Jonathan Schramm

Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology at large are being increasingly adopted by financial institutions, be it major banks like JP Morgan (after an initial resistance) or even central banks like the Bank of England.At the same time, tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) is making progress as well, as explained in our series “RWA Tokenization Guide: Real-World Assets on Blockchain”.A […]

Industrial supply chains are supported not only by high-tech components like chips and lasers, but also by a massive layer of infrastructure that provides precise measurements and the delivery of materials and semi-finished products to factories, processing plants, etc.For these tasks, pumps, meters, injectors, valves, and other such components are essential, as almost all industrial […]

When discussing investments in specific asset classes, be it real estate, stocks, or crypto, it is important not to look at them in isolation. This is because they are all competing with each other for the same limited pool of capital and attention from the investing public.As such, various financial markets should be seen as […]

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, people have been increasingly asking it a wide array of questions, from daily life to medical advice. Still, early models of LLMs (Large Language Models) quickly became famous for “hallucinating” false facts, reducing the trust people put into AI answers.Even if this problem has been somewhat reduced in […]

SpaceX has been the focus of attention of all space and science enthusiasts for the past decade. The company has single-handedly changed in a radical way how mankind travels to space, making the first ever reusable rockets.It has since made the Internet accessible anywhere on Earth through the Starlink satellite network, and will be instrumental […]

Soon after the invention of the airplane, its military applications became obvious. From reconnaissance and primitive bombing in WWI, air power became an essential component of warfare by WW2, to only become even more important with guided missiles, nuclear weapons, and large aircraft carriers during the Cold War.This is why both air defense and offensive […]

It is no secret that Bitcoin mining is a highly energy-intensive process.This can be seen as wasteful, but this is also in itself what makes it so safe and unique, with the only close equivalent being none of the fiat currency, but gold and silver, which also require tremendous energy and material inputs for production […]

Materials science is the domain of understanding materials at the microscopic, often atomic, level to improve them. The most common goal is to make a material stronger than in its classical form, be it steel, glass, or ceramic.Metamaterials bring it one step further by changing the structure of the material, giving it different characteristics than […]

Making Iron & Steel SustainableIron is often viewed as a “boring” metal by investors. It mostly follows global economic cycles and is unlikely to have any narrative tied to it. No one expects iron demand to triple in the next decade because of battery demand, solar panel production, an aerospace boom amid a space race, or mounting […]

When AI technology became mainstream, a lot of attention was given to ChatGPT for its remarkably human-like ability for conversation. But in the field of image generation, one firm quickly became a favorite for artists, marketers, designers, and anyone needing AI-generated visuals: Midjourney.Midjourney was founded by David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Motion, making it […]