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April Showers… May Flowers? - Macro & Markets May 2025
The Hope Metric followed a similar path in May, rising toward Cautious Optimism before fading slightly...From May 12 to 15, scores consistently tested the threshold for Cautious Optimism, aligning with a move...The Hope Metric closed the month at 52.9, below the Cautious Optimism band....Cautious Optimism (60–79): Constructive tone building.
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Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
The Future of Onchain: The Age of Tokenization & The Token Identity Crisis
Kraken’s Inkchain Overview Kraken’s Inkchain is a brand new Optimism-based L2 fork application by US-based...Technical Execution On the surface, Inkchain is just like any other Optimism-based L2.
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Other
May 2025
What Could Go Right?: The Upside of Optimistic Future Outlooks in an Increasingly Nihilist Present
Optimism isn’t naivety....Thriving > Surviving: Optimism as a Strategy In today’s world, people seem to view optimism as akin...Optimism, as a foil, forces participation. Optimism asks more of you....Optimism forces you to believe in yourself....Optimism, however, is a network effect.
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Artificial Intelligence
Jul 2025
Reading the Market’s Mind Before Price Catches Up
The score runs from 0 to 100, broken into five sentiment regimes: 80–100 → Extreme Optimism 60–79 →...Cautious Optimism 40–59 → Neutral 20–39 → Cautious Pessimism 0–19 → Extreme Fear The model draws from...
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Other
Apr 2025
Exploring Base's Role in the Growing Onchain Economy
...major networks: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Avax, Base, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Cosmos, Optimism...networks include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Arbitrum, Avax, Base, Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Cosmos, Optimism...velodrome, a curve-inspired Automated Market Maker (AMM) whose goal is to serve as a liquidity hub on Optimism...
35 Min
Layer 2 / L2
Nov 2024
EVM Wars: Between Giga Gas and Giga Gimmicks
I believe Arbitrum and Optimism have already charted their ways forward, and they should be more public...
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Layer 1 / L1
Mar 2025
The Year Ahead for Markets 2025
Key Theme: Optimism Returns 2024 was a weird year for crypto markets....In other words, optimism will return to crypto markets....We expect this to change in 2025 as a renewed sense of optimism takes hold across our industry....SOL was trading around $11 at the time, and there weren’t many reasons for optimism.
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Macro & Markets
Dec 2024
What stops OP Chains from using Celestia for DA?
What’s less clear is whether Optimism has strings attached for grant recipients (BASE, Ink, Unichain)...What’s less clear is whether Optimism h...
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Infrastructure
Apr 2025
The Year Ahead for Infra 2025
Soon (L2) Developed by ex-Optimism engineers, Soon is essentially OP stack but for SVM....There are notable declines like Blast, zkSync Era and Optimism over the same period....Leading Stacks: Optimism vs Arbitrum It is no question that Optimism and Arbitrum are the leading stacks...
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Infrastructure
Dec 2024
Celestia's Roadmap: $TIA Time, or is DA a Commodity?
Meanwhile, Ethereum has MetaMask, Etherscan, Uniswap, Lido, Base, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, etc....The Optimism BD team understood this early, and that’s why they’re winning.
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Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Restaking Games: Chasing for Yield
Now let’s consider the case with three rollups auctioning off their blockspace: Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism...block individually is 11  The highest bid for a Base block individually is 5 The highest bid for an Optimism...block individually is 3  The highest bid for the bundle of blocks between Base + Arbitrum + Optimism...
53 Min
Staking
Nov 2024
The Year Ahead for Gaming 2025
Optimism Optimism serves as the underlying tech stack for networks like Base, Sonieum, and Redstone....Source: https://x.com/Optimism/status/1854657324033753287 The Superchain concept, championed by Optimism...These successes generate fresh investor interest, with standout projects sparking optimism and providing...
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Gaming
Dec 2024
Macro Signal Monday: BTC Sentiment, Flows, and Macro Align as Market Eyes Breakout (06/16/2025)
TLDR Hope Metric Score: 58.1 (Neutral-Cautious Optimism) BTC ETF Inflows: +$1.37B last week ETH...to 58.1, moving decisively toward the upper bound of the Neutral band and brushing against Cautious Optimism...
6 Min
Macro & Markets
Jun 2025
An Ode To Bitcoin
CryptoBriefing The recent price action has largely been driven by optimism over Trump’s pro-crypto agenda...
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Other
Dec 2024
Story Protocol: Does IP Need a Chain?
Despite these challenges, Story Protocol offers genuine reasons for optimism, especially because it aims...
24 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Apr 2025
Hope Metric : Macro Signal Monday (05-12-2025)
The market is poised to break into optimism pending confirmation from flows and macro data The Round...
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Macro & Markets
May 2025
Fuel Network: Engineered Playground For The Next Generation Of Apps
— relying heavily on trust and it has a long way to go to catch up to rollups like Arbitrum One and Optimism...
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Infrastructure
Apr 2025
Market Musings - Reawakening The Animal Spirits
...volume and $400 Mn in sandwich attack volume have occurred across major Layer 2s such as Arbitrum, Optimism...focus on transaction ordering policies and value accrual mechanisms in Layer 2 networks like Arbitrum, Optimism...
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Macro & Markets
Oct 2024
Transaction Ordering Policies & Value Accrual in L2s: Timeboost, OP PGA, Fastlane, and OEV Network
...and $400 Mn in sandwich attacks volume have occurred across major Layer 2 networks such as Arbitrum, Optimism...In contrast, Optimism uses a modified Priority Gas Auction model based on EIP-1559, while FastLane is...Optimism’s Priority Gas Auctions (EIP-1559) Optimism and, consequently, Base, which is based on OP Stack...
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Layer 2 / L2
Sep 2024
Humanity Protocol: The Identity Solution Going after Meta
...ecosystem LayerZero: Enables cross-chain verification of Humanity credentials across Ethereum, Arbitrum, Optimism...
31 Min
AI
Jun 2025