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Open Interest = Effort
Market metrics like Open Interest, Funding Rates, Liquidations, and even CVD (cumulative volume delta...Interestingly, we have seen aggregate open interest increase nearly 7%, with an additional 400M in OI...
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Macro & Markets
Jun 2023
NFTPerp Notional Open Interest
 Since March, there has been a significant increase in the notional open interest of NFTPerp, exceeding...From then on, the platform has been consistently maintaining a daily notional open interest of over 2250...Compared to DeFi platforms like GMX’s ETH-USD perp, which records a daily notional open interest of 67K...
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NFTs
May 2023
GMX Open Interest Overtakes dYdX
Open interest on GMX has grown over 100%  YTD,  overtaking dYdX whose open interest hasn’t increased...
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Derivatives
Apr 2023
Virtuals & ACP – Open Coordination for Digital Labor
This makes ACP’s agent marketplace stand out as fundamentally more open and efficient than comparable...Universal Standard > Walled Gardens ACP’s competitive advantage is rooted in its status as an open...While many ecosystems support open-source development and staking, Ethereum stands out for the depth,...
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AI
Oct 2025
From Dutch Auctions to Open Editions: A Deep Dive Into NFT Distribution Models
While this is an interesting reference point, we want to highlight that teams should tailor their supply...Interested minters watch on the sidelines until key influencers mint a project or the project starts...In a typical Dutch auction, interested buyers begin by watching from the sidelines....interesting for traders.
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NFTs
Jan 2023
Dynamic Interest Rate Model Based On Control Theory
Delphi Labs is proud to present a Dynamic Interest Rate Model based on Control Theory....Lending protocols within DeFi predominantly use fixed interest rate models to price loans....If you’re a DeFi builder or part of a protocol and are interested in experimenting with this model, please...
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Lending / Borrowing
Jun 2021
Boba TVL Grows, CRO Outperforms, & Interest Rate Woes
Network is an L2 Optimism Rollup developed by core contributors of the OMG foundation and based on the open-sourced...With the interest rate expected to rise, macro markets have seen a pullback as the cost of capital is...Investors tend to reduce their risk appetite as interest rate hikes, resulting in less capital flowing...
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Layer 1 / L1
Nov 2021
Dynamic Interest Rate Model Based On Control Theory
Delphi Labs is proud to present a Dynamic Interest Rate Model based on Control Theory....Lending protocols within DeFi predominantly use fixed interest rate models to price loans....If you’re a DeFi builder or part of a protocol and are interested in experimenting with this model, please...
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DeFi
Jun 2021
Voltz, IPOR, and the Next Wave of Interest Rate Derivatives
Introduction Interest rate derivatives are perhaps the most underdeveloped and underexplored area in...the interest rate derivatives space as a whole....Interest rate swaps in particular are a huge deal in legacy finance....result in accrual of interest rather than immediately straining P&L....Contango uses fixed interest protocols to offer expirable futures.
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Derivatives
May 2023
NFT Interest Grows as Volumes Lag, Bitcoin Hovers as Dollar Jumps
OpenSea Volume Lags NFT Search Interest Worldwide Google searches for “NFT” hit new highs in November...The continued rise in search interest suggests NFTs are far from dead and may even be an early indication...OpenSea Volume Lags NFT Search Interest Worldwide Google searches for “NFT” hit new highs in November...
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NFTs
Nov 2021
Symbiotic Launch - Deposits Open
The choice of Symbiotic over Eigenlayer is interesting from a risk perspective because Eigenlayer effectively...With that being said, deposits are open here for major LSTs with a cap of $200M.
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Infrastructure
Jun 2024
War and Sanctions Offer Crypto an Opening
...will likely face headwinds as long as the conflict persists; however,  the war offers crypto a notable opening...As time progresses, it will be interesting to watch the trends of outside money adoption and usage, especially...
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2023
NFT Traders Losing Interest?
Throughout April, major NFT marketplaces such as OpenSea, Blur, OpenSea Pro, and X2Y2 all witnessed a decline in weekly trader counts, indicating a continuing downward trend in NFT trading since Febr...
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NFTs
May 2023
Webaverse: Pioneering An Immersive, Open Source Metaverse Enabling Community-Built Worlds
I’ve had a lifelong interest in open source and decentralized technology....I got interested in the space....There’s that great Chris Dixon line that, “Composability is to software what compound interest is to...I’m more interested in defining what is the good metaverse, and that’s a story that we’re writing.  01...
NFTs
Apr 2022
My List of Interesting Things
I regularly curate a list of things across the crypto space that I personally find quite interesting...Perp DEXs are quite interesting and our DeFi team wrote in deep detail about them in a July report (https...
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DeFi
Aug 2023
Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations.... Again
Well, this was discussed in last week’s activity feed post titled, Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations...
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Macro & Markets
May 2023
Check the Chain - P2: Voltz Redefining Interest Swaps
00:09 • Jordan Yeah, Voltz looks pretty interesting because as we all know, interest rates have pretty...interest of all the traders....Rage Trade’s initial vault lost money, and they weren’t hedging the trade or open interest....You’re never going to be able to keep up with all the trade or open interest.
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DeFi
Mar 2023
Arkham Opens a Can of Worms Nobody Expected
Arkham Intel announced its latest product, an on-chain intelligence exchange allowing people to buy and sell information around addresses. One Twitter user astutely labels this as “dox-to-earn”, as it...
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Other
Jul 2023
Revisiting Interest Rate Expectations Post CPI
Interesting… let’s continue to monitor how market expectations change as we approach June 14.
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Macro & Markets
May 2023
Is Checks' 'Open Edition' the new meta for Art NFTs?
Beyond the narrative, the Checks NFT is an ‘Open Edition’ social commentary art that is constantly evolving...Will we see an explosion of ‘Open Edition’ NFTs in the future given the success of Checks thus far (from...
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NFTs
Feb 2023