“Automating away the issue around high network transaction fees”

2021 has seen a stark increase in transaction fees on popular crypto networks, none so more than Ethereum, where user-facing fees have regularly crossed $100 for long periods of time. The idea is that every platform, centralized or decentralized, worth its salt should provide the “ability to let users schedule a transaction when the associated … Read more

“Leverage smart contracts in the world of UPI to reduce occurrence of scams”

As the UPI payment ecosystem in India has grown by leaps & bounds in the past few years, one of the challenges that users are facing is the finality of transactions, or what one would call, the irreversibility of transactions for the sender. This has led to an uptick in online scams, primarily driven by … Read more

The Blockchain Butterfly Effect

<An abridged version of this article was published in the October 2021 edition of the WIMWIan, a tri-annual magazine with a readership of over 18000 IIM Ahmedabad alumni> The IIMA Public Policy Alumni Special Interest Group (PP ASIG) is currently in the midst of a webinar series on cryptocurrency to understand the space and come … Read more