The Year Ahead for Crypto 2025 – Full Series: AI+DePIN DeFi Gaming Infrastructure Markets Consumer DeFi...Flexible, programmable, capable of interacting with DeFi...., etc. all point towards this next iteration of DeFi....Bitcoin DeFi – Bitcoin DeFi has become a popular talking point over the past few years, and is an inevitable...

Signal 6: Exchange Liquidity & Risk – Neutral No signs of stress in stablecoins, CEXs, or DeFi risk...

The Need for Liquid Markets: HyperEVM’s Expanding DeFi Ecosystem As mentioned, the HyperEVM is still...have come to appreciate will likely be required – or at the very least – expected from the ecosystem’s DeFi...The compounding of exposure/points for early HyperEVM DeFi gets even deeper with pools like LHYPE/USDXL...

Disclaimer: This and the next AF will be a summary of my ramblings about DeFi in the last few weeks....These ramblings stem from a discussion from our research call where we ended up debating whether DeFi...The next chapter for DeFi will likely be more incremental....remains largely untapped for DeFi always baffles me.

The Elastic Network expands as a ZK appchain hub in Q1, with 19+ ZK Chains leveraging modular architecture...Era is also the home of governance, RWAs and DeFi, and is a launchpad for app builders exploring privacy...cross-chain forced transactions to level up censorship resistance To date, this has attracted over 19...

Introduction The state of DeFi today suggests crypto has largely exhausted its early addressable market—serving...For DeFi to grow beyond previous highs and achieve mainstream adoption, DeFi and CeFi must converge and...In this report, I’ll outline why vaults, curators, and “DeFi mullets” may help DeFi cross the chasm,...

Data in Key Takeaways is updated through November 19, 2024....As of November 19, 110% increase in TVL, to $87.9B....As of November 19, 240% increase in Weekly Active Addresses, to 65.6M....As of November 19, daily transactions are up 1,900%, to over 7.7M....cases behind that growth, including stablecoins, layer 2s (L2s), collectibles, social media, gaming, DeFi...

...be confirmed), all in-game payments would unlock discounts when using the token on an external web page...In this context, the Conversion Rate (CR) measures the ratio of users who land on the Playstore page...

1911709770178007110 The token initially traded at around $1 on its release day and reached a peak of $19...DeFi Dungeons ran an open presale ($3M raised) for a token and then charged another $300 to mint a collection...moment of regret (again) after the sale concluded and they were acknowledged by the Base ecosystem page...

DeFi Summer was still 18 months away. No one had heard of FTX yet, because it didn’t exist....10 largest crypto assets (Dec. 2018) In other words, we thought it was the perfect time to drop a 60-page...

This can be best seen when looking at the dispersion between ETH-based DeFi protocols, and SOL-based...DeFi protocols, with the former performing admirably as the latter lags....Upexi and DeFi Dev Corp are building parallel models for Solana....On May 19, Senator Bill Hagerty publicly confirmed that the Senate had voted to advance the bill.

...on Sui, a Babylon-powered liquid staking token designed for BTC yield aggregation, integrated with DeFi...Since then, over 587 BTC have flowed into Sui DeFi....Checking in on Sui’s DeFi Protocols Suilend Suilend reported $15 million in annualized revenue in February...SIP-19 introduces soft bundles of off-chain assembled transaction groups submitted as a unit.

...allocation of genesis ELX supply and respective vesting parameters are as follows: Community: 41% Airdrops: 19%...of Elixir’s development 1-year lockup, followed by 2 years of linear vesting Core Contributors: 19%...

...portion to ensure that the user isn’t lying about the content, all without seeing any portions of the page...us that ZKTLS isn’t just a theoretical concept, but is already enabling private verification and new DeFi...The result: quicker onboarding, lower fraud risk, and composable identity rails that can unlock new DeFi...

...lowering costs, which may open up possibilities to some truly novel use cases instead of the same five DeFi...last straw, now I’m definitely not going to use Ethereum DA. — nick.sway ⛽️ (@IAmNickDodson) February 19...Sei’s DeFi is slowly picking up but has yet to reach momentum.

PLAY also connects users to the broader ecosystem, including DeFi applications, crypto-enabled webshops...Their DeFi offering is basic but functional....Revenues are primarily derived from in-game purchases (78%) and royalty income from IP license deals (19%...

Suppose a DeFi protocol on Ethereum or Solana launches on Sui....Sui’s DeFi ecosystem has been gradually shaping up....SIP-19: Soft Bundles Sui’s PTBs (Programmable Transaction Blocks) help execute a series of different...This led to SIP-19 (Sui Improvement Proposal). Shio proposed having soft bundles on Sui.

From Sonic Labs Blog Activity Points – Earned using Sonic’s DeFi protocols....The Sonic labs app page shows which protocols offer AP rewards. ...From Sonic Labs Apps Page Key DeFi Projects on Sonic Beets– A leading DEX and liquid staking provider...Lombard Finance (LBTC/scBTC) – Brings Bitcoin into Sonic’s DeFi via LBTC (liquid-staked BTC).

As long as an asset has a CUSIP everyone is able to operate on the same page....less compelling: opening a regulatory arbitrage for non-KYCed entities to access and use securities in DeFi...

Coingecko has released a Believeapp ecosystem page, and the insightful ICM explainer from @ahboyash offers...$YAPSTER has no real utility or value accrual, but it is the pinned tweet on the Yapster page, suggesting...