How Banks and Debt Keep Us From Truly Owning Anything — In today’s world, it’s easy to feel like we own the things we buy. We work hard, save up our money, and use it to purchase the things we want, whether it’s a house, a car, or a new smartphone. …

Exploring the Benefits, Risks, and Opportunities of Investing in Real Estate Tokens — Real estate tokenization is a concept that is gaining traction in the world of finance and technology. In a nutshell, tokenization involves the creation of digital tokens that represent a real-world asset, such as a piece of property. …

Part 2) Building an ECC class in code — In part 1 we discussed how elliptic curve cryptography works in theory. If you haven't yet read part 1 we recommend that you read that first to get an understanding of the theory. Understanding the basics of Elliptic-curve cryptography — visually Part 1) Understanding the theory and mathblog.caballabs.com A modification to the theory to implement it in code

Mock time and blocks in Truffle Tests — Testing Ethereum smart contracts that depend on real-world time is essential to ensure your smart contract works as designed. In this tutorial, we take a closer look at building the test infrastructure to support time-sensitive tests for smart contracts using Solidity, Ganache, and Truffle. Download the NPM package The OpenZepplein test helpers package comes…

Part 1) The theory and math — visually — If you want to understand elliptic-curve cryptography but don’t want to get bogged down in the math, this blog post is for you. …

You’re losing the game of monopoly — In the game of Monopoly, players take turns rolling dice and moving their pieces around the board. They purchase property and build houses and hotels on them. The game's goal is to become the wealthiest player through a combination of luck and strategy. …

Together we can end parasitical landlords — Rent is immoral. For-profit land-lording is a parasitical non-contributing activity that monopolizes property in order to loan it to someone and receive it back with interest. The money earned by doing this is often funneled into another home so that the landlord can then do this with another family and double their earnings…

Fiat stablecoins have been touted as the solution to the volatility of cryptocurrencies. But they have fatal flaws. Problem #1 | Not truly 1:1 backed The issuers of fiat stablecoins typically claim that their cryptocurrency is backed by fiat currency at a 1:1 ratio, this is not always true. …

A step towards a true fiat-stablecoin — Trustless systems are everywhere in crypto. This is the foundational idea that the blockchain and crypto are built on. If this is so then why do we have to trust stablecoin issuers to correctly allocate the backing of the tokens to ensure the stability of the peg? At Gypsy, we…