Starting the week here with a different kind of alpha. When you ask someone in crypto about Vietnam, Axie Infinity/Sky Mavis is probably their first thought. But it’s more than that. Over the weekend, I was at GM Vietnam, the largest crypto conf... Read more

Luminex, a platform supporting Bitcoin Ordinals and BRC-20 projects, has introduced a groundbreaking Bitcoin token standard called BRC-69, revolutionizing data limitations and reducing transaction costs. The scarcity and costliness of Bitcoin block... Read more

Welcome to our second installment of Charts of the Week. To see last week’s edition, click here. This week saw a fairly depressing chart make the rounds on CT, showing new crypto startups nuking amid the bear market. We also got an update from Elec... Read more

There’s been some buzz over a new article on how Blur could be the key cause for NFT prices to bleed over the last few months. (https://1mihai.medium.com/is-blur-nuking-your-nft-prices-yes-and-heres-how-923ad7b9dae4) The author argues that Blur’s i... Read more

In the second part of my AF series on trying to answer if Stacks benefits from Ordinals, I am going to look at the mechanics and technical aspects of Stacks briefly. If I can understand how the chain works, especially some upcoming upgrades, the answ... Read more

I saw a tweet the other day that made me stop and think. @aeyakovenko Now there’s obviously an ideological bend to Anatoly’s remark here. Let’s ignore that for now. The part that made me stop and think was Anatoly’s honesty: his admission that ther... Read more

NFTPerp, a platform for trading NFT perpetual futures, has made the decision to close its private beta version, NFTPerp v1, due to scalability issues and internal mistakes. The primary goal of this closure is to prevent volatility and bad debt from a... Read more

Legends of the Mara (LOTM) is the first major story-driven experience hosted within The Otherside metaverse. Until recently, the consensus has been that The Otherside would be exclusively available to Yuga Labs NFT holders. However, in this recent tw... Read more

BitDAO has undergone a rebranding to Mantle, effectively consolidating its ecosystems under the Mantle brand. To provide context: BitDAO is an ecosystem investment DAO closely affiliated with Bybit. Mantle Network is an Optimistic rollup backed by... Read more

We are now about 3 months removed from the onset of the 2023 Banking Crises that kicked off in March. Since then, interest rates have continued to rise, with the yield on the 2yr UST reaching a new yearly high today. This is not the picture small ban... Read more