Expect the unexpected. Blur surprised many with the announcement of a new L2 called Blast. While they are separate entities, Pacman (Blur founder) leads both organisations. The fate of BLUR and BLAST are intertwined like star-crossed lovers. Overa... Read more

On October 23, 2023, CoinDesk gathered a group of industry leaders for an intensive private roundtable discussion on how crypto can address fraud. The 30 participants, seated at four tables, represented a range of perspectives from different discipli... Read more

Ether.fi is a decentralized, non-custodial liquid staking protocol that offers delegated staking with a unique feature: stakers retain control over their private keys. This element is vital as it empowers users with autonomy and security over their a... Read more

What I think will grow the whole crypto pie very soon is the de-social vertical- or more precisely the Farcaster project. From an infra perspective, Farcaster architecture makes a ton of sense to me. I particularly like the breakdown of what goes on... Read more

The last few weeks have been chaotic, but those who’ve been following our research know we’ve been gearing up for a new cycle. There’s still a lot of chatter about what really drives crypto market cycles, so much so that I decided to dedicate an ent... Read more

Bittensor is the latest rabbit hole I’ve been diving into. And it’s been a fascinating one that I wanted to bring to your attention. The ELI5 is that Bittensor is a Peer-to-Peer intelligence market, a decentralized network that incentivizes AI model... Read more

We’ve seen privacy protocol evolve over the last couple of years. Zcash helped anonymize ZCASH tokens but was restricted to anonymizing only the native tokens, narrowing its scope of functionality. This limitation imposed substantial opportunity cost... Read more

GE (Good evening) everyone! We wanted to extend an invitation to Oppenheimers Virtual Blockchain conference to those interested. This is a private event for the bank’s clients, and leans more tradfiesque, but we negotiated access for all of our memb... Read more

A new Dune Dashboard (https://dune.com/ilemi/solana-compute) dropped today which has some good insights on applications taking up compute on Solana. As a refresher, compute units are Solana’s form of gas, they are resources that a validator must use... Read more

As the crypto market looks to cap off its fourth straight week of gains, we’re starting to see more bullish price breakouts. Bitcoin continues to slay through resistance levels seemingly without a care, but momentum has also been picking up for othe... Read more