Yield Guild Game’s YGG token made headlines this weekend as trading volume eclipsed ETH’s, and the price pumped >250%. The main catalyst appears to be the recent listing on the Binance Futures market, but there has also been some alleged market manip... Read more

The prevailing narrative across CT is that DeFi is dead. This is understandable, as we know sentiment is largely driven by price. And DeFi prices are, uh, not great right now. That said, we do see some encouraging signs of growth and risk-on lurkin... Read more

For my longer term holdings I’ve been debating if there is a better way to get exposure to ETH beyond holding spot ETH (or staking via stETH, cbETH and others) and I’ve landed on $ETHE – Grayscale’s Ethereum Trust. Long term I’m bullish ETH and thi... Read more

Earlier this week, we published a report analyzing Yuga Labs’ vision to build out a gaming ecosystem, with a focus on the core business model at work. The report — available for Delphi Pro subscribers — outlines Yuga’s efforts thus far with casual g... Read more

Recent Research 📊 Reflecting on EthCC – 8/3 Paris was highlighted by EthCC and the Modular Summit, with other infra-focused side events during the week. Common themes throughout were MEV, account abstraction (ERC-4337), intents, zk (both for priv... Read more

With 2023 more than half over, I was curious about where VCs were spending their money in crypto. So far in 2023, VCs have put $4.2B of Venture Capital into crypto-related projects – putting crypto on track to raise around $8B in 2023. As we can se... Read more

Much has been made of the BTC narrative year to date, and rightly so. We have seen BTC benefit from the Ordinal/BRC20 innovations earlier this year. We have seen BTC benefit from the outside money narrative as it pertains to the banking crisis. And w... Read more

The DeGods Twitter account announced on August 1st that Season III, a highly anticipated phase in the DeGods and y00ts ecosystem, is set to kick off on August 9th. While many details are still kept under wraps, we do know that DeGod’s PFP art will un... Read more

On April 30th, 2021, Yuga Labs created Bored Ape Yacht Club as an exclusive members club gated by a 10k collection of ape-inspired profile picture NFTs. The project became renowned for continually driving value back to its holders. At some point, ho... Read more

Here are this weeks forum debates I recommend you follow: Aave’s CRV Market Debate With the recent Curve exploit, the price of CRV has come under significant pressure. A token struggling post exploit is nothing new for DeFi. Still, an exploit affec... Read more