I’ve been spending most of my time in the AI Agent meta since GOAT’s launch in mid October. Many metas will come and go over the years but only a few will stick around; I believe the AI meta is that.

Most of my time so far has been on Solana but recently it’s hard to ignore the momentum on Base. There seems to be a lot happening on both o

The following is a skeleton incentive structure design protocols can adopt, using Starknet as an example.

A well-designed token incentive program needs to achieve two core components: staked capital and user activity.

The current DeFi Spring program achieves staked capital by requiring liquidity provision across DEXs and lending markets.

On November 20th, MicroStrategy (MSTR) was one of the most traded stocks in the US, finishing second just behind NVDA on its own earnings day, at one point even surpassing the market giant. It’s been years since a stock has out-traded Nvidia or Tesla, so what’s behind the madness?

Before becoming the Bitcoin behemoth we know today, Michae

The original cohort of 4-year veCRV lockers have been maturing over the past few months. I’ve discussed flaws of the model in 2023 DeFi Year Ahead, but now we can finally begin to look at hard data and analyze results.

wow I just realized the CRV that I locked back in the day is unlocking this year, its almost 4 years already

— Popcorn K

On the back of poor price action and grandiose plans spanning 5+ years to implementation, there has been outcry that Ethereum needs to prioritize L1 and improvements and they need to do it ASAP.

Ethereum cannot and should not compete with alt-VMs on speed and transaction throughput.

Keeping Home Stakers Online

Max Resnick and Jon Charbonn

Success breeds competition. This is true in web2 but especially in crypto, where switching costs tend to be lower and users are often more mercenary. Last cycle, we saw Uniswap fend off relentless competition from Sushi and many other challengers to defend the throne. Other first movers, like Compound and OpenSea, were less lucky.

One of

Instadapp began as a DeFi Smart account platform in DeFi Summer, but has been gradually rolling out a new suite suite of products in 2024 that make up a DeFi super app called Fluid. At the base of Fluid is a liquidity layer, on top of which additional products such as Fluid Lending and Fluid DEX are built. Fluid Lending launched in Feb an

Sui is a DAG-based network that executes transactions in parallel. As a DAG-based network, it relies on multiple proposers to create blocks in a given epoch. The idea of using multiple concurrent proposers has been discussed within Ethereum’s and Solana’s ecosystems to increase throughput and decentralization. Sui and Aptos use MCP in pro