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Examining Cross-Chain Liquidity
Centralized Off-Chain As sad as it may sound, the first generation of cross-chain liquidity solutions...Centralized Wrapped Tokens Wrapped coins were the first on-chain solution to improve cross-chain liquidity...held in custody on the source chain....chain, and vice versa.
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Bridges
Mar 2021
BTC On-chain Metrics Brief
While patiently awaiting the results of this historic event, we wanted to put some BTC on-chain metrics...
3 Min
Analytics
Nov 2020
A Primer for Fully On-Chain Games
On-Chain Gaming On-chain games are not simply defined by the extent to which they leverage blockchain...was open source and stored on-chain....However, at its core, DF was an experiment to test the frontier of on-chain worlds....The higher the level of blockchain integration = the more on-chain features a game has.
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Gaming
Jun 2023
The Future of On-Chain Liquidity
The only volume passing through on-chain LPs will be the ‘exhaust’ that was passed on by the off-chain...Off-chain execution and intents are here to stay....to see price discovery shift off-chain....Resolvers can receive tokens through CEXs, on-chain, cross-chain, and any other liquidity sources they...
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Spot Exchange
Sep 2023
What On-Chain Market Data is Saying
On-Chain Positioning Suggests Continuation After a period of consolidation at a key support level, BTC...The first, which applies to both ETH and BTC, is that this metric only focuses on on-chain data, while...So this data, while representing on-chain positioning, doesn’t account for the billions of dollars of...
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Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2021
Is Zeta the Solution to On-Chain Options?
Table of Contents The Rise of Zeta Problems With On-Chain Options and Zeta’s Answer The Secret Sauce...Problems with On-Chain Options and Zeta’s Answer A few option DEXs have been built out in recent years...Accurate and efficient options pricing – Oracles serve as an important data feed to price options on-chain...Most on-chain options platforms disregard this need.
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Options
Aug 2022
BNB Chain Maintains Lead on New Addresses
Today, we take a look at new addresses on the BNB Chain while our Research team offers an update on the...📊 BNB Chain Maintains Lead on New Addresses Over the last twelve weeks, BNB Chain has gained 17.4M...During the week of Oct. 3, Polygon temporarily surpassed BNB Chain, recording 932K new addresses compared...to BNB Chain’s 839K.
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Infrastructure
Dec 2022
Aurora: Another EVM Chain, or the Beginning of Near?
A PoS chain with dynamic sharding and 2 second finality, it is viewed in some aspect as the ETH 2.0 roadmap...On a chain like Ethereum, none of the fees actually go to the apps that are generating them....The top protocols are subsidizing the rest of the chain. Near rewards apps for their activity.
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Infrastructure
May 2022
Hegic - A New Option for On-Chain Options
In that report, we also highlighted Opyn, a similar on-chain options protocol.
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Derivatives
Apr 2020
Covalent: On-chain Data Meets Agency
chains indexed....This is quite a handy synergy that allows ZEE agents to leverage on-chain data across several chains...These could be: Tool A: On‐chain data ingestion library or transaction execution....Tool C: Some bridging or cross‐chain modules....Tools are invoked programmatically by the agent’s chain‐of‐thought reasoning.
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Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Keeta: Bridging The Institutional World On-Chain
Each account maintains its own cryptographic chain of state transitions, and these chains collectively...Blockchain-Native Credit Bureau (On-Chain Credit) True on-chain credit is one of the use cases that has...This means the credit assessment logic is never recorded on-chain....The entire process remains on-chain.
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Layer 1 / L1
Oct 2025
Vega: The Most Comprehensive On-Chain Exchange
Uniswap is the most liquid on-chain spot market; dYdX is the most liquid on-chain perpetual futures market...It’s a Proof of Stake chain that runs on the Tendermint consensus mechanism....Despite being a Tendermint chain, Vega’s first bridge will be to Ethereum....But bridging to other chains is certainly not out of the question.
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Perpetual Futures
Feb 2022
Multi-Chain DeFi, Terra's Scare, and DAI's Resilience
Money continues to flow into DeFi across various chains, and a scary week for the Terra ecosystem has...dominance, a rough proxy for its eminence over DeFi, continues to fall, thus reinforcing that the multi-chain...Polygon SDK is an important milestone for Polygon and a major step towards Multi-chain Ethereum! ??
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DAO
May 2021
Binance Smart Chain Unlikely To Foster A Developer Ecosystem    Binance, the massive crypto exchange...run by CZ, proposed Binance Smart Chain (BSC), an additional blockchain, separate from Binance Chain,...over the chain given his influence and his BNB stake....Binance Chain never decentralized, why would its new programmable sibling?  ...
3 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2020
NFTs Find New Buyers, Chains, & Niches
Ronin Lead NFT Volume, Wax Volume Picks Up Since late May, ETH and Ronin NFTs have dwarfed other chains...
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NFT Marketplace
Nov 2021
Sei Network: DeFi-Optimized Cosmos Chain
General purpose chains for permissionless innovation and app chains for permissioned and specific use...But “app chains” are not black and white, rather a spectrum and up to the chain’s discretion....Not a “pure” app chain like THORChain that focuses solely on cross-chain swaps, but one that is built...
15 Min
Orderbook
Sep 2022
SLAMM: A Unified Model for Cross-Chain Liquidity
The Hub needs to move liquidity from Chain C to Chain D....from Chain C to Chain D....Three scenarios are possible: An origin chain halts A receiver chain halts An intermediary chain between...amp; D, which use a fourth chain, C, as an intermediary chain.
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AMM
Oct 2022
Story Protocol: Does IP Need a Chain?
...work usually requires application-specific code and repeated on-chain data calls....To ensure these capabilities extend beyond its own chain, Story supports cross-chain interoperability...needs and the integrated on-chain vision that crypto users expect....Storing metadata on-chain itself isn’t groundbreaking.
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Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
On-Chain Metrics Suggest Positive Momentum For BTC
In this post, we would like to present a few key on-chain metrics that support our outlook....Bitcoin has shown robust growth in the first quarter of this year and the on-chain metrics presented...However, it’s important to keep in mind that Bitcoin’s price is heavily influenced by off-chain factors...These on-chain metrics may suggest that trend will continue.
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Infrastructure
Apr 2021