fundamentals-of-mev/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT Fundamentals of MEV The dark forest of ethereum - While a user of ethereum might interact with the protocol through smart contracts and non-custodial wallets at the end of the... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mev-and-automated-market-makers/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mev-and-automated-market-makers/ Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT The journey from understanding traditional market trading structures to advanced trading mechanisms of AMMs brings about a pivotal aspect of decentralized finance: Maximal... https://boilerblockchain.medium.com/ftx-saga-part-ii-sam-bankman-fried-other-key-players-35e0dcc66577 https://boilerblockchain.medium.com/ftx-saga-part-ii-sam-bankman-fried-other-key-players-35e0dcc66577 Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT External Boiler Blockchain article preserved as a link-out row. https://boilerblockchain.medium.com/ftx-saga-part-i-a-timeline-of-major-events-8f727d453797 https://boilerblockchain.medium.com/ftx-saga-part-i-a-timeline-of-major-events-8f727d453797 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT External Boiler Blockchain article preserved as a link-out row. https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/doodles-v2-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/doodles-v2-thread/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT Doodles is coming in hot with new updates alongside the v2! Dooplicators usage finally revealed! New board member and much more! This new update brings in a collection of... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/illuvium/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/illuvium/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT Introduction In a world of its own, Illuvium started to announce its game in early January 2021. An open-world game filled with vast terrain and dangerous beasts in a land of... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/ekta-io/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/ekta-io/ Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT June 17, 2022 Ekta raised $60M from Global Emerging Market Ekta → Bali blockchain company with an L1 ecosystem focused on bridging real-world asset on-chain Global Emerging... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/genopets-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/genopets-thread/ Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT This Move-to-Earn game not only rewards you with capital value, but also you could train your dragon! @genopets is a free-to-play built on $SOL that could earn you crypto and... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/state-of-defi-index/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/state-of-defi-index/ Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT The recent crypto market downturn has led to extensive detrimental effects on blockchain market health – specifically on Decentralized Finance. A long-standing DeFi primitive,... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gains-network-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gains-network-thread/ Wed, 01 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT 0/ Let’s take a break from the $BNB $FTT drama and look at @GainsNetwork that reached an ATH volume of $300M! $GNS is a decentralized leveraged trading protocol that enables... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/synapse-protocol/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/synapse-protocol/ Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT Synapse Protocol (SYN) August 29, 2021 Introduction Frictionless transaction and interoperability between cross-chain layer protocols in any blockchain – Synapse Protocol.... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-alpha-strategy/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-alpha-strategy/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT As crazy as it may seem, the NFT market has a tendency that could be overlooked. NFT as we may know is already a niche asset class, being under the blockchain industry, but the... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/step-app/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/step-app/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Felt the growing urge to workout but don’t have the incentive to lock in the deal yet? @StepApp\ inspires you to build and live a healthy lifestyle through the help of $FITFI... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/agoric/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/agoric/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Preserved crypto research writing by Stanley Tejakusuma. https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/agoric-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/agoric-thread/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT For those that are interested in the tech side of crypto, take a look at this thread! @agoric ($BLD) is a smart contracting platform (currently in beta) of $ATOM and a PoS... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/origin-protocol/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/origin-protocol/ Mon, 18 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Origin Protocol: A Decentralized Marketplace Revolution Introduction The rapid growth of e-commerce and online services has significantly changed the way people buy and sell... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/kava-network-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/kava-network-thread/ Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Imagine $ETH and $ATOM combined into one single permissionless L1 blockchain… Comes @kavaplatform! Featuring an optimized co-chain architecture that is way scalable and... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/boba-network-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/boba-network-thread/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT A Thread about @bobanetwork is an $ETH alts that focuses on the L2 ecosystem. The protocol promises lower gas fees, fast finality tx, hybrid compute that can trigger AWS... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mina-protocol-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/mina-protocol-thread/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMT Any blockchain has the problem of sizing. Imagine one blockchain that has a constant size relatively similar to a JPEG. $MINA’s, previously Coda Protocol, proposition is to... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/marketing-strategy-for-crypto-wallets-in-indonesia/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/marketing-strategy-for-crypto-wallets-in-indonesia/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Hosting a crypto wallet in Indonesia should have the target market of millennials that reside in big and developed cities. People between the age of 17 -... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/waves-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/waves-thread/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Look out for the $WAVES! It’s going up!!! (sorry for the pun) WAVES is the platform to build open source dApps focusing on community-based user friendly apps! The project... