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Finding the Fun in Fundamentals #2 - Wemade
DRACO, tied to player mining activity, served as the base layer of tokenized value; however, over time...minted directly from an in-game resource, attracting massive bot farms, Night Crows adds an intermediate layer...The token briefly ran 50% ($2-$3) in the weeks leading up to release before continuing to chart a seemingly...
18 Min
Gaming
Jun 2025
Better Now? -Market Update 3/2/2025
As promised – a follow up market update video given last week’s sell off coupled with the recent Trump announcement regarding the Crypto Reserve. If you have any questions, please comment below or m...
1 Min
Macro & Markets
Mar 2025
All My Coins Are Dead - Market Update 2/25/2025
As promised – a market update video given the turbulent conditions we are facing. If you have any questions, please comment below or message in the PRO telegram chat and I will do my best to get back...
1 Min
Macro & Markets
Feb 2025
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
...with $50M TVL might have near-zero users or volume, (2) If a low-liquidity rollup (e.g....$TIA only benefits indirectly, and only if (1) The rollup keeps using Celestia, (2) DA usage correlates...Move, SVM, WASM), and (2) Sovereign chains wanting public verifiability but not Ethereum constraints....But that’s just the base layer.
47 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
World: A Trillion Dollar Opportunity, or Just Another Low Float, High FDV?
...opportunities left” – a global proof-of-personhood (PoP) system creating a verified human-identity layer...At its core, the internet lacks a way to verify that a user is (1) human and (2) unique without sacrificing...Current attempts at this identity layer fail in critical ways: Government IDs: Exclude over half the...
26 Min
AI
May 2025
Inside the Ecosystem: Fueling Aptos' Global Trading Engine
...with developing and executing Ethereum’s roadmap tried to steer clear of getting involved with the app layer...Echo Protocol Echo is a Bitcoin-focused liquidity & yield aggregation layer in a nutshell....Once minted, Echo’s aBTC can be deployed into Echo’s Yield Layer.
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Shortcuts To Scale: How Enso Seeks To Reshape dApp Development
Fragmented layer-1 and layer-2 ecosystems create compatibility issues, while inadequate tooling, elevated...Meanwhile, application-layer protocols like GMX, Pancakeswap, and Lido struggle to capture comparable...Validators Validators are Enso’s security layer, validating proposed solutions for both security and...
31 Min
Infrastructure
May 2025
The Public Crypto Accumulator Era - Part 1
It is becoming a programmable treasury layer; a capital strategy for public companies....Part 2 will examine the systemic consequences: how public accumulation is transforming token liquidity...It comes down to a two-layer filter: Institutional infrastructure readiness – the ability to absorb...Part 2 of this series will explore these systemic effects in detail. ...
31 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
Plasma: Stablecoin Infrastructure & The Trillion Dollar Opportunity
...first breakthrough in stablecoins came in 2014, with the launch of Tether (USD₮) originally on the Omni Layer...It’s best described as a coordination shell rather than a simple transaction layer....The goal of Plasma is to become the global settlement and issuance layer for digital dollars.
28 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Humanity Protocol: The Identity Solution Going after Meta
...you might combine credentials that prove: (1) you have several years of Grubhub transaction history, (2)...Native credential functionality gets embedded directly into the blockchain layer rather than implemented...highest accuracy and security, I want to emphasize that (1) they require specialized hardware and (2)...
31 Min
AI
Jun 2025
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
Ignition is headed for Stage-2, with permissionless fault proving and decentralized block building....be possible by adopting a semi-centralized approach to block building, all while maintaining Stage-2...use 40GB, or streaming platforms where subscribers pay the same rate whether they watch content for 2...
30 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
ZKsync & The Elastic Network Endgame
Because of this assumption, proofs for transaction bundles are not submitted to the Layer 1 in conjunction...If no valid challenges arise, the bundle is accepted on the Layer 1....ZKsync Era ZKsync Era is a Layer 2 zkEVM leveraging Zero Knowledge Proofs designed to scale blockchains...
39 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
The Fat App Thesis: An Inflection Point in Value Accrual
Application Layer – Self-explanatory....app layer. ...What’s Left for the Protocol Layer?...The protocol layer (e.g....years) I view the last option less likely, however, realistically, I believe in the near term (next 2-...
43 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Programmable Asset Ledgers Will Eat The World
...the two sided network effects underpinning DTCC as the canonical settlement layer, make replacing the...Perhaps a more compelling opportunity for blockchains is serving as the global reconciliation layer between...Infrastructure giants have three major inputs: (1) land (2) labor and (3) hardware.
25 Min
DeFi
Mar 2025
zkVerify: Optimizing ZK Proof Verification At Scale
A full comparison breakdown is shown below: The reason for the enablement of ZKPs is based on 2 key...Source: L2Beats, 6-month range 02/2024 – 08/2024 In less than 2 years, over $53M in settlement fees have...Finalization: Once more than 2/3 of validators have pre-committed to a block that block is considered...
63 Min
Infrastructure
Jan 2025
zkVerify Memo: Integration Flow, Potential Markets, and Token Economics
...configuration: Developers then deploy the verification logic, typically as a smart contract that is base-layer...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...
22 Min
Infrastructure
Apr 2025
EVM Wars: Between Giga Gas and Giga Gimmicks
Most chains are scaling their giga gas/s, choosing a more capable DA layer, and optimizing their DB for...gas throughput with 150K TPS, Sei, an L1, is also pushing for 5 Ggas/s and then MegaETH and Rise with 2...Ethereum’s current capacity is at 31.25 KB/s, and this is shared by all rollups using Ethereum as a DA layer...What about Ethereum as a DA layer?
13 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2025
Story Protocol: Does IP Need a Chain?
...models optimized for complex asset relationships, and don’t have legal enforcement tools at the base layer...lasting advantages, and whether those advantages justify the complexity and ambition of building a layer...Looking ahead, this infrastructure could also support a new layer of IP-based finance (IPFi).
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Avalanche L1s: Powering the Future of Appchains
On generalized chains, most of the value created just flows back to the base layer....This subsampling method greatly reduces network constraints and resource usage, enabling sub-2 second...While both inherit security from the base layer, L1s built on Avalanche essentially run as independent...
22 Min
Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Kill your customer: The death of KYC and the rise of ZK-TLS
For starters, Zero-Knowledge Transport Layer security, or “ZKTLS” for short, is an emerging solution...ZKTLS functions as a protocol that merges zero-knowledge proof technology with Transport Layer Security...In simpler terms, ZK-TLS enables cryptographic proofs about data to be exchanged over a Transport Layer...by layer.
20 Min
Macro & Markets
Jul 2025