Finance Applications

[szli6792]

What

I have been learning Solidity for deploying Ethereum smart contracts. I would like to optimize some sort of defi product and deploy it on an EVM blockchain. AMM's and order books interest me. It can be a front-end interface or tool as well.

Why

There's a lot of money in successful blockchain projects. Strong career boost.

Criteria

Find an application for something we covered in class that relates to a financial equation. (Start looking at whitepapers.) Produce working code. Produce meaningful code. Deploy on chain and start marketing to investors.

Timeline

• [ Look through a bunch of whitepapers. Do some google searches. Figure out where material from class would make a solid contribution. ] step 1 by Feb 16
• [ Code a preliminary solution. ] step 2 by Mar 16
• [ Debug and test the code. Run it over with peers. ] step 3 by April 16
• [ Finalize product and deploy on chain, or as a front-end interface. ] step 4 by May 16
• [ Marketing ] step 5 by End of Semester

by Szymon Ligas

[jedbrown]

Just a comment that direct cryptography and blockchain is discrete (rather than continuous math), but analysis or prediction of markets and human behavior generally relies on continuous math even though the data itself is discrete.

I'd also mention that reversing a hash is a sort of rootfinding problem in which the function is deliberately created to be as nasty as possible. Differential cryptography is related to continuous techniques and exposed weaknesses in legacy hash functions.