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Risk
Bookmarks
Small Bets: Daniel Vassallo's Indie Entrepreneurship Framework
Daniel Vassallo's Small Bets is a community and framework for indie entrepreneurs built around making many small, reversible bets instead of one big all-in venture. The antidote to survivorship-bias-driven startup thinking.
Overlay V1 Core: Stability and Robustness for Data-Stream Derivative Markets
Technical paper extending the Overlay Protocol — a decentralized system for creating derivative markets on any data stream — with a three-part risk framework: funding payments, bid-ask pricing, and circuit breakers. The key challenge is managing the risk that any market can have unbounded open interest against the protocol's treasury.
DeFi Safety — Protocol Security Reviews
DeFi Safety is a security review and rating service for DeFi protocols, scoring them on code quality, documentation, admin key controls, and testing practices. One of the few systematic attempts to give DeFi users a reliable signal about protocol security posture.
Ergodicity: What's It Mean
Avoid Boring People's explainer on ergodicity — the distinction between time-average outcomes and ensemble-average outcomes. Core to Ole Peters's critique of expected utility theory and why average returns can be misleading for individual decision-making.