So far, 2023 has been a great year, and one of reprieve for risk assets in the wake of what can only be categorized as a catastrophic 2022. Murmurs and echoes of ‘we’re back baby’ have been heard floating through social media circles. With April now... Read more

There was a consensus view that Shanghai would be a “sell-the-news” event. And although that didn’t catalyze immediately, the market is starting to move lower. Some people believed we would see a large swathe of validators unstake and sell their ETH.... Read more

Many have cited this year’s equity gains as artificial because the top stocks in major indices like the S&P 500 are responsible for a lot of the heavy lifting. But that doesn’t mean the outlook for equities is bearish. A recent note from Bespoke Res... Read more

Renegade and Penumbra are the two relatively mature private DEXs to launch soon. Both projects are very innovative and only rely on cryptographic assumptions for privacy (no TEEs). Below are some notable differences in their tech stack. Penumbra is... Read more

In the past, the LTC/BTC and LTC/USD pairs have typically bottomed out before Litecoin’s halving events. During the previous two halvings, the LTC/BTC pair reached its lowest points in May and December, with the halving itself occurring around the f... Read more

Lollipop racing is an interesting new project to keep an eye on. It represents a next-generation storytelling initiative that integrates NFTs and boasts impressive Hollywood support. https://lollipop.racing David Ayer, the acclaimed director of Sui... Read more

MEV. Maximum extractable value. PBS. Order flow auctions. Shared sequencers. Cross-domain MEV. If you’re keeping up with the discourse in crypto today, nearly every discussion involves these terms, and for good reason. MEV touches nearly every on-ch... Read more

It’s been several months since we took a broad look at the DeFi options space. Here is a brief update on some projects with strong momentum: Lyra – Lyra revitalized DeFi options with its Avalon update in June 2022, and has remained the DeFi options... Read more

The Moonbirds: Diamond Exhibition is the last and final nesting reward designed to reward Moonbird holders that reached Diamond Nest status by nesting their Moonbird NFTs. Released on April 27th, 2023, the collection showcases 10,000 pieces of digit... Read more

Solana NFT Compression went live just over a month ago and we’ve already seen ~2.5M mints take advantage. Enabled by Metaplex’s new standard Bubblegum, NFT Compression allows creators to mint thousands, even millions of NFTs at a fraction of the cos... Read more