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BTC Hash Rate Surges While ETH Hash Rate Plummets
📊 BTC Hash Rate Hits All-Time High While ETH Hash Rate Plummets Yesterday, Bitcoin network’s hash...rate reached a new all-time high of 232m TH/s, just as Ethereum’s hash rate declined to 859 TH/s....Bitcoin’s hash rate previously recorded an all-time high on June 12th.
4 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2022
Hash Rate Soars, New Yield Farms, & Crypto Security Tips
Chart of The Day: BTC Miners Send Hash Rate Soaring Hash rate is defined as the total combined computational...Last year, we saw BTC’s hash rate dropped significantly from 200M TH/s to 61M TH/s after China implemented...As a result of the ban, USA now holds the largest share of BTC’s global hash rate at 35.4% as of August...
5 Min
DeFi
Feb 2022
Tether Grows, Whales Dump, and ETH Hash Rate at ATHs
Ethereum Mean Hash Rate at ATH Ethereum’s hash rate grew to an all-time high of 611 TH/s, last seen...
4 Min
DeFi
Aug 2021
China FUD Piles Up, Hash Rate Exodus, And Miners Selling
Hashrate concentration in the largest pools continues to drop, but hash rate decentralization improves...rate concentration in Chinese-based mining pools has been in a downward trend while smaller pools (labeled...This is a short-term negative short-term, as it caused the total network hash rate to decline.
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Infrastructure
Jun 2021
What BTC Derivatives Data is Saying, Hash Rate Declines, and a Silver Lining for Ethereum
An Update on the Hash Rate Decline Adding to yesterday’s update highlighting miner selling and a hash...rate exodus from China, Bitcoin’s hash rate is down 50% from the top....While hash power is volatile, as evident from the below chart, there are structural headwinds this time...
3 Min
DeFi
Jun 2021
Hash Rate Rises As Bitmain Falls
This is the third model part of their 19 Series and the T19 comes with a listed Hash Rate of ~84 TH/S...Blockstream’s Chief Strategy Officer Samson Mow tweeted that Bitmain customers have a 20-30% failure rate...It’s tough to say in the short run, but longer term we’d expect the trend in hash rate to continue moving...rate.
5 Min
Block Production
Jun 2020
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
...the fixed rate at 3.5%....are mid-market rates....borrow rate....Fixed Rate Lending Fixed rate lending in DeFi has never worked....fixed rates in DeFi....Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in all of crypto...
22 Min
Derivatives
May 2023
ETH Borrow Rate On Aave Rises As Users Position For The Merge
rate for borrowing ETH from Aave v2 climbed up to reach 2.90%, the highest rate since February 2021....utilization rate was 2%....Subsequently, this pushes up the borrowing rate and utilization of ETH on Aave v2....(after COMP incentives) with only 3% utilization rate....Market Price > Redemption Price Here, the redemption rate turns negative.
5 Min
Money Markets
Aug 2022
Beyond The Meme of Parallelization & Solving For State Growth
The hash values are then pushed upwards by computing the hash of the child hashes at each level until...stored root hash....Blocks with fewer sequential dependencies have a faster rate of execution than those with greater sequential...ilblackdragon/status/1746297620979478809 Lightweight Simple Rent LSR implements a bonding curve for rent rates...
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Infrastructure
Aug 2024
Ripping Off The Rate Hike Band-Aid
This week, we watched the Fed fulfill its prophecy as it kicked off a fresh rate hike cycle....Fed officials unanimously voted for at least a 25 bps increase in the target Fed funds rate (the only...In theory, higher rates should weigh on risk assets....Looking at the last several rate hike cycles, dating back to 1987, we typically see equities perform...
13 Min
Macro & Markets
Mar 2022
ETH Funding Rate Reverts to Neutral After Successful Merge
One of the largest crypto market makers was hacked for $160m, ETH funding rates revert to neutral, and...📊 ETH Funding Rate Reverts to Neutral After Successful Merge On Sept 14 – one day before the Merge...– ETH traders in perpetual futures markets, or perps, were paying a whopping -0.263% in funding rates...
4 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Sep 2022
BTQ Technologies: Securing Crypto’s Future Against the Quantum Threat
This hashing lock is relatively safe, for now. The relevant tool here is Grover’s algorithm....Instead of inverting the hash function, Grover’s algorithm provides a quadratic speedup....based on the hardness of finding hash collisions....Bitcoin’s security rests on finding a single numerical hash through brute-force searching.
28 Min
AI
Dec 2025
The State Of Bitcoin
The hash rate in 2023 was a surprise....Because of Bitcoin’s relatively poor price performance in 2022, we were surprised to see the hash rate...Since the beginning of 2022, Bitcoin’s hash rate has doubled....Bitcoin’s hash rate is important to watch for two reasons: 1.
28 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2024
zkVerify: Building the Universal Proof Layer
This means as proof throughput grows, so too does the VFY burn rate....*In the following diagram we assume a hypothetical 20% burn rate on fees collected....From a value accrual standpoint, the metrics worth considering are: the net burn rate (tokens burned...the growth in verification fees per proof the overall proof throughput of the network A rising burn rate...
23 Min
Infrastructure
Nov 2025
What On-Chain Market Data is Saying
Bitcoin’s hash rate has started to recover in recent weeks....Hash rate tends to follow price, so this is an expected outcome....America also gearing up to become a mining hub, this seems to be the beginning of a massive migration of hashing...Analyzing addresses in profit, exchange flows, and Bitcoin's hash rate.
5 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2021
Fixed-Rate Yield, ASTO Auction, & Agora Tooling
Chart of The Day: Element Finance, The Fixed Rate Protocol Element Finance is a protocol that allows...users to access fixed-rate yields in a volatile yield market....Chart of The Day: Element Finance, The Fixed Rate Protocol Element Finance is a protocol that allows...
7 Min
NFTs
Mar 2022
zkVerify: Optimizing ZK Proof Verification At Scale
As the internet penetration rate increases and the adoption of e-commerce and digital payments continues...Since the output of a cryptographic hash can’t be predicted in advance, and any changes to the input...result in output changes, the hash satisfies the randomness requirement in challenge ordering that we...
63 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
The Dawn of Bitcoin Programmability: Paving the Way for Rollups
It combines the hash of previous step & the trace of current computation together to produce a hash...These are: Trace Hash Challenge Program Input Challenge Read Value Challenge Last Step Hash Challenge...The script already contains hashing capabilities....Bitcoin miners request these block bundle hashes from their BOB L2 full nodes.
60 Min
Layer 2 / L2
May 2024
Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish
📊 Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish Funding rates for perpetual futures...Funding rates are periodic payments made to/by long or short traders based on the difference between...When rates are positive, long traders pay short traders....On the other hand, negative rates imply that traders are generally bearish.
4 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2022
Starknet Is Building Bitcoin’s Economic Flywheel
STARKs instead rely on collision-resistant hash functions, like SHA-256....These hash functions are simpler, widely studied, and have no known efficient quantum attacks....Starknet’s BTCFi stack to:  Borrow stablecoins against Bitcoin on platforms like Vesu at the lowest rates...
17 Min
Infrastructure
Dec 2025