It is becoming a programmable treasury layer; a capital strategy for public companies....This is Part 1 of a two-part series, focusing on this growing trend....It comes down to a two-layer filter: Institutional infrastructure readiness – the ability to absorb...capital components: $361 million from the PIPE raise, $64 million from pre-funded warrants, and a $1...

We believe that over the next 12-18 months there will be increasing interest in gaming projects that prioritize sustainable monetization over speculative hype. This report examines Mythical Games and...

Plume opened its Season-2 liquidity-mining program this morning and will be distributing 150 million liquid, non-dilutive $PLUME via Royco’s Incentived-Action Markets (IAMs) over the next ninety days...

As Layer 2 solutions like Starknet create viable infrastructure, I expect a gold rush to recreate Ethereum...

Each 1% rise in the average yield equates to ~$300-325B of additional annual interest expense.

...models optimized for complex asset relationships, and don’t have legal enforcement tools at the base layer...-1 from the ground up....Looking ahead, this infrastructure could also support a new layer of IP-based finance (IPFi)....Over 58% of the initial 1 billion tokens are set aside specifically for these purposes.

But now, two key innovations—DeepScaleR and SYNTHETIC-1—are shifting the balance of power....Meanwhile, SYNTHETIC-1, created by Prime Intellect, introduces an open-source, verifiable synthetic dataset...By leveraging RL fine-tuning, the model has achieved a 14.3 percent improvement in Pass@1 accuracy on...

$TIA only benefits indirectly, and only if (1) The rollup keeps using Celestia, (2) DA usage correlates...There’s no universal “finality” layer like Ethereum provides....That could make Celestia attractive to (1) New rollups building custom VMs (e.g....TIA is required to lock bandwidth or pay fees (e.g. via staking), the only value flow into $TIA is (1)...

Link to the full S-1 form: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1876042/000119312525070481/d737521ds1...In Q1 2025 alone, Tether reportedly earned ~$1 billion in net profit, mostly from interest income on...Tron has always been centralization concerns, but even now Tron is seeing fees get quite high in the $1-...

Once minted, Echo’s aBTC can be deployed into Echo’s Yield Layer....Users deposit APT and receive amAPT – a pure derivative of APT that aims to be pegged 1:1 to APT....For example, if the OI on the SOL market is $1 mn in longs vs $1.5 mn in shorts, those who short will...

Fragmented layer-1 and layer-2 ecosystems create compatibility issues, while inadequate tooling, elevated...And this is a process that teams can’t rush through: so you’re looking at a 1-3 month ordeal spanning...Meanwhile, application-layer protocols like GMX, Pancakeswap, and Lido struggle to capture comparable...

For example, you might combine credentials that prove: (1) you have several years of Grubhub transaction...Humanity’s architecture also supports efficient 1:N matching against large databases, enabling real-time...While palm+vein scanning provides the highest accuracy and security, I want to emphasize that (1) they...

...opportunities left” – a global proof-of-personhood (PoP) system creating a verified human-identity layer...In the long-term, they have their sights set on expanding to over 1 billion users. ...At its core, the internet lacks a way to verify that a user is (1) human and (2) unique without sacrificing...

Most chains are scaling their giga gas/s, choosing a more capable DA layer, and optimizing their DB for...Ethereum’s current capacity is at 31.25 KB/s, and this is shared by all rollups using Ethereum as a DA layer...these blob parameters running the day after Pectra goes live. — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) March 1,...What about Ethereum as a DA layer?

Application Layer – Self-explanatory....app layer. ...What’s Left for the Protocol Layer?...The protocol layer (e.g....L1 in order for rollups to maintain lower fees post-EIP-4844 – in line with Base’s goal of achieving 1...

This attestation is relayed to zkVerify’s smart contract on the designated settlement layer....This has forced developers to opt for the STARK-to-SNARK conversion, which is more suitable for base layer...Its validation is accessible via onchain attestations relayed to the base layer.

There is a recursive theme that’s inherent in the value cycle of a successful protocol layer which hinges...L1 in order for rollups to maintain lower fees post-EIP-4844 – in line with Base’s goal of achieving 1...An example that I’ve overused at this point is the value decay that is going on at the DA layer.

Morpho’s journey to becoming DeFi’s capital coordination layer began with a simple innovation: Its early...iterations (Morpho-Aave and Morpho-Compound) introduced a peer-to-peer matching layer on top of existing...Morpho Vaults: The Curator Infrastructure Layer On top of Morpho Blue’s modular credit layer, the team...

On generalized chains, most of the value created just flows back to the base layer....While both inherit security from the base layer, L1s built on Avalanche essentially run as independent...Rollups, on the other hand, mainly rely on the Ethereum base layer for finality and DA....ACP-125: Reduced the minimum base fee on the Avalanche C-Chain from 25 nAVAX to 1 nAVAX.

A fast confirmation layer with Single Slot Finality: Low-latency confirmations between L1 and L2s....fast coordinator layer for rollups....Initia L1 – The Orchestration Layer Initia L1 serves as the settlement and coordination layer for rollups...Initia L1 also functions as an external bridging layer for rollups.