Aave’s Shiny New Process It is no secret that DAO governance processes are often opaque, convoluted, and confusing. Decentralized decision-making with distinct actors who each have their desires, end goals, motivations, and opinions is tricky. Decen... Read more

dYdX’s public testnet is live and producing blocks (https://testnet.mintscan.io/dydx-testnet) and will be available to the public on July 5. They will launch with BTC and ETH markets but anticipate more over time. This testnet includes a larger num... Read more

No one can miss the surge in news around traditional market institutions making loud new crypto plays — from BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Schwab, Citadel Securities, to Fidelity. For me, it is less news in and of itself — I fully expect these players t... Read more

BRC-20s are one of the newest token standards in the crypto ecosystem. Exploding into popularity during the recent memecoin craze, BRC-20s surpassed their humble origins as an experimental idea and briefly grew to a market cap of more than $700M. The... Read more

It feels like a lifetime ago, but there was a time when Sushiswap was considered a legitimate threat to Uniswap and a potential DEX market leader. Unfortunately for them, after several dramatic episodes, there doesn’t seem to be a clear path forward... Read more

It’s going to be a big week for NFTs. Let me tell you why: Secondary markets for NFTs have been pretty much dead for a while. Organic trading volume and weekly active traders are at their lows for the year. All that’s left are Blur farmers slinging... Read more

Duality outlined their formal proposal on the Cosmos Hub forum to become a consumer chain of the Hub. Duality is a DEX appchain with a few differences to others we have seen. The base design of Duality is an orderbook where traders can place various... Read more

Recent Research 📊 Check the Chain – Expanding DeFi on Solana – 6/23 In this episode of Check the Chain, Ceteris and Medio dive into Solana’s emerging DeFi projects, focusing on the new perp exchange Cypher. They explore the competitive landscape,... Read more

Excitement around Blackrock’s Bitcoin ETF filing has fueled the current rally, but Ethereum has a few catalysts of its own. Optimism recently released its Bedrock upgrade on June 6th. Among its key features is an optimized batch compression method, w... Read more

Ok, one final post on Bitcoin Ordinals, at least until next week when some other extraordinary innovations make me want to write about it. I want to highlight a new type of Bitcoin inscription-making waves: recursive inscriptions. Recursive inscripti... Read more