Blockchain and Beyond
Headquartered in New York City, Kognico LLC is a full-service advisory company with a focus on distributed ledger technologies (DLT).
While Blockchains have gained significant attention in the past few years, it is important to understand that they are merely a subset of distributed ledger technologies. Decentralization, building consensus mechanisms across distributed networks, peer-to-peer transactions, smart contracts, and distributed governance are all contained and expressable within the higher level system of distributed ledgers and not just characteristics of the blockchain. Examples of other DLTs are DAGs (Directed Acyclic Graphs) and Hedera Hashgraph.
At Kognico we focus on all types of distributed ledgers, their implications on the current economy, how to get involved with this new technology, and ultimately how it will make the world a better place. We believe that this technology carries enormous transformative power and will change how we view government, data, identity, democracy, and generally a trustless economy of transactions.
We span the gamut of services from building quantitative strategies to providing capital for new DLT-type projects or advisory services for those who simply want to learn more about this technology in order to help them to get on right side of history.
Areas of Expertise
QUANTITATIVE STRATEGIES
A new global asset class has emerged. Tokens are currently trading on over 200 exchanges across the globe. Creating an exchange has different barriers to entry under different jurisdictions. Decentralized exchanges are decreasing those barriers even further due to the fact that assets are not required to be held in custody by those exchanges. High fragmentation brings lower transaction fees but also less liquidity for each one of those exchanges. Arbitrageurs and quantitative traders play a vital role in tying these markets together.
ANALYTICAL METHODOLOGY
Combining analytical problem solving skills with a crisp understanding of the incentive mechanisms deployed in this new economy requires thoughtful new methodology building from the ground up. Whether it's crypto-economics, governance, liquid democracy, game theory, data science, machine learning or a plethora of other related fields, distributed ledger technology, at its core, is cross-functional. Forget what you know about the world and start with what is driving human behavior. Then set the incentives accordingly and code it up.
ADVISORY
"Making the world a better place" is at the core of Kognico's philosophy. As such, we are predisposed to helping projects which align with us. The team possesses expertise and has experience along a broad spectrum of functions including strategic, financial as well as operational.
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