The report examines Arbitrum's proposed transaction ordering policy, Timeboost, which aims to enhance value capture while protecting users from negative aspects of miner extractable value (MEV) behavi...

The report discusses Paladin, a solution designed to combat predatory MEV while allowing validators, stakers to capture maximum proceeds from other MEV opportunities. We dive deeper into the Paladin b...

Protocols who are not able to capture the MEV they create will struggle to accrue value. This is where Skip comes in, providing the infrastructure for Cosmos appchains to capture their MEV....

The past year was a tumultuous one for Bitcoin, with usage stagnating and miners facing increasing pressure. But there were positives as well, like the introduction of Taro....

A popular takeaway regarding the FTX drama has been that this was not a DeFi problem, but a TradFi one. It’s absolutely true that custody risks apply to CEXs and not DeFi. Yet, given the size of the c...

Pyth takes a fundamentally different and innovative approach to oracles, getting information directly from first-party sources, without the use of data aggregators in the middle....

🌅 Welcome! The world’s largest DAO will be using Coinbase to custody its funds and the world’s largest company ensures […]...

🌅 Welcome! Google has partnered with Coinbase Commerce to begin accepting crypto payments for cloud services in early 2023. Is […]...

MEV is central in protocol design, and the underlying infrastructure is changing drastically. I analyze it all, censorship implications, and the road ahead....

🚨 In Case You Missed It Near Protocol’s Rainbow Bridge repels an attack in 31 seconds, while attacker loses 5 […]...

Chart of The Day: BTC Price Bounces After Hitting Production Cost Over the past 5 years, the electrical expenditure to […]...

Over a decade after BTC went live, and we're still discovering why crypto assets have value. We unpack the essential value components for major L1s....

Introduction While the nomenclature around the project has changed over the past few years, “The Merge” refers to the Ethereum […]...

Introduction Liquidity is the foundation upon which all else is built. Every prominent ecosystem has at least one DEX, and […]...

Uniswap Gaining in Stableswaps In May 2021, when V3 was released, Uniswap began to eat into Curve’s market share. This […]...

Introduction On-chain activity is taking off at warp speed, and with it so is demand for blockspace. While Ethereum’s blocks […]...

In Part 1 of this report series, we discussed what MEV is and why it exists, in addition to analyzing […]...

The concept of Maximal Extractable Value (MEV) has been thrust into the spotlight over the past few years, particularly as […]...

Market Update Barring a handful of tokens and stablecoins, virtually all of crypto is in the red today. The Sep. […]...

After much anticipation, EIP-1559 is set to go live next month. In this post, we'll attempt to answer the question on everyone's mind - will it turn ETH net deflationary and, if so, when?...