This is series of articles written in 2023 with the support of the Uniswap Foundation. Some of them are still to be published. An Introduction to Uniswap LP Strategies and Hedging Dynamic Hedging Loss Versus Rebalancing (LVR) (currently under review) Hedging via Power Perpetuals Hedging via Options Liquidity Relocation (Rebalancing) …

This is the first article in a series on Uniswap v3 liquidity provision (LP) strategies. The goal of the series is to help readers better understand LP on Uniswap v3, and discuss some ways to protect their investments. A Motivating Example On March 11, 2023, Uniswap had its maximum transaction volume so far…

Introduction Are Uniswap v3 liquidity providers (LP) profitable? Recent research shows that at least in the most popular Uniswap v3 pool (USDC/WETH 0.05%), LPs have been suffering large losses. Is Uniswap¹ liquidity provisioning an irrational behavior that is expected to disappear with time? Not necessarily. To show why, I will make…

The Uniswap v3 whitepaper includes a formula (Eq. 2.2) for computing the concentrated liquidity value from the real reserves of the tokens in a position: I was asked on how to derive this formula, as I wrote a Uniswap v3 math explainer, but did not discuss this topic. Once…

A guide for running Deep Learning models on Nordic Semiconductors nRF52 and nRF53 series devices Background TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers (TFLM) TFLM is a framework that allows to execute a subset of TensorFlow Machine Learning / Deep Learning models on microcontrollers. A microcontroller is a device with very limited computational capacities…

With the crazy volatility of the first half of 2021 behind us, many have accumulated some holdings of stablecoins and want to earn interest on them a relatively risk-free way. DeFi seems to be a pretty cool idea, but does it offer a good tradeoff between risk/gains — not just…

A subjective evaluation of its different aspects — A number of different narratives have been evolving about Bitcoin over the years. There are many wildly optimistic claims about the potential of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies — and there are plenty of wildly pessimistic ones, too! Maximalists of various kinds claim that cryptocurrencies and “blockchain” will solve all of…

This article is based on a guest lecture delivered at the Technical University of Denmark. I’m an IoT researcher with more than 10 years of experience in low-power wireless networks and embedded systems. In the early days, often our main goal was to make things work at all. Security was…

There are few openly available quantitative results about IOTA. Motivated by this fact, we experimented with IOTA on two different IoT devices and two modern desktop and server computers. We found that despite the theoretical scalability of the Tangle, the actual IOTA protocol has relatively high energy consumption. …