Bitcoin Ordinals changed the game for Bitcoin. For the first time in a while, Bitcoin had something it had rarely had: blockspace demand. As readers know, Ordinals allows users to store data directly on Bitcoin. Enterprising developers and users hav... Read more

Source: https://makerburn.com The recent proposal to raise the DAI Savings Rate (DSR) from 3.19% to an Enhanced DAI Savings Rate (EDSR) of 8% was aimed at stimulating growth and demand for DAI by enhancing the attractiveness of the DSR. As a result... Read more

There’s a lot of threads floating around that explain crvUSD in a lot of words, when a few words will do the trick. So here’s crvUSD in 260 words: crvUSD is a CDP stablecoin like DAI or LUSD. Its key feature is the use of soft liquidations. When nea... Read more

I regularly curate a list of things across the crypto space that I personally find quite interesting as part of my hunt for early narratives. Thought I’ll share a few of them this week: I’m been thinking that prediction markets (e.g. Polymarket) co... Read more

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