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/zilliqa-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/zilliqa-thread/ Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Hmm… Interesting! The chart above shows the price action of $ZIL. @zilliqa is one of the alts competing to grow their own ecosystem of dApps. Look into the 🧵 and we’ll deep... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gearbox-protocol/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gearbox-protocol/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT You a seasoned trader? Or a normal trader that loves using leverage to amplify your gain? Take a look at @GearboxProtocol!!! Gearbox allows anyone to use leverage on selected... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-adoption-rate-by-countries/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-adoption-rate-by-countries/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Who doesn’t know the term NFT? Following the growth of the non-fungible digital art, as proven by the $10B+ market cap, NFTs are starting to become a mainstream collectible... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/thorchain/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/thorchain/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Cosmos is well-known for its “Internet of Blockchains” vision, combining independent blockchains in one platform. To this end, Cosmos requires a backer to provide liquidity and... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/tokenomics-lrc-matic-ren-alcx-bond/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/tokenomics-lrc-matic-ren-alcx-bond/ Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Overview On May 7, 2019, $LRC is the 2.0 version for the Loopring V2 with the token address . The token is ERC-20 compliant and has 18 decimals. Total supply for LRC is... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/catalog/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/catalog/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT With REN Protocol being the bridge to blockchains, so does the need of a front UI to display and a medium of exchange for the assets @catalogfi comes into play by being the... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/defi-kingdoms-v2/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/defi-kingdoms-v2/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Once, the MMORPG 8-bit indie game was bridled on the $ONE Harmony chain, now it has officially expanded to the blockchain of subnets – $AVAX!... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/aurora-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/aurora-thread/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT It’s undisputed now that $ETH has a problem in the gas cost and respective transaction fees. Here comes @auroraisnear! Aurora is an EVM created by the team at $NEAR that... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/edge-protocol-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/edge-protocol-thread/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT Terra blockchain as we may know is the ecosystem that brings DeFi to the mass public with stablecoins being the sole building blocks of the network. Here comes @EdgeProtocol!... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fintech-wallet-app/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fintech-wallet-app/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Features: - Free in-work ATM withdrawals - 10 free overseas transfer per month - Fiat payment system similar to venmo and paypal - Exchange rate based on FoRex market data feed... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/paras/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/paras/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Following the king of NFT – @thecryptopunks and the rise of the NFT marketplace @opensea, the NFT market is only looking at the sky. Remember that decentralization is essential... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/squads-protocol-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/squads-protocol-thread/ Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT The predominant DAOs behind innovative projects hold a crucial role in shaping the future of DeFi and crypto industry. They are an important building block of well-known web3... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fundraising-analysis/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/fundraising-analysis/ Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT There is not much information regarding the source of funding from the Quant Network itself since the project is leaning more towards the private company-like structure rather... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gmx-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/gmx-thread/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Ever imagined being able to open leverage positions directly from your wallet? Here comes @GMXIO! Starting as Gambit Financial, the project enables the decentralized trading of... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-lending-platforms/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nft-lending-platforms/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT JPEG’d has the notion of bridging the gap between DeFi and NFTs. First of all, one of the pillars in DeFi is permissonless and trustless collateralized debt position. Whilst,... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/osmosis-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/osmosis-thread/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT As the DeFi industry is on a continuous growth, following its exponential TVL growth, so does the need of Automated Market Makers as the backbone. Enter Osmosis! The advanced... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/alchemix-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/alchemix-thread/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Following the on-going $CRV war, the DeFi space is only looking for more rise in TVL and coverage. Alchemix ($ALCX) is a DeFi platform for interest-bearing stablecoins that... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/reimagined-finance-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/reimagined-finance-thread/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT DeFi as we may know is currently hiking steadily and increasing the TVL. But have you ever imagined having a DeFi ETF or an investing basket? Come Reimagined Finance ($REFI).... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/tokenomics-and-comps-analysis/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/tokenomics-and-comps-analysis/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT The ANKR token is an ERC-20 standard with main use cases are utility and governance. Most of the tokens are used as a service payment within the ecosystem – node... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/juno-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/juno-thread/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT 1/ Juno ($JUNO) is a permissionless interoperable smart contract hub built on the Cosmos blockchain. A sovereign public blockchain – Juno aims to provide a sandbox ecosystem... