It was a pretty dramatic week in NFT lending. ParaSpace, one of the largest NFT lending protocols on Ethereum, is in the midst of an internal struggle. On one hand, two of the co-founders and the marketing team have accused its CEO/CTO Yubo Ruan of... Read more

As always, here are some forum threads I recommend you follow: BitDAO’s One Brand, One Token Movement According to the proposal, BitDAO suffers from fragmentation of its community, brand, and messaging due to a split between BitDAO and Mantle. BitD... Read more

Recent Research 📊 Level Finance’s Success and Sustainability – 5/11 Level Finance is an oracle-based margin and spot trading decentralized exchange that emerged following the success of GMX. Level captures between 10-42% of the daily volume marke... Read more

Ethereum went ~30 minutes today without finalizing blocks. How bad is this? Was Ethereum down? Well, not really. The way Ethereum PoS works is that it favors liveness over safety, this means that instead of halting the chain, which would happen in BF... Read more

While NFT trading volumes saw a significant drop of 71% from $3.4B in April 2022 to $0.99B a year later, the number of NFT wallets appears to be heading in the opposite direction. During the same period, the number of wallets holding NFTs surged fro... Read more

Talk of a short-selling ban has heated up once again, as yet another bank bites the dust. It is worth noting that the regulators did implement a short-selling ban in 2008, in an attempt to stem market drawdowns and risk. Ultimately, this proved to be... Read more

Imagine, for a moment, a world where crisis, conflict, and war run rampant. A world of failed institutions, corporate cynicism, and individual greed. A world where the past is brighter than the future. This may just sound like a bad dream, but for m... Read more

In January, Limit Break released the first edition of its Creator Tokens – a further developed version of EIP-4910’s on-chain royalty solution. The reasons were two-fold. First, to shift the power from NFT exchanges towards creators and collectors. A... Read more

Inflation slowed for the 10th consecutive month, with CPI coming in at roughly 4.9%, slightly lower than the 5.0% expectations. Core CPI came in at roughly 5.5%, matching expectations. While we are seeing CPI continue to soften, it is worth noting t... Read more

Piggybacking on Aaron and Andrews’ brilliant take on BRC-20, I provide some quickfire traction metrics. The number of Ordinal inscriptions on the Bitcoin network has surpassed 5 million, and the trend shows no sign of slowing down. BRC-20 tokens pla... Read more