Crypto Spring has Sprung!
Spectral spent the winter building. Read how we're going beyond credit risk assessment and into forecasting risk, financial reputation, plus ETH Denver, swag, and more.
The MACRO Score now contains more sources of data and infrastructure improvements that will decrease latency and make our API faster and more accessible than ever before. The product team is exploring ways to use the underlying data for new use cases, among them predictive risk forecasting and a fraud score.
Forecasting Risk with Predictive Algorithms and DeFi Data
A new direction for Spectral Finance: By providing real-time threat awareness, financial reputation primitives, and creditworthiness assessment Spectral is helping build out web3's blockchain security stack.
Spectral at ETHDenver
Spectral was at ETHDenver! A big congratulations to our bounty winners, Trident took home the $8,000 first prize; Joey Finance, the $5,000 second prize; Diing and Vouch Finance each took home $1,000. The community built with us, connected with us, and went wild for our fabulous new swag.
“Building a Web3 Credit Score” - Sishir Varghese at ETH Denver
Building trust into a trustless financial ecosystem isn’t always intuitive. “We believe there’s an important layer missing from DeFi,” CEO Sishir Varghese said. “And it’s time for our community to start building it.”
The MACRO Score incorporates Polygon and Avalanche data
Read about upgrades to Spectral's app since the Open Beta launched in August. Two more blockchains have been added, and a number of new protocols, NFT transaction data, new wallets, plus the underlying data infrastructure is now faster than ever.
Introducing the Spectronauts Program
Spectral launched a pilot program that will train Spectral community members to become community ambassadors. Hear the three principles that Spectronauts will adhere to, learn about community archetypes, and the kind of swag and other perks available to Spectronauts.
The Proper Care and Feeding of DAOs
DAOs were touted as one of the most exciting things about 2022, but the DAO revolution didn’t quite materialize. Despite that, the year provided survivors with some valuable lessons about treasury and risk management. Learn about some of the approaches to risk management in DAOs, including an interview with a VitaDAO that, given its mission to extend human lifespan, prioritizes longevity and survivability above all else.
Defining Risk in DeFi
Decentralized Finance faces a number of systematic risks, including oracles, regulation, scaling, exchanges, custody, governance, and the smart contracts that are running their dApps. Read about potential solutions and how artificial intelligence and predictive algorithms could help usher in the real web3.
The Year in Review
Missed something Spectral-related in 2022? Feeling nostalgic? Our Year-in-Review.