While still low, jitoSOL started accruing MEV to its liquid staking token over the past 2 weeks. There’s a chicken and egg problem with the Jito validator where searchers don’t want to change their code if only a small portion of validators are runn... Read more

“The latest market rally shares some similarities with Q1-Q2 2019 as well – both periods were preceded by sharp price selloffs and a period of consolidation before strong moves higher. The catalyst for both: changing expectations around previous macr... Read more

Canto is a Cosmos based chain built with the EVM (Ethereum Virtual machine). While they have some aspects like a native DEX, money market and CDP asset, they are best compared to general purpose EVM rollups like Arbitrum/Optimism and L1’s like Polygo... Read more

A shortish video going over a lot of the concepts from the Market Frameworks Report series, most specifically, Following the Market’s Footprints: Order Flow Explained. 1.5-2x speed is recommended... Read more

This year is shaping up to be a rollercoaster for markets. We expect volatility will be a major theme in 2023 as choppy price action and mixed signals continue to muddy the scene. Here’s a recap of our current base case and how this year could shake... Read more

Pretty interesting tweet highlighting how Blur has been taking volume market share away from OpenSea on top collections like BAYC and Otherside. Going forward, its going to be interesting to see how OpenSea defends its position from new marketplaces.... Read more

An interesting piece of research from CrocSwap. The author attempts to look into specific markers that signal toxic or non-toxic flow to Uniswap’s ETH/USDC pool. A neat, but somewhat obvious, finding from this is how smaller swap sizes tend to co-re... Read more

The Delphi “L1” Index — a market index comprised of 20 leading Layer 1 crypto assets — has been trending higher since the start of 2023. Fantom (FTM) is leading the index higher, followed by Harmony (ONE), while the laggard is currently Secret (SCRT)... Read more

It is no secret that ETH has underperformed many other assets during the recent increase in prices. I attribute this to a lot of uncertainty and fear around the Shanghai upgrade to ETH. For those who are unaware the Shanghai upgrade allows those who... Read more

Informal announced CometBFT today, a new consensus engine for Cosmos chains. To avoid confusion, this is a direct fork of Tendermint (more specifically v0.34) and will be swapped in for Tendermint on both new and existing chains. As of now you can th... Read more