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The Year Ahead for DeFi 2025
PayPal and Coinbase also offer native yield of 4-5% for idle cash....cards are able to mitigate security concerns and work as advertised, we likely see the birth of Gen 4...Therefore, additional UX wrappers are necessary for both Gen 3 and Gen 4 to truly unlock the next level...
72 Min
DeFi
Dec 2024
Let It Happen - Market Update 5/4/2025
<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> As promised – yet another market update video....
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Macro & Markets
May 2025
Positioning Early: Kittenswap, Hyperswap and the HyperEVM DeFi Opportunity
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...
9 Min
DeFi
May 2025
Tariff Tantrums - Market Update 4/9/2025
We will be hosting a live stream at 2:30pm EST today (Wed, April 9th). We will go around the table discussing the ongoing tariff situation enveloping the global macroeconomic landscape in the afterma...
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Macro & Markets
Apr 2025
Livin' On A Prayer? - Market Update 4/6/2025
As promised – yet another market update video as the dust begins to settle in the aftermath of “Liberation Day”. It certainly promises to be a big week. If you have any questions, please comment bel...
3 Min
Macro & Markets
Apr 2025
Directions For DeFi (Part 1): Institutional & Offchain
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.
5 Min
DeFi
Mar 2025
MON Protocol - Primed for IP Expansion
...be confirmed), all in-game payments would unlock discounts when using the token on an external web page...been well received overall, the current build remains incredibly unstable and likely needs another 2-4...In this context, the Conversion Rate (CR) measures the ratio of users who land on the Playstore page...
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Gaming
Apr 2025
Kill your customer: The death of KYC and the rise of ZK-TLS
...portion to ensure that the user isn’t lying about the content, all without seeing any portions of the page...Reclaim is incredibly fast, with proof generation taking under 4 seconds, and users do not need to download...us that ZKTLS isn’t just a theoretical concept, but is already enabling private verification and new DeFi...
20 Min
Macro & Markets
Jul 2025
Programmable Asset Ledgers Will Eat The World
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...dedicated piece a few months ago: https://t.co/uUg8G3zLdB — Robbie Petersen (@robbiepetersen_) December 4,...
25 Min
DeFi
Mar 2025
The Path to DeFi's ETF Moment: The Rise of Morpho, Curators, and Mullets
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,...
26 Min
DeFi
Apr 2025
An Ode To Bitcoin
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...
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Other
Dec 2024
USD.AI: Financing the Future of AI Infra
USD.AI Solution Looping has been a powerful tool for DeFi power users since DeFi Summer in 2021....USD.AI – Looping for DePIN and AI Hardware USD.AI brings the looping magic of DeFi to InfraFi....DeFi has arbitrage, capped deposits, rigid rules around redemption and interest rate pricing, etc....On the low end, T-bills are highly liquid and generate around 4%.
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Infrastructure
May 2025
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
If they increase blobs at the same rate they’ve increased the gas limit (flat for ~4 years), then they...Computer Celestia was never meant to be a blockchain computer, i.e. to execute txs or to host a native DeFi...that Ethereum is still the settlement layer of choice for most rollups with strong financial apps or DeFi...
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Why has Sonic been up only?
From Sonic Labs Blog Activity Points – Earned using Sonic’s DeFi protocols....The Sonic labs app page shows which protocols offer AP rewards. ...From Sonic Labs Apps Page Key DeFi Projects on Sonic Beets– A leading DEX and liquid staking provider...Lombard Finance (LBTC/scBTC) – Brings Bitcoin into Sonic’s DeFi via LBTC (liquid-staked BTC).
3 Min
DeFi
Feb 2025
Yapster: Sleeping Giant of the Internet Capital Markets Meta?
Coingecko has released a Believeapp ecosystem page, and the insightful ICM explainer from @ahboyash offers...$YAPSTER has no real utility or value accrual, but it is the pinned tweet on the Yapster page, suggesting...
5 Min
DeFi
May 2025
Resurgence of GameFi: Update #3
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...
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Gaming
May 2025
Covalent: On-chain Data Meets Agency
Once tasks are assigned, it monitors completion and can re‐route tasks if necessary. 4....DeFi Lending Optimizer A ZEE can optimize lending strategies within DeFi platforms by deploying a network...DeFi Investment Agent: Automated Portfolio Manager for Yield Optimization Within a ZEE, a suite of specialized...
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Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Beyond the $HYPE: An Objective Analysis of Hyperliquid
: Counterintuitively, the incoming US admin could disproportionately benefit CeFi at the expense of DeFi...the Arbitrum network bridge, exposing HL to additional smart contract risk and the safety of the 3/4...Developing Felix Edge, a mobile app designed to help onboard newcomers to Hyperliquid and HyperEVM DeFi...
17 Min
DeFi
Feb 2025
Initia: Fulfilling The Appchain Vision
DeFi, NFTs, gaming, and other verticals became battlegrounds rather than an interconnected ecosystem....Instead of specialization, appchains began competing in DeFi, NFTs, gaming, and beyond. ...Users will be able to lock INIT for a max of 4 years. ...From games to DeFi and NFTs, this section quickly explores the appchains being built on the Initia ecosystem...
31 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2025
MegaETH: Performance to Compete With TradFi
Removing the latency gap between CeFi and DeFi will be a key driver for the mass adoption of DeFi applications...allows these institutions to make trades is an important ingredient for a smart contract platform. 4/...The difference between disk and RAM access is 3-4 orders of magnitude, which directly translates to reduced...
21 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Jan 2025