Written by NEU Blockchain Alpha Research: Cole Christiana (VP of R&D), colejchristiana@gmail.com Although I could only attend for the first day — thank you, Northeastern finals — I witnessed some strong themes at this year’s Expo. Below, I concisely discuss a few. Firstly, let’s talk about attendance… The first morning was far from crowded. This intimacy allowed…

Written by NEU Blockchain Discovery Track: Nicolai Jacobsen, jacobsen.ni@northeastern.edu Mary Raines Alexander, alexander.mary@northeastern.edu Read this research paper here. Abstract Recent research on Constant Function Market Makers (CFMMs) has shown inconsistent and decreased probabilities of providing as a liquidity provider depositing into Automated Market Makers (AMMs). However, the fees accompanying such trades…

A New Era for Alternative Investments Written by NEU Blockchain Alpha Research: Katie Gjelaj, gjelaj.k@northeastern.edu Owen Johnson, johnson.ow@northeastern.edu Introduction Private equity, venture capital, and other alternative investments have proven to be lucrative investments but have high entry barriers for investors. These investments require significant amounts of capital to be locked up…

Written By: Alexander Beaudry (Co-Director of Events), Chandler Otterbein (Executive Vice President), Mark Barry, Vendant Bhagat, Ashwin Kasargode Abstract: As the world becomes more globalized, an influx of workers from developing regions are heading to the United States, Europe, and other developed regions to earn higher wages then they would back…

Written by NEU Blockchain Alpha Research: Chandler Otterbein (Executive Vice President) Joan Yang (Co-Director of Expansion at WiBlock) Cooper Duschang (Vice President of R&D, Co-Director of Governance) Introduction: With the spread of the global Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the relationship between Bitcoin and equity markets has expanded. In 2020 the cryptocurrency…

Written By Discovery Team 1: Owen Johnson, Katie Gjelaj, Youssef Refai, Spencer Kiang The first known NFT, Quantum, was created in 2014 by digital artist Kevin McCoy on the Namecoin blockchain. Today, while NFTs have been created on various blockchains, they are most popularly produced and traded on the Ethereum…

Written by Cooper Duschang: Co-Director of Research, Co-Director of Governance Introduction: Decentralized Finance encompasses blockchain’s preachings of “falling down the rabbit hole”. There is an ever-growing number of protocols providing services including liquidity provision, perpetual trading, and fund management. With this growth also comes the liquidation of other protocols. …

Members of the NEU Blockchain club took Hack Boston by storm two weeks ago, pooling in over $25,000 in prizes!

Five students from Northeastern University — Shubh Patni, Binh Thai, Francesco Marzorati, Nikola Dobrev, and Prasad Pathak, have been awarded a research fellowship from Phemex, a crypto trading startup located in Singapore, to study topics related to Web3, cryptocurrencies, and the blockchain. For two months these five students participated in…