Tether recently announced a record-breaking $5.2B in profit in the first half of 2024. Tether is now on track to generate nearly double Blackrock’s 2023 earnings. For context, Blackrock is the world’s largest asset issuer. While Tether’s profitabili... Read more

Rollbit is a massive player in the online gambling sector, primarily targeting the crypto user base.

There is a very good in-depth report on Rollbit’s business here, but this post will just lay out the reasoning for why I believe the worst could be behind us.

$RLB Price Action

RLB has performed poorly over the last year, albeit with si

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Unicorn’s token UWU finally went live after months of teasing, and it can be claimed on their site for those who participated in the clawback. For those unfamiliar with Unicorn, it’s a new PoS “memechain” on cosmos – yes, memechain. In its current state, traders can trade “memecoins” on their Meme Market, but these aren’t ordinary tokens

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With Bitgo announcing a strategic partnership with Justin Sun and the Tron ecosystem, there has been a lot of outcry. They intend to move their business from the United States to a multi-jurisdictional custody through a partnership with BiT Global... Read more

With the recent underperformance of $ETH, I thought it would be beneficial to analyze ETH restaking flows.

Even with ETH’s stark drop in price, regular staking flows remain positive, and the total ETH staked has surpassed 34M.

This is roughly ~27.8% of the total $ETH supply, a relatively low figure compared to other L1s.

Restaking Flows

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Zkp2p is a trustless, zero-knowledge peer-to-peer onramp and offramp for crypto users.

They have been awarded grants from the Ethereum Foundation and Privacy Scaling.

Onboarding

For onboarding, the process is quite simple:

1. Choose a payment platform and the amount of USDC you would like to purchase.
2. Scan a QR code to complete the payme

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In April of this year, we outlined our thinking around Ethena. Since then, a lot has changed:

• Ethena added an additional $750M in USDe supply, officially making it the fourth largest “stablecoin” at $3.1B
• The protocol has now generated over $100M in cumulative revenue, $42M of which has been retained as protocol earnings
• Ethena is now th

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Zircuit has finally released enabled claims for their governance token $ZRC.

Since the start of 2024, they have been running a points campaign for people who deposit assets in the protocol.

TVL is currently ~$2B (comprising mostly LRTs) and was as high as ~$3.5B.

The maximum supply is 10,000,000,000, of which 700,000,000 are allocated

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Have we even had a bull market? Sure, BTC has had a good year, SOL and memes have done well, but everything else has been absolutely destroyed. Modular sector is -50% YTD, ETH DeFi is down, Cosmos has been obliterated, the list goes on.

 

I had this tweet the other day. Since the market selloff was purely macro driven, wouldn’t the disper

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While the Starknet ecosystem has performed poorly since the $STRK airdrop in February, several opportunities remain to capture asymmetric returns through their 2.0 DeFI Spring program.

These returns exist because while Starknet is still valued at ~$3.5B, the chain is hardly used and thus has very little TVL.

The first DeFI spring program

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