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11th December 2024

From NFTs to Tokens

As memecoin mania continues, two prominent NFT communities have thrown their hats in the ring with their own coins. Remilia Corporation, most notably known for their Milady Maker NFTs, launched their CULT coin earlier this week and the Pudgy Penguin brand plans to launch their PENGU coin before the end of year. While both of these collect...

6th December 2024

Ethena YT Yields Jump

Disclaimer: The following content is a guest post by Jose Macedo. All statements and/or opinions expressed below are the personal opinions and the responsibility of the respective content author(s). The content does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Delphi Research, which makes no representations or warranties of any kind in connecti...

3rd December 2024

PayFi: Unlocking Efficient Capital Markets

There’s an emerging narrative quietly proliferating in DeFi. Coined by the President of Solana Foundation, Lily Liu, PayFi is the idea that stablecoins can meaningfully lower the cost of capital for businesses who rely on short-term financing. In other words, by harnessing both the instant settlement times and lower barriers to entry that...

2nd December 2024

Let's Get $HYPE - Hyperliquid Follow Up

The HYPE TGE took place on Hyperliquid last Friday and went incredibly smooth with unprecedented traffic for the L1. While the current validator setup definitely aided in the impressive launch, the flawless execution really showcased the team’s preparation and technical expertise. After airdropping the token to over 94,000 wallets, HYPE t...

Limitless Pioneers 0DTE Markets

Limitless is a prediction market solely focused on building out financialized products. So far, their efforts have been around establishing their 0DTE markets as a real way for users to not just speculate, but also build financial strategies around. J.P. Morgan has estimated that the daily notional value of 0DTE options trading has reach...

28th November 2024

Implications of a Scaling Plateau

While the AI agent meta has rightfully taken crypto twitter and markets by storm, another question is now being whispered at Palo Alto dinner parties which has broader implications for global markets. Are the fabled scaling laws beginning to plateau? The answer impacts Big Tech capex spend and stock prices, inflation’s trajectory, t...

27th November 2024

$TIG Well Positioned For The DeSci & Base Wave

I wrote a mini thread on TIG (The Innovation Game) a while ago which summarizes key aspects of the project and links to the podcast I’ve hosted with its co-founder, Dr. John Fletcher. TLDR; TIG is a deSci project accelerating algorithmic innovation. It deals with fundamental computational problems and utilizes ‘useful PoW’ to discover t...

AI Agents: The Great Awakening (Delphi Podcast Recap)

Some conversations perfectly capture an inflection point. Our recent podcast featuring the builders behind Ai16z, Nous Research, Virtuals, MyShell and CENTS was one of them. Here’s what you need to know about the explosion of AI agents. Shaw at ai16z thinks we will have AGI within 18 months, let’s dive in. The Meta is Moving Fast  ...

26th November 2024

Towards an Agentic Economy

One framework for understanding the success of the internet is it view it through the lens of coordination. Accordingly, we can reduce the success of the most valuable internet applications to their ability to more granularly coordinate human intents — both explicit and implicit. Amazon coordinates commercial intents. Facebook, Instagram,...

AI Agent Gaming - Henlo Kart

With the recent obsession of AI agents, you might already be familiar with Onchain GAIAs — a network of agents powering the Onchain General Intelligence Network (OGI). Each individual agent is held by a GAIA NFT holder and can be trained by anyone through various tasks from playing games or modeling problems. If you’re not familiar,...