CoW Swap debuted their new “LVR Aware” AMM. If AMMs are to succeed long-term, getting these types of designs correct will be critical. Today, vanilla/plain AMMs lose a lot of money to LVR. You can also think of this as “CEX-DEX arbitrage”. When a pr... Read more

Pixelmon released the tokenomics for the MON protocol a few days ago. The token will have the following main utility: Preferred gaming currency for Pixelmon games Governance of IP and ecosystem fund IP licensing flows There will be 1B tokens in t... Read more

*disclosure: have open sui position First off, Sui is pronounced “Swee” and not “Suey”. I know this is critical information that most people get wrong, so now you know. Sui has continued its consistent uptrend this year and is now >2x in 2024. Com... Read more

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