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Charlie Watkins

Dai is an Ethereum ERC20 token that is pegged to $1 USD — every Dai is worth $1,

Dai is created by users borrowing against locked collateral and destroyed when loans are repaid. Anyone can create new dai by depositing ether as collateral and drawing an appropriate amount of dai. Locked collateral can be recovered at any time by paying back the borrowed dai (plus a stability fee). Thus, all dai in circulation is at all times backed by at least as much collateral. You can also exchange for Dai at both traditional exchanges and decentralized exchanges. 
 
Hedging: During periods of high market instability, Dai offers a safe harbour to store value without having to exit the crypto space.

Lending: High volatility creates an uncertain lending environment as borrowers and lenders cannot comfortably plan for the future. Dai’s low volatility makes them a perfect medium for a stable, predictable loan.

Decentralized Leverage: In creating CDPs, users can get more capital without spending collateral they are bullish on.

Payments / Online Purchases: Users can spend Dai at merchants that accept crypto at point of sale.

Decentralized exchanges: Decentralized exchanges are frequently unable to provide fiat-offramps. Dai allows their users to trade their assets for a low volatility currency that is stable relative to other widely accepted currencies like the US Dollar.

Exchange pairs: Crypto-to-crypto trading can be a complicated proposition. It is difficult to track earnings when the base trading pair is rising and falling in value as users are making trades. Creating low-volatility pairings with Dai allows for greater price predictability.

Supply Chain: As goods and assets exchange hands, middlemen take large fees for ensuring safe transactions, lending stable capital, and brokering cross-border initiatives. Dai and blockchain can reduce the costs of supply chain and international trade.

Prediction Markets: Long term betting becomes infeasible if users also have to gamble on the future price of the asset they are wagering. A cryptocurrency with price stability like Dai can be the natural choice for prediction markets and gambling applications.
 
Important features of Dai  - Each Dai is worth $1.
- All Dai are backed by real assets, a surplus of collateral that has been escrowed into audited, ownerless, and publicly viewable Ethereum smart contracts.
- It’s solvency doesn’t rely on trusted counterparties.
- It’s a currency that lives entirely on the blockchain.
- It’s stability is unmediated by locality.

I am a software developer, entrepreneur, and researcher based in Texas. I spend a lot of my time researching and consulting on decentralized systems, cryptocurrencies, blockchain systems, and InfoSec topics. Some things I enjoy include converting VHS tapes to digital formats, playing tabletop RPGs with friends, TV shows targeted at millennials, Overwatch, and cookies ‘n cream flavored ice cream. I am currently splitting my time between my IoT blockchain security startup Oaken Innovations and the Ethereum Foundation.

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Nansen analyzes 46M+ labeled Ethereum wallets and their activity. So you can separate the signal from the noise in blockchain data.

Nansen is an analytics platform for blockchain, which combines on-chain data with a massive and constantly growing database containing millions of wallet labels. Customers use Nansen to access this data via user-friendly dashboards, direct SQL queries, or APIs.

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Blockchain Infrastructure for the Decentralised Web. From Parity Ethereum, the most advanced Ethereum client, to Polkadot, the next-generation interoperable blockchain network. Parity builds the cutting edge of Web 3.0.

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The cofounder of Stellar Development Foundation. Learn about his work with Stellar.org and his background in the technology space.

Jed McCaleb

Joseph Lubin is the co-founder of Ethereum, and the founder of ConsenSys, a blockchain app development firm. Lubin also helped to set up the non-profit Ethereum Foundation and VC fund ConsenSys Ventures, which invests in decentralized blockchain applications. Lubin holds a B.S. in Engineering from Princeton University. Building the decentralized Web 3.0 on Ethereum.

Joseph Lubin

Widely recognized as the inventor of digital cash, he is also known for other fundamental innovations in cryptography, including privacy technology and secure election systems.

David Chaum

Michael Arrington most recently Co-Founded CrunchFund after leading TechCrunch to a successful exit with AOL. His venture investments include Uber, Airbnb and Pinterest. Michael was the Editor of TechCrunch, which he founded in 2005. In 2008 Time Magazine named Michael “One of the World’s 100 most influential people”. Michael also practiced securities law at O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Michael graduated from Stanford Law School and  Claremont McKenna College.

Charlie Watkins

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