In Comet there are 3 steps in consensus: propose, pre-commit, and commit....The more validators you have, the longer it takes to propagate data to all of them and get 2/3 to commit...Then another round “3” runs later, again committing new blocks (X3) with referenced certificates.

In this report, we dig into Bitcoin’s outlook as BTC enters back into the limelight after taking a backseat to the “summer of DeFi” craze. We unpack notable long-term indicators, exchange, and holder...

Chart of The Day: Gas Is On Sale! Are you looking to move funds around or claim yields?...Gas prices have significantly decreased from their peak last month of 218 Gwei to just around 60 Gwei...At the beginning of 2022, gas prices jumped due to surging volume for NFTs....) can largely impact the price of gas.

...projects on Arbitrum are holding back from full-scale deployments due to the current cap on network gas...Gas Costs are Rising Ethereum gas prices look like they’re about to make a run higher as demand picks...Historically, when gas gets expensive, we’ve seen activity spike on alternative L1s.

Polygon Congestion  Gas costs on Polygon Network have spiked more than 10 fold to over 500 gwei....guzzler” on the network, consuming over 30% of the gas on Polygon in the past hour....validators have been passing empty blocks which increases networking activity and results in higher gas...

Weekly Gas Price at YTD Low 2) Fantom Transaction Count vs....Price 3) MakerDAO Revenue & Surplus Buffer Key Takeaways In spite of a broad bullish trend, gas...The primary causes for this are a new MEV marketplace from Flashbots and an increased gas limit for the...

Chart of The Day: Fantom Gas Getting A Little Expensive Gas prices on Fantom spiked to new highs as...This led to higher demand in blockspace and more competitive gas prices....Even as the initial hype cools, it’s clear average gas prices and daily transaction fees paid are still...

Gas Prices Rise and Fall With ETH Moving away from Axie, it seems like sentiment on ETH directly influences...the price of gas....surprising, given the vast majority of DeFi usage is powered by speculation, it’s interesting that gas...Just to make it clear, the chart below compares gas costs in ETH to ETH’s price in USD.

EVM chains use “gas” as a unit of computation, and when a chain talks about “X gas per second,” they’...Source: https://gaslimit.pics/ Block gas limits set the ideal amount of gas each block should use....For example, Sonic is at 5 giga gas/s on mainnet today....MegaETH at capacity would easily consume ~2-5B gas/s.

...volume and liquidity on Polygon Top Sushiswap pools on Polygon ETH hits multi-year high against BTC Gas...Key Takeaways Gas prices are up 10x in the last week, after bottoming out at 35 gwei last week....A majority of the increase happened over the last few hours as gas soared from 100 gwei at 7 AM UTC to...

To mitigate the issues at hand, over the weekend the Balancer community proposed and pushed through 3...

Chart of The Day: UST is Now a Top 3 Stablecoin UST’s growth has been remarkable in 2022, expanding...It now has an estimated market cap of >$600M, almost similar to Azuki which launched 3 months ago....through inflation, it has some drawbacks, namely: SOL is locked and requires a cooldown period of 2-3...

(Note: gas expenditures are not to be confused with gwei, or the price of gas in ETH.)...The surge in gas spent was propelled by activity from several L2s....ImmutableX started spending more gas as activity re-ignited....Ethereum uses ETH for gas....for IDO participants which can be claimed instantly 15% to permanently bootstrap Uniswap liquidity 3%...

This process is called a Priority Gas Auction (PGA), and it’s usually executed by purpose-built bots....opportunities popped up in every nook and corner, arbitrageurs were paying as much as 3000 gwei per gas...Since then, gas costs have been on the decline, falling to under 100 gwei last week.

...moment of regret (again) after the sale concluded and they were acknowledged by the Base ecosystem page...

Executing a swap on Ethereum can pose a significant concern for traders due to the expensive gas expenses...Since Curve v2 is more complex, the cost of a swap ranges from 250-300K gas versus 125-175K gas on Uniswap...3x more gas efficient than v1 by adjusting their calculation methodology....Ambient has been extremely gas efficient when compared to Uni v3.

...complicating US debt refinancing situation Equity Markets S&P 500 and Nasdaq showing a decent bounce (3-...

In search of some more high-conviction gaming token bets for this cycle, I heard some chatter about Gas...Gas Hero is designed to be a game for crypto whales....the many others I haven’t outlined here), it can be helpful to breakdown the target player base into 3...The largest of the 3 was Auction House sales – 7.4M GMT, followed by trading tax – 3.5M GMT, and in-game...

As promised – yet another market update video given the continued carnage across risk asset markets. Summary The market continues to experience a broad selloff across both tradFi and crypto assets....