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26th September 2024

Benjamin Sturisky
Benjamin Sturisky

Crypto: The game - S3 Soon

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CTG is a crypto social experiment that has drawn comparisons to the Hunger Games and Survivor. In June they were acquired by Uniswap Labs in anticipation of S3, which has still not launched.

Based on the tweet frequency from the CTG official twitter in September, I expect CTG S3 to launch sometime in October/November.

Game Design (S2

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Incentives Won't Fix Your Product

Have you ever heard the story of the crypto product leader that gave out juicy incentives over a long period of time to cement their position? Neither have I — or anyone else, for that matter.

It’s true, tokens are a valuable tool in that they can be used to incentivize people to interact with a protocol. As a money market, you can juice

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25th September 2024

Piers Kicks
Piers Kicks

The Mainstream Gaming Promise

Gunzilla Games now represents Delphi’s biggest gaming investment to date, as well as the largest angel cheque I’ve ever written. Having spent ~7000 hrs playing shooters throughout my life, and now over 60 hours in their flagship battle royale Off The Grid (OTG), I can confidently say this is one of the best gaming experiences I have ever

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Benjamin Sturisky
Benjamin Sturisky

Rise Chain

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Rise Chain is a L2 attempting to develop a parallel based rollup that can reach 1 Ggas/s.

For context, Ethereum is operating at 1.25 Mgas/s. Base, a rollup that has continually pushed the gas limit, is operating at 60 Mgas/s.

Gigagas is a measure of billions of gas units per second and a better metric to show a chain’s scale then TPS

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Duncan Matthes
Duncan Matthes

TON Gaming Secures its Third Consecutive Binance Listing

TON has firmly established itself as one of the strongest narratives in Web3 gaming this cycle. After demonstrating robust user growth in Q1 and Q2, capped by the explosive Notcoin TGE that exceeded expectations and hit over $1B in market cap, a narrative has formed around the TON/Telegram mini-app ecosystem as the number one top-of-funne

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24th September 2024

Key takeaways from TOKEN2049 Singapore

The post below has also been posted on Twitter by the CEO & Co-Founder of Delphi Digital, Anil Lulla. You can read the thread on Twitter here: https://x.com/anildelphi/status/1838155707788767579?s=46

Projects/Sectors Mindshare

• There’s a big difference between the online discourse within the echo chamber that is CT and what people are ta

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23rd September 2024

Pondering Durian
Pondering Durian

DeAI Compressed

A large exchange reached out regarding Delphi’s DeAI thesis and a few other prompts. If you have missed our DeAI series, the below may be a helpful synopsis of the Thesis and core areas we are excited about. Given crypto is essentially open source s...

22nd September 2024

Benjamin Sturisky
Benjamin Sturisky

MACI - Anonymous Voting

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Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI) is a framework for enabling private on-chain voting. MACI is a public good supported by the Ethereum Foundation and is built using encryption/zk-SNARKs.

A problem among current DAO is bribing. While some DAOs are built around and actually thrive because of bribes (e.g. Curve), for most DAOs

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17th September 2024

A Quick Look at Intriguing Small Cap Opportunities

Spool

I have loosely followed Spool for a few years now. I think portfolio management is an area that will breed a lot of cool projects, and very little has been done so far. It’s a niche better suited for a more mature DeFi, but it is a sure opportunity to be early that hasn’t come yet. My Principal-Protected Yield report explores this a

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Robbie Petersen
Robbie Petersen

You're Not Bullish Enough On Stablecoins

Stablecoins are often cited as “crypto’s killer use case”. However, this framing lacks nuance. It is important to distinguish between two unique use cases:

  1. Oiling the cogs of DeFi/CeFi – settling trades, denominating trading pairs, collateral on money markets etc.
  2. Serving as a monetary asset – payment for goods and services, cross-border
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