This guy makes some good points, but I have a few things to add. While there appears to be a clear trend, I‘d argue not much has changed, just the meta. More analysis needs to be made and variables controlled for to draw conclusions. A few important... Read more

I’ve heard rumors of a Gitcoin Passport scoring rework, and the Gitcoin Passport X account appears to be teasing something even bigger in April. Airdrop strategy is still very much a work in progress, with no one having solved the Sybil problem. L1... Read more

Could Private Intents be a Thing? Volume across intent-based DEXs has been steadily on the rise, and so have the number of AMM-based DEXs building their solver networks (upcoming alpha post teaser :P) We’ve previously made our case about why we thi... Read more

Brendan from Polygon presented ‘Agg Layer’, the Polygon’s solution to solve fragmentation between zk rollups that may not share sequencers. Recording Slides Bridging assets between zk rollups can result in a latency penalty of over 25 minutes (us... Read more

Yesterday, Succinct Labs and Espresso Systems announced their series rounds, with $55M and $28M respectively. Here’s a brief recap of the developments for each one: Succinct https://twitter.com/SuccinctLabs/status/1770843544388771914 There are a b... Read more

On-chain yields are surging right now. Ethena’s USDe offers anywhere from 25-60% yield by tokenizing funding rates. Banana Gun offers 30-80% yield through BANANA dividends (idiosyncratic risk involved here). Synthetix, GMX, and Gains Network are prov... Read more

Near field communication (NFC) is a wireless technology that allows NFC-enabled devices to securely transmit small amounts of data over short distances of 4cm or less. NFC is essentially a more secure, shorter-range version of Bluetooth. It is growin... Read more

Disclosure: I hold $PANDORA. My Pandora Thesis Many people look at the $PANDORA chart and think the 404 narrative is played out and that $PANDORA is dead. I think they are wrong. $PANDORA and 404s are probably the most exciting things to happen in... Read more

Perpetual futures — aka perps — are the most popular instrument in crypto. On any given day, perps trade ~7x more size than spot. Unfortunately, perps are still illegal in the techno-regressive United States. This forces American exchanges that want... Read more

A few days post EIP-4844 we’ve seen Base pick up activity vs the other L2s at an increasing pace. In my opinion, having a bunch of general purpose EVM chains is not the optimal scaling strategy from a social/liquidity fragmentation standpoint and one... Read more