Blockchains and Cryptoassets

You are interested in the economic aspects of blockchains and their applications in your business. We provide you with orientation and show you opportunities and challenges:

Information and training. We familiarize you with the ecosystem of blockchains and cryptoassets and acquaint you with their economic foundations.

Analysis and recommendations. Together we analyze the potential of blockchains in your business and derive concrete fields of activity.

Project development. We support you by analyzing and designing distributed ledgers, mechanisms and incentives for blockchain-based token economies.

Our services include game theoretical analyses, numerical simulations and state-of-the-art valuations.

For further information, please see our cryptoeconomics research and consulting platform cryptecon.org

 

Contact

Matthias Hafner is a Principal with Swiss Economics.

Nicolas Greber is an Economist with Swiss Economics.

Get to know our whole team.

Selected Projects

  • DLT-for-Power: Support for a Swiss energy initiative
  • CV Labs: Support for a Swiss Blockchain incubation program
  • Integrity: Platform- and token economics applied to a project in the consulting industr
  • Spot: Platform economics and reputation signalling applied to a project in the news industry
  • Envoy: Platform- and token economics applied to a contact data management business
  • Gen.ki: Simulation of monetary policy choices for an IoT application
  • Verasity.io: Monetary policy choices and simulations for a video platform (to report)
  • Havven.io: Mechanism design and simulations for the development of a stable coin (to block post)
  • Consulting project for a large bank on the applications of Blockchain technology
  • Consulting project for a large telecommunications provider on the applications of Blockchain technology
  • Consulting project for Swiss energy utilities on the applications of Blockchain technology
  • United States Postal Services Office of Inspector General: Possible applications of the Blockchain-technology in the postal sector (to report)

Selected Projects

Can an alternative fork design in Nouns DAO reduce the speculative participation of arbitrageurs?

What effect does a change in Ethereum's issuance curve have on the degree of decentralisation in Ethereum's validator set? Swiss Economics is investigating this question as part of cyber.Fund's MVI Grants Program.

How should the 6022 project's tokenomics and distribution mechanisms be designed to ensure its long-term success?

How resource and energy efficient are different DLT applications?

How can the well-known chess platforms be integrated into Web3? How should incentives be structured to connect various stakeholders on the platform?

A new collaboration between the Center for Cryptoeconomics and Pooky Labs to create the world's first multi-sport prediction game in a web3 environment.

How to incentivize different groups to join Decommerce's community service platform?

Exactly is an algorithmic credit market protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain. Exactly asked Swiss Economics to review their protocol design.

Valuation for a new project developed by a group of scientists, engineers, and creatives who work at the intersection of multi-agent systems and distributed ledger technology.

How to allocate and distribute the native token of the NFT lauchpad and trading platfrom Meme Cake?

What is the impact of token distribution and rewards on the success of Pact?

How can blockchain technology make IP processes more secure, transparent and efficient?

Swiss Economics' Center for Cryptoeconomics cryptecon is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Folks Finance – a lending protocol on the Algorand Blockchain. Cryptecon will review the economic model of the protocol.

Folks Finance is a lending protocol on the Algorand Blockchain. The Center for Cryptoeconomics started a strategic partnership to review the economic model of the protocol.

ChangeBlock aims to provide a platform that facilitates trading carbon offsets and allowances.

Consulting project for a metaverse platform that offers users immersive experiences through a VR headset.

Integrity is a platform provider that connects small businesses with service providers that help them grow.

What are the optimal set of parameters of a DeFi protocol mechanism that offers put options to its users?

How can decentralized futures contracts be implemented on Synthetix' DeFI protocol?

Cryptecon and CFX Technologies Ltd. are collaborating to create the world’s first fantasy prediction platform for cryptocurrencies.

How to organize a decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies? What are the pros and cons of different automated market-makers?

What are the requirements for DLT in the Swiss energy sector? Which norms should the sector define to foster the technology?

Neovate is developing an artificial intelligence platform (Wisp) that allows property residents to interact

  • with the property unit’s appliances
  • with the property management and,
  • with a variety of the city’s local businesses.

Verasity developed the Proof-of-View blockchain technology and an ad-tech solution to prevent ad fraud on various video platforms. Furthermore, they created a platform for e-sport broadcasts with which they could also test their ad tech solution.

Havven, rebranded as Synthetix, is a decentralized payment network enabling cryptocurrency purchases.

The incentives on the online news market got misaligned with the rise of search engines and online advertisements. In many cases, online news publishers are remunerated solely by online ad distributors. The value of news articles are therefore signaled by clicks. This leads to an overvaluation of clickbaits and an undervaluation of quality articles. This is the problem, Spot wants to solve with their solution.

Envoy built a cloud-based, AI-powered, decentralized application to manage and store networks of contacts securely. Through the launch of Envoy tokens they allow their users to commoditize and monetize their networks.

Cryptecon was contracted in 2018 to do simulations of monetary policy choices for Gen.ki, a blockchain-based IoT application.

How to design incentives of a token such that it's value represent another asset?

In 2013 to 2015 professionals from cryptecon were contracted to share their knowledge about cryptocurrencies with Postfinance, a Swiss bank.

Publications

New publication on optimal staking designs in the ChainScience Conference Proceedings.

This blog post is the first of our blog series on Uniswap. In this article we give a short introduction to the functioning of Uniswap and lay down the definition of basic economic terms in connection with its mechanism.

The airline industry was one of the first to adopt many modern technological advancements, such as the use of automatic dependent surveillance broadcasts, GPS and radars. But in comparison to the modern tech giants, airlines appear as “the old guard”, cumbersome companies with legacy technology.

This blog post is the last of our Crypto-Staking Blog Series. You can find the first post on the economics of crypto staking here and the second post, with an economic comparison of staking across blockchains, here.

Study for the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI).

In this first blog post, we explain the basic terms, economics and mechanisms of staking designs. Later, we compare the staking designs of nine different blockchains.

In einem Beitrag für cash.ch diskutieren Helmut Dietl und Matthias Hafner das Potenzial des Ethereum Merge.

Das Staken der Kryptowährung Ether ist für langfristig orientierte Anleger durchaus attraktiv. Doch wie funktioniert das Staken? Und mit wieviel Zins pro Jahr kann man rechnen?

Presentation at CV Labs, May 23th, 2019

Presentation by Christian Jaag