Polygon announced their new vision in “Polygon 2.0”, a sort of mash-up between the Optimism and Arbitrum stacks along with Cosmos’ Interchain security. Essentially, you have 4 layers: Staking, Interop, Execution and Proving The staking layer will be... Read more

June’s option expiry is pretty important in the grand scheme of things. It marks the end of the first half of the year. So there are weekly, monthly, and quarterly options that expire. This month, we have close to $5B of BTC options expiring and $2.... Read more

The Shanghai upgrade provided significant benefits to Liquid Staking Derivatives (LSDs) and mitigated the uncertain duration risks for stakers. The forthcoming Cancun upgrade will introduce EIP-4844, a crucial enhancement designed to boost the scalab... Read more

It’s been a few weeks since Uniswap v4 was announced and the core whitepaper was released. There are lots of opinions, but a few that stick out. One of the biggest design differences is the move from a multi-contract to single contract model. In v3,... Read more

Recent Research 📊 Bull v Bear – BlackRock’s Bitcoin Surge – 6/28 Dive into an electrifying Bull vs. Bear episode where we tackle the seismic impact of BlackRock’s prospective Bitcoin ETF on BTC’s resurgence past the 30k mark. Amid SEC filings agai... Read more

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