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/why-dca-matters-in-crypto/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/why-dca-matters-in-crypto/ Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT Though cryptocurrency has its similarity with its traditional counterpart – stocks, it generally is not backed by any intrinsic physical asset. Its valuation is mainly derived... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/btc-investment-thesis/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/btc-investment-thesis/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Bitcoin as an asset or as a digital currency? Satoshi Nakamoto, a presumed pseudonym, the creator of Bitcoin published the whitepaper on October 31, 2008, created the genesis... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/eth-investment-thesis/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/eth-investment-thesis/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Ethereum (ETH) represents the largest single innovation within the cryptocurrency space and the blockchain industry ever since Bitcoin in 2009. Since the launch in 2015,... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/octopus-network-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/octopus-network-thread/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT 1/ The Octopus Network ($OCT) is a multichain interoperable ecosystem made specifically for bootstrapping the adoption of native-blockchain apps (a.k.a. appchains). The... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/pegasus-galaxy-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/pegasus-galaxy-thread/ Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT 1/ Pegasus Galaxy (Pegaxy) is a free-to-play metaverse ‘horse’ racing game with futuristic styling. The goal is to win rewards in the form of Pegaxy native utility token. There... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/anchor-protocol-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/anchor-protocol-thread/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT 1/ @anchorprotocol ($ANC) is a decentralized savings protocol offering low-volatile yields on the $LUNA blockchain. The Anchor Protocol rate is derived by staking rewards from... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nexo/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/nexo/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT NEXO is an ecosystem that provides lending and borrowing in the crypto space through Ethereum chain. It has its own exchange, wallet, and token – all... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/voyager-tokenomics/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/voyager-tokenomics/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Voyager is an ecosystem that has a purpose of solving Centralized Exchange features in a decentralized manner. The platform has an exchange with a Dynamic... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/wonderland-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/wonderland-thread/ Mon, 24 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT 1/ @Wonderlandfi is the first decentralized reserve currency protocol on the $AVAX network. $TIME token is backed by a basket of assets (e.g. $MIM, $TIME-$AVAX LP token, etc).... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/ad-hoc-xdefi-twt-coin98/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/ad-hoc-xdefi-twt-coin98/ Fri, 21 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT XDEFI Summary - TL;DR XDEFI is better in UI than MetaMask because of its simplicity and one page to display all the assets owned. Functionality-wise XDEFI wins over MetaMask as... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/celsius-network-tokenomics/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/celsius-network-tokenomics/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT The Celsius Network is a Financial Technology leveraging the blockchain nature that offers lending, borrowing, and payments with digital or fiat currencies.... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/defi-kingdoms-thread/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/defi-kingdoms-thread/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT Max 280 char DeFi Kingdoms is an 8-bit GameFi built on Harmony blockchain that is integrated with a DEX, a liquidity pool, and a NFT marketplace with the native token $JEWEL.... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/pulsex/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/pulsex/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT - PulseX is the main DEX for PulseChain. - Brief information about PulseChain: 1. Built to solve Ethereum’s recent update which increases transaction cost in the long term. 2.... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/helium/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/helium/ Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Helium (HNT) is a protocol that enables the deployment and management of wireless networks in a decentralized manner. Protocol participants receive... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/polygon/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/polygon/ Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Polygon (MATIC) is an Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution that provides flexible frameworks for developers to build and connect layer 2 infrastructures such... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/polygon-and-helium/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/polygon-and-helium/ Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT - Ethereum scaling solution - Problems: throughput, not user friendly (cost), limited options (adopts eth problems) - Over 80 big names were migrated from eth to polygon -... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/solana-and-avalanche/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/solana-and-avalanche/ Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Solana (SOL) is a highly functioning open source project that leverages blockchain’s trustless and permissionless nature. Solana provides an exceptional... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/eth-layer-2-solutions/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/eth-layer-2-solutions/ Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT Summary - The recent dramatic surge of Ethereum’s network usage requires a solution to reduce both congestion and gas fees. - Arbitrum is a Layer 2 scaling solution for the... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/voyager/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/voyager/ Wed, 01 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT As the crypto space market grows larger daily, so does the demand of exchanges to transact cryptocurrencies. Most beginners, enthusiasts, and investors alike usually trade in a... https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/solana-metaverse-ecosystem/ https://stanleytejakusuma.com/musings/solana-metaverse-ecosystem/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT Genre: J-RPG, Turn-based, “Pokemon” Capital Required: Free-to-play Launched on: Open Beta November/December 2021 - A free-to-play set in the world of Antik where players are...