Jonathan Schramm

When it comes to propelling rockets and missiles, two different categories of propellant can be used: Liquid or solid propellants.Solid propellants are more durable and easier to handle, but suffer from relatively poor flexibility, making direction and variation in thrust difficult.Meanwhile, liquid propellants are more versatile, but more expensive, difficult to handle, and more prone […]

Blockchain technology is often conflated with cryptocurrencies, in large part because they have been so transformative to the world of finance, and because many people got rich through early adoption of cryptocurrencies.However, blockchain is best described as the technological innovation underlying crypto. It is a decentralized, distributed, and immutable digital ledger used to record transactions […]

Blockchain might have found its first use case in cryptocurrency, but it has since expanded far beyond that.Tokenization of assets is now a growing topic as the technology, regulations, and adoption by the public have matured enough. This is true for financial assets like bonds and stocks, as well as real-world assets like real estate or even […]

One of the most important use cases for cryptocurrencies is to provide financial services free from outdated or inefficient financial institutions that charge high fees or refuse to serve certain segments of the population. Protection against inflation and currency devaluations provided by Bitcoin and other cryptos’ fixed supply is another important service provided by cryptos […]

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is often touted as the future of manufacturing. And in many ways, it already is, as it is getting deployed for advanced equipment like rocket nozzles, drone parts, or bespoke medical implants.What makes 3D printing unique is its ability to create intricate shapes that would be very hard or even […]

Tokenization is the process of bringing onto the blockchain other types of assets than cryptocurrencies. This helps bring to these assets the advantages of blockchain: almost instant transactions, permanent and public ledger, low transaction fees, anonymity, etc.Tokenization can be used for all kinds of assets, from stocks to bonds, real estate, carbon credits, private companies’ […]

Financial markets are moved by the psychology and actions of institutions and retail investors. This means that analyzing transaction volume, patterns, and other data can be extremely valuable for traders and investors in predicting future price moves.Bitcoin has been one of the most successful new categories of assets in history, and differs from traditional assets […]

When we think of industrial materials, we mostly think of commodities like steel, coal, aluminum, ceramics, and other easy-to-identify solid materials. But equally important are all the various gases used by the chemical and metallurgical industries.Hydrogen is used in countless chemical reactions for products as diverse as food, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals, and it is becoming […]

Momentum Trading & BiasAs one of the hottest asset classes of the decade, cryptocurrencies have been of great interest to long-term investors and technologists, but also to traders.One method to trade crypto is to rely on momentum, a similar technique to the one used for stocks. Momentum trading does not pay much attention to financial […]

For most of human history, lithium was a relatively irrelevant metallic compound with little practical applications. This started to change with the invention by John Goodenough and others of the lithium-ion battery, a work rewarded by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2019, which we detailed in a dedicated report.The technology allowed for the explosion in […]