Options have been one of the biggest question marks in DeFi. The crypto retail crowd seems to be on board the perpetuals train with no real desire to leave. And this has left many an options DEX befuddled as to what they can do to appeal to on-chain... Read more

For those unaware, the core developer and creator of Bitcoin Ordinals has a small podcast, which is a gold mine for Ordinal information and Rune alpha. I listened to the podcast to glean some additional info on the Rune launch in April and provided... Read more

Lyra has been at the forefront of options innovation for years now. Lyra v2 is now rolling out on Lyra Chain and the data so far is impressive. Lyra and Aevo’s recent growth suggest DeFi options have finally reached a turning point in competing with... Read more

Solana released its report on the outage from this week. Full details in the tweet link, but the tl;dr is: Bug discovered in devnet deployment, fix was waiting to be deployed to mainnet Bug related to changing the JIT cache from “ExecutorsCache” to... Read more

EigenLayer and restaking has been the hot narrative lately as they removed the caps and people look for “ETH Narratives”. Notably, 1 out of every 4 new validators is depositing to an EigenPod, highlighting the supply side interest in bootstrapping th... Read more

Astria released their docs today. It’s worth a read if interested in their sequencer + design tradeoffs. Relatively short read: https://hackmd.io/@astriaorg/HJ6cCpp9T... Read more

The long awaited EIP-4844 is slated to go live in mid-March. As a refresher, this is the introduction of a new “blob” fee market for rollups to utilize. For the full explanation see the Infra Yeah Ahead Report from back in December. This is importan... Read more

Inside February, there are two wolves. GPT-4 The first half of Feb is historically bullish for risk assets like stonks. While the second half is actually the worst 2-week stretch of the year for the SPX. Crypto exhibits similar behavior in Februar... Read more

A new token standard emerged in crypto four days ago. The new standard, ERC404, has since garnered outsized attention and could begin a new narrative trade. This new token standard marries the ERC20 and ERC721 standards to bake fractionalization dire... Read more

Gnosis Pay cards are now being mailed out to European users who have signed up. We’ve covered Gnosis Pay in Reflecting on ETHCC and The Looming Opportunity with Decentralized Stablecoins. Gnosis Pay is primed to be the first crypto debit card that is... Read more