ZKsync Era ≠ Elastic Network, but they’re connected....ZKsync Era is the first ZK Chain in The Elastic Network. ...The Elastic Network is a growing ecosystem of interoperable ZK Chains....Why build on the Elastic Network?...In practice, the Elastic Network offers unique benefits to ZK Chains in its ecosystem.
Enter ZKsync 3.0 – The Elastic Network
Introduced as a protocol update in June, ZKsync Era transformed...from a single ZK rollup into the Elastic Network....Enterprises joining the Elastic Network
The aforementioned distinct advantages of ZK Chains position...With a total RWA onchain value of $16.62B (excluding stablecoins), private credit presents the most sought-after...
...also progresses with Pilotfish execution sharding, designed to enable true horizontal scalability and elastic...incubated by Aftermath on Sui, is a vault system that lets users deposit assets, bridged or native, to mint stablecoins...Infrastructure provisioning becomes elastic and programmatic: autoscale based on demand.
...that devs and users need and get from other ecosystems (e.g. wallets, oracles, native bridges, native stablecoins...Even worse, each team is building its own silo (Superchain, AggLayer, Elastic, Orbit)....rollup frameworks like OP Stack (Superchain), Arbitrum Orbit & Stylus, Polygon CDK, and zkSync’s Elastic...
Avalanche’s evolution as a bespoke appchain hub and how it stacks up against contenders like Initia and the Elastic...This gives AVAX an elastic supply model that correlates directly to network activity. ...
Stablecoins are room-temperature superconductors for financial services....Stablecoins 2.0: Revenue-Sharing Stablecoins
Intuitively, the most obvious beneficiaries of these structural...This had led to the rise of a new cohort of stablecoins: revenue-sharing stablecoins.
Arguably, stablecoins found PMF as a response to the inherent volatility of crypto....By 2020, stablecoins became a common onchain asset....Stablecoins are demanded where the most onchain user activity resides....Source: https://www.fireblocks.com/report/state-of-stablecoins/?...Plasma treats stablecoins as the native behavior, not an afterthought.
Caldera, Conduit) offer infra but not the full stack (wallets, oracles, stablecoins, liquidity)....but the real competition is rollup frameworks like OP Stack, Arbitrum Orbit, Polygon CDK, and zkSync Elastic...
When a user submits an intent, such as “maximize yield with my stablecoins,” the Enso engine springs...the backend for ZKsync Ignite, the incentive program along with Merkl to bootstrap liquidity on the Elastic...
Every rollup team is working on its closed silos (Superchain, Elastic chains, Orbits, Agglayer, etc etc...and Celestia doesn’t own any layer that touches the user directly: no wallets, consumer-facing apps, stablecoins...Wallets will let users pay gas in stablecoins, middleware will swap under the hood.
Today, stablecoins are quietly collapsing another cost curve: the marginal cost of moving and storing...This brings us to stablecoins....Stablecoins and blockchains solve both issues concurrently. ...Fintechs like Robinhood and Revolut are launching their own stablecoins....You’re not bullish enough on stablecoins.
The pace at which Squads is recreating the entire payments stack with stablecoins and onchain rails is...The goal is to completely remove the barrier between on and offchain capital movement using stablecoins...Fuse Card is a virtual Visa card that enables everyday, real-world spending of stablecoins directly from...
Thesis #4: Stablecoins and Global Payments
In 2023, global GDP was ~$100T....This is perhaps the most bullish tailwind for stablecoins — cross-border payments is uniquely a public...This suggests that the adoption of stablecoins in these regions comes with the dual-benefit of cheaper...
Stablecoins and APT comprise the vast majority of volume on Thala....A lot of this just boils down to the sheer amount of stablecoins on Aptos....USDT currently comprises nearly 70% of all stablecoins on Aptos....For starters, users should be able to seamlessly spend their stablecoins....Ethereum became the primary issuance hub for stablecoins.
Stablecoins, Narrow Banking, and the Liquidity Blackhole
For over a century, monetary reformers have...This is where stablecoins come into the picture....The focus here is the role of stablecoins in the monetary structure....And while narrow banks were regulated out of existence, stablecoins have no such constraint.
Table: Stablecoin Market Caps Continue Expanding
Other stablecoins, including BUSD, DAI, and TUSD, posted...Designed to create a comprehensive federal framework for payment stablecoins, the bill moved out of the...licensing, and regulatory oversight, while explicitly prohibiting algorithmic or undercollateralized stablecoins...
Introduction
Are CDP stablecoins toast?...increasingly difficult to justify the resource-intensive liquidity pools necessary for decentralized stablecoins...Deconstructing CDP Success
Liquity v2 looks promising, but stablecoins have become highly saturated,...interest rate
Let’s begin by analyzing other CDPs in their heyday.
2021 was the golden era for CDP stablecoins...
...the onchain economy as of October 2024, and analyzes several use cases behind that growth, including stablecoins...Total Deduped Stablecoin Volume
One key area of onchain economy growth is stablecoins, which enable onchain...Total real world asset value, excluding private credit and stablecoins, across networks stands at $3.92...