Organized by the Research Chair on Gambling at Concordia University, Montreal, our co-founder Professor Dr. Ingo Fiedler gave a presentation at the Conference Series on online gambling on the current regulatory landscape of online gambling in Germany and provided insights into the current challenges and discourse around the gambling treaty.
On 15th March 2023, our co-founder Professor Dr. Ingo Fiedler gave a presentation on the overlap of cryptocurrencies and gambling at the 20th gambling symposium of the Gambling Research Center at University of Hohenheim.
New study: The launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot in November 2022 had a positive impact on AI-themed cryptocurrencies, resulting in abnormal returns up to 41% over two weeks and 90% of tokens exhibiting positive abnormal returns. This suggests that the attention towards ChatGPT and AI in general has transitioned to cryptocurrency markets, leading to a positive price effect for AI-related cryptocurrencies.
Stablecoins have become an increasingly popular topic in the cryptocurrency space. These digital assets are pegged to the value of a traditional currency, such as the US dollar, and are designed to minimize price volatility. In our recently published article „A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Research on Stablecoins“, we revealed key findings of previous studies and promising areas for future research.
For this year´s #GivingTuesday, it is our objective to raise funds for an exciting research project - focusing on the price impacts of decade-old Bitcoins. The project would be about the price impacts of “Satoshi era coin” moves. Satoshi era coins are Bitcoins that have been held in wallets for more than a decade and never been moved since then. The results contribute to public and scientific knowledge in the realm of market efficiency of cryptocurrency markets.
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Digital real estate in the form of digital parcels of LAND in virtual worlds such as The Sandbox is emerging as a new asset class and may represent a significant aspect of future digital social interaction, identity on the internet, the metaverse and financial markets. The research note „An analysis of LAND in The Sandbox: Q4 2022” conducts a data-driven analysis of LAND in regards of its pricing, distribution and other factors.
Our CEO Dr. Lennart Ante presented his working paper "Liquidity Shocks, Token Returns and Market Capitalization in Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Markets", where he analyzes so-called swaps on decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and challenges the metric "market capitalization" by highlighting how it insufficiently represents the actual value of DeFi tokens.
The renowned transatlantic think tank Aspen Institute Germany invited our CEO Dr. Lennart Ante as one of two experts to discuss the role of crypto assets for the financial system with a selected group of personalities from politics and business.
We would like to thank the Czech Academy of Sciences for hosting this year´s “Statistics of Machine Learning (STAT of ML) 2022“, from October 6 to October 7, 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic. Our CEO and co-founder Dr. Lennart Ante presented research on stablecoins and the market efficiency of crypto assets at the conference.