A real look at fake meat — Introduction It looks like meat, it tastes like meat, but is it real meat? The answer may fool you. Fake meat has crept its way onto menus everywhere, ranging from fast-food establishments like White Castle to upscale restaurants like Dave Chang’s Momofuku Nishi. This may be surprising, but according to a…

Two years ago from this past weekend I went to my first ever Hackathon, MHacks 9 at the University of Michigan. For those of you that are not familiar, Hackathons are usually 24–48 hour competitions, in which programmers try to make the coolest and most innovative projects, often including sponsors’…

Digital Asset Group — What is the Digital Asset Group (DAG)? This year, we are launching Wolverine Blockchain’s Digital Asset Group (DAG). DAG will be focused on examining the digital asset landscape through the lens of an investor. We seek to answer the most pressing questions about the space, including what blockchain ventures are being funded? By who? …

The Sales Guy that Peaked in College Every startup has their Brad or Chad. This guy crushes cold calls during the week and cold Natty Lights on the weekend. He hits his numbers in the office and at the gym. Despite always claiming that he’s got “the sauce,” he still eats plain, unseasoned chicken breast for lunch…

Vitalik Buterin’s December 12th tweet has echoed in my head ever since the day I first read it. While Bitcoin soared to $19,000, the man behind Ethereum reminded us that we have yet to successfully act on one of crypto’s largest use cases: banking the unbanked. McKinsey estimates that 2.5…

This week, our meeting’s presentation focused on the evolution of blockchain, Bitcoin, and other altcoins, while the discussion covered an opinion piece on blockchain’s overhype, written by Nouriel Roubini and Preston Byrne. Presentation — Evolution of Blockchain, Bitcoin, and Other Alts (Akshay Jain and Justin Zipkin) Global Regulations Switzerland, Estonia, Gibraltar’s lenient regulations make them some of the most…

P2P Energy Trading: an Overview What is it? In a world where energy technologies and battery storage systems are rapidly improving, and the sharing economy seems to be disrupting every industry, many consumers are asking, why can’t we trade energy? …

This week, our meeting’s presentation focused on privacy coins while the discussion covered an article on self-sovereign identity systems, published by Cornell University. Presentation — Privacy Coins (Ben Oostendorp and Naman Gupta) What do we mean by privacy coins? Privacy coins refer to projects such as Monero, Dash PrivateSend, ZCash and others that prioritize…

This week, the meeting’s presentation focused on blockchain scalability while the discussion covered Siraj Raval’s talk on decentralized artificial intelligence. Presentation — Blockchain Scalability (Justin Zipkin and Ethan Tuckman) What does blockchain scalability mean? In our case, blockchain scalability refers to the ability to increase the amount of transactions per second a blockchain based…