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title: 'Thesis: Can beat FUD with Development Insights'

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# Thesis: Can beat FUD with Development Insights

***tldr;*** Being able to read code and having knowledge of Software projects gives us an unfair advantage when investing in open source projects. 

## Questions
* How do we measure this?


## Doubt
* How often and what qualitative metrics make this actionable?

## Evidence
* The lack of attention to security from the second hack allowed us to predict they were launching unsafely.  
* Post third ThorChain hack, being involved in the Discord indicated they were starting to take the security seriously and future code deployed has a much lower chance of bugs.

## Random Thoughts
Is this a thesis?
* For Thorchain Hack, we were able to do an event driven trade based on the code / dev understanding
* Near protocol is another one where the development team is excellent, is this an advantage?
* On the other hand Terra doesn't look particulary strong, is this a disadvantage