As more L2s start to adopt blobs we are seeing more real data come in. The dashboard from my tweet is by far the best one I have seen so far and gives a good picture on cost reductions for users & L2s. Overall, rollups are seeing a 50 to 95% decreas... Read more

Solana TVL has officially passed Arbitrum for the first time in the post-FTX era. This is impressive not just because of the comeback, but because Solana utilizes their TVL much more efficiently than other chains as well. With <$1B DEX TVL, Solana h... Read more

In case it wasn’t abundantly clear, there’s a new whale on the loose: Larry Fink. Following the approval of the Bitcoin ETFs, Mr. Fink and his TradFi brethren have been slurping up BTC faster than miners can mint it. These passive and (so far) stea... Read more

Over the last few weeks, I’ve seen the timeline littered with various people sounding the alarm on ‘top signals’ and signs of ‘market froth’. And truthfully, there may be some validity to these claims. Many of the things we are seeing today have inde... Read more

GuildFi just dropped its trailer for Zentry today, which is going to be its rebranded ecosystem. This probably signifies the start of its rebrand and marketing efforts, and I expect more news to be coming out in the next few weeks. Since my previous... Read more

Notes from the last preconfirmation & sequencing call, it was pretty interesting so here’s a quick summary – link to call Based sequencing ecosystem is growing: 1. Besides Taiko, we now have a new based rollup in town: RISE, all we know so far is... Read more

A scan across several technical indicators detected a spike in outsized volume yesterday (March 11, 2024) across a relatively large proportion of the top crypto assets. We define the threshold for this metric as exceeding a Z-score of 2 on the rolli... Read more

MetaDAO has officially enabled proposal 10, a Dutch auction that attempts to raise funds for the DAO. The first auction price is set 50% above the spot price and adjusted down 5% every 24 hours. As a first price, 100 META from the DAO was listed at a... Read more

The more we hear from the ETF experts, the more it seems like an ETH ETF in May is far from a lock, and actually less than 50/50. Of course, 35% is still a 1/3 chance, but it doesn’t seem like the sure lock the BTC ETF was given where the conversatio... Read more