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12th April 2023

Andrew Krohn

What Would Happen If Uniswap Activated Its Fee Switch?

It wasn’t until 2020, around the launch of Uniswap (v2), that AMMs began to gain widespread adoption and siphon meaningful market share from their centralized counterparts. One of the core tenets behind the emergence of DeFi was and still is Uniswap...
Yun Heng Lin
Yun Heng Lin

Ethereum NFTs Dominates Volume in March

In March, Ethereum solidified its leading position as the top blockchain for NFTs, accounting for $486 million (72.8%) of the total NFT sales volume settled in the last 30 days. Solana followed in second place with $96 million (14.4%), and Polygon c...

Monthly Chartbook - Spring Crossroads

The Monthly Chartbook is a collection of interesting charts and trends we’re watching across crypto and markets. This month’s edition focuses on: Monthly Market Musings Macro Outlook Crypto Market Review: Market Structure & On-Chain Observations...

11th April 2023

Michael Rinko
Michael Rinko

Credit Crunch

The weird thing about financial markets is sometimes they’re totally out of sync with the day-to-day reality you and I experience. While unintuitive, this is natural as markets reflect not only the present, but also the future. Markets are a discoun...
Joseph A.C. Lloyd
Joseph A.C. Lloyd

Increased Volume Across The Top 10 Gaming Tokens

The average trading volume across the top 10 gaming tokens by market cap increased by 82% compared to last quarter. This is largely thanks to an increased in attention toward high-risk assets. However, there was no shortage this quarter of notable m...

10th April 2023

Kevin Kelly, CFA
Kevin Kelly, CFA

Liquidity-Sensitive Markets Continue Outperforming

Much continues to be made of the recent resurgence in markets like tech stocks, gold, and crypto. But all of these are liquidity-sensitive assets in some form, as we discussed during the most recent Bull vs. Bear episode. If global liquidity continu...
Yun Heng Lin
Yun Heng Lin

NFTPerp

NFTPerp is a decentralized exchange that allows traders to engage in perpetual futures trading for NFT collections. In November 2022, the platform launched its beta version on Arbitrum One, offering traders the ability to take long or short position...

Where Does Decentralization Matter?

Decentralization is a spectrum. On on end, you have the likes of bank servers that are controlled by a single entity with read-write power. On the other end you have something like Bitcoin that is run and secured by a globally distributed set of node...
Joo Kian
Joo Kian

Over $180M of TVL on zkSync ERA

Source: https://l2beat.com/scaling/projects/zksync-era Since its inception on March 24th, 2023, zkSync Era has experienced significant growth, with its Total Value Locked (TVL) surpassing $180M in just over two weeks. This rapid expansion can be at...

8th April 2023

Ceteris
Ceteris
A common question with the adoption of LSTs is whether or not they will become more prevalent in AMM pools vs their native, non-yield bearing counterpart. In Ethereum, all AMM’s utilize WETH as the base pair and enables it as the main routing token (...